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Comment on ``Scientific collaboration networks. II. Shortest paths, weighted networks, and centrality"

Tao Zhou, Jian-Guo Liu, Bing-Hong Wang

physics.soc-pharXiv:physics/0511084

Abstract

In this comment, we investigate a common used algorithm proposed by Newman [M. E. J. Newman, Phys. Rev. E 64, 016132(2001)] to calculate the betweenness centrality for all vertices. The inaccurateness of Newman's algorithm is pointed out and a corrected algorithm, also with O(MN) time complexity, is given. In addition, the comparison of calculating results for these two algorithm aiming the protein interaction network of Yeast is shown.

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