Jean-Pierre Eckmann, Elisha Moses, Danilo Sergi
Dialog in e-Mail Traffic
(526K, postscript)

ABSTRACT.  Connectivity and topology are known to yield information about networks whose origin is 
self-organized, but the impact of {\it temporal dynamics} in a 
network is still mostly unexplored. Using an information theoretic approach to e-mail exchange, we show that an 
e-mail network allows for a separation of static and dynamic structures within it. The static 
structures are related to organizational units such as departments. The temporally linked 
structures turn out to be more goal-oriented, functional units such as committees and user 
groups.