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A basic problem in the analysis of social networks is missing data. When a network model does not accurately capture all the actors or relationships in the social system under study, measures computed on the network and ultimately the final…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-09-29 Rajesh Sharma , Matteo Magnani , Danilo Montesi

We survey some of the concepts, methods, and applications of community detection, which has become an increasingly important area of network science. To help ease newcomers into the field, we provide a guide to available methodology and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-09-08 Mason A. Porter , Jukka-Pekka Onnela , Peter J. Mucha

A network is a typical expressive form of representing complex systems in terms of vertices and links, in which the pattern of interactions amongst components of the network is intricate. The network can be static that does not change over…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Hayat Dino Bedru , Shuo Yu , Xinru Xiao , Da Zhang , Liangtian Wan , He Guo , Feng Xia

A new approach for the analysis of information flow on a network is suggested using protocol parameters encapsulated in the package headers as functions of time. The minimal number of independent parameters for a complete description of the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Vladimir Gudkov , Joseph E. Johnson

Over the past decades, network systems have surged in significance, driven by merging technological advancements. These systems play pivotal roles in diverse applications ranging from autonomous driving to smart grids, yet they confront…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-20 Gang Wang , Wenjie Liu , Yifei Li , Xin Wang , Jian Sun , Jie Chen

Social network analysis is the process of investigating social structures through the use of networks and graph theory. It combines a variety of techniques for analyzing the structure of social networks as well as theories that aim at…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Dmitri Goldenberg

This article aims at summarizing the existing methods for sampling social networking services and proposing a faster confidence interval for related sampling methods. It also includes comparisons of common network sampling techniques.

Applications · Statistics 2013-02-21 Baiyang Wang

Modern data acquisition routinely produces massive amounts of network data. Though many methods and models have been proposed to analyze such data, the research of network data is largely disconnected with the classical theory of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2011-04-26 Xiaoye Jiang , Yuan Yao , Han Liu , Leonidas Guibas

Many complex systems can be represented as networks, and the problem of network comparison is becoming increasingly relevant. There are many techniques for network comparison, from simply comparing network summary statistics to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-04-04 Anatol E. Wegner , Luis Ospina-Forero , Robert E. Gaunt , Charlotte M. Deane , Gesine Reinert

Data mining is about obtaining new knowledge from existing datasets. However, the data in the existing datasets can be scattered, noisy, and even incomplete. Although lots of effort is spent on developing or fine-tuning data mining models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-21 Canchen Li

We describe our work in the collection and analysis of massive data describing the connections between participants to online social networks. Alternative approaches to social network data collection are defined and evaluated in practice,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2011-06-01 Salvatore A. Catanese , Pasquale De Meo , Emilio Ferrara , Giacomo Fiumara , Alessandro Provetti

In this paper we derive an updating scheme for calculating some important network statistics such as degree, clustering coefficient, etc., aiming at reduce the amount of computation needed to track the evolving behavior of large networks;…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2009-04-02 Jie Sun , James P. Bagrow , Erik M. Bollt , Joesph D. Skufca

As the complexity and scale of modern computer networks continue to increase, there has emerged an urgent need for precise traffic analysis, which plays a pivotal role in cutting-edge wireless connectivity technologies. This study focuses…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Khuong N. Nguyen , Abhishek Sehgal , Yuming Zhu , Junsu Choi , Guanbo Chen , Hao Chen , Boon Loong Ng , Charlie Zhang

In this contribution we discuss some approaches of network analysis providing information about single links or single nodes with respect to a null hypothesis taking into account the heterogeneity of the system empirically observed. With…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-08-30 Salvatore Miccichè , Rosario Nunzio Mantegna

This paper explores how to analyze empirically a network of website visitors from several countries in the world. While exploring this huge network of website visitors worldwide, this paper shows an empirical data analysis with a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-09-21 Mohammed K A Kaabar

The rapid development of computer network system brings both a great convenience and new security threats for users. Network security problem generally includes network system security and data security. Specifically, it refers to the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Tulasi Udupa A , Sushma Jayaram , Shreya Ganesh Hegde

We introduce the concept of efficiency of a network, measuring how efficiently it exchanges information. By using this simple measure small-world networks are seen as systems that are both globally and locally efficient. This allows to give…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Vito Latora , Massimo Marchiori

Networks are a useful representation for data on connections between units of interests, but the observed connections are often noisy and/or include missing values. One common approach to network analysis is to treat the network as a…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-05-22 Yun-Jhong Wu , Elizaveta Levina , Ji Zhu

In the last decade, there has been a great technological advance in the infrastructure of mobile technologies. The increase in the use of wireless local area networks and the use of satellite services are also noticed. The high utilization…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Daniel Rosa Canêdo , Alexandre Ricardo Soares Romariz

A growing number of applications that generate massive streams of data need intelligent data processing and online analysis. Real-time surveillance systems, telecommunication systems, sensor networks and other dynamic environments are such…

Databases · Computer Science 2011-05-11 Mahnoosh Kholghi , Mohammadreza Keyvanpour