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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

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

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 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

The betweenness centrality of a graph vertex measures how often this vertex is visited on shortest paths between other vertices of the graph. In the analysis of many real-world graphs or networks, betweenness centrality of a vertex is used…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Sebastian Buß , Hendrik Molter , Rolf Niedermeier , Maciej Rymar

Betweenness centrality is a metric that seeks to quantify a sense of the importance of a vertex in a network graph in terms of its "control" on the distribution of information along geodesic paths throughout that network. This quantity…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2009-08-28 Eric D. Kolaczyk , David B. Chua , Marc Barthelemy

Betweenness centrality (BC) is a crucial graph problem that measures the significance of a vertex by the number of shortest paths leading through it. We propose Maximal Frontier Betweenness Centrality (MFBC): a succinct BC algorithm based…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-08-10 Edgar Solomonik , Maciej Besta , Flavio Vella , Torsten Hoefler

In static graphs, the betweenness centrality of a graph vertex measures how many times this vertex is part of a shortest path between any two graph vertices. Betweenness centrality is efficiently computable and it is a fundamental tool in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Maciej Rymar , Hendrik Molter , André Nichterlein , Rolf Niedermeier

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

Who is more important in a network? Who controls the flow between the nodes or whose contribution is significant for connections? Centrality metrics play an important role while answering these questions. The betweenness metric is useful…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-09-27 Ahmet Erdem Sarıyüce , Erik Saule , Kamer Kaya , Ümit V. Çatalyürek

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

Betweenness centrality is one of the most popular vertex centrality measures in network analysis. Hence, many (sequential and parallel) algorithms to compute or approximate betweenness have been devised. Recent algorithmic advances have…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Alexander van der Grinten , Henning Meyerhenke

The betweenness centrality (BC) of a node in a network (or graph) is a measure of its importance in the network. BC is widely used in a large number of environments such as social networks, transport networks, security/mobile networks and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-06 Matteo Pontecorvi , Vijaya Ramachandran

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

Betweenness is a well-known centrality measure that ranks the nodes according to their participation in the shortest paths of a network. In several scenarios, having a high betweenness can have a positive impact on the node itself. Hence,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Elisabetta Bergamini , Pierluigi Crescenzi , Gianlorenzo D'Angelo , Henning Meyerhenke , Lorenzo Severini , Yllka Velaj

Betweenness centrality has been extensively studied since its introduction in 1977 as a measure of node importance in graphs. This measure has found use in various applications and has been extended to temporal graphs with time-labeled…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Mehdi Naima

In this paper we show how graph structure can be used to drastically reduce the computational bottleneck of the Breadth First Search algorithm (the foundation of many graph traversal techniques). In particular, we address parallel…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-11-30 Damien Fay

We develop an algorithm that finds the consensus of many different clustering solutions of a graph. We formulate the problem as a median set partitioning problem and propose a greedy optimization technique. Unlike other approaches that find…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Md Taufique Hussain , Mahantesh Halappanavar , Samrat Chatterjee , Filippo Radicchi , Santo Fortunato , Ariful Azad

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 measure assesses the importance of nodes in a graph and has been used in a variety of contexts. Betweenness centrality has also been extended to temporal graphs. Temporal graphs have edges that bear labels according…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Mehdi Naima , Matthieu Latapy , Clémence Magnien