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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

We extend the concept of eigenvector centrality to multiplex networks, and introduce several alternative parameters that quantify the importance of nodes in a multi-layered networked system, including the definition of vectorial-type…

Given a social network, which of its nodes are more central? This question has been asked many times in sociology, psychology and computer science, and a whole plethora of centrality measures (a.k.a. centrality indices, or rankings) were…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-11-08 Paolo Boldi , Sebastiano Vigna

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

The non-trivial structure of such complex systems makes the analysis of their collective behavior a challenge. The problem is even more difficult when the information is distributed across networks (e.g., communication networks in different…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-02-08 Carlo Spatocco , Giovanni Stilo , Carlotta Domeniconi , Alessandro D'Andrea

Here we present a range-limited approach to centrality measures in both non-weighted and weighted directed complex networks. We introduce an efficient method that generates for every node and every edge its betweenness centrality based on…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-11-24 Maria Ercsey-Ravasz , Ryan Lichtenwalter , Nitesh V. Chawla , Zoltan Toroczkai

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

Centrality measures have been defined to quantify the importance of a node in complex networks. The relative importance of a node can be measured using its centrality rank based on the centrality value. In the present work, we predict the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-11-29 Akrati Saxena , Vaibhav Malik , S. R. S. Iyengar

In network science complex systems are represented as a mathematical graphs consisting of a set of nodes representing the components and a set of edges representing their interactions. The framework of networks has led to significant…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-04-07 Alexandre Bovet , Hernán A. Makse

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

The problem of assigning centrality values to nodes and edges in graphs has been widely investigated during last years. Recently, a novel measure of node centrality has been proposed, called k-path centrality index, which is based on the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-03-08 Pasquale De Meo , Emilio Ferrara , Giacomo Fiumara , Angela Ricciardello

Finding the important nodes in complex networks by topological structure is of great significance to network invulnerability. Several centrality measures have been proposed recently to evaluate the performance of nodes based on their…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Pengli Lu , Chen Dong , Yuhong Guo

Identifying the importance of nodes of complex networks is of interest to the research of Social Networks, Biological Networks etc.. Current researchers have proposed several measures or algorithms, such as betweenness, PageRank and HITS…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-11-26 Bojin Zheng , Deyi Li , Guisheng Chen , Wenhua Du , Jianmin Wang

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

Analyzing networks requires complex algorithms to extract meaningful information. Centrality metrics have shown to be correlated with the importance and loads of the nodes in network traffic. Here, we are interested in the problem of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-03-05 Ahmet Erdem Sariyuce , Kamer Kaya , Erik Saule , Umit V. Catalyurek

Centrality, which quantifies the "importance" of individual nodes, is among the most essential concepts in modern network theory. As there are many ways in which a node can be important, many different centrality measures are in use. Here,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-02-03 Aleks J. Gurfinkel , Per Arne Rikvold

Numerous centrality measures have been developed to quantify the importances of nodes in time-independent networks, and many of them can be expressed as the leading eigenvector of some matrix. With the increasing availability of network…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-09-22 Dane Taylor , Sean A. Myers , Aaron Clauset , Mason A. Porter , Peter J. Mucha

Eigenvector centrality is a common measure of the importance of nodes in a network. Here we show that under common conditions the eigenvector centrality displays a localization transition that causes most of the weight of the centrality to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-01-06 Travis Martin , Xiao Zhang , M. E. J. Newman

In various applications involving complex networks, network measures are employed to assess the relative importance of network nodes. However, the robustness of such measures in the presence of link inaccuracies has not been well…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-01-15 John Platig , Ed Ott , Michelle Girvan

We introduce a new centrality measure that characterizes the participation of each node in all subgraphs in a network. Smaller subgraphs are given more weight than larger ones, which makes this measure appropriate for characterizing network…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Ernesto Estrada , Juan A. Rodriguez-Velazquez