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Area of Science:

  • Network analysis
  • Graph theory
  • Data mining

Background:

  • Role analysis in complex networks categorizes nodes based on neighbor interactions.
  • Automorphic equivalence is a fundamental but computationally expensive role equivalence.
  • Existing similarity measures like SimRank fail to reliably identify structurally equivalent nodes.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To define axiomatic properties for a robust role similarity measure.
  • To introduce RoleSim, a new metric satisfying these axioms for network role analysis.
  • To develop a scalable algorithm (Iceberg RoleSim) for efficient similarity computation.

Main Methods:

  • Defined and justified axiomatic properties for role similarity.
  • Developed RoleSim, an iterative algorithm for calculating role similarity.
  • Introduced Iceberg RoleSim for efficient discovery of high-similarity node pairs.

Main Results:

  • RoleSim metric rigorously proven to satisfy all defined axiomatic properties.
  • Demonstrated RoleSim's effectiveness in identifying automorphically and structurally equivalent nodes.
  • Validated RoleSim's interpretative power on synthetic and real-world network datasets.

Conclusions:

  • RoleSim provides a principled and effective approach to network role similarity.
  • The RoleSim metric and its scalable algorithm offer significant advancements in complex network analysis.
  • This work enhances the ability to understand node roles and relationships in diverse networks.