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We investigate an application of network centrality measures to portfolio optimization, by generalizing the method in [Pozzi, Di Matteo and Aste, \emph{Spread of risks across financial markets: better to invest in the peripheries},…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2024-04-02 Bahar Arslan , Vanni Noferini , Spyridon Vrontos

Betweenness centrality is a fundamental centrality measure in social network analysis. Given a large-scale network, how can we find the most central nodes? This question is of key importance to numerous important applications that rely on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-09-06 Ahmad Mahmoody , Charalampos E. Tsourakakis , Eli Upfal

Triangle centrality is introduced for finding important vertices in a graph based on the concentration of triangles surrounding each vertex. It has the distinct feature of allowing a vertex to be central if it is in many triangles or none…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Paul Burkhardt

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

We present an efficient routing approach for delivering packets in complex networks. On delivering a message from a node to a destination, a node forwards the message to a neighbor by estimating the waiting time along the shortest path from…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2008-06-12 Huan Zhang , Zonghua Liu , Ming Tang , P. M. Hui

Mobile devices integrating wireless short-range communication technologies make possible new applications for spontaneous communication, interaction and collaboration. An interesting approach is to use collaboration to facilitate…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-26 Radu Ciobanu , Ciprian Dobre

Time-limited states characterise many dynamical processes on networks: disease infected individuals recover after some time, people forget news spreading on social networks, or passengers may not wait forever for a connection. These…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-06-13 Arash Badie-Modiri , Márton Karsai , Mikko Kivelä

Identifying central nodes using closeness centrality is a critical task in analyzing large-scale complex networks, yet its decentralized computation remains challenging due to high communication overhead. Existing distributed approximation…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Patrick D. Manya , Eugene M. Mbuyi , Gothy T. Ngoie , Jordan F. Masakuna

Information dissemination is a fundamental and frequently occurring problem in large, dynamic, distributed systems. In order to solve this, there has been an increased interest in creating efficient overlay networks that can maintain…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Chase Smith , Alex Rusnak

The statistical modeling of random networks has been widely used to uncover interaction mechanisms in complex systems and to predict unobserved links in real-world networks. In many applications, network connections are collected via…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Angus Chan , Tianxi Li

Centrality measures, erstwhile popular amongst the sociologists and psychologists, have seen broad and increasing applications across several disciplines of late. Amongst a plethora of application specific definitions available in the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-03-23 Rishi Ranjan Singh , Shubham Chaudhary , Manas Agarwal

In network analysis, the betweenness centrality of a node informally captures the fraction of shortest paths visiting that node. The computation of the betweenness centrality measure is a fundamental task in the analysis of modern networks,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Diego Santoro , Ilie Sarpe

We propose using the predictability of human motion to eliminate the overhead of distributed location services in human-carried MANETs, dubbing the technique location profile routing. This method outperforms the Geographic Hashing Location…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-03-20 David R. Bild , Yue Liu , Robert P. Dick , Z. Morley Mao , Dan S. Wallach

In this work, we explore the outage probability (OP) analysis of selective decode and forward (SDF) cooperation protocol employing multiple-input multipleoutput (MIMO) orthogonal space-time block-code (OSTBC) over time varying Rayleigh…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Ravi Shankar , Ritesh Kumar Mishra

We develop a new sampling method to estimate eigenvector centrality on incomplete networks. Our goal is to estimate this global centrality measure having at disposal a limited amount of data. This is the case in many real-world scenarios…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Nicolò Ruggeri , Caterina De Bacco

Navigability is a distinctive features of graphs associated with artificial or natural systems whose primary goal is the transportation of information or goods. We say that a graph $\mathcal{G}$ is navigable when an agent is able to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Pasquale De Meo , Mark Levene , Alessandro Provetti

The characterization of the "most connected" nodes in static or slowly evolving complex networks has helped in understanding and predicting the behavior of social, biological, and technological networked systems, including their robustness…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-10-21 Scott A. Hill , Dan Braha

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

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

In this paper, we study a novel task that enables partial knowledge transfer from pre-trained models, which we term as Partial Network Cloning (PNC). Unlike prior methods that update all or at least part of the parameters in the target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Jingwen Ye , Songhua Liu , Xinchao Wang