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With the growing popularity of mobile smart devices, the existing networks are unable to meet the requirement of many complex scenarios; current network architectures and protocols do not work well with the network with high latency and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-01-08 Huijuan Zhang , Kai Liu

We consider the incremental computation of the betweenness centrality of all vertices in a large complex network modeled as a graph G = (V, E), directed or undirected, with positive real edge-weights. The current widely used algorithm to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-11-19 Meghana Nasre , Matteo Pontecorvi , Vijaya Ramachandran

Social studies researchers use graphs to model group activities in social networks. An important property in this context is the centrality of a vertex: the inverse of the average distance to each other vertex. We describe a randomized…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-03-08 David Eppstein , Joseph Wang

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

The identification of nodes occupying important positions in a network structure is crucial for the understanding of the associated real-world system. Usually, betweenness centrality is used to evaluate a node capacity to connect different…

Betweenness centrality has been extensively studied since its introduction in 1977 as a measure of node importance in graphs. This measure has found use in various applications and has been extended to temporal graphs with time-labeled…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Mehdi Naima

Betweenness centrality lies at the core of both transport and structural vulnerability properties of complex networks, however, it is computationally costly, and its measurement for networks with millions of nodes is near impossible. By…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-18 Maria Ercsey-Ravasz , Zoltan Toroczkai

Betweenness is a measure of the centrality of a node in a network, and is normally calculated as the fraction of shortest paths between node pairs that pass through the node of interest. Betweenness is, in some sense, a measure of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. E. J. Newman

The betweenness centrality of a vertex v is an important centrality measure that quantifies how many optimal paths between pairs of other vertices visit v. Computing betweenness centrality in a temporal graph, in which the edge set may…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Jessica Enright , Kitty Meeks , Hendrik Molter

The Maximum Betweenness Centrality problem (MBC) can be defined as follows. Given a graph find a $k$-element node set $C$ that maximizes the probability of detecting communication between a pair of nodes $s$ and $t$ chosen uniformly at…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-08-23 Martin Fink , Joachim Spoerhase

Bu{\ss} et al [KDD 2020] recently proved that the problem of computing the betweenness of all nodes of a temporal graph is computationally hard in the case of foremost and fastest paths, while it is solvable in time O(n 3 T 2 ) in the case…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Filippo Brunelli , Pierluigi Crescenzi , Laurent Viennot

An important index widely used to analyze social and information networks is betweenness centrality. In this paper, first given a directed network $G$ and a vertex $r\in V(G)$, we present a novel adaptive algorithm for estimating…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-25 Mostafa Haghir Chehreghani , Albert Bifet , Talel Abdessalem

Triangle centrality is introduced for finding important vertices in a graph based on the concentration of triangles surrounding each vertex. It has the distinct feature of allowing a vertex to be central if it is in many triangles or none…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Paul Burkhardt

The centrality of a vertex v in a network intuitively captures how important v is for communication in the network. The task of improving the centrality of a vertex has many applications, as a higher centrality often implies a larger impact…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-10-05 Clemens Hoffmann , Hendrik Molter , Manuel Sorge

Random geometric networks consist of 1) a set of nodes embedded randomly in a bounded domain $\mathcal{V} \subseteq \mathbb{R}^d$ and 2) links formed probabilistically according to a function of mutual Euclidean separation. We quantify how…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Alexander P. Kartun-Giles , Orestis Georgiou , Carl P. Dettmann

The degree centrality of a node, defined as the number of nodes adjacent to it, is often used as a measure of importance of a node to the structure of a network. This metric can be extended to paths in a network, where the degree centrality…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Johnson Phosavanh , Dmytro Matsypura

In this work we present PercIS, an algorithm based on Importance Sampling to approximate the percolation centrality of all the nodes of a graph. Percolation centrality is a generalization of betweenness centrality to attributed graphs, and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Antonio Cruciani , Leonardo Pellegrina

This paper proposes an alternative way to identify nodes with high betweenness centrality. It introduces a new metric, k-path centrality, and a randomized algorithm for estimating it, and shows empirically that nodes with high k-path…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-02-23 Nicolas Kourtellis , Tharaka Alahakoon , Ramanuja Simha , Adriana Iamnitchi , Rahul Tripathi

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

Betweenness is a well-known centrality measure that ranks the nodes according to their participation in the shortest paths of a network. In several scenarios, having a high betweenness can have a positive impact on the node itself. Hence,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Elisabetta Bergamini , Pierluigi Crescenzi , Gianlorenzo D'Angelo , Henning Meyerhenke , Lorenzo Severini , Yllka Velaj