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Identifying influential node groups in complex networks is crucial for optimizing information dissemination, epidemic control, and viral marketing. However, traditional centrality-based methods often focus on individual nodes, resulting in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Wenxin Zheng , Wenfeng Shi , Tianlong Fan , Linyuan Lü

Identifying influential nodes in a network is a fundamental issue due to its wide applications, such as accelerating information diffusion or halting virus spreading. Many measures based on the network topology have emerged over the years…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-12-26 Zakariya Ghalmane , Mohammed El Hassouni , Chantal Cherifi , Hocine Cherifi

Influence maximization is the problem of finding the set of nodes of a network that maximizes the size of the outbreak of a spreading process occurring on the network. Solutions to this problem are important for strategic decisions in…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-10-23 Sirag Erkol , Claudio Castellano , Filippo Radicchi

Recent research [1] has suggested that coreness, and not degree, constitutes a better topological descriptor to identifying influential spreaders in complex networks. This hypothesis has been verified in the context of disease spreading.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-03 Javier Borge-Holthoefer , Yamir Moreno

Vital nodes identification is an essential problem in network science. Various methods have been proposed to solve this problem. In particular, based on the gravity model, a series of improved gravity models are proposed to find vital nodes…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Hanwen Li , Qiuyan Shang , Yong Deng

Social networks constitute a new platform for information propagation, but its success is crucially dependent on the choice of spreaders who initiate the spreading of information. In this paper, we remove edges in a network at random and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-08-19 Shenggong Ji , Linyuan Lu , Chi Ho Yeung , Yanqing Hu

Influence propagation in networks has enjoyed fruitful applications and has been extensively studied in literature. However, only very limited preliminary studies tackled the challenges in handling highly dynamic changes in real networks.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Yu Yang , Zhefeng Wang , Tianyuan Jin , Jian Pei , Enhong Chen

Hypergraphs that can depict interactions beyond pairwise edges have emerged as an appropriate representation for modeling polyadic relations in complex systems. With the recent surge of interest in researching hypergraphs, the centrality…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-08-10 Xiao-Wen Xie , Xiu-Xiu Zhan , Zi-Ke Zhang , Chuang Liu

In social and biological systems, the structural heterogeneity of interaction networks gives rise to the emergence of a small set of influential nodes, or influencers, in a series of dynamical processes. Although much smaller than the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-05-04 Sen Pei , Flaviano Morone , Hernán A. Makse

Online social networks have become incredibly popular in recent years, which prompts an increasing number of companies to promote their brands and products through social media. This paper presents an approach for identifying influential…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Yuxin Mao , Lujie Zhou , Naixue Xiong

How would admissions look like in a university program for influencers? In the realm of social network analysis, influence maximization and link prediction stand out as pivotal challenges. Influence maximization focuses on identifying a set…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Marina Lin , Laura P. Schaposnik , Raina Wu

Complex contagion phenomena, such as the spread of information or contagious diseases, often occur among the population due to higher-order interactions between individuals. Individuals who can be represented by nodes in a network may play…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-04-02 Su-Su Zhang , Xiaoyan Yu , Gui-Quan Sun , Chuang Liu , Xiu-Xiu Zhan

Nodes that play strategic roles in networks are called critical or influential nodes. For example, in an epidemic, we can control the infection spread by isolating critical nodes; in marketing, we can use certain nodes as the initial…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-09-24 Zahra Farahi , Ali Kamandi , Rooholah Abedian , Luis Enrique Correa Rocha

We propose a new method for assessing agents influence in network structures, which takes into consideration nodes attributes, individual and group influences of nodes, and the intensity of interactions. This approach helps us to identify…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-10-20 F. Aleskerov , N. Meshcheryakova , S. Shvydun

We introduce a new method to efficiently approximate the number of infections resulting from a given initially-infected node in a network of susceptible individuals. Our approach is based on counting the number of possible infection walks…

Biological Physics · Physics 2012-10-25 Frank Bauer , Joseph T. Lizier

In this paper, we present a framework for studying the following fundamental question in network analysis: How should one assess the centralities of nodes in an information/influence propagation process over a social network? Our framework…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-10-24 Wei Chen , Shang-Hua Teng , Hanrui Zhang

Identifying highly susceptible individuals in spreading processes is of great significance in controlling outbreaks. In this paper, we explore the susceptibility of people in susceptible-infectious-recovered (SIR) and rumor spreading…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-20 Shaoting Tang , Xian Teng , Sen Pei , Shu Yan , Zhiming Zheng

In many complex networked systems, such as online social networks, activity originates at certain nodes and subsequently spreads on the network through influence. In this work, we consider the problem of modeling the spread of influence and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-07-18 Arun Sathanur , Mahantesh Halappanavar , Yi Shi , Walin Sagduyu

Identifying influential nodes in networks is a significant and challenging task. Among many centrality indices, the $k$-shell index performs very well in finding out influential spreaders. However, the traditional method for calculating the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-06-07 Yan-Li Lee , Tao Zhou

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…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Wenxin Zheng , Wenfeng Shi , Tianlong Fan , Linyuan Lv