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We introduce a quantitative method to compare arbitrary pairs of graph centrality measures, based on the ordering of vertices induced by them. The proposed method is conceptually simple, mathematically elegant, and allows for a quantitative…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-01-26 G. Exarchakos , R. van der Hofstad , O. Nagy , M. Pandey

Several centrality measures have been formulated to quantify the notion of 'importance' of actors in social networks. Current measures scrutinize either local or global connectivity of the nodes and have been found to be inadequate for…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-06-26 Rakhi Saxena , Sharanjit Kaur , Vasudha Bhatnagar

Centrality measures are widely used to assign importance to graph-structured data. Recently, understanding the principles of such measures has attracted a lot of attention. Given that measures are diverse, this research has usually focused…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Cristian Riveros , Jorge Salas , Oskar Skibski

The importance of a node in a social network is identified through a set of measures called centrality. Degree centrality, closeness centrality, betweenness centrality and clustering coefficient are the most frequently used metrics to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Annamaria Ficara , Giacomo Fiumara , Pasquale De Meo , Antonio Liotta

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

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

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

Network centrality is a foundational concept for quantifying the importance of nodes within a network. Many traditional centrality measures--such as degree and betweenness centrality--are purely structural and often overlook the dynamics…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Xinran Zheng , Leonardo Massai , Massimo Franceschetti , Behrouz Touri

Understanding the network structure, and finding out the influential nodes is a challenging issue in the large networks. Identifying the most influential nodes in the network can be useful in many applications like immunization of nodes in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-01-10 Naveen Gupta , Anurag Singh , Hocine Cherifi

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 are used in network science to evaluate the centrality of vertices or the position they occupy in a network. There are a large number of centrality measures according to some criterion. However, the generalizations of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Hélder Alves , Paula Brito , Pedro Campos

Unlike classical centrality measures, recently developed community-aware centrality measures use a network's community structure to identify influential nodes in complex networks. This paper investigates their relationship on a set of fifty…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Stephany Rajeh , Marinette Savonnet , Eric Leclercq , Hocine Cherifi

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

To measure node importance, network scientists employ centrality scores that typically take a microscopic or macroscopic perspective, relying on node features or global network structure. However, traditional centrality measures such as…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Christopher Blöcker , Juan Carlos Nieves , Martin Rosvall

In network science complex systems are represented as a mathematical graphs consisting of a set of nodes representing the components and a set of edges representing their interactions. The framework of networks has led to significant…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-04-07 Alexandre Bovet , Hernán A. Makse

The topological structure of complex networks has fascinated researchers for several decades, resulting in the discovery of many universal properties and reoccurring characteristics of different kinds of networks. However, much less is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-06-28 Yvonne Anne Pignolet , Matthieu Roy , Stefan Schmid , Gilles Tredan

The topological structure of complex networks has fascinated researchers for several decades, resulting in the discovery of many universal properties and reoccurring characteristics of different kinds of networks. However, much less is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-03-02 Yvonne Anne Pignolet , Matthieu Roy , Stefan Schmid , Gilles Tredan

Differently from theoretical scale-free networks, most of real networks present multi-scale behavior with nodes structured in different types of functional groups and communities. While the majority of approaches for classification of nodes…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-03-22 Filipi Nascimento Silva , Marilza A. Rodrigues , Luciano da Fontoura Costa

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

Node centrality is one of the integral measures in network analysis with wide range of applications from socio-economic to personalized recommendation. We argue that an effective centrality measure should undertake stability even under…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Chandni Saxena , M. N. Doja , Tanvir Ahmad