Title :
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
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/APVIS.2007.329302
