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A new class of distances for graph vertices is proposed. This class contains parametric families of distances which reduce to the shortest-path, weighted shortest-path, and the resistance distances at the limiting values of the family…
We introduce novel measures, L1 prestige and L1 centrality, for quantifying the prominence of each vertex in a strongly connected and directed graph by utilizing the concept of L1 data depth (Vardi and Zhang, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.\…
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