| Title: | THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING CENTRAL |
| DOI No: | 10.1142/9789812701558_0045 |
| Source: | COMPLEXITY, METASTABILITY AND NONEXTENSIVITY (pp 397-409)
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| Author(s): | P. CRUCITTI
Scuola Superiore di Catania, Via S. Paolo 73, 95123 Catania, Italy
V. LATORA
Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Catania, and INFN sezione di Catania, Via S. Sofia 64, 95123 Catania, Italy
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| Abstract: | Centrality measures are of fundamental importance in network analysis, and have the main purpose of identifying the important components of a network and analyzing the distribution of resources. Here we review some of the most commonly used centrality measures available on the market. We focus, in particular on the information centrality, a measure recently proposed, showing some of the applications that have been investigated so far in social, infrastructure, biological and urban networks. |
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