Identify influential spreaders in complex real-world networks

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Abstract

Identifying the most influential spreaders in a complex network is important in optimizing the use of available resource and controlling spreading behaviors on it. Centrality is usually used to measure the importance of a node within the network, such as degree, betweenness, closeness, eigenvector, k-core, etc. Here considering the local connection pattern of nodes in the network structure, we propose a new centrality measure which is based not only on the nearest neighborhood of a node, but also on its 2-step and 3-step neighbors. To evaluate its effectiveness, we use the classic spreading model to simulate the spreading efficiency of nodes in the network and compare the performance of the proposed centrality with the most widely used centrality of degree and coreness in ranking spreaders. Results show that the proposed centrality is a much more accurate measure to predict spreading capability of nodes in real-world networks.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2015 IEEE 12th International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing, 2015 IEEE 12th International Conference on Advanced and Trusted Computing, 2015 IEEE 15th International Conference on Scalable Computing and Communications, 2015 IEEE International Conference on Cloud and Big Data Computing, 2015 IEEE International Conference on Internet of People and Associated Symposia/Workshops, UIC-ATC-ScalCom-CBDCom-IoP 2015
EditorsJianhua Ma, Ali Li, Huansheng Ning, Laurence T. Yang
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages1144-1148
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781467372114
DOIs
StatePublished - 20 Jul 2016
Externally publishedYes
EventProceedings - 2015 IEEE 12th International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing, 2015 IEEE 12th International Conference on Advanced and Trusted Computing, 2015 IEEE 15th International Conference on Scalable Computing and Communications, 2015 IEEE International Conference on Cloud and Big Data Computing, 2015 IEEE International Conference on Internet of People and Associated Symposia/Workshops, UIC-ATC-ScalCom-CBDCom-IoP 2015 - Beijing, China
Duration: 10 Aug 201514 Aug 2015

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2015 IEEE 12th International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing, 2015 IEEE 12th International Conference on Advanced and Trusted Computing, 2015 IEEE 15th International Conference on Scalable Computing and Communications, 2015 IEEE International Conference on Cloud and Big Data Computing, 2015 IEEE International Conference on Internet of People and Associated Symposia/Workshops, UIC-ATC-ScalCom-CBDCom-IoP 2015

Conference

ConferenceProceedings - 2015 IEEE 12th International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing, 2015 IEEE 12th International Conference on Advanced and Trusted Computing, 2015 IEEE 15th International Conference on Scalable Computing and Communications, 2015 IEEE International Conference on Cloud and Big Data Computing, 2015 IEEE International Conference on Internet of People and Associated Symposia/Workshops, UIC-ATC-ScalCom-CBDCom-IoP 2015
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period10/08/1514/08/15

Keywords

  • Centrality
  • Dynamic spreading
  • Influential spreader
  • Ranking

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