Modeling infection transmission

J Koopman - Annu. Rev. Public Health, 2004 - annualreviews.org
Understanding what determines patterns of infection spread in populations is important for
controlling infection transmission. The science that advances this understanding uses …

Information diffusion through blogspace

D Gruhl, R Guha, D Liben-Nowell… - Proceedings of the 13th …, 2004 - dl.acm.org
We study the dynamics of information propagation in environments of low-overhead
personal publishing, using a large collection of weblogs over time as our example domain …

Statistical mechanics of networks

J Park, MEJ Newman - Physical Review E—Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft …, 2004 - APS
We study the family of network models derived by requiring the expected properties of a
graph ensemble to match a given set of measurements of a real-world network, while …

Patterns of link reciprocity in directed networks

D Garlaschelli, MI Loffredo - Physical review letters, 2004 - APS
We address the problem of link reciprocity, the nonrandom presence of two mutual links
between pairs of vertices. We propose a new measure of reciprocity that allows the ordering …

Who is the best connected scientist? A study of scientific coauthorship networks

MEJ Newman - Complex networks, 2004 - Springer
Using data from computer databases of scientific papers in physics, biomedical research,
and computer science, we have constructed networks of collaboration between scientists in …

Information flow in social groups

F Wu, BA Huberman, LA Adamic, JR Tyler - Physica A: Statistical …, 2004 - Elsevier
We present a study of information flow that takes into account the observation that an item
relevant to one person is more likely to be of interest to individuals in the same social circle …

Technological networks and the spread of computer viruses

J Balthrop, S Forrest, MEJ Newman, MM Williamson - Science, 2004 - science.org
527 process? Many MHC class I–binding peptides have been isolated and sequenced, and
no spliced peptides have previously been described. One could therefore argue that splicing …

Small-world file-sharing communities

A Iamnitchi, M Ripeanu, I Foster - IEEE INFOCOM 2004, 2004 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Web caches, content distribution networks, peer-to-peer file sharing networks, distributed file
systems, and data grids all have in common that they involve a community of users who …

Characterizing a spam traffic

LH Gomes, C Cazita, JM Almeida, V Almeida… - Proceedings of the 4th …, 2004 - dl.acm.org
The rapid increase in the volume of unsolicited commercial e-mails, also known as spam, is
beginning to take its toll in system administrators, business corporations and end-users …

Email worm modeling and defense

CC Zou, D Towsley, W Gong - Proceedings. 13th International …, 2004 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Email worms constitute one of the major Internet security problems. We present an email
worm model that accounts for the behaviors of email users by considering email checking …