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Betweenness centrality is a metric that seeks to quantify a sense of the importance of a vertex in a network graph in terms of its "control" on the distribution of information along geodesic paths throughout that network. This quantity…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2009-08-28 Eric D. Kolaczyk , David B. Chua , Marc Barthelemy

There are several centrality measures that have been introduced and studied for real world networks. They account for the different vertex characteristics that permit them to be ranked in order of importance in the network. Betweenness…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-03-20 Sunil Kumar R , Kannan Balakrishnan , M. Jathavedan

Network centrality plays an important role in many applications. Central nodes in social networks can be influential, driving opinions and spreading news or rumors.In hyperlinked environments, such as the Web, where users navigate via…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-10-11 Sourav Medya , Arlei Silva , Ambuj Singh , Prithwish Basu , Ananthram Swami

Betweenness is a measure of the centrality of a node in a network, and is normally calculated as the fraction of shortest paths between node pairs that pass through the node of interest. Betweenness is, in some sense, a measure of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. E. J. Newman

We propose the Temporal Walk Centrality, which quantifies the importance of a node by measuring its ability to obtain and distribute information in a temporal network. In contrast to the widely-used betweenness centrality, we assume that…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Lutz Oettershagen , Petra Mutzel , Nils M. Kriege

Robustness estimation is critical for the design and maintenance of resilient networks, one of the global challenges of the 21st century. Existing studies exploit network metrics to generate attack strategies, which simulate intentional…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-08-16 Sebastian Wandelt , Xiaoqian Sun

Centrality measures, erstwhile popular amongst the sociologists and psychologists, have seen broad and increasing applications across several disciplines of late. Amongst a plethora of application specific definitions available in the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-03-23 Rishi Ranjan Singh , Shubham Chaudhary , Manas Agarwal

A class of centrality measures called betweenness centralities reflects degree of participation of edges or nodes in communication between different parts of the network. The original shortest-path betweenness centrality is based on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-08-13 Konstantin Avrachenkov , Nelly Litvak , Vasily Medyanikov , Marina Sokol

Centrality is one of the most fundamental metrics in network science. Despite an abundance of methods for measuring centrality of individual vertices, there are by now only a few metrics to measure centrality of individual edges. We modify…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-09-25 Timo Bröhl , Klaus Lehnertz

Betweeness centrality is one of the most important concepts in graph analysis. It was recently extended to link streams, a graph generalization where links arrive over time. However, its computation raises non-trivial issues, due in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Frédéric Simard , Clémence Magnien , Matthieu Latapy

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

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

This paper proposes an alternative way to identify nodes with high betweenness centrality. It introduces a new metric, k-path centrality, and a randomized algorithm for estimating it, and shows empirically that nodes with high k-path…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-02-23 Nicolas Kourtellis , Tharaka Alahakoon , Ramanuja Simha , Adriana Iamnitchi , Rahul Tripathi

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

Betweenness centrality quantifies the importance of a vertex for the information flow in a network. We propose a flexible definition of betweenness for temporal multiplexes, where geodesics are determined accounting for the topological and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-02-04 Silvia Zaoli , Piero Mazzarisi , Fabrizio Lillo

Network analysis is an important tool in understanding the behavior of complex systems of interacting entities. However, due to the limitations of data gathering technologies, some interactions might be missing from the network model. This…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-08-25 Soumya Sarkar , Sanjukta Bhowmick , Suhansanu Kumar , Animesh Mukherjee

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

Centrality rankings such as degree, closeness, betweenness, Katz, PageRank, etc. are commonly used to identify critical nodes in a graph. These methods are based on two assumptions that restrict their wider applicability. First, they assume…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-11-30 Yusuf Ozkaya , A. Erdem Sariyuce , Umit V. Catalyurek , Ali Pinar

Bu{\ss} et al [KDD 2020] recently proved that the problem of computing the betweenness of all nodes of a temporal graph is computationally hard in the case of foremost and fastest paths, while it is solvable in time O(n 3 T 2 ) in the case…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Filippo Brunelli , Pierluigi Crescenzi , Laurent Viennot

Graph modification problems with the goal of optimizing some measure of a given node's network position have a rich history in the algorithms literature. Less commonly explored are modification problems with the goal of equalizing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Alex Crane , Sorelle A. Friedler , Mihir Patel , Blair D. Sullivan