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In recent years complex networks have gained increasing attention in different fields of science and engineering. The problem of controlling these networks is an interesting and challenging problem to investigate. In this paper we look at…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-17 Nicoletta Bof , Giacomo Baggio , Sandro Zampieri

Bonacich centrality measures the number of attenuated paths between nodes in a network. We use this metric to study network structure, specifically, to rank nodes and find community structure of the network. To this end we extend the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-06 Kristina Lerman , Rumi Ghosh

A network evolution with predicted tail and extremal indices of PageRank and the Max-Linear Model used as node influence indices in random graphs is considered. The tail index shows a heaviness of the distribution tail. The extremal index…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-11-28 Natalia Markovich

Phylogenetic networks which are, as opposed to trees, suitable to describe processes like hybridization and horizontal gene transfer, play a substantial role in evolutionary research. However, while non-treelike events need to be taken into…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2022-07-06 Mareike Fischer , Tom Niklas Hamann , Kristina Wicke

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

One of the most fundamental problems in large scale network analysis is to determine the importance of a particular node in a network. Betweenness centrality is the most widely used metric to measure the importance of a node in a network.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-10-19 Shiva Kintali

Edge classification, a crucial task for graph applications, remains relatively under-explored compared to link prediction. Current methods often overlook the potential causal influences of node features on edge features, leading to a loss…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Duanyu Feng , Li Ding , Hongru Liang , Wenqiang Lei

The centrality in a network is often used to measure nodes' importance and model network effects on a certain outcome. Empirical studies widely adopt a two-stage procedure, which first estimates the centrality from the observed noisy…

Econometrics · Economics 2025-02-26 Junhui Cai , Dan Yang , Ran Chen , Wu Zhu , Haipeng Shen , Linda Zhao

Determining the relative importance of nodes in directed networks is important in, for example, ranking websites, publications, and sports teams, and for understanding signal flows in systems biology. A prevailing centrality measure in this…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-11-10 Naoki Masuda , Hiroshi Kori

Many networks, such as transportation, power, and water distribution, can be represented as graphs. Crucial challenge in graph representations is identifying the importance of graph edges and their influence on overall network efficiency…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Debasish Jana , Sven Malama , Sriram Narasimhan , Ertugrul Taciroglu

Centrality metrics play a crucial role in network analysis, while the choice of specific measures significantly influences the accuracy of conclusions as each measure represents a unique concept of node importance. Among over 400 proposed…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-06-06 Pavel Chebotarev , Dmitry Gubanov

The analysis of complex networks has so far revolved mainly around the role of nodes and communities of nodes. However, the dynamics of interconnected systems is commonly focalised on edge processes, and a dual edge-centric perspective can…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-04-25 Michael T. Schaub , Jörg Lehmann , Sophia N. Yaliraki , Mauricio Barahona

Regarding the analysis of Web communication, social and complex networks the fast finding of most influential nodes in a network graph constitutes an important research problem. We use two indices of the influence of those nodes, namely,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-04-06 Natalia Markovich

How to characterize nodes and edges in dynamic attributed networks based on social aspects? We address this problem by exploring the strength of the ties between actors and their associated attributes over time, thus capturing the social…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Thiago H. P. Silva , Alberto H. F. Laender , Pedro O. S. Vaz de Melo

The edge betweenness centrality of an edge is loosely defined as the fraction of shortest paths between all pairs of vertices passing through that edge. In this paper, we investigate graphs where the edge betweenness centrality of edges is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-09-15 Heather A. Newman , Hector Miranda , Rigoberto Florez , Darren A. Narayan

A fundamental problem in the study of networks is the identification of important nodes. This is typically achieved using centrality metrics, which rank nodes in terms of their position in the network. This approach works well for static…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Isobel Seabrook , Paolo Barucca , Fabio Caccioli

We analyse the corpus of user relationships of the Slashdot technology news site. The data was collected from the Slashdot Zoo feature where users of the website can tag other users as friends and foes, providing positive and negative…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-11-01 Jérôme Kunegis , Andreas Lommatzsch , Christian Bauckhage

In recent decades, a number of centrality metrics describing network properties of nodes have been proposed to rank the importance of nodes. In order to understand the correlations between centrality metrics and to approximate a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-11-04 Cong Li , Qian Li , Piet Van Mieghem , H. Eugene Stanley , Huijuan Wang

In complex scale-free networks, ranking the individual nodes based upon their importance has useful applications, such as the identification of hubs for epidemic control, or bottlenecks for controlling traffic congestion. However, in most…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-05-23 Pan-Jun Kim , Hawoong Jeong

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