The ranking of individual spreaders aims to measure the influential capability of individual
nodes and is important to control information spreading in a network. However, many …

The identification and ranking of vital nodes in complex networks have been a critical issue
for a long time. In this paper, we present an extension of existing disruptive metrics and …

Estimating the importance of nodes in complex social networks is significant for
understanding the robustness and stability of a network such as preventing the spread of …

Assessing the importance of spreaders in networks is crucial for investigating the survival
and robustness of networks. There are numerous potential applications, such as preventing …

The identification of influential nodes is one of the most urgent and challenging research
issues in complex networks, which is crucial to the robustness and stability of networks …

Identifying influential nodes in complex networks is an essential research issue in network
science since it may attribute to understand network structure and function. Majority of …

Influence Maximization (IM) is a key algorithmic problem that has been extensively studied
in social influence analysis, but most of existing researches either make sacrifices in solution …

How to evaluate the importance of nodes and identify influential nodes in complex networks
is a very significant research in the field of network science. Most of existing algorithms …

In recent years, the identification of the essential nodes in complex networks has attracted
significant attention because of their theoretical and practical significance in many …

Identifying vital spreaders of complex networks is a crucial issue that studies the dynamic
processes and analyzes the performance of networks. In this work, we present a new …