The critical node detection problem in networks: A survey

M Lalou, MA Tahraoui, H Kheddouci - Computer Science Review, 2018 - Elsevier
In networks, not all nodes have the same importance, and some are more important than
others. The issue of finding the most important nodes in networks has been addressed …

Comparative analysis of centrality measures for identifying critical nodes in complex networks

O Ugurlu - Journal of Computational Science, 2022 - Elsevier
One of the fundamental tasks in complex networks is detecting critical nodes whose removal
significantly disrupts network connectivity. Identifying critical nodes can help analyze the …

A survey of strategies for communication networks to protect against large-scale natural disasters

T Gomes, J Tapolcai, C Esposito… - … on resilient networks …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent natural disasters have revealed that emergency networks presently cannot
disseminate the necessary disaster information, making it difficult to deploy and coordinate …

Distance-generalized core decomposition

F Bonchi, A Khan, L Severini - … of the 2019 international conference on …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
The k-core of a graph is defined as the maximal subgraph in which every vertex is
connected to at least k other vertices within that subgraph. In this work we introduce a …

A fast tri-individual memetic search approach for the distance-based critical node problem

Y Zhou, G Wang, JK Hao, N Geng, Z Jiang - European Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
The distance-based critical node problem involves identifying a subset of nodes in a graph
such that the removal of these nodes leads to a residual graph with the minimum distance …

Water‐controlled ecosystems as complex networks: Evaluation of network‐based approaches to quantify patterns of connectivity

S Tiwari, SR Brizuela, T Hein, L Turnbull… - …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This study provides a new perspective on understanding the intricacies of water‐mediated
connectivity in ecosystems, bridging landscape ecology and geomorphology through …

Detecting k-Vertex Cuts in Sparse Networks via a Fast Local Search Approach

Y Zhou, G Wang, MC Zhou - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The-vertex cut (-VC) problem belongs to the family of the critical node detection problems,
which aims to find a minimum subset of vertices whose removal decomposes a graph into at …

A general evolutionary framework for different classes of critical node problems

R Aringhieri, A Grosso, P Hosteins… - … Applications of Artificial …, 2016 - Elsevier
We design a flexible Evolutionary Framework for solving several classes of the Critical Node
Problem (CNP), ie the maximal fragmentation of a graph through node deletion, given a …

Optimizing network attacks by artificial bee colony

M Lozano, C Garcia-Martinez, FJ Rodriguez… - Information …, 2017 - Elsevier
Over the past few years, the task of conceiving effective attacks to complex networks has
arisen as an optimization problem. Attacks are modelled as the process of removing a …

Efficient methods for the distance-based critical node detection problem in complex networks

GU Alozie, A Arulselvan, K Akartunalı… - Computers & Operations …, 2021 - Elsevier
An important problem in network survivability assessment is the identification of critical
nodes. The distance-based critical node detection problem addresses the issues of internal …