Performance Evaluation of Betweenness Centrality Using Clustering Methods

  • B. Szabari Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
  • A. Kiss J. Selye University, Komárno, Slovakia

Abstract

Betweenness centrality measure is used as a general measure of centrality, which can be applied in many scientific fields like social networks, biological networks, telecommunication networks or even in any area that can be well modelled using complex networks where it is important to identify more influential nodes. In this paper, we propose using different clustering algorithms to improve the computation of betweenness centrality over large networks. The experiments show how to achieve faster evaluation without altering the overall computational complexity.

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Published
2020-07-09
How to Cite
SZABARI, B.; KISS, A.. Performance Evaluation of Betweenness Centrality Using Clustering Methods. Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Informatica, [S.l.], v. 65, n. 1, p. 59-74, july 2020. ISSN 2065-9601. Available at: <https://www.cs.ubbcluj.ro/~studia-i/journal/journal/article/view/51>. Date accessed: 29 mar. 2024. doi: https://doi.org/10.24193/subbi.2020.1.05.
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