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In the NP-hard \textsc{Group Closeness Centrality Maximization} problem, the input is a graph $G = (V,E)$ and a positive integer $k$, and the task is to find a set $S \subseteq V$ of size $k$ that maximizes the reciprocal of group farness…
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