New Centrality Measures in Networks by Fuad Aleskerov, Sergey Shvydun and Natalia Meshcheryakova ISBN 9781000536157, 1000536157 instant download

New Centrality Measures in Networks by Fuad Aleskerov, Sergey Shvydun and Natalia Meshcheryakova ISBN 9781000536157, 1000536157 instant download

Over the last number of years there has been a growing interest in the analysis of complex networks which describe a wide range of real-world systems in nature and society. Identification of the central elements in such networks is one of the key research areas. Solutions to this problem are important for making strategic decisions and studying the behavior of dynamic processes, e.g. epidemic spread. The importance of nodes has been studied using various centrality measures. Generally, it should be considered that most real systems are not homogeneous: nodes may have individual attributes and influence each other in groups while connections between nodes may describe different types of relations. Thus, critical nodes detection is not a straightforward process.