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Recent development of network structure analysis shows that it plays an important role in characterizing complex system of many branches of sciences. Different from previous network centrality measures, this paper proposes the notion of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2009-02-12 Hai Zhuge , Junsheng Zhang

Complex networks have become essential tools for understanding diverse phenomena in social systems, traffic systems, biomolecular systems, and financial systems. Identifying critical nodes is a central theme in contemporary research,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Duxin Chen , Jiawen Chen , Xiaoyu Zhang , Qinghan Jia , Xiaolu Liu , Ye Sun , Linyuan Lv , Wenwu Yu

In complex networks a common task is to identify the most important or "central" nodes. There are several definitions, often called centrality measures, which often lead to different results. Here we study extensively correlations between…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-13 Magnus Jungsbluth , Bernd Burghardt , Alexander K. Hartmann

Knowledge graphs play a central role for linking different data which leads to multiple layers. Thus, they are widely used in big data integration, especially for connecting data from different domains. Few studies have investigated the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Jens Dörpinghaus , Vera Weil , Carsten Düing , Martin W. Sommer

Node centrality is one of the integral measures in network analysis with wide range of applications from socio-economic to personalized recommendation. We argue that an effective centrality measure should undertake stability even under…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Chandni Saxena , M. N. Doja , Tanvir Ahmad

Centrality measures are used in network science to evaluate the centrality of vertices or the position they occupy in a network. There are a large number of centrality measures according to some criterion. However, the generalizations of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Hélder Alves , Paula Brito , Pedro Campos

Methods for efficiently controlling dynamics propagated on networks are usually based on identifying the most influential nodes. Knowledge of these nodes can be used for the targeted control of dynamics such as epidemics, or for modifying…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-11-07 Kieran J. Sharkey

Existing centrality measures for social network analysis suggest the im-portance of an actor and give consideration to actor's given structural position in a network. These existing measures suggest specific attribute of an actor (i.e.,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-02-13 Alireza Abbasi , Liaquat Hossain

Many studies on coauthorship networks focus on network topology and network statistical mechanics. This article takes a different approach by studying micro-level network properties, with the aim to apply centrality measures to impact…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2010-12-23 Erjia Yan , Ying Ding

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

Complex networks are a powerful modeling tool, allowing the study of countless real-world systems. They have been used in very different domains such as computer science, biology, sociology, management, etc. Authors have been trying to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-02-04 Burcu Kantarcı , Vincent Labatut

We examine a node centrality measure based on the notion of total communicability, defined in terms of the row sums of the exponential of the adjacency matrix of the network. We argue that this is a natural metric for ranking nodes in a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-04-05 Michele Benzi , Christine Klymko

Centrality rankings such as degree, closeness, betweenness, Katz, PageRank, etc. are commonly used to identify critical nodes in a graph. These methods are based on two assumptions that restrict their wider applicability. First, they assume…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-11-30 Yusuf Ozkaya , A. Erdem Sariyuce , Umit V. Catalyurek , Ali Pinar

This work deals with the issue of assessing the influence of a node in the entire network and in the subnetwork to which it belongs as well, adapting the classical idea of vertex centrality. We provide a general definition of relative…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-11-21 Roy Cerqueti , Gian Paolo Clemente , Rosanna Grassi

As relational datasets modeled as graphs keep increasing in size and their data-acquisition is permeated by uncertainty, graph-based analysis techniques can become computationally and conceptually challenging. In particular, node centrality…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Marco Avella-Medina , Francesca Parise , Michael T. Schaub , Santiago Segarra

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

We derive a composite centrality measure for general weighted and directed complex networks, based on measure standardisation and invariant statistical inheritance schemes. Different schemes generate different intermediate abstract measures…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-01-21 Andreas Joseph , Guanrong Chen

Social networks are discrete systems with a large amount of heterogeneity among nodes (individuals). Measures of centrality aim at a quantification of nodes' importance for structure and function. Here we ask to which extent the most…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-06-12 Konstantin Klemm

A variety of metrics have been proposed to measure the relative importance of nodes in a network. One of these, alpha-centrality [Bonacich, 2001], measures the number of attenuated paths that exist between nodes. We introduce a normalized…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-08-06 Rumi Ghosh , Kristina Lerman

Complex network theory (CNT) is gaining a lot of attention in the scientific community, due to its capability to model and interpret an impressive number of natural and anthropic phenomena. One of the most active CNT field concerns the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Orazio Giustolisi , Luca Ridolfi , Antonietta Simone