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Table 1 Notations and symbols

From: Identification of top-K nodes in large networks using Katz centrality

Notation

Definition and description

G

Given graph

V

Set of nodes

E

Set of edges

\(v_{1}\), \(v_{2}\), \(v_{i}\), \(v_{j}\), \(n_{i}\)

Nodes

\(C_{D}\)

Degree centrality

\(C_{in}\)

In-degree centrality

\(C_{out}\)

Out-degree centrality

\(C_{c}\)

Closeness centrality

\(C_{B}\)

Betweenness centrality

\(g_{jik}\), \(g_{jk}\)

Geodesic paths

\(\alpha\)

Damping factor or attenuation factor

\(\beta\)

Exogenous vector

\(\lambda\)

Eigenvector

\(C_{Katz}\)

Katz centrality

A

Adjacency matrix

\(LAC_{Katz}\)

Local average centrality

\(GAC_{Katz}\)

Global average centrality

Const

User defined constant

\(isim_{k}\)

Intersection similarity