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Spreading is a ubiquitous process in the social, biological and technological systems. Therefore, identifying influential spreaders, which is important to prevent epidemic spreading and to establish effective vaccination strategies, is full…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-10-17 Senbin Yu , Liang Gao , Yi-Fan Wang , Ge Gao , Congcong Zhou , Zi-You Gao

Identifying influential nodes in complex networks is of great importance, and has many applications in practice. For example, finding influential nodes in e-commerce network can provide merchants with customers with strong purchase intent;…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Yanmei Hu , Siyuan Yin , Yihang Wu , Xue Yue , Yue Liu

Understanding the network structure, and finding out the influential nodes is a challenging issue in the large networks. Identifying the most influential nodes in the network can be useful in many applications like immunization of nodes in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-01-10 Naveen Gupta , Anurag Singh , Hocine Cherifi

A pivotal idea in network science, marketing research and innovation diffusion theories is that a small group of nodes -- called influencers -- have the largest impact on social contagion and epidemic processes in networks. Despite the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-12-12 Flavio Iannelli , Manuel Sebastian Mariani , Igor M. Sokolov

Identification of critical nodes is a prominent topic in the study of complex networks. Numerous methods have been proposed, yet most exhibit inherent limitations. Traditional approaches primarily analyze specific structural features of the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Hao Wang , Ting Luo , Shuang-ping Yang , Ming Jing , Jian Wang , Na Zhao

Hypergraphs that can depict interactions beyond pairwise edges have emerged as an appropriate representation for modeling polyadic relations in complex systems. With the recent surge of interest in researching hypergraphs, the centrality…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-08-10 Xiao-Wen Xie , Xiu-Xiu Zhan , Zi-Ke Zhang , Chuang Liu

Numerous centrality measures have been proposed to evaluate the importance of nodes in networks, yet comparative analyses of these measures remain limited. Based on 80 real-world networks, we conducted an empirical analysis of 16…

Other Statistics · Statistics 2025-08-14 Yilin Bi , Xinshan Jiao , Tao Zhou

This study presents an integrated approach for identifying key nodes in information propagation networks using advanced artificial intelligence methods. We introduce a novel technique that combines the Decision-making Trial and Evaluation…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Bin Yuan , Tianbo Song , Jerry Yao

Identifying influential nodes in complex networks has received increasing attention for its great theoretical and practical applications in many fields. Traditional methods, such as degree centrality, betweenness centrality, closeness…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-08-15 Qiang Liu , Yuxiao Zhu , Yan Jia , Lu Deng , Bin Zhou , Junxing Zhu , Peng Zou

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

Nodes that play strategic roles in networks are called critical or influential nodes. For example, in an epidemic, we can control the infection spread by isolating critical nodes; in marketing, we can use certain nodes as the initial…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-09-24 Zahra Farahi , Ali Kamandi , Rooholah Abedian , Luis Enrique Correa Rocha

Vital nodes usually play a key role in complex networks. Uncovering these nodes is an important task in protecting the network, especially when the network suffers intentional attack. Many existing methods have not fully integrated the node…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Huaizhi Liao , Tian Qiu , Guang Chen

Graph mining is an important technique that used in many applications such as predicting and understanding behaviors and information dissemination within networks. One crucial aspect of graph mining is the identification and ranking of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Shima Esfandiari , Seyed Mostafa Fakhrahmad

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

With great theoretical and practical significance, identifying the node spreading influence of complex network is one of the most promising domains. So far, various topology-based centrality measures have been proposed to identify the node…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-08-27 Jian-Hong Lin , Jian-Guo Liu , Qiang Guo

Networks are frequently used to model complex systems comprised of interacting elements. While edges capture the topology of direct interactions, the true complexity of many systems originates from higher-order patterns in paths by which…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Christoph Gote , Vincenzo Perri , Ingo Scholtes

Identifying influential nodes in a network is a major issue due to the great deal of applications concerned, such as disease spreading and rumor dynamics. That is why, a plethora of centrality measures has emerged over the years in order to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Ahmed Ibnoulouafi , Mohamed El Haziti , Hocine Cherifi

The identification of key nodes in complex networks is an important topic in many network science areas. It is vital to a variety of real-world applications, including viral marketing, epidemic spreading and influence maximization. In…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Mateusz Stolarski , Adam Piróg , Piotr Bródka

Influence maximization problem involves selecting a subset of seed nodes within a social network to maximize information spread under a given diffusion model, so how to identify the important nodes is the problem to be considered in this…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Qi Cao , Yurong Song , Min Li , Ruqi Li , Hongbo Qu , Guo-Ping Jiang , Jinye Xiong

Identifying influential nodes plays a pivotal role in understanding, controlling, and optimizing the behavior of complex systems, ranging from social to biological and technological domains. Yet most centrality-based approaches rely on…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-12-12 Yajing Hao , Longzhao Liu , Xin Wang , Zhihao Han , Ming Wei , Zhiming Zheng , Shaoting Tang