Greedily improving our own closeness centrality in a network

P Crescenzi, G D'angelo, L Severini… - ACM Transactions on …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
The closeness centrality is a well-known measure of importance of a vertex within a given
complex network. Having high closeness centrality can have positive impact on the vertex …

Improving the betweenness centrality of a node by adding links

E Bergamini, P Crescenzi, G D'angelo… - Journal of Experimental …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Betweenness is a well-known centrality measure that ranks the nodes according to their
participation in the shortest paths of a network. In several scenarios, having a high …

Locating park-and-ride facilities for resilient on-demand urban mobility

E Henry, A Furno, NE El Faouzi, D Rey - Transportation Research Part E …, 2022 - Elsevier
Urban transport networks, yet essential, are frequently impacted by recurrent disruptions
such as public transport failures, adverse weather or strikes. Flexible transit systems can be …

Group centrality maximization via network design

S Medya, A Silva, A Singh, P Basu, A Swami - Proceedings of the 2018 SIAM …, 2018 - SIAM
Network centrality plays an important role in many applications. Central nodes in social
networks can be influential, driving opinions and spreading news or rumors. In hyperlinked …

Brand intelligence analytics

A Fronzetti Colladon, F Grippa - … of Collaboration: Proceedings of the 9th …, 2020 - Springer
Leveraging the power of big data represents an opportunity for brand managers to reveal
patterns and trends in consumer perceptions, while monitoring positive or negative …

Centrality measures: a tool to identify key actors in social networks

RR Singh - Principles of Social Networking: The New Horizon and …, 2022 - Springer
Experts from several disciplines have been widely using centrality measures for analyzing
large as well as complex networks. These measures rank nodes/edges in networks by …

Learning a scalable algorithm for improving betweenness in the lightning network

V Davis, B Harrison - 2022 Fourth International Conference on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a scalable algorithm for solving the Maximum Betweenness
Improvement Problem as it appears in the Bitcoin Lightning Network. In this approach, each …

Coverage centrality maximization in undirected networks

G D'Angelo, M Olsen, L Severini - … of the AAAI conference on artificial …, 2019 - ojs.aaai.org
Centrality metrics are among the main tools in social network analysis. Being central for a
user of a network leads to several benefits to the user: central users are highly influential …

[HTML][HTML] Brand Network Booster: A new system for improving brand connectivity

J Cancellieri, W Didimo, AF Colladon… - Computers & Industrial …, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper presents a new decision support system offered for an in-depth analysis of
semantic networks, which can provide insights for a better exploration of a brand's image …

Increasing energy efficiency of bitcoin infrastructure with reinforcement learning and one-shot path planning for the lightning network

D Valko, D Kudenko - Neural Computing and Applications, 2024 - Springer
The lightning network (LN) is a technological solution designed to solve the bitcoin
blockchain transaction speed problem by introducing off-chain transactions. Since LN is a …