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Identify information sources with different start times in complex networks based on sparse observers

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Identify information sources with different start times in complex networks based on sparse observers
The dissemination of information across various locations is an ubiquitous occurrence,however,prevalent method-ologies for multi-source identification frequently overlook the fact that sources may initiate dissemination at distinct initial moments.Although there are many research results of multi-source identification,the challenge of locating sources with varying initiation times using a limited subset of observational nodes remains unresolved.In this study,we provide the backward spread tree theorem and source centrality theorem,and develop a backward spread centrality algorithm to iden-tify all the information sources that trigger the spread at different start times.The proposed algorithm does not require prior knowledge of the number of sources,however,it can estimate both the initial spread moment and the spread duration.The core concept of this algorithm involves inferring suspected sources through source centrality theorem and locating the source from the suspected sources with linear programming.Extensive experiments from synthetic and real network simulation corroborate the superiority of our method in terms of both efficacy and efficiency.Furthermore,we find that our method maintains robustness irrespective of the number of sources and the average degree of network.Compared with classical and state-of-the art source identification methods,our method generally improves the AUROC value by 0.1 to 0.2.

complex networksinformation spreadsource identificationbackward spread centricity

邓元璋、胡兆龙、林飞龙、唐长兵、王晖、黄宜真

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School of Computer Science and Technology,Zhejiang Normal University,Jinhua 321004,China

School of Physics and Electronic Information Engineering,Zhejiang Normal University,Jinhua 321004,China

School of Information Engineering,Jinhua Polytechnic,Jinhua 321016,China

complex networks information spread source identification backward spread centricity

2024

中国物理B(英文版)
中国物理学会和中国科学院物理研究所

中国物理B(英文版)

CSTPCDEI
影响因子:0.995
ISSN:1674-1056
年,卷(期):2024.33(11)