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In static graphs, the betweenness centrality of a graph vertex measures how many times this vertex is part of a shortest path between any two graph vertices. Betweenness centrality is efficiently computable and it is a fundamental tool in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Maciej Rymar , Hendrik Molter , André Nichterlein , Rolf Niedermeier

The degree centrality of a node, defined as the number of nodes adjacent to it, is often used as a measure of importance of a node to the structure of a network. This metric can be extended to paths in a network, where the degree centrality…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Johnson Phosavanh , Dmytro Matsypura

The problem of computing the Betweenness Centrality (BC) is important in analyzing graphs in many practical applications like social networks, biological networks, transportation networks, electrical circuits, etc. Since this problem is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-09-30 Saad Quader

Betweenness centrality is essential in complex network analysis; it characterizes the importance of nodes and edges in networks. It is a crucial problem that exactly computes the betweenness centrality in large networks faster, which…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Yelai Feng , Huaixi Wang

The betweenness centrality (BC) is an important quantity for understanding the structure of complex large networks. However, its calculation is in general difficult and known in simple cases only. In particular, the BC has been exactly…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-05-18 Vincent Verbavatz , Marc Barthelemy

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

We consider the directed minimum weight cycle problem in the fully dynamic setting. To the best of our knowledge, so far no fully dynamic algorithms have been designed specifically for the minimum weight cycle problem in general digraphs.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Adam Karczmarz

The classic technique of Baker [J. ACM '94] is the most fundamental approach for designing approximation schemes on planar, or more generally topologically-constrained graphs, and it has been applied in a myriad of different variants and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Tuukka Korhonen , Wojciech Nadara , Michał Pilipczuk , Marek Sokołowski

The problem of efficiently computing the betweenness centrality of nodes has been researched extensively. To date, the best known exact and centralized algorithm for this task is an algorithm proposed in 2001 by Brandes. The contribution of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-06-05 Dora Erdos , Vatche Ishakian , Azer Bestavros , Evimaria Terzi

Given a directed graph $G$, a transitive reduction $G^t$ of $G$ (first studied by Aho, Garey, Ullman [SICOMP `72]) is a minimal subgraph of $G$ that preserves the reachability relation between every two vertices in $G$. In this paper, we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Gramoz Goranci , Adam Karczmarz , Ali Momeni , Nikos Parotsidis

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

We give a fully dynamic deterministic algorithm for maintaining a maximal matching of an $n$-vertex graph in $\tilde{O}(n^{8/9})$ amortized update time. This breaks the long-standing $\Omega(n)$-update-time barrier on dense graphs,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Aaron Bernstein , Sayan Bhattacharya , Peter Kiss , Thatchaphol Saranurak

In this paper we introduce a general framework for casting fully dynamic transitive closure into the problem of reevaluating polynomials over matrices. With this technique, we improve the best known bounds for fully dynamic transitive…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Camil Demetrescu , Giuseppe F. Italiano

Given a simple $n$-vertex, $m$-edge graph $G$ undergoing edge insertions and deletions, we give two new fully dynamic algorithms for exactly maintaining the edge connectivity of $G$ in $\tilde{O}(n)$ worst-case update time and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Gramoz Goranci , Monika Henzinger , Danupon Nanongkai , Thatchaphol Saranurak , Mikkel Thorup , Christian Wulff-Nilsen

We give new partially-dynamic algorithms for the all-pairs shortest paths problem in weighted directed graphs. Most importantly, we give a new deterministic incremental algorithm for the problem that handles updates in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-05 Adam Karczmarz , Jakub Łącki

Finding important nodes in a graph and measuring their importance is a fundamental problem in the analysis of social networks, transportation networks, biological systems, etc. Among popular such metrics are graph centrality, betweenness…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-04-21 Søren Dahlgaard , Jacob Evald

Betweenness centrality (BC) is one of the most used centrality measures for network analysis, which seeks to describe the importance of nodes in a network in terms of the fraction of shortest paths that pass through them. It is key to many…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-08-30 Changjun Fan , Li Zeng , Yuhui Ding , Muhao Chen , Yizhou Sun , Zhong Liu

Given a directed weighted graph $G=(V,E)$ undergoing vertex insertions \emph{and} deletions, the All-Pairs Shortest Paths (APSP) problem asks to maintain a data structure that processes updates efficiently and returns after each update the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-20 Maximilian Probst Gutenberg , Christian Wulff-Nilsen

In this paper, we develop deterministic fully dynamic algorithms for computing approximate distances in a graph with worst-case update time guarantees. In particular, we obtain improved dynamic algorithms that, given an unweighted and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Jan van den Brand , Sebastian Forster , Yasamin Nazari

A central task in network analysis is to identify important nodes in a graph. Betweenness centrality (BC) is a popular centrality measure that captures the significance of nodes based on the number of shortest paths each node intersects…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Charalampos E. Tsourakakis