Block Matrix Formulations for Evolving Networks
2017
Many types of pairwise interactions take the form of a fixed set of nodes with edges that appear and disappear over time. In the case of discrete-time evolution, the resulting evolving network may be represented by a time-ordered sequence of adjacency matrices. We consider here the issue of representing the system as a single, higher-dimensional block matrix, built from the individual time slices. We focus on the task of computing network centrality measures. From a modeling perspective, we show that there is a suitable block formulation that allows us to recover dynamic centrality measures respecting time's arrow. From a computational perspective, we show that the new block formulation leads to the design of more effective numerical algorithms. In particular, we describe matrix-vector product based algorithms that exploit sparsity. Results are given on realistic data sets.
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