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most citedOn community structure in complex networks: challenges and opportunities

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cs.SI2025★ 28 cited

An Evaluation Tool for Backbone Extraction Techniques in Weighted Complex Networks

Ali Yassin, Abbas Haidar, Hocine Cherifi +2

Networks are essential for analyzing complex systems. However, their growing size necessitates backbone extraction techniques aimed at reducing their size while retaining critical…

cs.SI2024

A multilevel backbone extraction framework

Sanaa Hmaida, Hocine Cherifi, Mohammed El Hassouni

As networks grow in size and complexity, backbones become an essential network representation. Indeed, they provide a simplified yet informative overview of the underlying organiza…

cs.SI2023★ 77 cited

M-Centrality: identifying key nodes based on global position and local degree variation

Ahmed Ibnoulouafi, Mohamed El Haziti, Hocine Cherifi

Identifying influential nodes in a network is a major issue due to the great deal of applications concerned, such as disease spreading and rumor dynamics. That is why, a plethora o…

cs.SI2022★ 43 cited

Immunization Strategies Based on the Overlapping Nodes in Networks with Community Structure

Debayan Chakraborty, Anurag Singh, Hocine Cherifi

Understanding how the network topology affects the spread of an epidemic is a main concern in order to develop efficient immunization strategies. While there is a great deal of wor…

cs.SI2022★ 58 cited

Comparative evaluation of community-aware centrality measures

Stephany Rajeh, Marinette Savonnet, Eric Leclercq +1

Influential nodes play a critical role in boosting or curbing spreading phenomena in complex networks. Numerous centrality measures have been proposed for identifying and ranking t…

cs.SI2022★ 7 cited

Identifying Influential Nodes Using Overlapping Modularity Vitality

Stephany Rajeh, Marinette Savonnet, Eric Leclercq +1

It is of paramount importance to uncover influential nodes to control diffusion phenomena in a network. In recent works, there is a growing trend to investigate the role of the com…