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Identifying important nodes is one of the central tasks in network science, which is crucial for analyzing the structure of a network and understanding the dynamical processes on a network. Most real-world systems are time-varying and can…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-05-19 Jialin Bi , Ji Jin , Cunquan Qu , Xiuxiu Zhan , Guanghui Wang

This paper introduces a novel framework that combines traditional centrality measures with eigenvalue spectra and diffusion processes for a more comprehensive analysis of complex networks. While centrality measures such as degree,…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Arsh Jha

Many complex systems can be modeled by temporal networks, whose organization often evolves through distinct structural phases. Detecting the change points that delimit these phases is both important and challenging. In this work, we extend…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Samuel Koovely , Alexandre Bovet

Deep graph clustering has recently received significant attention due to its ability to enhance the representation learning capabilities of models in unsupervised scenarios. Nevertheless, deep clustering for temporal graphs, which could…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Meng Liu , Yue Liu , Ke Liang , Wenxuan Tu , Siwei Wang , Sihang Zhou , Xinwang Liu

Real complex systems are inherently time-varying. Thanks to new communication systems and novel technologies, it is today possible to produce and analyze social and biological networks with detailed information on the time of occurrence and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-04-17 V. Nicosia , J. Tang , M. Musolesi , G. Russo , C. Mascolo , V. Latora

We investigate notions of network centrality in terms of the underlying coupling graph of the network, structure of exogenous uncertainties, and communication time-delay. Our focus is on time-delay linear consensus networks, where…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-02-25 Yaser Ghaedsharaf , Milad Siami , Christoforos Somarakis , Nader Motee

Node centralities play a pivotal role in network science, social network analysis, and recommender systems. In temporal data, static path-based centralities like closeness or betweenness can give misleading results about the true importance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Franziska Heeg , Ingo Scholtes

A pivotal idea in network science, marketing research and innovation diffusion theories is that a small group of nodes -- called influencers -- have the largest impact on social contagion and epidemic processes in networks. Despite the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-12-12 Flavio Iannelli , Manuel Sebastian Mariani , Igor M. Sokolov

We describe centralities in temporal networks using a supracentrality framework to study centrality trajectories, which characterize how the importances of nodes change in time. We study supracentrality generalizations of eigenvector-based…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-09-20 Dane Taylor , Mason A. Porter , Peter J. Mucha

Recent research on temporal networks has highlighted the limitations of a static network perspective for our understanding of complex systems with dynamic topologies. In particular, recent works have shown that i) the specific order in…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-11-20 Ingo Scholtes , Nicolas Wider , Antonios Garas

The concept of entropy rate for a dynamical process on a graph is introduced. We study diffusion processes where the node degrees are used as a local information by the random walkers. We describe analitically and numerically how the degree…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jesus Gomez-Gardenes , Vito Latora

In network science complex systems are represented as a mathematical graphs consisting of a set of nodes representing the components and a set of edges representing their interactions. The framework of networks has led to significant…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-04-07 Alexandre Bovet , Hernán A. Makse

The temporal component of social networks is often neglected in their analysis, and statistical measures are typically performed on a "static" representation of the network. As a result, measures of importance (like betweenness centrality)…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-05-13 Amir Afrasiabi Rad , Paola Flocchini , Joanne Gaudet

One of the most interesting scientific challenges nowadays deals with the analysis and the understanding of complex networks' dynamics and how their processes lead to emergence according to the interactions among their components. In this…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2011-02-02 Walter Quattrociocchi , Frederic Amblard

We construct and study a class of spectral graph wavelets by analogy with Hermitian wavelets on the real line. We provide a localization result that significantly improves upon those previously available, enabling application to highly…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-05 Zach Gelbaum , Mathew Titus , James Watson

Vertices with high betweenness and closeness centrality represent influential entities in a network. An important problem for time varying networks is to know a-priori, using minimal computation, whether the influential vertices of the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-06-21 Soumya Sarkar , Sandipan Sikdar , Animesh Mukherjee , Sanjukta Bhowmick

Methods for efficiently controlling dynamics propagated on networks are usually based on identifying the most influential nodes. Knowledge of these nodes can be used for the targeted control of dynamics such as epidemics, or for modifying…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-11-07 Kieran J. Sharkey

Many real-world systems can be expressed in temporal networks with nodes playing far different roles in structure and function and edges representing the relationships between nodes. Identifying critical nodes can help us control the spread…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-07-07 En-Yu Yu , Yan Fu , Jun-Lin Zhou , Hong-Liang Sun , Duan-Bing Chen

The characterization of the "most connected" nodes in static or slowly evolving complex networks has helped in understanding and predicting the behavior of social, biological, and technological networked systems, including their robustness…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-10-21 Scott A. Hill , Dan Braha

Within many real-world networks the links between pairs of nodes change over time. Thus, there has been a recent boom in studying temporal graphs. Recognizing patterns in temporal graphs requires a proximity measure to compare different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Vincent Froese , Brijnesh Jain , Rolf Niedermeier , Malte Renken