Social networks are absolutely a useful and important place for connecting people within the
world. A basic issue in a social network is to identify the key persons within it. This is why …

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 …

Network analysis represents a novel theoretical approach to personality. Network
approaches motivate alternative ways of analyzing data, and suggest new ways of modeling …

Centrality is one of the most studied concepts in social network analysis. There is a huge
literature regarding centrality measures, as ways to identify the most relevant users in a …

The concept of trust and/or trust management has received considerable attention in
engineering research communities as trust is perceived as the basis for decision making in …

The failure of a power system as a critical infrastructure causes considerable damage to
society. Hence, the vulnerabilities of such facilities should be minimized to cope with several …

Ties often have a strength naturally associated with them that differentiate them from each
other. Tie strength has been operationalized as weights. A few network measures have …

Relationships and the pattern of relationships have a large and varied influence on both
individual and group action. The fundamental distinction of social network analysis research …

Centrality measures, or at least popular interpretations of these measures, make implicit
assumptions about the manner in which traffic flows through a network. For example, some …

Networks and network analysis are arguably one of the largest growth areas of the early
twenty-first century in the quantitative sciences. Despite roots in social network analysis …