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Triangle centrality is introduced for finding important vertices in a graph based on the concentration of triangles surrounding each vertex. It has the distinct feature of allowing a vertex to be central if it is in many triangles or none…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Paul Burkhardt

Visual rendering of graphs is a key task in the mapping of complex network data. Although most graph drawing algorithms emphasize aesthetic appeal, certain applications such as travel-time maps place more importance on visualization of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-02-06 Brian Baingana , Georgios B. Giannakis

Centrality measures identify and rank the most influential entities of complex networks. In this paper, we generalize matrix function-based centrality measures, which have been studied extensively for single-layer and temporal networks in…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-03-24 Kai Bergermann , Martin Stoll

Modularity is one of the most widely used quality measures for graph clusterings. Maximizing modularity is NP-hard, and the runtime of exact algorithms is prohibitive for large graphs. A simple and effective class of heuristics coarsens the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-09-22 Andreas Noack , Randolf Rotta

Betweenness centrality ranks the importance of nodes by their participation in all shortest paths of the network. Therefore computing exact betweenness values is impractical in large networks. For static networks, approximation based on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-09-23 Elisabetta Bergamini , Henning Meyerhenke , Christian L. Staudt

New Matlab functions for network centrality are introduced. Instead of the mean distance, the generalized mean distance is used. If closer relationships are prioritized, this closeness measure is also defined for unconnected graphs. Instead…

Other Statistics · Statistics 2023-01-20 Richard S. J. Tol

The non-trivial structure of such complex systems makes the analysis of their collective behavior a challenge. The problem is even more difficult when the information is distributed across networks (e.g., communication networks in different…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-02-08 Carlo Spatocco , Giovanni Stilo , Carlotta Domeniconi , Alessandro D'Andrea

Random walk centrality is a fundamental metric in graph mining for quantifying node importance and influence, defined as the weighted average of hitting times to a node from all other nodes. Despite its ability to capture rich graph…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Changan Liu , Zixuan Xie , Ahad N. Zehmakan , Zhongzhi Zhang

In this thesis I propose an algorithm to heuristically calculate different distance measures on uncertain graphs (i.e. graphs where edges only exist with a certain probability) and apply this to the heuristic calculation of harmonic…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Daniel Ketels

Betweenness is a well-known centrality measure that ranks the nodes of a network according to their participation in shortest paths. Since an exact computation is prohibitive in large networks, several approximation algorithms have been…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-07-06 Elisabetta Bergamini , Henning Meyerhenke

In this work, we propose a balanced multi-component and multi-layer neural network (MMNN) structure to accurately and efficiently approximate functions with complex features, in terms of both degrees of freedom and computational cost. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Shijun Zhang , Hongkai Zhao , Yimin Zhong , Haomin Zhou

Despite the fact that many important problems (including clustering) can be described using hypergraphs, theoretical foundations as well as practical algorithms using hypergraphs are not well developed yet. In this paper, we propose a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-07-01 Bogumil Kaminski , Valerie Poulin , Pawel Pralat , Przemyslaw Szufel , Francois Theberge

Graph centrality measures use the structure of a network to quantify central or "important" nodes, with applications in web search, social media analysis, and graphical data mining generally. Traditional centrality measures such as the well…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-01-20 Liang Lyu , Brandon Fain , Kamesh Munagala , Kangning Wang

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 present paper provides a generalized model of network, namely, Hybrid Layered Network (HLN). We proved that the sets of all homogeneous, heterogeneous and multi-layered networks are subsets of the set of all HLNs depicting the model's…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Shraban Kumar Chatterjee , Suman Kundu

Vertex centrality measures are a multi-purpose analysis tool, commonly used in many application environments to retrieve information and unveil knowledge from the graphs and network structural properties. However, the algorithms of such…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-12-03 Felipe Grando , Luis C. Lamb

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

Estimating influential nodes in large scale networks including but not limited to social networks, biological networks, communication networks, emerging smart grids etc. is a topic of fundamental interest. To understand influences of nodes…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-06-13 Sima Das

In network analysis and graph mining, closeness centrality is a popular measure to infer the importance of a vertex. Computing closeness efficiently for individual vertices received considerable attention. The NP-hard problem of group…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Eugenio Angriman , Alexander van der Grinten , Henning Meyerhenke

Many Entity Linking systems use collective graph-based methods to disambiguate the entity mentions within a document. Most of them have focused on graph construction and initial weighting of the candidate entities, less attention has been…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-04 Hussam Hamdan , Jean-Gabriel Ganascia