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In temporal ordered clustering, given a single snapshot of a dynamic network in which nodes arrive at distinct time instants, we aim at partitioning its nodes into $K$ ordered clusters $\mathcal{C}_1 \prec \cdots \prec \mathcal{C}_K$ such…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Krzysztof Turowski , Jithin K. Sreedharan , Wojciech Szpankowski

We study correlations in temporal networks and introduce the notion of betweenness preference. It allows to quantify to what extent paths, existing in time-aggregated representations of temporal networks, are actually realizable based on…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-03-20 René Pfitzner , Ingo Scholtes , Antonios Garas , Claudio J. Tessone , Frank Schweitzer

We present a method to find the best temporal partition at any time-scale and rank the relevance of partitions found at different time-scales. This method is based on random walkers coevolving with the network and as such constitutes a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-19 Giovanni Petri , Paul Expert

Over the last two decades, network theory has shown to be a fruitful paradigm in understanding the organization and functioning of real-world complex systems. One technique helpful to this endeavor is identifying functionally influential…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-01-24 Francesco Picciolo , Franco Ruzzenenti , Petter Holme , Rossana Mastrandrea

Network embeddings learn to represent nodes as low-dimensional vectors to preserve the proximity between nodes and communities of the network for network analysis. The temporal edges (e.g., relationships, contacts, and emails) in dynamic…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Chuanchang Chen , Yubo Tao , Hai Lin

We first present a comprehensive review of various random walk metrics used in the literature and express them in a consistent framework. We then introduce fundamental tensor -- a generalization of the well-known fundamental matrix -- and…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Golshan Golnari , Zhi-Li Zhang , Daniel Boley

Network classification has a variety of applications, such as detecting communities within networks and finding similarities between those representing different aspects of the real world. However, most existing work in this area focus on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-08-08 Kun Tu , Jian Li , Don Towsley , Dave Braines , Liam D. Turner

This paper introduces two new closely related betweenness centrality measures based on the Randomized Shortest Paths (RSP) framework, which fill a gap between traditional network centrality measures based on shortest paths and more recent…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-02-03 Ilkka Kivimäki , Bertrand Lebichot , Jari Saramäki , Marco Saerens

Centrality metrics are a popular tool in Network Science to identify important nodes within a graph. We introduce the Potential Gain as a centrality measure that unifies many walk-based centrality metrics in graphs and captures the notion…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-03-16 Pasquale De Meo , Mark Levene , Fabrizio Messina , Alessandro Provetti

Document networks are found in various collections of real-world data, such as citation networks, hyperlinked web pages, and online social networks. A large number of generative models have been proposed because they offer intuitive and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-01-22 Takafumi J. Suzuki

The problem of finding optimal set of users for influencing others in the social network has been widely studied. Because it is NP-hard, some heuristics were proposed to find sub-optimal solutions. Still, one of the commonly used assumption…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-11-24 Radosław Michalski , Tomasz Kajdanowicz , Piotr Bródka , Przemysław Kazienko

Numerous centrality measures have been proposed to evaluate the importance of nodes in networks, yet comparative analyses of these measures remain limited. Based on 80 real-world networks, we conducted an empirical analysis of 16…

Other Statistics · Statistics 2025-08-14 Yilin Bi , Xinshan Jiao , Tao Zhou

To measure node importance, network scientists employ centrality scores that typically take a microscopic or macroscopic perspective, relying on node features or global network structure. However, traditional centrality measures such as…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Christopher Blöcker , Juan Carlos Nieves , Martin Rosvall

Random Walk is a basic algorithm to explore the structure of networks, which can be used in many tasks, such as local community detection and network embedding. Existing random walk methods are based on single networks that contain limited…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Dongsheng Luo , Yuchen Bian , Yaowei Yan , Xiong Yu , Jun Huan , Xiao Liu , Xiang Zhang

The study of temporal networks is motivated by the simple and important observation that just as network structure can affect dynamics, so can structure in time. Just as network topology can teach us about the system in question, so can its…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-03-26 Petter Holme , Jari Saramäki

Betweenness centrality is a classic measure that quantifies the importance of a graph element (vertex or edge) according to the fraction of shortest paths passing through it. This measure is notoriously expensive to compute, and the best…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-04-29 Nicolas Kourtellis , Gianmarco De Francisci Morales , Francesco Bonchi

The role of high-degree nodes, or hubs, in shaping graph dynamics and structure is well-recognized in network science, yet their influence remains underexplored in the context of dynamic graph embedding. Recent advances in representation…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Aleksandar Tomčić , Miloš Savić , Dušan Simić , Miloš Radovanović

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

Performing random walks in networks is a fundamental primitive that has found numerous applications in communication networks such as token management, load balancing, network topology discovery and construction, search, and peer-to-peer…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-01-12 Atish Das Sarma , Anisur Rahaman Molla , Gopal Pandurangan

Random walks have been proposed as a simple method of efficiently searching, or disseminating information throughout, communication and sensor networks. In nature, animals (such as ants) tend to follow correlated random walks, i.e., random…

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