The Self-Information Weighting-Based Node Importance Ranking Method for Graph Data

Due to their wide application in many disciplines, how to make an efficient ranking for nodes, especially for nodes in graph data, has aroused lots of attention. To overcome the shortcoming that most traditional ranking methods only consider the mutual influence between nodes but ignore the influenc...

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Main Authors: Shihu Liu, Haiyan Gao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2022-10-01
Series:Entropy
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/24/10/1471
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Summary:Due to their wide application in many disciplines, how to make an efficient ranking for nodes, especially for nodes in graph data, has aroused lots of attention. To overcome the shortcoming that most traditional ranking methods only consider the mutual influence between nodes but ignore the influence of edges, this paper proposes a self-information weighting-based method to rank all nodes in graph data. In the first place, the graph data are weighted by regarding the self-information of edges in terms of node degree. On this base, the information entropy of nodes is constructed to measure the importance of each node and in which case all nodes can be ranked. To verify the effectiveness of this proposed ranking method, we compare it with six existing methods on nine real-world datasets. The experimental results show that our method performs well on all of these nine datasets, especially for datasets with more nodes.
ISSN:1099-4300