Control centrality and hierarchical structure in complex networks.

We introduce the concept of control centrality to quantify the ability of a single node to control a directed weighted network. We calculate the distribution of control centrality for several real networks and find that it is mainly determined by the network's degree distribution. We show that...

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Main Authors: Yang-Yu Liu, Jean-Jacques Slotine, Albert-László Barabási
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3459977?pdf=render