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In the study of dynamical processes on networks, there has been intense focus on network structure -- i.e., the arrangement of edges and their associated weights -- but the effects of the temporal patterns of edges remains poorly…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-16 Till Hoffmann , Mason A. Porter , Renaud Lambiotte

In the data deluge context, pattern recognition or labeling in streams is becoming quite an essential and pressing task as data flows inside always bigger streams. The assessment of such tasks is not so easy when dealing with temporal data,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-12-01 Pierre-François Marteau

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

Computing node importance in networks is a long-standing fundamental problem that has driven extensive study of various centrality measures. A particularly well-known centrality measure is betweenness centrality, which becomes…

Numerous centrality measures have been developed to quantify the importances of nodes in time-independent networks, and many of them can be expressed as the leading eigenvector of some matrix. With the increasing availability of network…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-09-22 Dane Taylor , Sean A. Myers , Aaron Clauset , Mason A. Porter , Peter J. Mucha

This work presents a framework for studying temporal networks using zigzag persistence, a tool from the field of Topological Data Analysis (TDA). The resulting approach is general and applicable to a wide variety of time-varying graphs. For…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Audun Myers , David Muñoz , Firas Khasawneh , Elizabeth Munch

This paper proposes an analytical framework for modelling resource contention in multi-robot systems, where the travel times and task durations are uncertain. It uses several approximation methods to quickly and accurately calculate the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Andrew W. Palmer , Andrew J. Hill , Steven J. Scheding

Extracting a proper dynamic network for modelling a time-dependent complex system is an important issue. Building a correct model is related to finding out critical time points where a system exhibits considerable change. In this work, we…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Günce Keziban Orman , Nadir Türe , Selim Balcisoy , Hasan Alp Boz

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

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

We investigate notions of network centrality in terms of the underlying coupling graph of the network, structure of exogenous uncertainties, and communication time-delay. Our focus is on time-delay linear consensus networks, where…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-02-25 Yaser Ghaedsharaf , Milad Siami , Christoforos Somarakis , Nader Motee

Temporal graphs are commonly used to represent time-resolved relations between entities in many natural and artificial systems. Many techniques were devised to investigate the evolution of temporal graphs by comparing their state at…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Lorenzo Dall'Amico , Alain Barrat , Ciro Cattuto

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 paper, we propose an online algorithm mspace for forecasting node features in temporal graphs, which captures spatial cross-correlation among different nodes as well as the temporal auto-correlation within a node. The algorithm can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Aniq Ur Rahman , Justin P. Coon

The analysis of temporal networks heavily depends on the analysis of time-respecting paths. However, before being able to model and analyze the time-respecting paths, we have to infer the timescales at which the temporal edges influence…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-01-30 Luka V. Petrović , Anatol Wegner , Ingo Scholtes

Accurate spatiotemporal pattern analysis is critical in fields such as urban traffic, meteorology, and public health monitoring. However, existing methods face performance bottlenecks, typically yielding only incremental gains and often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Jing Chen , Shixiang Pan , Yujie Fan , Haocheng Ye , Haitao Xu , Wenqiang Xu

Computing a (short) path between two vertices is one of the most fundamental primitives in graph algorithmics. In recent years, the study of paths in temporal graphs, that is, graphs where the vertex set is fixed but the edge set changes…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Arnaud Casteigts , Anne-Sophie Himmel , Hendrik Molter , Philipp Zschoche

Betweeness centrality is one of the most important concepts in graph analysis. It was recently extended to link streams, a graph generalization where links arrive over time. However, its computation raises non-trivial issues, due in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Frédéric Simard , Clémence Magnien , Matthieu Latapy

Long-term dense action anticipation is very challenging since it requires predicting actions and their durations several minutes into the future based on provided video observations. To model the uncertainty of future outcomes, stochastic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Olga Zatsarynna , Emad Bahrami , Yazan Abu Farha , Gianpiero Francesca , Juergen Gall

Identifying communities from temporal networks facilitates the understanding of potential dynamic relationships among entities, which has already received extensive applications. However, existing methods primarily rely on lower-order…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Huihui Yang , Chunxue Zhu , Longlong Lin , Pingpeng Yuan