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Betweenness centrality, measured by the number of times a vertex occurs on all shortest paths of a graph, has been recognized as a key indicator for the importance of a vertex in the network. However, the betweenness of a vertex is often…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-07-22 Qi Zhang , Rong-Hua Li , Minjia Pan , Yongheng Dai , Guoren Wang , Ye Yuan

Betweenness Centrality (BC) is an important measure used widely in complex network analysis, such as social network, web page search, etc. Computing the exact BC values is highly time consuming. Currently the fastest exact BC determining…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-12-21 Shiyu Ji , Zenghui Yan

The problem of efficiently computing the betweenness centrality of nodes has been researched extensively. To date, the best known exact and centralized algorithm for this task is an algorithm proposed in 2001 by Brandes. The contribution of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-06-05 Dora Erdos , Vatche Ishakian , Azer Bestavros , Evimaria Terzi

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

Betweenness centrality is a widely-used measure in the analysis of large complex networks. It measures the potential or power of a vertex to control the communication over the network under the assumption that information primarily flows…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-03-15 Sunil Kumar R , Kannan Balakrishnan

A central task in network analysis is to identify important nodes in a graph. Betweenness centrality (BC) is a popular centrality measure that captures the significance of nodes based on the number of shortest paths each node intersects…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Charalampos E. Tsourakakis

Recent decades have witnessed the tremendous development of network science, which indeed brings a new and insightful language to model real systems of different domains. Betweenness, a widely employed centrality in network science, is a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-01-24 Rui Fan , Ke Xu , Jichang Zhao

Betweenness centrality (BC) is one of the most used centrality measures for network analysis, which seeks to describe the importance of nodes in a network in terms of the fraction of shortest paths that pass through them. It is key to many…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-08-30 Changjun Fan , Li Zeng , Yuhui Ding , Muhao Chen , Yizhou Sun , Zhong Liu

We present a new fully dynamic algorithm for maintaining betweenness centrality (BC) of vertices in a directed graph $G=(V,E)$ with positive edge weights. BC is a widely used parameter in the analysis of large complex networks. We achieve…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Matteo Pontecorvi , Vijaya Ramachandran

Bu{\ss} et al [KDD 2020] recently proved that the problem of computing the betweenness of all nodes of a temporal graph is computationally hard in the case of foremost and fastest paths, while it is solvable in time O(n 3 T 2 ) in the case…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Filippo Brunelli , Pierluigi Crescenzi , Laurent Viennot

Betweenness centrality quantifies the importance of a vertex for the information flow in a network. We propose a flexible definition of betweenness for temporal multiplexes, where geodesics are determined accounting for the topological and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-02-04 Silvia Zaoli , Piero Mazzarisi , Fabrizio Lillo

Betweenness centrality is a centrality measure based on the overall amount of shortest paths passing through a given vertex. A graph is betweenness-uniform if all its vertices have the same betweenness centrality. We study the properties of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-09-11 David Hartman , Aneta Pokorná , Pavel Valtr

The betweenness centrality (BC) is an important quantity for understanding the structure of complex large networks. However, its calculation is in general difficult and known in simple cases only. In particular, the BC has been exactly…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-05-18 Vincent Verbavatz , Marc Barthelemy

The degree centrality of a node, defined as the number of nodes adjacent to it, is often used as a measure of importance of a node to the structure of a network. This metric can be extended to paths in a network, where the degree centrality…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Johnson Phosavanh , Dmytro Matsypura

The problem of assigning centrality values to nodes and edges in graphs has been widely investigated during last years. Recently, a novel measure of node centrality has been proposed, called k-path centrality index, which is based on the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-03-08 Pasquale De Meo , Emilio Ferrara , Giacomo Fiumara , Angela Ricciardello

The problem of computing the Betweenness Centrality (BC) is important in analyzing graphs in many practical applications like social networks, biological networks, transportation networks, electrical circuits, etc. Since this problem is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-09-30 Saad Quader

Graphs (networks) are an important tool to model data in different domains. Real-world graphs are usually directed, where the edges have a direction and they are not symmetric. Betweenness centrality is an important index widely used to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Mostafa Haghir Chehreghani , Albert Bifet , Talel Abdessalem

The edge betweenness centrality of an edge is loosely defined as the fraction of shortest paths between all pairs of vertices passing through that edge. In this paper, we investigate graphs where the edge betweenness centrality of edges is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-09-15 Heather A. Newman , Hector Miranda , Rigoberto Florez , Darren A. Narayan

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

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