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Identifying influential nodes that can jointly trigger the maximum influence spread in networks is a fundamental problem in many applications such as viral marketing, online advertising, and disease control. Most existing studies assume…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-10-24 Junzhou Zhao , Shuo Shang , Pinghui Wang , John C. S. Lui , Xiangliang Zhang

The whole frame of interconnections in complex networks hinges on a specific set of structural nodes, much smaller than the total size, which, if activated, would cause the spread of information to the whole network [1]; or, if immunized,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-08-27 Flaviano Morone , Hernan A. Makse

Evaluating node influence is fundamental for identifying key nodes in complex networks. Existing methods typically rely on generic indicators to rank node influence across diverse networks, thereby ignoring the individualized features of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Bingyu Zhu , Qingyun Sun , Jianxin Li , Daqing Li

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

The identification of influential nodes in complex network can be very challenging. If the network has a community structure, centrality measures may fail to identify the complete set of influential nodes, as the hubs and other central…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-03-23 J. Liebig , A. Rao

In recent years, the problem of identifying the spreading ability and ranking social network users according to their influence has attracted a lot of attention; different approaches have been proposed for this purpose. Most of these…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Ahmad Zareie , Amir Sheikhahmadi , Rizos Sakellariou

With great theoretical and practical significance, locating influential nodes of complex networks is a promising issues. In this paper, we propose a dynamics-sensitive (DS) centrality that integrates topological features and dynamical…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-04-28 Jian-Hong Lin , Qiang Guo , Jian-Guo Liu , Tao Zhou

The understanding of how users in a network update their opinions based on their neighbours opinions has attracted a great deal of interest in the field of network science, and a growing body of literature recognises the significance of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Zahra Ghorbani , Seyed Hossein Khasteh , Saeid Ghafouri

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

Identifying influential nodes in complex networks is a fundamental challenge for understanding how information, influence, and contagion propagate through interconnected systems. Conventional centrality measures, particularly gravity-based…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Pouria Bazyarrezaei , Mohammad Abdollahi Azgomi

This paper is concerned with distributed detection of central nodes in complex networks using closeness centrality. Closeness centrality plays an essential role in network analysis. Evaluating closeness centrality exactly requires complete…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Jordan F. Masakuna , Steve Kroon

When analyzing the statistical and topological characteristics of complex networks, an effective and convenient way is to compute the centralities for recognizing influential and significant nodes or structures, yet most of them are…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Xiangnan Feng , Wei Wei , Jiannan Wang , Ying Shi , Zhiming Zheng

In many complex networked systems, such as online social networks, activity originates at certain nodes and subsequently spreads on the network through influence. In this work, we consider the problem of modeling the spread of influence and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-07-18 Arun Sathanur , Mahantesh Halappanavar , Yi Shi , Walin Sagduyu

Recently an increasing amount of research is devoted to the question of how the most influential nodes (seeds) can be found effectively in a complex network. There are a number of measures proposed for this purpose, for instance,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-05-19 Amir Sheikhahmadi , Mohammad A. Nematbakhsh , Arman Shokrollahi

Finding a small subset of influential nodes to maximise influence spread in a complex network is an active area of research. Different methods have been proposed in the past to identify a set of seed nodes that can help achieve a faster…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Abida Sadaf , Luke Mathieson , Piotr Bródka , Katarzyna Musial

Over the last couple of decades, Social Networks have connected people on the web from across the globe and have become a crucial part of our daily life. These networks have also rapidly grown as platforms for propagating products, ideas,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Aaryan Gupta , Inder Khatri , Arjun Choudhry , Sanjay Kumar

Identifying influential node groups in complex networks is crucial for optimizing information dissemination, epidemic control, and viral marketing. However, traditional centrality-based methods often focus on individual nodes, resulting in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Wenxin Zheng , Wenfeng Shi , Tianlong Fan , Linyuan Lü

The position of the nodes within a network topology largely determines the level of their involvement in various networking functions. Yet numerous node centrality indices, proposed to quantify how central individual nodes are in this…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-12-18 George Nomikos , Panagiotis Pantazopoulos , Merkourios Karaliopoulos , Ioannis Stavrakakis

Identifying influential spreaders is crucial for understanding and controlling spreading processes on social networks. Via assigning degree-dependent weights onto links associated with the ground node, we proposed a variant to a recent…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-01-16 Qian Li , Tao Zhou , Linyuan Lv , Duanbing Chen

Dimensionality is one of the most important properties of complex physical systems. However, only recently this concept has been considered in the context of complex networks. In this paper we further develop the previously introduced…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-08-19 Filipi Nascimento Silva , Luciano da Fontoura Costa