• A modified efficiency centrality to identify influential nodes in weighted networks

• # Fulltext

https://www.ias.ac.in/article/fulltext/pram/092/04/0068

• # Keywords

Complex network; influential nodes; weighted network; efficiency centrality

• # Abstract

It is still a crucial issue to identify influential nodes effectively in the study of complex networks. As for the existing efficiency centrality (EffC), it cannot be applied to a weighted network. In this paper, a modified efficiency centrality ($\rm{EffC}^{m}$) is proposed by extending EffC into weighted networks. The proposed measure trades off the node degree and global structure in a weighted network. The influence of both the sum of the average degree of nodes in the whole network and the average distance of the network is taken into account. Numerical examples are used to illustrate the efficiency of the proposed method.

• # Author Affiliations

1. School of Electronic Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
2. School of Computer Science, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
3. Institute of Fundamental and Frontier Sciences, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
4. Big Data Decision Institute, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
5. School of Computer and Information Science, Southwest University, Chongqing, China

• # Pramana – Journal of Physics

Volume 96, 2022
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Posted on July 25, 2019