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Identifying the most influential spreaders is an important issue in controlling the spreading processes in complex networks. Centrality measures are used to rank node influence in a spreading dynamics. Here we propose a node influence…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-03-23 Ying Liu , Ming Tang , Tao Zhou , Younghae Do

The identification of important nodes in complex networks is an area of exciting growth due to its applications across various disciplines like disease controlling, community finding, data mining, network system controlling, just to name a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Qiuyan Shang , Yong Deng , Kang Hao Cheong

We propose an efficient and accurate measure for ranking spreaders and identifying the influential ones in spreading processes in networks. While the edges determine the connections among the nodes, their specific role in spreading should…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-09-06 Ying Liu , Ming Tang , Younghae Do , Pak Ming Hui

Identifying the node spreading influence in networks is an important task to optimally use the network structure and ensure the more efficient spreading in information. In this paper, by taking into account the shortest distance between a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-22 Jian-Guo Liu , Zhuo-Ming Ren , Qiang Guo

Evaluating node influence is fundamental for identifying key nodes in complex networks. Existing methods typically rely on generic indicators to rank node influence across diverse networks, thereby ignoring the individualized features of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Bingyu Zhu , Qingyun Sun , Jianxin Li , Daqing Li

Link prediction plays an important role in understanding intrinsic evolving mechanisms of networks. With the belief that the likelihood of the existence of a link between two nodes is strongly related with their similarity, many methods…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-18 Xuzhen Zhu , Hui Tian , Shimin Cai , Tao Zhou

How to identify the influential spreaders in social networks is crucial for accelerating/hindering information diffusion, increasing product exposure, controlling diseases and rumors, and so on. In this paper, by viewing the k-shell value…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-03-30 Ling-Ling Ma , Chuang Ma , Hai-Feng Zhang , Bing-Hong Wang

Identifying super-spreaders can be framed as a subtask of the influence maximisation problem. It seeks to pinpoint agents within a network that, if selected as single diffusion seeds, disseminate information most effectively. Multilayer…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Michał Czuba , Mateusz Stolarski , Adam Piróg , Piotr Bielak , Piotr Bródka

Route diversity in networks is elemental for establishing reliable, high-capacity connections with appropriate security between endpoints. As for the Internet, route diversity has already been studied at both Autonomous System- and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-01-07 Attila Csoma , András Gulyás , László Toka

Link recommendation, which recommends links to connect unlinked online social network users, is a fundamental social network analytics problem with ample business implications. Existing link recommendation methods tend to recommend similar…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Kexin Yin , Xiao Fang , Bintong Chen , Olivia Sheng

This study proposes the usage of a method called VoteRank, created by Zhang et al. (2016), to identify influential nodes on patent citation networks. In addition, it proposes enhanced VoteRank algorithms, extending the Zhang et al. work.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-11-06 João C. S. Freitas , Rafael Barbastefano , Diego Carvalho

The identification of key nodes in complex networks is an important topic in many network science areas. It is vital to a variety of real-world applications, including viral marketing, epidemic spreading and influence maximization. In…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Mateusz Stolarski , Adam Piróg , Piotr Bródka

The network of networks(NON) research is focused on studying the properties of n interdependent networks which is ubiquitous in the real world. Identifying the influential nodes in the network of networks is theoretical and practical…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-01-26 Meizhu Li , Qi Zhang , Qi Liu , Yong Deng

Predicting links in complex networks has been one of the essential topics within the realm of data mining and science discovery over the past few years. This problem remains an attempt to identify future, deleted, and redundant links using…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Kamal Berahmand , Elahe Nasiri , Saman Forouzandeh , Yuefeng Li

Influence propagation in networks has enjoyed fruitful applications and has been extensively studied in literature. However, only very limited preliminary studies tackled the challenges in handling highly dynamic changes in real networks.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Yu Yang , Zhefeng Wang , Tianyuan Jin , Jian Pei , Enhong Chen

In social and biological systems, the structural heterogeneity of interaction networks gives rise to the emergence of a small set of influential nodes, or influencers, in a series of dynamical processes. Although much smaller than the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-05-04 Sen Pei , Flaviano Morone , Hernán A. Makse

It is widely acknowledged that the initial spreaders play an important role for the wide spreading of information in complex networks. Thus, a variety of centrality-based methods have been proposed to identify the most influential…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-04-15 Leyang Xue , Peng Zhang , An Zeng

Identifying noteworthy spreaders in a network is essential for understanding the spreading process and controlling the reach of the spread in the network. The nodes that are holding more intrinsic power to extend the reach of the spread are…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Samet Atdag , Haluk O. Bingol

Identifying the most influential spreaders is one of outstanding problems in physics of complex systems. So far, many approaches have attempted to rank the influence of nodes but there is still the lack of accuracy to single out influential…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-01-29 Byungjoon Min

Information flow, opinion, and epidemics spread over structured networks. When using individual node centrality indicators to predict which nodes will be among the top influencers or spreaders in a large network, no single centrality has…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Doina Bucur