Egghe L, Rousseau R "A measure for the cohesion of weighted networks" JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 54 (3): 193-202 FEB 1 2003

[Eugene Garfield]

Leo Egghe : leo.egghe at luc.ac.be

Title   :   A measure for the cohesion of weighted networks
Author  :   Egghe L, Rousseau R
Journal :   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE
            AND TECHNOLOGY 54 (3): 193-202 FEB 1 2003

 Document type: Article  Language: English
 Cited References: 34    Times Cited: 0


Abstract:
wA generalization of both the Botafogo-Rivlin-Shneiderman compactness
measure and the Wiener index is presented. These new measures for the
cohesion of networks can be used in case a dissimilarity value is given
between nodes in a network or a graph. It is illustrated how a set of
weights between connected nodes can be transformed into a set of
dissimilarity measures for all nodes. The new compactness measure for the
cohesion of weighted graphs has several desirable properties related to the
disjoint union of two networks. Finally, an example is presented of the
calculation of the new compactness measures for a co-citation and a
bibliographic coupling network.

KeyWords Plus:
SMALL-WORLD, HYPERTEXT, WEB, CITATION, METRICS

Addresses:
Egghe L, LUC, Univ Campus, B-3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium
LUC, B-3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium
IBW, UIA, B-2610 Wilrijk, Belgium
KHBO, Ind Sci & Technol, B-8400 Oostende, Belgium

Publisher:
JOHN WILEY & SONS INC, HOBOKEN

IDS Number:
642YJ

ISSN:
1532-2882

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