Centrality Metric for Dynamic Networks

Centrality is an important notion in network analysis and is used to measure the degree to which network structure contributes to the importance of a node in a network. While many different centrality measures exist, most of them apply to static networks. Most networks, on the other hand, are dynamic in nature, evolving over time through the addition or deletion of nodes and edges. A popular approach to analyzing such networks represents them by a static network that aggregates all edges observed over some time period. This approach, however, under or overestimates centrality of some nodes. We address this problem by introducing a novel centrality metric for dynamic network analysis. This metric exploits an intuition that in order for one node in a dynamic network to influence another over some period of time, there must exist a path that connects the source and destination nodes through intermediaries at different times. We demonstrate on an example network that the proposed metri...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: CORR
• Authors: Kristina Lerman, Rumi Ghosh, Jeon Hyung Kang
• Keywords: Centrality, CORR 2010, Education, Network Analysis, Static Network