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Using the growing volumes of vehicle trajectory data, it becomes increasingly possible to capture time-varying and uncertain travel costs in a road network, including travel time and fuel consumption. The current paradigm represents a road…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-12-07 Jian Dai , Bin Yang , Chenjuan Guo , Christian S. Jensen

Most real-world networks are incompletely observed. Algorithms that can accurately predict which links are missing can dramatically speedup the collection of network data and improve the validity of network models. Many algorithms now exist…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-05 Amir Ghasemian , Homa Hosseinmardi , Aram Galstyan , Edoardo M. Airoldi , Aaron Clauset

We investigate efficient methods for packets to navigate in complex networks. The packets are assumed to have memory, but no previous knowledge of the graph. We assume the graph to be indexed, i.e. every vertex is associated with a number…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-06-09 Petter Holme

In the last years, due to the great diffusion of e-commerce, online rating platforms quickly became a common tool for purchase recommendations. However, instruments for their analysis did not evolve at the same speed. Indeed, interesting…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-02-13 Carolina Becatti , Guido Caldarelli , Fabio Saracco

Link prediction aims to predict the potential existence of links between two unconnected nodes within a network based on the known topological characteristics. Evaluation metrics are used to assess the effectiveness of algorithms in link…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Xinshan Jiao , Shuyan Wan , Qian Liu , Yilin Bi , Yan-Li Lee , En Xu , Dong Hao , Tao Zhou

We consider the problem of link prediction in networks whose edge structure may vary (sufficiently slowly) over time. This problem, with applications in many important areas including social networks, has two main variants: the first, known…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-30 Daniele Alpago , Mattia Zorzi , Augusto Ferrante

We present a physically-inspired model and an efficient algorithm to infer hierarchical rankings of nodes in directed networks. It assigns real-valued ranks to nodes rather than simply ordinal ranks, and it formalizes the assumption that…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-06-14 Caterina De Bacco , Daniel B. Larremore , Cristopher Moore

An information theoretic approach inspired by quantum statistical mechanics was recently proposed as a means to optimize network models and to assess their likelihood against synthetic and real-world networks. Importantly, this method does…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-09-12 Carlo Nicolini , Vladimir Vlasov , Angelo Bifone

Paths are important structural elements in complex networks because they are finite (unlike walks), related to effective node coverage (minimum spanning trees), and can be understood as being dual to star connectivity. This article…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-12-05 Luciano da Fontoura Costa

Link prediction is a popular research area with important applications in a variety of disciplines, including biology, social science, security, and medicine. The fundamental requirement of link prediction is the accurate and effective…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-05-18 Yang Yang , Ryan N. Lichtenwalter , Nitesh V. Chawla

Link prediction, as a frontier task in complex network topology analysis, aims to infer the existence of latent links between node pairs based on observed nodes and structural information. We propose an ensemble link prediction model that…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-12-09 Zi-Xuan Jin , Jun-Fan Yi , Ke-Ke Shang

In principle, the rules of links formation of a network model can be considered as a kind of link prediction algorithm. By revisiting the preferential attachment mechanism for generating a scale-free network, here we propose a class of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-11-09 Ke Hu , Ju Xiang , Wanchun Yang , Xiaoke Xu , Yi Tang

Reconstructing weighted networks from partial information is necessary in many important circumstances, e.g. for a correct estimation of systemic risk. It has been shown that, in order to achieve an accurate reconstruction, it is crucial to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-03-07 Tiziano Squartini , Giulio Cimini , Andrea Gabrielli , Diego Garlaschelli

Over the past years, embedding learning on networks has shown tremendous results in link prediction tasks for complex systems, with a wide range of real-life applications. Learning a representation for each node in a knowledge graph allows…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Orell Trautmann , Olaf Wolkenhauer , Clémence Réda

Link prediction is central to unraveling social network evolution and node relationships, as well as understanding the characteristic mechanisms of complex networks. Currently, research on link prediction for complex dynamic networks…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-16 Gaoxin Zhang , Ruixing Ren , Junhui Zhao , Xiaoke Sun

To quantify the complexity of a system, entropy-based methods have received considerable critical attentions in real-world data analysis. Among numerous entropy algorithms, amplitude-based formulas, represented by Sample Entropy, suffer…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-12 Hongjian Xiao , Danilo P. Mandic

Network architecture design is very important for the optimization of industrial networks. The type of network architecture can be divided into small-scale network and large-scale network according to its scale. Graph theory is an efficient…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Chao Dong , Xiaoxiong Xiong , Qiulin Xue , Zhengzhen Zhang , Kai Niu , Ping Zhang

Complex networks are at the core of an intense research activity. However, in most cases, intricate and costly measurement procedures are needed to explore their structure. In some cases, these measurements rely on link queries: given two…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2009-04-22 Fabien Tarissan , Matthieu Latapy , Christophe Prieur

Identifying influential spreaders is crucial for understanding and controlling spreading processes on social networks. Via assigning degree-dependent weights onto links associated with the ground node, we proposed a variant to a recent…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-01-16 Qian Li , Tao Zhou , Linyuan Lv , Duanbing Chen

Network dynamic (e.g., traffic burst in data center networks and channel fading in cellular WiFi networks) has a great impact on the performance of communication networks (e.g., throughput, capacity, delay, and jitter). This article…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Meng Qin