New direction in degree centrality measure: Towards a time-variant approach

International Journal of Information Technology and Decision Making

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 865-878

  Uddin, Shahadat ^a   Hossain, Liaquat ^a   Wigand, Rolf T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK   (United States)

Author keywords

Centrality; degree centrality; time scale degree centrality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904857054     PISSN: 02196220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219622014500217     Document Type: Article

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