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Network theory
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24 Aug 2014TL;DR: This paper presents a method that directly solves the task of choosing the k vertices with the maximum adaptive betweenness centrality without considering the shortest paths that have been taken into account by already-chosen vertices, and theoretically and experimentally proves that this method is very accurate and three orders of magnitude faster than previous methods.
Abstract: Betweenness centrality measures the importance of a vertex by quantifying the number of times it acts as a midpoint of the shortest paths between other vertices. This measure is widely used in network analysis. In many applications, we wish to choose the k vertices with the maximum adaptive betweenness centrality, which is the betweenness centrality without considering the shortest paths that have been taken into account by already-chosen vertices. All previous methods are designed to compute the betweenness centrality in a fixed graph. Thus, to solve the above task, we have to run these methods $k$ times. In this paper, we present a method that directly solves the task, with an almost linear runtime no matter how large the value of k. Our method first constructs a hypergraph that encodes the betweenness centrality, and then computes the adaptive betweenness centrality by examining this graph. Our technique can be utilized to handle other centrality measures. We theoretically prove that our method is very accurate, and experimentally confirm that it is three orders of magnitude faster than previous methods. Relying on the scalability of our method, we experimentally demonstrate that strategies based on adaptive betweenness centrality are effective in important applications studied in the network science and database communities.
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10 Sep 1987
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the results of the Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (BLS) and present a survey of the proceedings of the meeting.
Abstract: Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics
Society (1987), pp. 195-206
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TL;DR: This work considers how the centrality of a neuron correlates with its firing rate and finds that Katz centrality is the best predictor of firing rate given the network structure, with almost perfect correlation in all cases studied.
Abstract: It is clear that the topological structure of a neural network somehow determines the activity of the neurons within it. In the present work, we ask to what extent it is possible to examine the structural features of a network and learn something about its activity? Specifically, we consider how the centrality (the importance of a node in a network) of a neuron correlates with its firing rate. To investigate, we apply an array of centrality measures, including In-Degree, Closeness, Betweenness, Eigenvector, Katz, PageRank, Hyperlink-Induced Topic Search (HITS) and NeuronRank to Leaky-Integrate and Fire neural networks with different connectivity schemes. We find that Katz centrality is the best predictor of firing rate given the network structure, with almost perfect correlation in all cases studied, which include purely excitatory and excitatory–inhibitory networks, with either homogeneous connections or a small-world structure. We identify the properties of a network which will cause this correlation to...
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01 Jan 1964
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TL;DR: In this paper, a distinction is made between approaches that focus on business process integration (Supply Chain Management, Costing approaches), approaches that focused on organizational collaboration (Transaction Cost Theory, Agency Theory), and approaches focusing on the business environment (Strategic Management, Network Theory, Resource Dependency Theory).
Abstract: The paper gives an overview of major scientific approaches to inter-enterprise relationships. A distinction is made between approaches that focus on business process integration (Supply Chain Management, Costing approaches), approaches that focus on organizational collaboration (Transaction Cost Theory, Agency Theory), and approaches that focus on the business environment (Strategic Management, Network Theory, Resource Dependency Theory). Although these approaches are different with regard to their perspectives on collaboration, variables and methods, the paper shows that they are complementary tools in the analysis and design of inter-enterprise relationships.
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