summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/doc/betweenness.1.html
blob: ab25a91ae436d2d2f330f221a4d13ccdc89cbd94 (plain)
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100
101
102
103
104
105
106
107
108
109
110
111
112
113
114
115
116
117
118
119
120
121
122
123
124
125
126
127
128
129
130
131
132
133
134
135
136
137
138
139
140
141
142
143
144
145
146
147
148
149
150
151
152
153
154
155
156
157
158
159
160
161
162
163
164
165
166
167
168
169
170
171
172
173
174
175
176
177
178
179
180
181
182
183
184
185
186
187
188
189
190
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
  <meta http-equiv='content-type' value='text/html;charset=utf8'>
  <meta name='generator' value='Ronn/v0.7.3 (http://github.com/rtomayko/ronn/tree/0.7.3)'>
  <title>betweenness(1) - Compute the betweenness centrality of nodes and edges</title>
  <style type='text/css' media='all'>
  /* style: man */
  body#manpage {margin:0}
  .mp {max-width:100ex;padding:0 9ex 1ex 4ex}
  .mp p,.mp pre,.mp ul,.mp ol,.mp dl {margin:0 0 20px 0}
  .mp h2 {margin:10px 0 0 0}
  .mp > p,.mp > pre,.mp > ul,.mp > ol,.mp > dl {margin-left:8ex}
  .mp h3 {margin:0 0 0 4ex}
  .mp dt {margin:0;clear:left}
  .mp dt.flush {float:left;width:8ex}
  .mp dd {margin:0 0 0 9ex}
  .mp h1,.mp h2,.mp h3,.mp h4 {clear:left}
  .mp pre {margin-bottom:20px}
  .mp pre+h2,.mp pre+h3 {margin-top:22px}
  .mp h2+pre,.mp h3+pre {margin-top:5px}
  .mp img {display:block;margin:auto}
  .mp h1.man-title {display:none}
  .mp,.mp code,.mp pre,.mp tt,.mp kbd,.mp samp,.mp h3,.mp h4 {font-family:monospace;font-size:14px;line-height:1.42857142857143}
  .mp h2 {font-size:16px;line-height:1.25}
  .mp h1 {font-size:20px;line-height:2}
  .mp {text-align:justify;background:#fff}
  .mp,.mp code,.mp pre,.mp pre code,.mp tt,.mp kbd,.mp samp {color:#131211}
  .mp h1,.mp h2,.mp h3,.mp h4 {color:#030201}
  .mp u {text-decoration:underline}
  .mp code,.mp strong,.mp b {font-weight:bold;color:#131211}
  .mp em,.mp var {font-style:italic;color:#232221;text-decoration:none}
  .mp a,.mp a:link,.mp a:hover,.mp a code,.mp a pre,.mp a tt,.mp a kbd,.mp a samp {color:#0000ff}
  .mp b.man-ref {font-weight:normal;color:#434241}
  .mp pre {padding:0 4ex}
  .mp pre code {font-weight:normal;color:#434241}
  .mp h2+pre,h3+pre {padding-left:0}
  ol.man-decor,ol.man-decor li {margin:3px 0 10px 0;padding:0;float:left;width:33%;list-style-type:none;text-transform:uppercase;color:#999;letter-spacing:1px}
  ol.man-decor {width:100%}
  ol.man-decor li.tl {text-align:left}
  ol.man-decor li.tc {text-align:center;letter-spacing:4px}
  ol.man-decor li.tr {text-align:right;float:right}
  </style>
  <style type='text/css' media='all'>
  /* style: toc */
  .man-navigation {display:block !important;position:fixed;top:0;left:113ex;height:100%;width:100%;padding:48px 0 0 0;border-left:1px solid #dbdbdb;background:#eee}
  .man-navigation a,.man-navigation a:hover,.man-navigation a:link,.man-navigation a:visited {display:block;margin:0;padding:5px 2px 5px 30px;color:#999;text-decoration:none}
  .man-navigation a:hover {color:#111;text-decoration:underline}
  </style>
</head>
<!--
  The following styles are deprecated and will be removed at some point:
  div#man, div#man ol.man, div#man ol.head, div#man ol.man.

  The .man-page, .man-decor, .man-head, .man-foot, .man-title, and
  .man-navigation should be used instead.
-->
<body id='manpage'>
  <div class='mp' id='man'>

  <div class='man-navigation' style='display:none'>
    <a href="#NAME">NAME</a>
    <a href="#SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a>
    <a href="#DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a>
    <a href="#PARAMETERS">PARAMETERS</a>
    <a href="#OUTPUT">OUTPUT</a>
    <a href="#EXAMPLES">EXAMPLES</a>
    <a href="#SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</a>
    <a href="#REFERENCES">REFERENCES</a>
    <a href="#AUTHORS">AUTHORS</a>
  </div>

  <ol class='man-decor man-head man head'>
    <li class='tl'>betweenness(1)</li>
    <li class='tc'>www.complex-networks.net</li>
    <li class='tr'>betweenness(1)</li>
  </ol>

