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Closeness centrality, first considered by Bavelas (1948), is an importance measure of a node in a network which is based on the distances from the node to all other nodes. The classic definition, proposed by Bavelas (1950), Beauchamp…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-09-02 Edith Cohen , Daniel Delling , Thomas Pajor , Renato F. Werneck

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

Centrality measures quantify the importance of a node in a network based on different geometric or diffusive properties, and focus on different scales. Here, we adopt a geometrical viewpoint to define a multi-scale centrality in networks.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-09-21 Shazia'Ayn Babul , Karel Devriendt , Renaud Lambiotte

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…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-08-13 Paolo Boldi , Sebastiano Vigna

Matrix-based centrality measures have enjoyed significant popularity in network analysis, in no small part due to our ability to rigorously analyze their behavior as parameters vary. Recent work has considered the relationship between…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-02-06 Eric Horton , Kyle Kloster , Blair D. Sullivan

In this paper, we hope to bring closer graph theory and consensus algorithms. Firstly, we give a brief introduction to graph theory by listing a concise definition. Then we analyze and visualize some commonly used graphs. Secondly, we…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Shen Zheng

A new measure to assess the centrality of vertices in an undirected and connected graph is proposed. The proposed measure, L1 centrality, can adequately handle graphs with weights assigned to vertices and edges. The study provides tools for…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-04-23 Seungwoo Kang , Hee-Seok Oh

In graph-based applications, a common task is to pinpoint the most important or ``central'' vertex in a (directed or undirected) graph, or rank the vertices of a graph according to their importance. To this end, a plethora of so-called…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Andreas Pieris , Jorge Salas

Centrality indices are used to rank the nodes of a graph by importance: this is a common need in many concrete situations (social networks, citation networks, web graphs, for instance) and it was discussed many times in sociology,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Paolo Boldi , Flavio Furia , Chiara Prezioso

This paper proposes a family of network centralities called fixed-point centralities. This centrality family is defined via the fixed point of permutation equivariant mappings related to the underlying network. Such a centrality notion is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-16 Shuang Gao

Measures of node centrality that describe the importance of a node within a network are crucial for understanding the behavior of social networks and graphs. In this paper, we address the problems of distributed estimation and control of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Eduardo Montijano , Gabriele Oliva , Andrea Gasparri

Betweenness centrality is a centrality measure based on the overall amount of shortest paths passing through a given vertex. A graph is betweenness-uniform if all its vertices have the same betweenness centrality. We study the properties of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-09-11 David Hartman , Aneta Pokorná , Pavel Valtr

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

This paper presents a formal definition of stability for node centrality measures in weighted graphs. It is shown that the commonly used measures of degree, closeness and eigenvector centrality are stable whereas betweenness centrality is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-10-21 Santiago Segarra , Alejandro Ribeiro

This paper presents a novel method for layout of undirected graphs, where nodes (vertices) are constrained to lie on a set of nested, simple, closed curves. Such a layout is useful to simultaneously display the structural centrality and…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-01-15 Mukund Raj , Ross T. Whitaker

We present new values and bounds on the (normalised) closeness centrality $\bar{\mathsf{C}}_C$ of connected graphs and on its product $\bar{l}\bar{\mathsf{C}}_C$ with the mean distance $\bar{l}$ of these graphs. Our main result presents the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-07-19 Thomas Britz , Xin Hu , Abdellah Islam , Hopein Christofen Tang

Closeness is an important measure of network centrality. In this article we will calculate the closeness of graphs, created by using operations on graphs. We will prove a formula for the closeness of shadow graphs. We will calculate the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Chavdar Dangalchev

Introduced the quantitative measure of the structural complexity of the graph (complex network, etc.) based on a procedure similar to the renormalization process, considering the difference between actual and averaged graph structures on…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-06-05 A. A. Snarskii

Embedding graph nodes into a vector space can allow the use of machine learning to e.g. predict node classes, but the study of node embedding algorithms is immature compared to the natural language processing field because of a diverse…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Kento Nozawa , Masanari Kimura , Atsunori Kanemura

Complex networks are characterized by heterogeneous distributions of the degree of nodes, which produce a large diversification of the roles of the nodes within the network. Several centrality measures have been introduced to rank nodes…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-13 Nicola Perra , Santo Fortunato