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In this paper, we present a framework for studying the following fundamental question in network analysis: How should one assess the centralities of nodes in an information/influence propagation process over a social network? Our framework…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-10-24 Wei Chen , Shang-Hua Teng , Hanrui Zhang

A graph with semantically attributed nodes are a common data structure in a wide range of domains. It could be interlinked web data or citation networks of scientific publications. The essential problem for such a data type is to determine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Elizaveta Kovtun , Maksim Makarenko , Natalia Semenova , Alexey Zaytsev , Semen Budennyy

We consider the problem of predicting the time evolution of influence, the expected number of activated nodes, given a set of initially active nodes on a propagation network. To address the significant computational challenges of this…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-01-10 Shui-Nee Chow , Xiaojing Ye , Hongyuan Zha , Haomin Zhou

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

Selecting the optimal subset from all vertices as seeds to maximize the influence in a social network has been a task of interest. Various methods have been proposed to select the optimal vertices in a static network, however, they are…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Fangqi Li , Chong Di , Shenghong Li

When network and graph theory are used in the study of complex systems, a typically finite set of nodes of the network under consideration is frequently either explicitly or implicitly considered representative of a much larger finite or…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-03-18 Jobst Heitzig , Jonathan F. Donges , Yong Zou , Norbert Marwan , Jürgen Kurths

Identification of vital nodes contributes to the research of network robustness and vulnerability. The most influential nodes are effective in maximizing the speed and accelerating the information propagation in complex networks.…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Zeynep Nihan Berberler , Aysun Asena Kunt

Many complex networks are described by directed links; in such networks, a link represents, for example, the control of one node over the other node or unidirectional information flows. Some centrality measures are used to determine the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-10-24 Naoki Masuda , Yoji Kawamura , Hiroshi Kori

Identifying influential nodes in complex networks is of great importance, and has many applications in practice. For example, finding influential nodes in e-commerce network can provide merchants with customers with strong purchase intent;…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Yanmei Hu , Siyuan Yin , Yihang Wu , Xue Yue , Yue Liu

Graph mining is an important technique that used in many applications such as predicting and understanding behaviors and information dissemination within networks. One crucial aspect of graph mining is the identification and ranking of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Shima Esfandiari , Seyed Mostafa Fakhrahmad

Many complex systems exhibit a natural hierarchy in which elements can be ranked according to a notion of "influence". While the complete and accurate knowledge of the interactions between constituents is ordinarily required for the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-09-08 Silvia Bartolucci , Fabio Caccioli , Francesco Caravelli , Pierpaolo Vivo

One of the most central questions in network science is: which nodes are most important? Often this question is answered using structural properties such as high connectedness or centrality in the network. However, static structural…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-07-02 Casper van Elteren , Rick Quax , Peter Sloot

This paper provides the analysis for functional approaches of complex network systems research. In order to study the behavior of these systems the flow adjacency matrices were introduced. The concepts of strength, power, domain and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-07-26 Olexandr Polishchuk

Finding the important nodes in complex networks by topological structure is of great significance to network invulnerability. Several centrality measures have been proposed recently to evaluate the performance of nodes based on their…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Pengli Lu , Chen Dong , Yuhong Guo

Complex networks have become essential tools for understanding diverse phenomena in social systems, traffic systems, biomolecular systems, and financial systems. Identifying critical nodes is a central theme in contemporary research,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Duxin Chen , Jiawen Chen , Xiaoyu Zhang , Qinghan Jia , Xiaolu Liu , Ye Sun , Linyuan Lv , Wenwu Yu

Influential node detection is a central research topic in social network analysis. Many existing methods rely on the assumption that the network structure is completely known \textit{a priori}. However, in many applications, network…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-12-01 Qunwei Li , Bhavya Kailkhura , Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan , Zhenliang Zhang , Pramod K. Varshney

Network embedding, which aims to learn low-dimensional representations of nodes, has been used for various graph related tasks including visualization, link prediction and node classification. Most existing embedding methods rely solely on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Palash Goyal , Homa Hosseinmardi , Emilio Ferrara , Aram Galstyan

Network architecture design is very important for the optimization of industrial networks. The type of network architecture can be divided into small-scale network and large-scale network according to its scale. Graph theory is an efficient…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Chao Dong , Xiaoxiong Xiong , Qiulin Xue , Zhengzhen Zhang , Kai Niu , Ping Zhang

Analytical approaches to model the structure of complex networks can be distinguished into two groups according to whether they consider an intensive (e.g., fixed degree sequence and random otherwise) or an extensive (e.g., adjacency…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-02-13 Antoine Allard , Laurent Hébert-Dufresne

Identifying the most influential spreaders is an important issue in controlling the spreading processes in complex networks. Centrality measures are used to rank node influence in a spreading dynamics. Here we propose a node influence…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-03-23 Ying Liu , Ming Tang , Tao Zhou , Younghae Do