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One of the most fundamental problems in large scale network analysis is to determine the importance of a particular node in a network. Betweenness centrality is the most widely used metric to measure the importance of a node in a network.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-10-19 Shiva Kintali

Resonance is a well-known phenomenon that happens in systems with second order dynamics. In this paper we address the fundamental question of making a network robust to signal being periodically pumped into it at or near a resonant…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Alp Sahin , Nicolas Kozachuk , Rick S. Blum , Subhrajit Bhattacharya

We investigate how correlations between the diversity of the connectivity of networks and the dynamics at their nodes affect the macroscopic behavior. In particular, we study the synchronization transition of coupled stochastic phase…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-01-22 Bernard Sonnenschein , Francesc Sagués , Lutz Schimansky-Geier

Knowledge graphs play a central role for linking different data which leads to multiple layers. Thus, they are widely used in big data integration, especially for connecting data from different domains. Few studies have investigated the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Jens Dörpinghaus , Vera Weil , Carsten Düing , Martin W. Sommer

Sharing a common clock signal among the nodes is crucial for communication in synchronized networks. This work presents a heartbeat-based synchronization scheme for body-worn nodes. The principles of this coordination technique combined…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-05-13 Robin Benarrouch , Ali Moin , Flavien Solt , Antoine Frappé , Andreia Cathelin , Andreas Kaiser , Jan Rabaey

In this paper, we investigate synchronization of coupled second-order linear harmonic oscillators with random noises and time delays. The interaction topology is modeled by a weighted directed graph and the weights are perturbed by white…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2009-09-29 Yilun Shang

In this paper, we investigate synchronization in a small-world network of coupled nonlinear oscillators. This network is constructed by introducing random shortcuts in a nearest-neighbors ring. The local stability of the synchronous state…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2010-02-02 Victor M. Preciado , Ali Jadbabaie

This paper studies the dynamics of a network of diffusively-coupled bistable systems. Under mild conditions and without requiring smoothness of the vector field, we analyze the network dynamics and show that the solutions converge globally…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-09 Gianluca Villani , Luca Scardovi

We show that subsets of interacting oscillators may synchronize in different ways within a single network. This diversity of synchronization patterns is promoted by increasing the heterogeneous distribution of coupling weights and/or…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-04-05 Daniel Malagarriga , Alessandro E. P. Villa , Jordi García-Ojalvo , Antonio J. Pons

Measures of complex network analysis, such as vertex centrality, have the potential to unveil existing network patterns and behaviors. They contribute to the understanding of networks and their components by analyzing their structural…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Felipe Grando , Diego Noble , Luis C. Lamb

Here we present a range-limited approach to centrality measures in both non-weighted and weighted directed complex networks. We introduce an efficient method that generates for every node and every edge its betweenness centrality based on…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-11-24 Maria Ercsey-Ravasz , Ryan Lichtenwalter , Nitesh V. Chawla , Zoltan Toroczkai

Betweenness centrality is a metric that seeks to quantify a sense of the importance of a vertex in a network graph in terms of its "control" on the distribution of information along geodesic paths throughout that network. This quantity…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2009-08-28 Eric D. Kolaczyk , David B. Chua , Marc Barthelemy

In this article, we study algorithms for dynamic networks with asynchronous start, i.e., each node may start running the algorithm in a different round. Inactive nodes transmit only heartbeats, which contain no information but can be…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-06-27 Bernadette Charron-Bost , Shlomo Moran

With the impressive growth of network models in practically every scientific and technological area, we are often faced with the need to compare graphs, i.e., to quantify their (dis)similarity using appropriate metrics. This is necessary,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Carlo Piccardi

As the calculation of centrality in complex networks becomes increasingly vital across technological, biological, and social systems, precise and scalable ranking methods are essential for understanding these networks. This paper introduces…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Hao Ren , Jiaojiao Jiang

We study the blind centrality ranking problem, where our goal is to infer the eigenvector centrality ranking of nodes solely from nodal observations, i.e., without information about the topology of the network. We formalize these nodal…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-10-25 T. Mitchell Roddenberry , Santiago Segarra

Betweenness centrality is essential in complex network analysis; it characterizes the importance of nodes and edges in networks. It is a crucial problem that exactly computes the betweenness centrality in large networks faster, which…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Yelai Feng , Huaixi Wang

In this paper we study the inverse eigenvector centrality problem on directed graphs: given a prescribed node centrality profile, we seek edge weights that realize it. Since this inverse problem generally admits infinitely many solutions,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Mauro Passacantando , Fabio Raciti

Betweenness centrality is a graph parameter that has been successfully applied to network analysis. In the context of computer networks, it was considered for various objectives, ranging from routing to service placement. However, as…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-01-23 Pierluigi Crescenzi , Pierre Fraigniaud , Ami Paz

Optimizing the stability and control performance of complex networks often hinges on effectively identifying critical nodes for targeted intervention. Due to their inherent complexity and high dimensionality, large-scale energy flow…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-08-26 Yi Li , Xin Li