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In this paper we revisit the concept of mobility entropy. Over time, the structure of spatial interactions among urban centres tends to become more complex and evolves from centralised models to more scattered origin and destination…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-06-30 Valentina Marin , Carlos Molinero , Elsa Arcaute

Centrality, in some sense, captures the extent to which a vertex controls the flow of information in a network. Here, we propose Local Detour Centrality as a novel centrality-based betweenness measure that captures the extent to which a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-08-08 Haim Cohen , Yinon Nachshon , Paz M. Naim , Jürgen Jost , Emil Saucan , Anat Maril

The study of the topological structure of complex networks has fascinated researchers for several decades, and today we have a fairly good understanding of the types and reoccurring characteristics of many different complex networks.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-06-23 Matthieu Roy , Stefan Schmid , Gilles Trédan

Precisely quantifying the heterogeneity or disorder of a network system is very important and desired in studies of behavior and function of the network system. Although many degree-based entropies have been proposed to measure the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2008-10-09 Yanghua Xiao , Wentao Wu , Hui Wang , Momiao Xiong , Wei Wang

Graph comparison plays a major role in many network applications. We often need a similarity metric for comparing networks according to their structural properties. Various network features - such as degree distribution and clustering…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-07-16 Sadegh Aliakbary , Sadegh Motallebi , Jafar Habibi , Ali Movaghar

In this paper, we reveal the relationship between entropy rate and the congestion in complex network and solve it analytically for special cases. Finding maximizing entropy rate will lead to an improvement of traffic efficiency, we propose…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-09-15 Yuhang Fan , Hanyuan Liu , Shibo He

The concept of entropy rate for a dynamical process on a graph is introduced. We study diffusion processes where the node degrees are used as a local information by the random walkers. We describe analitically and numerically how the degree…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jesus Gomez-Gardenes , Vito Latora

How to evaluate the importance of nodes is essential in research of complex network. There are many methods proposed for solving this problem, but they still have room to be improved. In this paper, a new approach called local volume…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Hanwen Li , Qiuyan Shang , Fangzheng Duan , Yong Deng

We study the notion of approximate entropy within the framework of network theory. Approximate entropy is an uncertainty measure originally proposed in the context of dynamical systems and time series. We firstly define a purely structural…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-05-30 James West , Lucas Lacasa , Simone Severini , Andrew Teschendorff

Potentially influential spaces in the spatial networks of cities can be detected by means of the entropy participation ratios. Local (connectivity) and global (centrality) entropies are considered. While the connectivity entropy has a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-09-28 D. Volchenkov , Ph. Blanchard

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

Entropy is a measure of heterogeneity widely used in applied sciences, often when data are collected over space. Recently, a number of approaches has been proposed to include spatial information in entropy. The aim of entropy is to…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-11-12 Linda Altieri , Daniela Cocchi , Giulia Roli

In complex networks, each node has some unique characteristics that define the importance of the node based on the given application-specific context. These characteristics can be identified using various centrality metrics defined in the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Akrati Saxena , Sudarshan Iyengar

Understanding the structural complexity and predictability of complex networks is a central challenge in network science. Although recent studies have revealed a relationship between compression-based entropy and link prediction…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Sebastián Brzovic , Cristóbal Rojas , Andrés Abeliuk

Neural networks have dramatically increased our capacity to learn from large, high-dimensional datasets across innumerable disciplines. However, their decisions are not easily interpretable, their computational costs are high, and building…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Mackenzie J. Meni , Ryan T. White , Michael Mayo , Kevin Pilkiewicz

The entropy of network ensembles characterizes the amount of information encoded in the network structure, and can be used to quantify network complexity, and the relevance of given structural properties observed in real network datasets…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2014-06-18 Kartik Anand , Dimitri Krioukov , Ginestra Bianconi

Centrality is an important notion in network analysis and is used to measure the degree to which network structure contributes to the importance of a node in a network. While many different centrality measures exist, most of them apply to…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2010-06-04 Kristina Lerman , Rumi Ghosh , Jeon Hyung Kang

Measure the similarity of the nodes in the complex networks have interested many researchers to explore it. In this paper, a new method which is based on the degree centrality and the Relative-entropy is proposed to measure the similarity…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-02-04 Qi Zhang , Meizhu Li , Yong Deng , Sankaran Mahadevan

Decentralized learning provides an effective framework to train machine learning models with data distributed over arbitrary communication graphs. However, most existing approaches toward decentralized learning disregard the interaction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Yatin Dandi , Anastasia Koloskova , Martin Jaggi , Sebastian U. Stich

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
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