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Identifying the most influential spreaders is important to understand and control the spreading process in a network. As many real-world complex systems can be modeled as multilayer networks, the question of identifying important nodes in…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-01-08 Qi Zeng , Ying Liu , Liming Pan , Ming Tang

Here we present a range-limited approach to centrality measures in both non-weighted and weighted directed complex networks. We introduce an efficient method that generates for every node and every edge its betweenness centrality based on…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-11-24 Maria Ercsey-Ravasz , Ryan Lichtenwalter , Nitesh V. Chawla , Zoltan Toroczkai

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

In many complex networked systems, such as online social networks, activity originates at certain nodes and subsequently spreads on the network through influence. In this work, we consider the problem of modeling the spread of influence and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-07-18 Arun Sathanur , Mahantesh Halappanavar , Yi Shi , Walin Sagduyu

Using edge weights is essential for modeling real-world systems where links possess relevant information, and preserving this information in low-dimensional representations is relevant for classification and prediction tasks. This paper…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Adilson Vital , Filipi N. Silva , Diego R. Amancio

Spectral centrality measures allow to identify influential individuals in social groups, to rank Web pages by their popularity, and even to determine the impact of scientific researches. The centrality score of a node within a network…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-09-22 Vincenzo Nicosia , Regino Criado , Miguel Romance , Giovanni Russo , Vito Latora

Many complex networks display a mesoscopic structure with groups of nodes sharing many links with the other nodes in their group and comparatively few with nodes of different groups. This feature is known as community structure and encodes…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-07-31 Andrea Lancichinetti , Santo Fortunato

We study two kinds of weighted networks, weighted small-world (WSW) and weighted scale-free (WSF). The weight $w_{ij}$ of a link between nodes $i$ and $j$ in the network is defined as the product of endpoint node degrees; that is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Xin-Jian Xu , Zhi-Xi Wu , Ying-Hai Wang

The potential for machine learning systems to amplify social inequities and unfairness is receiving increasing popular and academic attention. Much recent work has focused on developing algorithmic tools to assess and mitigate such…

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

There is great significance in evaluating a node's Influence ranking in complex networks. Over the years, many researchers have presented different measures for quantifying node interconnectedness within networks. Therefore, this paper…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Auwal Tijjani Amshi

The determination of node centrality is a fundamental topic in social network studies. As an addition to established metrics, which identify central nodes based on their brokerage power, the number and weight of their connections, and the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-05-26 A. Fronzetti Colladon , M. Naldi

Complex networks are a powerful modeling tool, allowing the study of countless real-world systems. They have been used in very different domains such as computer science, biology, sociology, management, etc. Authors have been trying to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-02-04 Burcu Kantarcı , Vincent Labatut

The problem of finding the optimal set of source nodes in a diffusion network that maximizes the spread of information, influence, and diseases in a limited amount of time depends dramatically on the underlying temporal dynamics of the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-05-09 Manuel Gomez Rodriguez , Bernhard Schölkopf

Identifying influential nodes in complex networks is a critical task with a wide range of applications across different domains. However, existing approaches often face trade-offs between accuracy and computational efficiency. To address…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Mohammed A. Ramadhan , Abdulhakeem O. Mohammed

Influence maximization(IM) problem is to find a seed set in a social network which achieves the maximal influence spread. This problem plays an important role in viral marketing. Numerous models have been proposed to solve this problem.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-10-22 Yaxuan Wang , Hongzhi Wang , Jianzhong Li

Traditional measures of closeness and betweenness centrality in networks rely on the shortest paths between nodes. Many standard metrics fail to accurately reflect the physical or probabilistic characteristics of nodal centrality and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Juuso Luhtala , Vesa Kuikka , Kimmo K. Kaski

Social networks constitute a new platform for information propagation, but its success is crucially dependent on the choice of spreaders who initiate the spreading of information. In this paper, we remove edges in a network at random and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-08-19 Shenggong Ji , Linyuan Lu , Chi Ho Yeung , Yanqing Hu

If a piece of information is released from a media site, can it spread, in 1 month, to a million web pages? This influence estimation problem is very challenging since both the time-sensitive nature of the problem and the issue of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-11-18 Nan Du , Le Song , Manuel Gomez Rodriguez , Hongyuan Zha

Centrality measures such as the degree, k-shell, or eigenvalue centrality can identify a network's most influential nodes, but are rarely usefully accurate in quantifying the spreading power of the vast majority of nodes which are not…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-05-27 Glenn Lawyer