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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

Spectral centrality measures allow to identify influential individuals in social groups, to rank Web pages by their popularity, and even to determine the impact of scientific researches. The centrality score of a node within a network…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-09-22 Vincenzo Nicosia , Regino Criado , Miguel Romance , Giovanni Russo , Vito Latora

Classic measures of graph centrality capture distinct aspects of node importance, from the local (e.g., degree) to the global (e.g., closeness). Here we exploit the connection between diffusion and geometry to introduce a multiscale…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-07-29 Alexis Arnaudon , Robert L. Peach , Mauricio Barahona

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

Complex networks are the subject of fundamental interest from the scientific community at large. Several metrics have been introduced to characterize the structure of these networks, such as the degree distribution, degree correlation, path…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-01-14 Francesco Sorrentino , Abu Bakar Siddique , Louis M. Pecora

Identifying influential nodes in a network is a fundamental issue due to its wide applications, such as accelerating information diffusion or halting virus spreading. Many measures based on the network topology have emerged over the years…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-12-26 Zakariya Ghalmane , Mohammed El Hassouni , Chantal Cherifi , Hocine Cherifi

We show that prominent centrality measures in network analysis are all based on additively separable and linear treatments of statistics that capture a node's position in the network. This enables us to provide a taxonomy of centrality…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-01-25 Francis Bloch , Matthew O. Jackson , Pietro Tebaldi

This paper introduces a novel framework that combines traditional centrality measures with eigenvalue spectra and diffusion processes for a more comprehensive analysis of complex networks. While centrality measures such as degree,…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Arsh Jha

Centrality metrics have become a popular concept in network science and optimization. Over the years, centrality has been used to assign importance and identify influential elements in various settings, including transportation,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Mustafa Can Camur , Chrysafis Vogiatzis

Centrality descriptors are widely used to rank nodes according to specific concept(s) of importance. Despite the large number of centrality measures available nowadays, it is still poorly understood how to identify the node which can be…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-01-13 Giulia Bertagnolli , Claudio Agostinelli , Manlio De Domenico

In complex networks a common task is to identify the most important or "central" nodes. There are several definitions, often called centrality measures, which often lead to different results. Here we study extensively correlations between…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-13 Magnus Jungsbluth , Bernd Burghardt , Alexander K. Hartmann

Methods for efficiently controlling dynamics propagated on networks are usually based on identifying the most influential nodes. Knowledge of these nodes can be used for the targeted control of dynamics such as epidemics, or for modifying…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-11-07 Kieran J. Sharkey

Centrality measures are crucial in quantifying the influence of the members of a social network. Although there has been a great deal of work dealing with this issue, the vast majority of classical centrality measures are agnostic of the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Stephany Rajeh , Marinette Savonnet , Eric Leclercq , Hocine Cherifi

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

How does one find important or influential people in an online social network? Researchers have proposed a variety of centrality measures to identify individuals that are, for example, often visited by a random walk, infected in an…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-03-20 Kristina Lerman , Prachi Jain , Rumi Ghosh , Jeon-Hyung Kang , Ponnurangam Kumaraguru

Networks are universally considered as complex structures of interactions of large multi-component systems. In order to determine the role that each node has inside a complex network, several centrality measures have been developed. Such…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-08-20 Malbor Asllani , Bruno Requiao da Cunha , Ernesto Estrada , James P. Gleeson

We provide a framework for determining the centralities of agents in a broad family of random networks. Current understanding of network centrality is largely restricted to deterministic settings, but practitioners frequently use random…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Krishna Dasaratha

Knowledge graphs play a central role for linking different data which leads to multiple layers. Thus, they are widely used in big data integration, especially for connecting data from different domains. Few studies have investigated the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Jens Dörpinghaus , Vera Weil , Carsten Düing , Martin W. Sommer

Estimating influential nodes in large scale networks including but not limited to social networks, biological networks, communication networks, emerging smart grids etc. is a topic of fundamental interest. To understand influences of nodes…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-06-13 Sima Das

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Felipe Grando , Lisando Z. Granville , Luis C. Lamb