relation: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/2844/
title: Removing spurious interactions in complex networks
creator: Zeng, An
creator: Cimini, Giulio
subject: QC Physics
description: Identifying and removing spurious links in complex networks is meaningful for many real applications and is crucial for improving the reliability of network data, which, in turn, can lead to a better understanding of the highly interconnected nature of various social, biological, and communication systems. In this paper, we study the features of different simple spurious link elimination methods, revealing that they may lead to the distortion of networks’ structural and dynamical properties. Accordingly, we propose a hybrid method that combines similarity-based index and edge-betweenness centrality. We show that our method can effectively eliminate the spurious interactions while leaving the network connected and preserving the network's functionalities.
publisher: American Physical Society
date: 2012-03
type: Article
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
language: en
rights: cc_by_nc
identifier: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/2844/1/1110.5186v1.pdf
identifier:   Zeng, An and Cimini, Giulio  Removing spurious interactions in complex networks.  Physical Review E, 85.  036101.  ISSN 1539-3755      (2012)  
relation: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.85.036101
relation: 10.1103/PhysRevE.85.036101