大学环境中的组织结构和通信网络
Organizational structure and communication networks in a university environment
摘要：
地球上任何两个人之间的"六度分离”已经成为“小世界”主题的象征，尽管通过人类接触链传递的信息随着链长的增加而迅速衰减，并且通过这一过程传播信息在大型人类组织中可能效率很低。通过分析电子邮件记录，研究了奥斯陆大学一个大型组织的通信网络上的信息流。通过这些记录，可以量化各组织级别和各组织单位之间的沟通强度（称为"模块”）。我们发现，模块内的电子邮件消息的数量规模与模块大小的权力的$1.29\pm .06$，和个人之间的通信频率呈指数衰减的链接数量需要向上的组织层次结构之前，他们被连接。我们的数据还表明，行政单位发送的信息数量与行政层级中较低级别的个人数量成正比，模块内的“信息分歧”与这种线性关系有关。观察到的规模与层级系统是一致的，在该系统中，组织中相距遥远的个人彼此之间很少互动，并且从行政层级中的更高级别接收不成比例的消息。
英文摘要：
The ``six degrees of separation" between any two individuals on Earth has become emblematic of the 'small world' theme, even though the information conveyed via a chain of human encounters decays very rapidly with increasing chain length, and diffusion of information via this process may be very inefficient in large human organizations. The information flow on a communication network in a large organization, the University of Oslo, has been studied by analyzing e-mail records. The records allow for quantification of communication intensity across organizational levels and between organizational units (referred to as ``modules"). We find that the number of e-mails messages within modules scales with module size to the power of $1.29\pm .06$, and the frequency of communication between individuals decays exponentially with the number of links required upwards in the organizational hierarchy before they are connected. Our data also indicates that the number of messages sent by administrative units is proportional to the number of individuals at lower levels in the administrative hierarchy, and the ``divergence of information" within modules is associated with this linear relationship. The observed scaling is consistent with a hierarchical system in which individuals far apart in the organization interact little with each other and receive a disproportionate number of messages from higher levels in the administrative hierarchy.
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