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Centrality is a key property of complex networks that influences the behavior of dynamical processes, like synchronization and epidemic spreading, and can bring important information about the organization of complex systems, like our brain…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-01-24 Francisco Aparecido Rodrigues

Centrality is an important notion in complex networks; it could be used to characterize how influential a node or an edge is in the network. It plays an important role in several other network analysis tools including community detection.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-03-23 Sambaran Bandyopadhyay , M. Narasimha Murty , Ramasuri Narayanam

We propose a new method for assessing agents influence in network structures, which takes into consideration nodes attributes, individual and group influences of nodes, and the intensity of interactions. This approach helps us to identify…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-10-20 F. Aleskerov , N. Meshcheryakova , S. Shvydun

Centrality descriptors are widely used to rank nodes according to specific concept(s) of importance. Despite the large number of centrality measures available nowadays, it is still poorly understood how to identify the node which can be…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-01-13 Giulia Bertagnolli , Claudio Agostinelli , Manlio De Domenico

We show that prominent centrality measures in network analysis are all based on additively separable and linear treatments of statistics that capture a node's position in the network. This enables us to provide a taxonomy of centrality…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-01-25 Francis Bloch , Matthew O. Jackson , Pietro Tebaldi

Traditional measures of closeness and betweenness centrality in networks rely on the shortest paths between nodes. Many standard metrics fail to accurately reflect the physical or probabilistic characteristics of nodal centrality and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Juuso Luhtala , Vesa Kuikka , Kimmo K. Kaski

A fundamental problem in the study of networks is the identification of important nodes. This is typically achieved using centrality metrics, which rank nodes in terms of their position in the network. This approach works well for static…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Isobel Seabrook , Paolo Barucca , Fabio Caccioli

Finding the important nodes in complex networks by topological structure is of great significance to network invulnerability. Several centrality measures have been proposed recently to evaluate the performance of nodes based on their…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Pengli Lu , Chen Dong , Yuhong Guo

Centrality measures have been defined to quantify the importance of a node in complex networks. The relative importance of a node can be measured using its centrality rank based on the centrality value. In the present work, we predict the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-11-29 Akrati Saxena , Vaibhav Malik , S. R. S. Iyengar

Centrality describes the importance of nodes in a graph and is modeled by various measures. Its global analogue, called centralization, is a general formula for calculating a graph-level centrality score based on the node-level centrality…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Jose Mari E. Ortega , Rolito G. Eballe

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

Many popular measures used in social network analysis, including centrality, are based on the random walk. The random walk is a model of a stochastic process where a node interacts with one other node at a time. However, the random walk may…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-03-31 Rumi Ghosh , Kristina Lerman

Classic measures of graph centrality capture distinct aspects of node importance, from the local (e.g., degree) to the global (e.g., closeness). Here we exploit the connection between diffusion and geometry to introduce a multiscale…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-07-29 Alexis Arnaudon , Robert L. Peach , Mauricio Barahona

Centrality metrics aim to identify the most relevant nodes in a network. In literature, a broad set of metrics exists, either measuring local or global centrality characteristics. Nevertheless, when networks exhibit a high spectral gap, the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-10-20 Lorenzo Costantini , Carla Sciarra , Luca Ridolfi , Francesco Laio

Given a social network, which of its nodes are more central? This question has been asked many times in sociology, psychology and computer science, and a whole plethora of centrality measures (a.k.a. centrality indices, or rankings) were…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-11-08 Paolo Boldi , Sebastiano Vigna

Centrality, which quantifies the "importance" of individual nodes, is among the most essential concepts in modern network theory. Most prominent centrality measures can be expressed as an aggregation of influence flows between pairs of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-06-04 Aleks J. Gurfinkel , Per Arne Rikvold

The roles of different nodes within a network are often understood through centrality analysis, which aims to quantify the capacity of a node to influence, or be influenced by, other nodes via its connection topology. Many different…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Stuart Oldham , Ben Fulcher , Linden Parkes , Aurina Arnatkeviciute , Chao Suo , Alex Fornito

Identifying influential nodes in a network is a fundamental issue due to its wide applications, such as accelerating information diffusion or halting virus spreading. Many measures based on the network topology have emerged over the years…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-12-26 Zakariya Ghalmane , Mohammed El Hassouni , Chantal Cherifi , Hocine Cherifi

Centrality metrics have been used in various networks, such as communication, social, biological, geographic, or contact networks. In particular, they have been used in order to study and analyze targeted attack behaviors and investigated…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Zelin Wan , Yash Mahajan , Beom Woo Kang , Terrence J. Moore , Jin-Hee Cho

We introduce a new centrality measure that characterizes the participation of each node in all subgraphs in a network. Smaller subgraphs are given more weight than larger ones, which makes this measure appropriate for characterizing network…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Ernesto Estrada , Juan A. Rodriguez-Velazquez