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Complex networks are ubiquitous to several Computer Science domains. Centrality measures are an important analysis mechanism to uncover vital elements of complex networks. However, these metrics have high computational costs and…

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The function or performance of a network is strongly dependent on its robustness, quantifying the ability of the network to continue functioning under perturbations. While a wide variety of robustness metrics have been proposed, they have…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Liwang Zhu , Qi Bao , Zhongzhi Zhang

In network analysis, the betweenness centrality of a node informally captures the fraction of shortest paths visiting that node. The computation of the betweenness centrality measure is a fundamental task in the analysis of modern networks,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Diego Santoro , Ilie Sarpe

Network robustness is critical for various industrial and social networks against malicious attacks, which has various meanings in different research contexts and here it refers to the ability of a network to sustain its functionality when…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Yang Lou , Lin Wang , Guanrong Chen

We consider the problem of robustness in large consensus networks that occur in many areas such as distributed optimization. Robustness, in this context, is the scaling of performance measures, e.g. H2-norm, as a function of network…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Tuhin Sarkar , Mardavij Roozbehani , Munther A. Dahleh

Measures of complex network analysis, such as vertex centrality, have the potential to unveil existing network patterns and behaviors. They contribute to the understanding of networks and their components by analyzing their structural…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Felipe Grando , Diego Noble , Luis C. Lamb

Network robustness is a measure a network's ability to survive adversarial attacks. But not all parts of a network are equal. K-cores, which are dense subgraphs, are known to capture some of the key properties of many real-life networks.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Palash Dey , Suman Kalyan Maity , Sourav Medya , Arlei Silva

The centrality in a network is often used to measure nodes' importance and model network effects on a certain outcome. Empirical studies widely adopt a two-stage procedure, which first estimates the centrality from the observed noisy…

Econometrics · Economics 2025-02-26 Junhui Cai , Dan Yang , Ran Chen , Wu Zhu , Haipeng Shen , Linda Zhao

Who is more important in a network? Who controls the flow between the nodes or whose contribution is significant for connections? Centrality metrics play an important role while answering these questions. The betweenness metric is useful…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-09-27 Ahmet Erdem Sarıyüce , Erik Saule , Kamer Kaya , Ümit V. Çatalyürek

In deep learning applications, robustness measures the ability of neural models that handle slight changes in input data, which could lead to potential safety hazards, especially in safety-critical applications. Pre-deployment assessment of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Wenchuan Mu , Kwan Hui Lim

Betweenness centrality is an important index widely used in different domains such as social networks, traffic networks and the world wide web. However, even for mid-size networks that have only a few hundreds thousands vertices, it is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-05-05 Mostafa Haghir Chehreghani , Talel Abdessalem , and Albert Bifet

Betweenness centrality is a graph parameter that has been successfully applied to network analysis. In the context of computer networks, it was considered for various objectives, ranging from routing to service placement. However, as…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-01-23 Pierluigi Crescenzi , Pierre Fraigniaud , Ami Paz

In safety-critical deep learning applications, robustness measures the ability of neural models that handle imperceptible perturbations in input data, which may lead to potential safety hazards. Existing pre-deployment robustness assessment…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Wenchuan Mu , Kwan Hui Lim

Betweenness centrality is a classic measure that quantifies the importance of a graph element (vertex or edge) according to the fraction of shortest paths passing through it. This measure is notoriously expensive to compute, and the best…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-04-29 Nicolas Kourtellis , Gianmarco De Francisci Morales , Francesco Bonchi

The discovery of community structure is a common challenge in the analysis of network data. Many methods have been proposed for finding community structure, but few have been proposed for determining whether the structure found is…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2008-04-29 Brian Karrer , Elizaveta Levina , M. E. J. Newman

Here we present a range-limited approach to centrality measures in both non-weighted and weighted directed complex networks. We introduce an efficient method that generates for every node and every edge its betweenness centrality based on…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-11-24 Maria Ercsey-Ravasz , Ryan Lichtenwalter , Nitesh V. Chawla , Zoltan Toroczkai

We adopt the statistical framework on robustness proposed by Watson and Holmes in 2016 and then tackle the practical challenges that hinder its applicability to network models. The goal is to evaluate how the quality of an inference for a…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-12-08 Marios Papamichalis , Simon Lunagomez , Patrick J. Wolfe

In this paper, we develop efficient randomized algorithms for estimating probabilistic robustness margin and constructing robustness degradation curve for uncertain dynamic systems. One remarkable feature of these algorithms is their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2008-05-13 Xinjia Chen , Kemin Zhou , Jorge L. Aravena

We propose a betweenness centrality measure and algorithms for stochastic networks, where edges can fail and weights vary across realizations, making the most central node random. Our approach models the sequence of reported central nodes…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Wencheng Bao , Eleftheria Kontou , Chrysafis Vogiatzis

Many algorithms have been proposed to predict missing links in a variety of real networks. These studies focus on mainly both accuracy and efficiency of these algorithms. However, little attention is paid to their robustness against either…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-02-26 Liang Wang , Ke Hu , Yi Tang