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Measure the similarity of the nodes in the complex networks have interested many researchers to explore it. In this paper, a new method which is based on the degree centrality and the Relative-entropy is proposed to measure the similarity…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-02-04 Qi Zhang , Meizhu Li , Yong Deng , Sankaran Mahadevan

Identifying the importance of nodes of complex networks is of interest to the research of Social Networks, Biological Networks etc.. Current researchers have proposed several measures or algorithms, such as betweenness, PageRank and HITS…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-11-26 Bojin Zheng , Deyi Li , Guisheng Chen , Wenhua Du , Jianmin Wang

Networks describe a variety of interacting complex systems in social science, biology and information technology. Usually the nodes of real networks are identified not only by their connections but also by some other characteristics.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-13 Ginestra Bianconi , Paolo Pin , Matteo Marsili

Centrality is one of the most fundamental metrics in network science. Despite an abundance of methods for measuring centrality of individual vertices, there are by now only a few metrics to measure centrality of individual edges. We modify…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-09-25 Timo Bröhl , Klaus Lehnertz

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

In network science complex systems are represented as a mathematical graphs consisting of a set of nodes representing the components and a set of edges representing their interactions. The framework of networks has led to significant…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-04-07 Alexandre Bovet , Hernán A. Makse

Identifying influential node groups in complex networks is crucial for optimizing information dissemination, epidemic control, and viral marketing. However, traditional centrality-based methods often focus on individual nodes, resulting in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Wenxin Zheng , Wenfeng Shi , Tianlong Fan , Linyuan Lü

Many existing approaches for estimating feature importance are problematic because they ignore or hide dependencies among features. A causal graph, which encodes the relationships among input variables, can aid in assigning feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Jiaxuan Wang , Jenna Wiens , Scott Lundberg

In a recent work we introduced a measure of importance for groups of vertices in a complex network. This centrality for groups is always between 0 and 1 and induces the eigenvector centrality over vertices. Furthermore, its value over any…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-09-12 P-L. Giscard , R. C. Wilson

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

When dealing with large graphs, such as those that arise in the context of online social networks, a subset of nodes may be labeled. These labels can indicate demographic values, interest, beliefs or other characteristics of the nodes…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-05-27 Smriti Bhagat , Graham Cormode , S. Muthukrishnan

Ranking nodes in networks according to a defined measure of importance is an extensively studied task, with applications in ecology, economic trade networks, and social networks. This paper introduces a method based on a non-linear…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-01 Andrea Mazzolini , Michele Caselle , Matteo Osella

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

Community structure is a commonly observed feature of real networks. The term refers to the presence in a network of groups of nodes (communities) that feature high internal connectivity, but are poorly connected between each other. Whereas…

Applications · Statistics 2021-10-07 Mirko Signorelli , Luisa Cutillo

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

Many real networks in social sciences, biological and biomedical sciences or computer science have an inherent structure of simplicial complexes reflecting many-body interactions. Therefore, to analyse topological and dynamical properties…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2020-04-16 Daniel Hernández Serrano , Darío Sánchez Gómez

Centrality of a node measures its relative importance within a network. There are a number of applications of centrality, including inferring the influence or success of an individual in a social network, and the resulting social network…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-12-20 Yang Yang , Yuxiao Dong , Nitesh V. Chawla

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

We study clustering properties of networks of single integrator nodes over a directed graph, in which the nodes converge to steady-state values. These values define clustering groups of nodes, which depend on interaction topology, edge…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-17 Jeong-Min Ma , Hyung-Gon Lee , Kevin L. Moore , Hyo-Sung Ahn , Kwang-Kyo Oh

Numerous centrality measures have been proposed to evaluate the importance of nodes in networks, yet comparative analyses of these measures remain limited. Based on 80 real-world networks, we conducted an empirical analysis of 16…

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