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Today, there exist many centrality measures for assessing the importance of nodes in a network as a function of their position and the underlying topology. One class of such measures builds on eigenvector centrality, where the importance of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-02-28 James B Glattfelder

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

In network analysis, a measure of node centrality provides a scale indicating how central a node is within a network. The coreness is a popular notion of centrality that accounts for the maximal smallest degree of a subgraph containing a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-06-14 Eddie Aamari , Ery Arias-Castro , Clément Berenfeld

Many systems, ranging from biological and engineering systems to social systems, can be modeled as directed networks, with links representing directed interaction between two nodes. To assess the importance of a node in a directed network,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-06 Naoki Masuda , Yoji Kawamura , Hiroshi Kori

Computing classical centrality measures such as betweenness and closeness is computationally expensive on large-scale graphs. In this work, we introduce an efficient force layout algorithm that embeds a graph into a low-dimensional space,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Alexander Kolpakov , Igor Rivin

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

Typing Yesterday into the search-bar of your browser provides a long list of websites with, in top places, a link to a video by The Beatles. The order your browser shows its search results is a notable example of the use of network…

Applications · Statistics 2018-10-17 Carla Sciarra , Guido Chiarotti , Francesco Laio , Luca Ridolfi

It is of paramount importance to uncover influential nodes to control diffusion phenomena in a network. In recent works, there is a growing trend to investigate the role of the community structure to solve this issue. Up to now, the vast…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Stephany Rajeh , Marinette Savonnet , Eric Leclercq , Hocine Cherifi

We formulate and propose an algorithm (MultiRank) for the ranking of nodes and layers in large multiplex networks. MultiRank takes into account the full multiplex network structure of the data and exploits the dual nature of the network in…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-03-06 Christoph Rahmede , Jacopo Iacovacci , Alex Arenas , Ginestra Bianconi

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

Many complex networks are described by directed links; in such networks, a link represents, for example, the control of one node over the other node or unidirectional information flows. Some centrality measures are used to determine the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-10-24 Naoki Masuda , Yoji Kawamura , Hiroshi Kori

Measuring the importance of nodes in a network with a centrality measure is a core task in any network application. There are many measures available and it is speculated that many encode similar information. We give an explicit non-linear…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-07-05 Tim S. Evans , Bingsheng Chen

This paper introduces a novel framework that combines traditional centrality measures with eigenvalue spectra and diffusion processes for a more comprehensive analysis of complex networks. While centrality measures such as degree,…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Arsh Jha

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

In real world complex networks, the importance of a node depends on two important parameters: 1. characteristics of the node, and 2. the context of the given application. The current literature contains several centrality measures that have…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-11-01 Akrati Saxena , S. R. S. Iyengar

Network centrality plays an important role in many applications. Central nodes in social networks can be influential, driving opinions and spreading news or rumors.In hyperlinked environments, such as the Web, where users navigate via…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-10-11 Sourav Medya , Arlei Silva , Ambuj Singh , Prithwish Basu , Ananthram Swami

In complex networks there are overlapping substructures or "circles" that consist of nodes belonging to multiple cohesive subgroups. Yet the role of these overlapping nodes in influence spreading processes remains underexplored. In the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Kosti Koistinen , Vesa Kuikka , Kimmo Kaski

The goal of this paper is to present a centrality measurement for the nodes of a hypergraph, by using existing literature which extends eigenvector centrality from a graph to a hypergraph, and literature which give a general centrality…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-03-21 Evo Busseniers

A key measure that has been used extensively in analyzing complex networks is the degree of a node (the number of the node's neighbors). Because of its discrete nature, when the degree measure was used in analyzing weighted networks,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-04-15 Sherief Abdallah

The identification of important nodes in complex networks is an area of exciting growth due to its applications across various disciplines like disease controlling, community finding, data mining, network system controlling, just to name a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Qiuyan Shang , Yong Deng , Kang Hao Cheong