Extremality of degree-based graph entropies

Information Sciences

Volumn 278, Issue , 2014, Pages 22-33

  Cao, Shujuan ^a   Dehmer, Matthias ^b   Shi, Yongtang ^a  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY FOR HEALTH SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

Degree power; Degree sequence; Entropy; Graph entropy; Information theory; Shannon's entropy

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; ENTROPY; INFORMATION THEORY;

DEGREE POWER; DEGREE SEQUENCE; ENTROPY-BASED; GRAPH ENTROPY; GRAPH INVARIANT; SHANNON'S ENTROPY; UNDERLYING GRAPHS; VERTEX DEGREE;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 84901799479     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2014.03.133     Document Type: Article

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