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Spreading processes are fundamental to complex networks. Identifying influential spreaders with dual local and global roles presents a crucial yet challenging task. To address this, our study proposes a novel method, the Basic Cycle Ratio…

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Many methods have been proposed to detect communities, not only in plain, but also in attributed, directed or even dynamic complex networks. In its simplest form, a community structure takes the form of a partition of the node set. From the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-10-22 Günce Keziban Orman , Vincent Labatut , Marc Plantevit , Jean-François Boulicaut

Ranking nodes in networks according to a defined measure of importance is an extensively studied task, with applications in ecology, economic trade networks, and social networks. This paper introduces a method based on a non-linear…

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The random networks enriched with additional structures as metric and group-symmetry in background metric space are investigated. The important quantities like he clustering coefficient as well as the mean degree of separation in such…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-09-03 Michal Demetrian , Martin Nehez

The clustering coefficient quantifies the abundance of connected triangles in a network and is a major descriptive statistics of networks. For example, it finds an application in the assessment of small-worldness of brain networks, which is…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-06-28 Naoki Masuda , Michiko Sakaki , Takahiro Ezaki , Takamitsu Watanabe

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…

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Identifying a set of influential spreaders in complex networks plays a crucial role in effective information spreading. A simple strategy is to choose top-$r$ ranked nodes as spreaders according to influence ranking method such as PageRank,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-07-19 Jian-Xiong Zhang , Duan-Bing Chen , Qiang Dong , Zhi-Dan Zhao

Community structure is a key feature omnipresent in real-world network data. Plethora of methods have been proposed to reveal subsets of densely interconnected nodes using criteria such as the modularity index. These approaches have been…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Alexandre Cionca , Chun Hei Michael Chan , Dimitri Van De Ville

Research data sets are growing to unprecedented sizes and network modeling is commonly used to extract complex relationships in diverse domains, such as genetic interactions involved in disease, logistics, and social communities. As the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Sharlee Climer , Kenneth Smith , Wei Yang , Lisa de las Fuentes , Victor G. Dávila-Román , C. Charles Gu

Community detection is considered as a fundamental task in analyzing social networks. Even though many techniques have been proposed for community detection, most of them are based exclusively on the connectivity structures. However, there…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-12-25 Hadi Zare , Mahdi Hajiabadi , Mahdi Jalili

Bipartite networks, which encode interactions between two distinct types of entities, arise widely in applications and exhibit inherent asymmetry across node sets. Despite a growing literature on bipartite community detection, estimating…

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This study relates the local property of node dominance to local and global properties of a network. Iterative removal of dominated nodes yields a distributed algorithm for computing a core-periphery decomposition of a social network, where…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-09-25 Jennifer Gamble , Harish Chintakunta , Adam Wilkerson , Hamid Krim , Ananthram Swami

The non-trivial structure of such complex systems makes the analysis of their collective behavior a challenge. The problem is even more difficult when the information is distributed across networks (e.g., communication networks in different…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-02-08 Carlo Spatocco , Giovanni Stilo , Carlotta Domeniconi , Alessandro D'Andrea

This article presents a hub-based approach to community finding in complex networks. After identifying the network nodes with highest degree (the so-called hubs), the network is flooded with wavefronts of labels emanating from the hubs,…

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Social networks are discrete systems with a large amount of heterogeneity among nodes (individuals). Measures of centrality aim at a quantification of nodes' importance for structure and function. Here we ask to which extent the most…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-06-12 Konstantin Klemm

Identifying key nodes is crucial for accelerating or impeding dynamic spreading in a network. Community-aware centrality measures tackle this problem by exploiting the community structure of a network. Although there is a growing trend to…

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Measuring and optimizing the influence of nodes in big-data online social networks are important for many practical applications, such as the viral marketing and the adoption of new products. As the viral spreading on social network is a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-07-31 Yanqing Hu , Shenggong Ji , Yuliang Jin , Ling Feng , H. Eugene Stanley , Shlomo Havlin

To understand the formation, evolution, and function of complex systems, it is crucial to understand the internal organization of their interaction networks. Partly due to the impossibility of visualizing large complex networks, resolving…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-11-30 Takashi Nishikawa , Adilson E. Motter

There are various approaches to graph learning for data clustering, incorporating different spectral and structural constraints through diverse graph structures. Some methods rely on bipartite graph models, where nodes are divided into two…

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Measuring centrality in a social network, especially in bipartite mode, poses several challenges such as requirement of full knowledge of the network topology and lack of properly detection of top-k behavioral representative users. In this…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-05-23 Seyed Mohammad Taheri , Hamidreza Mahyar , Mohammad Firouzi , Elahe Ghalebi K. , Radu Grosu , Ali Movaghar