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We study correlations in temporal networks and introduce the notion of betweenness preference. It allows to quantify to what extent paths, existing in time-aggregated representations of temporal networks, are actually realizable based on…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-03-20 René Pfitzner , Ingo Scholtes , Antonios Garas , Claudio J. Tessone , Frank Schweitzer

In this paper we study flow problems on temporal networks, where edge capacities and travel times change over time. We consider a network with $n$ nodes and $m$ edges where the capacity and length of each edge is a piecewise constant…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Kristin Sheridan , Shuchi Chawla

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

Betweenness is a measure of the centrality of a node in a network, and is normally calculated as the fraction of shortest paths between node pairs that pass through the node of interest. Betweenness is, in some sense, a measure of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. E. J. Newman

This paper proposes an alternative way to identify nodes with high betweenness centrality. It introduces a new metric, k-path centrality, and a randomized algorithm for estimating it, and shows empirically that nodes with high k-path…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-02-23 Nicolas Kourtellis , Tharaka Alahakoon , Ramanuja Simha , Adriana Iamnitchi , Rahul Tripathi

A periodic temporal graph, in its simplest form, is a graph in which every edge appears exactly once in the first $\Delta$ time steps, and then it reappears recurrently every $\Delta$ time steps, where $\Delta$ is a given period length.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-22 George B. Mertzios , Hendrik Molter , Nils Morawietz , Paul G. Spirakis

We investigate the computational complexity of finding temporally disjoint paths or walks in temporal graphs. There, the edge set changes over discrete time steps and a temporal path (resp. walk) uses edges that appear at monotonically…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Nina Klobas , George B. Mertzios , Hendrik Molter , Rolf Niedermeier , Philipp Zschoche

The betweenness centrality (BC) is an important quantity for understanding the structure of complex large networks. However, its calculation is in general difficult and known in simple cases only. In particular, the BC has been exactly…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-05-18 Vincent Verbavatz , Marc Barthelemy

We address the problem of testing whether a given dynamic graph is temporally connected, {\it i.e} a temporal path (also called a {\em journey}) exists between all pairs of vertices. We consider a discrete version of the problem, where the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-08-06 Matthieu Barjon , Arnaud Casteigts , Serge Chaumette , Colette Johnen , Yessin M. Neggaz

Betweenness centrality is a fundamental centrality measure in social network analysis. Given a large-scale network, how can we find the most central nodes? This question is of key importance to numerous important applications that rely on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-09-06 Ahmad Mahmoody , Charalampos E. Tsourakakis , Eli Upfal

We consider the problem of assigning appearing times to the edges of a digraph in order to maximize the (average) temporal reachability between pairs of nodes. Motivated by the application to public transit networks, where edges cannot be…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Filippo Brunelli , Pierluigi Crescenzi , Laurent Viennot

Computing paths in graph structures is a fundamental operation in a wide range of applications, from transportation networks to data analysis. The beer path problem, which captures the option of visiting points of interest, such as gas…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Andrea D'Ascenzo , Giuseppe F. Italiano , Sotiris Kanellopoulos , Anna Mpanti , Aris Pagourtzis , Christos Pergaminelis

The dynamic shortest paths problem on planar graphs asks us to preprocess a planar graph $G$ such that we may support insertions and deletions of edges in $G$ as well as distance queries between any two nodes $u,v$ subject to the constraint…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-05-13 Amir Abboud , Søren Dahlgaard

Parallel betweenness computation algorithms are proposed and implemented in a graph database for power system contingency selection. Principles of the graph database and graph computing are investigated for both node and edge betweenness…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Yongli Zhu , Renchang Dai , Guangyi Liu

Recent decades have witnessed the tremendous development of network science, which indeed brings a new and insightful language to model real systems of different domains. Betweenness, a widely employed centrality in network science, is a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-01-24 Rui Fan , Ke Xu , Jichang Zhao

In this paper we initiate the study of the temporal graph realization problem with respect to the fastest path durations among its vertices, while we focus on periodic temporal graphs. Given an $n \times n$ matrix $D$ and a $\Delta \in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Nina Klobas , George B. Mertzios , Hendrik Molter , Paul G. Spirakis

We investigate the stochastic transfer synchronization problem, which seeks to synchronize the timetables of different routes in a transit network to reduce transfer waiting times, delay times, and unnecessary in-vehicle times. We present a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-06 Zahra Ansarilari , Merve Bodur , Amer Shalaby

In modern graph analytics, the shortest path is a fundamental concept. Numerous \rrev{recent works} concentrate mostly on the distance of these shortest paths. Nevertheless, in the era of betweenness analysis, the counting of the shortest…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-12-05 You Peng , Jeffrey Xu Yu , Sibo Wang

We provide new algorithms and conditional hardness for the problem of estimating effective resistances in $n$-node $m$-edge undirected, expander graphs. We provide an $\widetilde{O}(m\epsilon^{-1})$-time algorithm that produces with high…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Rajat Vadiraj Dwaraknath , Ishani Karmarkar , Aaron Sidford

In this paper, we study the problem of map matching with travel time constraints. Given a sequence of $k$ spatio-temporal measurements and an embedded path graph with travel time costs, the goal is to snap each measurement to a close-by…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Yannick Bosch , Sabine Storandt