Information flow dynamics and timing patterns in the arrival of email viruses

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 68, Issue 1 2, 2003, Pages 171011-171014

  Liebovitch, Larry S ^a,b   Schwartz, Ira B ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; ELECTRONIC MAIL; INTERNET; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

INFORMATION FLOW DYNAMICS;

INFORMATION ANALYSIS;

EID: 16344367818     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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