  <h2 id="NAME">NAME</h2>
<p class="man-name">
  <code>betweenness</code> - <span class="man-whatis">Compute the betweenness centrality of nodes and edges</span>
</p>

<h2 id="SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</h2>

<p><code>betweenness</code> <var>graph_in</var> [ SEQ <var>node_start</var> [<var>node_end</var>]]</p>

<p><code>betweenness</code> <var>graph_in</var> [ RND <var>num</var>]</p>

<h2 id="DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</h2>

<p><code>betweenness</code> computes the betweenness centrality of all the nodes and
edges of an undirected graph provided as input. The program implements
the algorithm by U. Brandes, and computes the betweenness using all
the shortest paths originating from a subset of the nodes of the
graph, either in a sequence (if <em>SEQ</em> is the second parameter) or
sampled unirofmly at random (if <em>RND</em> is the second parameter). If
<var>graph_in</var> is the only parameter, <code>betweenness</code> takes into account all
the shortest paths.</p>

<h2 id="PARAMETERS">PARAMETERS</h2>

<dl>
<dt><var>graph_in</var></dt><dd><p>  input graph (edge list) if equal to <code>-</code> (dash), read the edge list
  from STDIN.</p></dd>
<dt><var>node_start</var></dt><dd><p>  The label of the first node in a sequence of nodes (when <em>SEQ</em> is
  the second parameter).</p></dd>
<dt><var>node_end</var></dt><dd><p>  The label of the last node in a sequence of nodes (when <em>SEQ</em> is
  the second parameter).</p></dd>
<dt class="flush"><var>num</var></dt><dd><p>  The number of nodes to be considered (when <em>RND</em> is the second
  parameter)</p></dd>
</dl>


<h2 id="OUTPUT">OUTPUT</h2>

<p><code>betweenness</code> prints on the standard output (STDOUT) the betweenness
centrality of all the nodes, starting from the node with label 0, and
on the standard error (STDERR) the betweenness centrality of all the
edges, one edge per line, in the format:</p>

<pre><code>node1 node2 bet_score
</code></pre>

<h2 id="EXAMPLES">EXAMPLES</h2>

<p>The following command:</p>

<pre><code>      $ betweenness er_1000_5000.txt &gt;node_bet 2&gt;edge_bet
</code></pre>

<p>computes the node and edge betweenness centrality of the graph
<code>er_1000_5000.txt</code>, using all the shortest paths. Since we used the
redirections <code>&gt;node_bet</code> and <code>2&gt;edge_bet</code>, the values of node and edge
betweenness will be saved in the files <code>node_bet</code> and <code>edge_bet</code>,
respectively.</p>

<p>The command:</p>

<pre><code>    $ betweenness er_1000_5000.txt SEQ 100 200  2&gt;edge_bet_100_200
</code></pre>

<p>will compute the betweenness of nodes and edges in the graph
<code>er_1000_5000.txt</code>, based only on the shortest paths originating from
the nodes whose labels are in the range [100,200]. The node
betweenness will be printed on STDOUT, while the edge betweenness will
be saved in the file <code>edge_bet_100_200</code>.</p>

<p>Finally, the command:</p>

<pre><code>    $ betweenness er_1000_5000.txt RND 250 &gt;node_bet_RND 
</code></pre>

<p>will compute the betweenness centrality based on the shortest paths
originating from 250 nodes in the graph, sampled uniformly at
random. The node betweenness is saved in the file <code>node_bet_RND</code>,
while the values of edge betweenness are printed on STDOUT.</p>

<h2 id="SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</h2>

<p><a class="man-ref" href="bet_dependency.1.html">bet_dependency<span class="s">(1)</span></a>, <a class="man-ref" href="shortest.1.html">shortest<span class="s">(1)</span></a></p>

<h2 id="REFERENCES">REFERENCES</h2>

<ul>
<li><p>U. Brandes. "A Faster Algorithm for Betweenness Centrality".
J. Math. Sociol. 25 (2001), 163-177.</p></li>
<li><p>V. Latora, V. Nicosia, G. Russo, "Complex Networks: Principles,
Methods and Applications", Chapter 6, Cambridge University Press
(2017)</p></li>
<li><p>V. Latora, V. Nicosia, G. Russo, "Complex Networks: Principles,
Methods and Applications", Appendix 7, Cambridge University Press
(2017)</p></li>
</ul>


<h2 id="AUTHORS">AUTHORS</h2>

<p>(c) Vincenzo 'KatolaZ' Nicosia 2009-2017 <code>&lt;v.nicosia@qmul.ac.uk&gt;</code>.</p>


  <ol class='man-decor man-foot man foot'>
    <li class='tl'>www.complex-networks.net</li>
    <li class='tc'>September 2017</li>
    <li class='tr'>betweenness(1)</li>
  </ol>

  </div>
</body>
</html>