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Going beyond networks, to include higher-order interactions of arbitrary sizes, is a major step to better describe complex systems. In the resulting hypergraph representation, tools to identify structures and central nodes are scarce. We…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-10-11 Marco Mancastroppa , Iacopo Iacopini , Giovanni Petri , Alain Barrat

Identifying influential nodes plays a pivotal role in understanding, controlling, and optimizing the behavior of complex systems, ranging from social to biological and technological domains. Yet most centrality-based approaches rely on…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-12-12 Yajing Hao , Longzhao Liu , Xin Wang , Zhihao Han , Ming Wei , Zhiming Zheng , Shaoting Tang

Information flow, opinion, and epidemics spread over structured networks. When using individual node centrality indicators to predict which nodes will be among the top influencers or spreaders in a large network, no single centrality has…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Doina Bucur

The threshold model has been widely adopted as a prototype for studying contagion processes on social networks. In this paper, we consider individual interactions in groups of three or more vertices and study the threshold model on…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-03-01 Xin-Jian Xu , Shuang He , Li-Jie Zhang

Temporal networks, whose links are activated or deactivated over time, are used to represent complex systems such as social interactions or collaborations occurring at specific times. Such networks facilitate the spread of information and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Tianrui Mao , Shilun Zhang , Alan Hanjalic , Huijuan Wang

An efficient strategy for the identification of influential spreaders that could be used to control epidemics within populations would be of considerable importance. Generally, populations are characterized by its community structures and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-10-23 Shi-Long Luo , Kai Gong , Li Kang

Hypergraphs provide a powerful framework for modeling complex systems and networks with higher-order interactions beyond simple pairwise relationships. However, graph-based clustering approaches, which focus primarily on pairwise relations,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Giuseppe F. Italiano , Athanasios L. Konstantinidis , Anna Mpanti , Fariba Ranjbar

The problem of influence maximization, i.e., finding the set of nodes having maximal influence on a network, is of great importance for several applications. In the past two decades, many heuristic metrics to spot influencers have been…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-06-07 Siddharth Patwardhan , Filippo Radicchi , Santo Fortunato

Many networks can be characterised by the presence of communities, which are groups of units that are closely linked. Identifying these communities can be crucial for understanding the system's overall function. Recently, hypergraphs have…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Quintino Francesco Lotito , Federico Musciotto , Alberto Montresor , Federico Battiston

The dynamics of network social contagion processes such as opinion formation and epidemic spreading are often mediated by interactions between multiple nodes. Previous results have shown that these higher-order interactions can profoundly…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-12-07 Nicholas Landry , Juan G. Restrepo

Understanding the network structure, and finding out the influential nodes is a challenging issue in the large networks. Identifying the most influential nodes in the network can be useful in many applications like immunization of nodes in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-01-10 Naveen Gupta , Anurag Singh , Hocine Cherifi

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

Temporal higher-order networks, where each hyperlink involving a group of nodes are activated or deactivated over time, are recently used to represent complex systems such as social contacts, interactions or collaborations that occur at…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-12-18 Shilun Zhang , Alberto Ceria , Huijuan Wang

Because of its wide application, critical nodes identification has become an important research topic at the micro level of network science. Influence maximization is one of the main problems in critical nodes mining and is usually handled…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-01-21 Enyu Yu , Duanbing Chen , Yan Fu , Yuanyuan Xu

Finding a small subset of influential nodes to maximise influence spread in a complex network is an active area of research. Different methods have been proposed in the past to identify a set of seed nodes that can help achieve a faster…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Abida Sadaf , Luke Mathieson , Piotr Bródka , Katarzyna Musial

Recommender systems are pivotal in delivering personalised user experiences across various domains. However, capturing the heterophily patterns and the multi-dimensional nature of user-item interactions poses significant challenges. To…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Darnbi Sakong , Thanh Tam Nguyen

Real networks exhibit heterogeneous nature with nodes playing far different roles in structure and function. To identify vital nodes is thus very significant, allowing us to control the outbreak of epidemics, to conduct advertisements for…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-09-21 Linyuan Lü , Duanbing Chen , Xiao-Long Ren , Qian-Ming Zhang , Yi-Cheng Zhang , Tao Zhou

The network of networks(NON) research is focused on studying the properties of n interdependent networks which is ubiquitous in the real world. Identifying the influential nodes in the network of networks is theoretical and practical…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-01-26 Meizhu Li , Qi Zhang , Qi Liu , Yong Deng

In this paper, we study the crucial elements of complex networks, namely nodes, and edges and their properties such as their community structure, which play an important role in dictating the robustness of the network towards structural…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-02-04 V. Parimi , A. Pal , S. Ruj , P. Kumaraguru , T. Chakraborty

Hypergraphs, encoding structured interactions among any number of system units, have recently proven a successful tool to describe many real-world biological and social networks. Here we propose a framework based on statistical inference to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Martina Contisciani , Federico Battiston , Caterina De Bacco