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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 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

The betweenness centrality of a vertex v is an important centrality measure that quantifies how many optimal paths between pairs of other vertices visit v. Computing betweenness centrality in a temporal graph, in which the edge set may…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Jessica Enright , Kitty Meeks , Hendrik Molter

Vertex centrality measures are a multi-purpose analysis tool, commonly used in many application environments to retrieve information and unveil knowledge from the graphs and network structural properties. However, the algorithms of such…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-12-03 Felipe Grando , Luis C. Lamb

In complex scale-free networks, ranking the individual nodes based upon their importance has useful applications, such as the identification of hubs for epidemic control, or bottlenecks for controlling traffic congestion. However, in most…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-05-23 Pan-Jun Kim , Hawoong Jeong

Centrality measures have been defined to quantify the importance of a node in complex networks. The relative importance of a node can be measured using its centrality rank based on the centrality value. In the present work, we predict the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-11-29 Akrati Saxena , Vaibhav Malik , S. R. S. Iyengar

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

Two concepts of centrality have been defined in complex networks. The first considers the centrality of a node and many different metrics for it has been defined (e.g. eigenvector centrality, PageRank, non-backtracking centrality, etc). The…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-03-14 Paolo Barucca , Daniele Tantari , Fabrizio Lillo

We perform the first axiomatic analysis of medial centrality measures. These measures, also called betweenness-like centralities, assess the role of a node in connecting others in the network. We focus on a setting with one target node and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Wiktoria Kosny , Oskar Skibski

The emergence of massive graph data sets requires fast mining algorithms. Centrality measures to identify important vertices belong to the most popular analysis methods in graph mining. A measure that is gaining attention is forest…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-18 Alexander van der Grinten , Eugenio Angriman , Maria Predari , Henning Meyerhenke

We utilize the PageRank vector to generalize the $k$-means clustering algorithm to directed and undirected graphs. We demonstrate that PageRank and other centrality measures can be used in our setting to robustly compute centrality of nodes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Mustafa Hajij , Eyad Said , Robert Todd

Data classification is a major machine learning paradigm, which has been widely applied to solve a large number of real-world problems. Traditional data classification techniques consider only physical features (e.g., distance, similarity,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Esteban Vilca , Liang Zhao

Centrality metrics have become a popular concept in network science and optimization. Over the years, centrality has been used to assign importance and identify influential elements in various settings, including transportation,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Mustafa Can Camur , Chrysafis Vogiatzis

Centrality represents a fundamental research field in complex network analysis, where centrality measures identify important vertices within networks. Over the years, researchers have developed diverse centrality measures from varied…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Zhang Qingying , Sun Lizhu , Bu Changjiang

In this comment, we investigate a common used algorithm proposed by Newman [M. E. J. Newman, Phys. Rev. E {\bf 64}, 016132(2001)] to calculate the betweenness centrality for all vertices. The inaccurateness of Newman's algorithm is pointed…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-11 Tao Zhou , Jian-Guo Liu , Bing-Hong Wang

Betweenness centrality (BC) was proposed as an indicator of the extent of an individual's influence in a social network. It is measured by counting how many times a vertex (i.e., an individual) appears on all the shortest paths between…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-06-23 Jongshin Lee , Yongsun Lee , Soo Min Oh , B. Kahng

Eigenvector centrality is a common measure of the importance of nodes in a network. Here we show that under common conditions the eigenvector centrality displays a localization transition that causes most of the weight of the centrality to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-01-06 Travis Martin , Xiao Zhang , M. E. J. Newman

Computing classical centrality measures such as betweenness and closeness is computationally expensive on large-scale graphs. In this work, we introduce an efficient force layout algorithm that embeds a graph into a low-dimensional space,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Alexander Kolpakov , Igor Rivin

Typing Yesterday into the search-bar of your browser provides a long list of websites with, in top places, a link to a video by The Beatles. The order your browser shows its search results is a notable example of the use of network…

Applications · Statistics 2018-10-17 Carla Sciarra , Guido Chiarotti , Francesco Laio , Luca Ridolfi

The identification of the set of k most central nodes of a graph, or centrality maximization, is a key task in network analysis, with various applications ranging from finding communities in social and biological networks to understanding…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Leonardo Pellegrina