A Community-Based Approach to Identifying Influential Spreaders

Identifying influential spreaders in complex networks has a significant impact on understanding and control of spreading process in networks. In this paper, we introduce a new centrality index to identify influential spreaders in a network based on the community structure of the network. The communi...

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Main Authors: Zhiying Zhao, Xiaofan Wang, Wei Zhang, Zhiliang Zhu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2015-04-01
Series:Entropy
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/17/4/2228