A systematic survey on influential spreaders identification in complex networks with a focus on K-shell based techniques

G Maji, S Mandal, S Sen - Expert Systems with Applications, 2020 - Elsevier
Almost all the complex interactions between humans, animals, biological cells, neurons, or
any other objects are now modeled as a graph with the nodes as the objects of interest and …

An improved gravity model to identify influential nodes in complex networks based on k-shell method

X Yang, F Xiao - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2021 - Elsevier
To find the important nodes in complex networks is a fundamental issue. A number of
methods have been recently proposed to address this problem but most previous studies …

Identifying vital nodes from local and global perspectives in complex networks

A Ullah, B Wang, JF Sheng, J Long, N Khan… - Expert Systems with …, 2021 - Elsevier
Recognition of vital nodes in complex networks retains great importance in the improvement
of network's robustness and vulnerability. Consistent research proposed various …

Influential nodes identification in complex networks via information entropy

C Guo, L Yang, X Chen, D Chen, H Gao, J Ma - Entropy, 2020 - mdpi.com
Identifying a set of influential nodes is an important topic in complex networks which plays a
crucial role in many applications, such as market advertising, rumor controlling, and …

Ranking influential spreaders based on both node k-shell and structural hole

Z Zhao, D Li, Y Sun, R Zhang, J Liu - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2023 - Elsevier
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 …

Semi-global triangular centrality measure for identifying the influential spreaders from undirected complex networks

A Namtirtha, B Dutta, A Dutta - Expert Systems with Applications, 2022 - Elsevier
The influential spreaders play a significant role in maximizing or controlling any spreading
process in a network. In the literature, many methods have been proposed to identify …

Identifying influential spreaders in complex networks based on improved k-shell method

M Wang, W Li, Y Guo, X Peng, Y Li - Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Identifying influential spreaders in complex networks is a fundamental network project. It has
drawn great attention in recent years because of its great theoretical significance and …

CAGM: A communicability-based adaptive gravity model for influential nodes identification in complex networks

G Xu, C Dong - Expert Systems with Applications, 2024 - Elsevier
Identifying influential nodes is a very hot and challenging issue in the field of complex
system and network. A great deal of algorithms have been developed to address the …

GSI: An influential node detection approach in heterogeneous network using covid-19 as use case

RD Shetty, S Bhattacharjee, A Dutta… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The growth of COVID-19, caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, has turned into an
unprecedented pandemic in the last century. It is crucial to identify superspreading nodes to …

Influential spreaders identification in complex networks with improved k-shell hybrid method

G Maji, A Namtirtha, A Dutta, MC Malta - Expert Systems with Applications, 2020 - Elsevier
Identifying influential spreaders in a complex network has practical and theoretical
significance. In applications such as disease spreading, virus infection in computer …