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Many real world systems can be expressed as complex networks of interconnected nodes. It is frequently important to be able to quantify the relative importance of the various nodes in the network, a task accomplished by defining some…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-08-08 José Ricardo Furlan Ronqui , Gonzalo Travieso

Identifying central entities and interactions is a fundamental problem in network science. While well-studied for graphs (pairwise relations), many biological and social systems exhibit higher-order interactions best modeled by hypergraphs.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-12-02 Jaewan Chun , Fanchen Bu , Yeongho Kim , Atsushi Miyauchi , Francesco Bonchi , Kijung Shin

Betweenness centrality is a widely-used measure in the analysis of large complex networks. It measures the potential or power of a vertex to control the communication over the network under the assumption that information primarily flows…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-03-15 Sunil Kumar R , Kannan Balakrishnan

To measure node importance, network scientists employ centrality scores that typically take a microscopic or macroscopic perspective, relying on node features or global network structure. However, traditional centrality measures such as…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Christopher Blöcker , Juan Carlos Nieves , Martin Rosvall

Existing centrality measures for social network analysis suggest the im-portance of an actor and give consideration to actor's given structural position in a network. These existing measures suggest specific attribute of an actor (i.e.,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-02-13 Alireza Abbasi , Liaquat Hossain

Katz centrality (and its limiting case, eigenvector centrality) is a frequently used tool to measure the importance of a node in a network, and to rank the nodes accordingly. One reason for its popularity is that Katz centrality can be…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Vanni Noferini , Ryan Wood

There is great significance in evaluating a node's Influence ranking in complex networks. Over the years, many researchers have presented different measures for quantifying node interconnectedness within networks. Therefore, this paper…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Auwal Tijjani Amshi

Centrality is a key property of complex networks that influences the behavior of dynamical processes, like synchronization and epidemic spreading, and can bring important information about the organization of complex systems, like our brain…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-01-24 Francisco Aparecido Rodrigues

Two concepts of centrality have been defined in complex networks. The first considers the centrality of a node and many different metrics for it has been defined (e.g. eigenvector centrality, PageRank, non-backtracking centrality, etc). The…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-03-14 Paolo Barucca , Daniele Tantari , Fabrizio Lillo

Network alignment is a problem of finding the node mapping between similar networks. It links the data from separate sources and is widely studied in bioinformation and social network fields. The critical difference between network…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-07-26 Hailong Li , Naiyue Chen

Many complex systems can be described as multiplex networks in which the same nodes can interact with one another in different layers, thus forming a set of interacting and co-evolving networks. Examples of such multiplex systems are social…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-11-12 Arda Halu , Raul J. Mondragon , Pietro Panzarasa , Ginestra Bianconi

Betweenness centrality ranks the importance of nodes by their participation in all shortest paths of the network. Therefore computing exact betweenness values is impractical in large networks. For static networks, approximation based on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-09-23 Elisabetta Bergamini , Henning Meyerhenke , Christian L. Staudt

Hierarchy and centrality are two popular notions used to characterize the importance of entities in complex systems. Indeed, many complex systems exhibit a natural hierarchical structure, and centrality is a fundamental characteristic…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Stephany Rajeh , Marinette Savonnet , Eric Leclercq , Hocine Cherifi

Complex networks have become essential tools for understanding diverse phenomena in social systems, traffic systems, biomolecular systems, and financial systems. Identifying critical nodes is a central theme in contemporary research,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Duxin Chen , Jiawen Chen , Xiaoyu Zhang , Qinghan Jia , Xiaolu Liu , Ye Sun , Linyuan Lv , Wenwu Yu

Optimizing the stability and control performance of complex networks often hinges on effectively identifying critical nodes for targeted intervention. Due to their inherent complexity and high dimensionality, large-scale energy flow…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-08-26 Yi Li , Xin Li

Traditional measures of closeness and betweenness centrality in networks rely on the shortest paths between nodes. Many standard metrics fail to accurately reflect the physical or probabilistic characteristics of nodal centrality and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Juuso Luhtala , Vesa Kuikka , Kimmo K. Kaski

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

Online monitoring user cardinalities (or degrees) in graph streams is fundamental for many applications. For example in a bipartite graph representing user-website visiting activities, user cardinalities (the number of distinct visited…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Pinghui Wang , Peng Jia , Xiangliang Zhang , Jing Tao , Xiaohong Guan , Don Towsley

Centrality metrics aim to identify the most relevant nodes in a network. In literature, a broad set of metrics exists, either measuring local or global centrality characteristics. Nevertheless, when networks exhibit a high spectral gap, the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-10-20 Lorenzo Costantini , Carla Sciarra , Luca Ridolfi , Francesco Laio

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