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通过网络设计最大化覆盖中心:扩展版本

Maximizing Coverage Centrality via Network Design: Extended Version

Sourav Medya, Arlei Silva, Ambuj Singh, Prithwish Basu, Ananthram Swami

摘要:

网络中心性在许多应用中起着重要的作用。社交网络中的中心节点可能具有影响力,推动观点,传播新闻或谣言。在超链接环境中,例如Web,用户通过点击进行导航,中心内容获得高流量,成为广告活动的目标。虽然在中心性度量及其有效计算方面有大量的工作,但通过网络更新来控制节点的中心性是一个更新且具有挑战性的问题。对网络进行最小的修改以实现所需的属性属于网络设计问题的范畴。本文的重点是提高覆盖中心的一组节点,这是对节点的数量,有一个最短的路径通过集合,通过添加边缘的网络。我们证明了强不可逼近的结果,并提出了一个贪心算法最大化覆盖中心。为了保证可扩展性的大型网络,我们还设计了一个有效的采样算法的问题。除了提供一个广泛的经验评估我们的算法,我们还表明,在一些现实的约束条件下,所提出的解决方案实现几乎最佳的近似覆盖中心最大化。

英文摘要:

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 environments, such as the Web, where users navigate via clicks, central content receives high traffic, becoming targets for advertising campaigns. While there is an extensive amount of work on centrality measures and their efficient computation, controlling nodes' centrality via network updates is a more recent and challenging problem. Performing minimal modifications to a network to achieve a desired property falls under the umbrella of network design problems. This paper is focused on improving the coverage centrality of a set of nodes, which is the number of pairs of nodes that have a shortest path passing through the set, by adding edges to the network. We prove strong inapproximability results and propose a greedy algorithm for maximizing coverage centrality. To ensure scalability to large networks, we also design an efficient sampling algorithm for the problem. In addition to providing an extensive empirical evaluation of our algorithms, we also show that, under some realistic constraints, the proposed solutions achieve almost-optimal approximation for coverage centrality maximization.

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