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The Theory and Practice of Computing the Bus-Factor
Sebastiano A. Piccolo, Pasquale De Meo, Giorgio Terracina +1
The bus-factor is a measure of project risk with respect to personnel availability, informally defined as the number of people whose sudden unavailability would cause a project to…
Network Disruption via Continuous Batch Removal: The Case of Sicilian Mafia
Mingshan Jia, Pasquale De Meo, Bogdan Gabrys +1
Network disruption is pivotal in understanding the robustness and vulnerability of complex networks, which is instrumental in devising strategies for infrastructure protection, epi…
Multilayer Network Analysis: The Identification of Key Actors in a Sicilian Mafia Operation
Annamaria Ficara, Giacomo Fiumara, Pasquale De Meo +1
Recently, Social Network Analysis studies have led to an improvement and to a generalization of existing tools to networks with multiple subsystems and layers of connectivity. Thes…
Correlation analysis of node and edge centrality measures in artificial complex networks
Annamaria Ficara, Giacomo Fiumara, Pasquale De Meo +1
The importance of a node in a social network is identified through a set of measures called centrality. Degree centrality, closeness centrality, betweenness centrality and clusteri…
Criminal Networks Analysis in Missing Data scenarios through Graph Distances
Annamaria Ficara, Lucia Cavallaro, Francesco Curreri +5
Data collected in criminal investigations may suffer from: (i) incompleteness, due to the covert nature of criminal organisations; (ii) incorrectness, caused by either unintentiona…
Correlations among Game of Thieves and other centrality measures in complex networks
Annamaria Ficara, Giacomo Fiumara, Pasquale De Meo +1
Social Network Analysis (SNA) is used to study the exchange of resources among individuals, groups, or organizations. The role of individuals or connections in a network is describ…