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The Betweenness Centrality index is a very important centrality measure in the analysis of a large number of networks. Despite its significance in a lot of interdisciplinary applications, its computation is very expensive. The fastest known…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-07-13 B Vignesh , Siddharth S , Shridhar Ramachandran , Dr. Sudarshan Iyengar , Dr. C Pandu Rangan

A class of centrality measures called betweenness centralities reflects degree of participation of edges or nodes in communication between different parts of the network. The original shortest-path betweenness centrality is based on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-08-13 Konstantin Avrachenkov , Nelly Litvak , Vasily Medyanikov , Marina Sokol

We address the problem of testing whether a given dynamic graph is temporally connected, {\it i.e} a temporal path (also called a {\em journey}) exists between all pairs of vertices. We consider a discrete version of the problem, where the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-08-06 Matthieu Barjon , Arnaud Casteigts , Serge Chaumette , Colette Johnen , Yessin M. Neggaz

Centrality measures, erstwhile popular amongst the sociologists and psychologists, have seen broad and increasing applications across several disciplines of late. Amongst a plethora of application specific definitions available in the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-03-23 Rishi Ranjan Singh , Shubham Chaudhary , Manas Agarwal

In complex networks, centrality metrics quantify the connectivity of nodes and identify the most important ones in the transmission of signals. In many real world networks, especially in transportation systems, links are dynamic, i.e. their…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-03-08 Silvia Zaoli , Piero Mazzarisi , Fabrizio Lillo

Modularity is a very widely used measure of the level of clustering or community structure in networks. Here we consider a recent generalisation of the definition of modularity to temporal graphs, whose edge-sets change over discrete…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-24 Vilhelm Agdur , Jessica Enright , Laura Larios-Jones , Kitty Meeks , Fiona Skerman , Ella Yates

Betweenness centrality is essential in complex network analysis; it characterizes the importance of nodes and edges in networks. It is a crucial problem that exactly computes the betweenness centrality in large networks faster, which…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Yelai Feng , Huaixi Wang

Given a graph, the shortest-path problem requires finding a sequence of edges with minimum cumulative length that connects a source vertex to a target vertex. We consider a variant of this classical problem in which the position of each…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Tobia Marcucci , Jack Umenberger , Pablo A. Parrilo , Russ Tedrake

Understanding spatial correlation is vital in many fields including epidemiology and social science. Lee, Meeks and Pettersson (Stat. Comput. 2021) recently demonstrated that improved inference for areal unit count data can be achieved by…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Jessica Enright , Duncan Lee , Kitty Meeks , William Pettersson , John Sylvester

We study the $P_3$-convexity, the path convexity generated by all three-vertex paths, and focus on the problem of counting the $P_3$-convex vertex sets of a graph $G$, denoted by $\noc(G)$. First, we settle the associated extremal question:…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-06 Mitre C. Dourado , Luciano N. Grippo , Min Chih Lin , Fábio Protti

Temporal graphs are a special class of graphs for which a temporal component is added to edges, that is, each edge possesses a set of times at which it is available and can be traversed. Many classical problems on graphs can be translated…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Lapo Cioni , Riccardo Dondi , Andrea Marino , Jason Schoeters , Ana Silva

A central task in network analysis is to identify important nodes in a graph. Betweenness centrality (BC) is a popular centrality measure that captures the significance of nodes based on the number of shortest paths each node intersects…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Charalampos E. Tsourakakis

We present a new fully dynamic algorithm for maintaining betweenness centrality (BC) of vertices in a directed graph $G=(V,E)$ with positive edge weights. BC is a widely used parameter in the analysis of large complex networks. We achieve…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Matteo Pontecorvi , Vijaya Ramachandran

The problem of efficiently computing the betweenness centrality of nodes has been researched extensively. To date, the best known exact and centralized algorithm for this task is an algorithm proposed in 2001 by Brandes. The contribution of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-06-05 Dora Erdos , Vatche Ishakian , Azer Bestavros , Evimaria Terzi

This paper considers a natural fault-tolerant shortest paths problem: for some constant integer $f$, given a directed weighted graph with no negative cycles and two fixed vertices $s$ and $t$, compute (either explicitly or implicitly) for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Virginia Vassilevska Williams , Eyob Woldeghebriel , Yinzhan Xu

We address the problem of testing whether a dynamic graph is temporally connected, i.e. a temporal path ({\em journey}) exists between all pairs of vertices. We consider a discrete version of the problem, where the topology is given as an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-05-02 Matthieu Barjon , Arnaud Casteigts , Serge Chaumette , Colette Johnen , Yessin M. Neggaz

An important index widely used to analyze social and information networks is betweenness centrality. In this paper, first given a directed network $G$ and a vertex $r\in V(G)$, we present a novel adaptive algorithm for estimating…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-25 Mostafa Haghir Chehreghani , Albert Bifet , Talel Abdessalem

A temporal graph is a graph in which the edge set can change from one time step to the next. The temporal graph exploration problem TEXP is the problem of computing a foremost exploration schedule for a temporal graph, i.e., a temporal walk…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Thomas Erlebach , Michael Hoffmann , Frank Kammer

A (directed) temporal graph is a (directed) graph whose edges are available only at specific times during its (discretized) lifetime $\tau$. In this setting, we ask that walks respect the temporal aspect by defining $\textit{temporal…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Allen Ibiapina , Raul Lopes , Andrea Marino , Ana Silva

We study a family of reachability problems under waiting-time restrictions in temporal and vertex-colored temporal graphs. Given a temporal graph and a set of source vertices, we find the set of vertices that are reachable from a source via…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Suhas Thejaswi , Juho Lauri , Aristides Gionis