Real networks exhibit heterogeneous nature with nodes playing far different roles in
structure and function. To identify vital nodes is thus very significant, allowing us to control …

Historically, infectious diseases caused considerable damage to human societies, and they
continue to do so today. To help reduce their impact, mathematical models of disease …

Identifying influential nodes in dynamical processes is crucial in understanding network
structure and function. Degree, H-index and coreness are widely used metrics, but …

We study the network dismantling problem, which consists of determining a minimal set of
vertices in which removal leaves the network broken into connected components of …

Evaluating the importance of nodes for complex networks is of great significance to the
research of survivability and robusticity of networks. This paper proposes an effective …

Operations Research (OR) began as an interdisciplinary activity to solve complex military
problems during World War II. Utilizing principles from mathematics, engineering, business …

Understanding the network structure, and finding out the influential nodes is a challenging
issue in large networks. Identifying the most influential nodes in a network can be useful in …

In this paper, the spreading behavior of malware across mobile devices is addressed. By
introducing complex networks to model mobile networks, which follows the power-law …

We consider epidemic extinction in finite networks with a broad variation in local
connectivity. Generalizing the theory of large fluctuations to random networks with a given …

Understanding how the network topology affects the spread of an epidemic is a main
concern in order to develop efficient immunization strategies. While there is a great deal of …