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We present a new metric of link cohesion for measuring the strength of edges in complex, highly connected graphs. Link cohesion accounts for local small hop connections and associated node degrees and can be used to support edge scoring and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-03-09 Cetin Savkli , Catherine Schwartz , Amanda Galante , Jonathan Cohen

In data analysis, there is a strong demand for graph metrics that differ from the classical shortest path and resistance distances. Recently, several new classes of graph metrics have been proposed. This paper presents some of them…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2018-11-02 Pavel Chebotarev

Random planar graphs appear in a variety of context and it is important for many different applications to be able to characterize their structure. Local quantities fail to give interesting information and it seems that path-related…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-09-28 Benjamin Lion , Marc Barthelemy

With a view on graph clustering, we present a definition of vertex-to-vertex distance which is based on shared connectivity. We argue that vertices sharing more connections are closer to each other than vertices sharing fewer connections.…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Pierre Miasnikof , Alexander Y. Shestopaloff , Leonidas Pitsoulis , Yuri Lawryshyn

A prominent parameter in the context of network analysis, originally proposed by Watts and Strogatz (Collective dynamics of `small-world' networks, Nature 393 (1998) 440-442), is the clustering coefficient of a graph $G$. It is defined as…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-11-21 Michael Gentner , Irene Heinrich , Simon Jäger , Dieter Rautenbach

Measures of complex network analysis, such as vertex centrality, have the potential to unveil existing network patterns and behaviors. They contribute to the understanding of networks and their components by analyzing their structural…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Felipe Grando , Diego Noble , Luis C. Lamb

In the past two decades, significant advances have been made in understanding the structural and functional properties of biological networks, via graph-theoretic analysis. In general, most graph-theoretic studies are conducted in the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-10-21 Michelle Rudolph-Lilith , Lyle E. Muller

In this paper we introduce the functional centrality as a generalization of the subgraph centrality. We propose a general method for characterizing nodes in the graph according to the number of closed walks starting and ending at the node.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 J. A. Rodriguez , E. Estrada , A. Gutierrez

The roles of different nodes within a network are often understood through centrality analysis, which aims to quantify the capacity of a node to influence, or be influenced by, other nodes via its connection topology. Many different…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Stuart Oldham , Ben Fulcher , Linden Parkes , Aurina Arnatkeviciute , Chao Suo , Alex Fornito

Network analysis has emerged as a key technique in communication studies, economics, geography, history and sociology, among others. A fundamental issue is how to identify key nodes, for which purpose a number of centrality measures have…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-01-08 László Csató

Paths are important structural elements in complex networks because they are finite (unlike walks), related to effective node coverage (minimum spanning trees), and can be understood as being dual to star connectivity. This article…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-12-05 Luciano da Fontoura Costa

We study the generalization of Correlation Clustering which incorporates fairness constraints via the notion of fairlets. The corresponding Fair Correlation Clustering problem has been studied from several perspectives to date, but has so…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Johannes Blaha , Robert Ganian , Katharina Gillig , Jonathan S. Højlev , Simon Wietheger

The extremal characteristics of random structures, including trees, graphs, and networks, are discussed. A statistical physics approach is employed in which extremal properties are obtained through suitably defined rate equations. A variety…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Ben-Naim , P. L. Krapivsky , S. Redner

Graph Retrieval has witnessed continued interest and progress in the past few years. In thisreport, we focus on neural network based approaches for Graph matching and retrieving similargraphs from a corpus of graphs. We explore methods…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Chitrank Gupta , Yash Jain

Hypergraphs are generalizations of simple graphs that allow for the representation of complex group interactions beyond pairwise relationships. Clustering coefficients quantify local link density in networks and have been widely studied for…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Rikuya Miyashita , Shiori Hironaka , Kazuyuki Shudo

We perform the first axiomatic analysis of medial centrality measures. These measures, also called betweenness-like centralities, assess the role of a node in connecting others in the network. We focus on a setting with one target node and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Wiktoria Kosny , Oskar Skibski

In this paper, the problem of matching pairs of correlated random graphs with multi-valued edge attributes is considered. Graph matching problems of this nature arise in several settings of practical interest including social network…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-06 F. Shirani , S. Garg , E. Erkip

Classic measures of graph centrality capture distinct aspects of node importance, from the local (e.g., degree) to the global (e.g., closeness). Here we exploit the connection between diffusion and geometry to introduce a multiscale…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-07-29 Alexis Arnaudon , Robert L. Peach , Mauricio Barahona

Despite the importance of urban traffic flows, there are only a few theoretical approaches to determine fundamental relationships between macroscopic traffic variables such as the traffic density, the utilization, the average velocity, and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-13 Dirk Helbing

We analytically study proximity and distance properties of various kernels and similarity measures on graphs. This helps to understand the mathematical nature of such measures and can potentially be useful for recommending the adoption of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-08-17 Konstantin Avrachenkov , Pavel Chebotarev , Dmytro Rubanov