Visualization and analysis of email networks

Author

Fu, Xiaoyan ; Hong, Seok-Hee ; Nikolov, Nikola S. ; Shen, Xiaobin ; Wu, Yingxin ; Xu, Ke

Author_Institution

Nat. ICT Australia

fYear

2007

fDate

5-7 Feb. 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

8

Abstract

This paper presents various methods for visualization and analysis of email networks; visualization on the surface of a sphere to reveal communication patterns between different groups, a hierarchical drawing displaying the centrality analysis of nodes to emphasize important nodes, a 2.5D visualization for temporal email networks to analyze the evolution of email relationships changing over time, and an ambient display for finding social circles derived from the email network. Each method was evaluated with various data sets from a research organization. We also extended our method for visual analysis of an email virus network.

Keywords

computer networks; computer viruses; data visualisation; electronic mail; self-organising feature maps; telecommunication computing; telecommunication security; email network; self-organizing map; virus network; visualization; Collaborative tools; Collaborative work; Data visualization; Displays; Electronic mail; Information analysis; Network servers; Pattern analysis; Social network services; Yarn;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Visualization, 2007. APVIS '07. 2007 6th International Asia-Pacific Symposium on

Conference_Location

Sydney, NSW

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0808-3

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0809-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APVIS.2007.329302

Filename

4126211