@inproceedings{582905ef1fe64dd19dc946b8c14cc2d6,
title = "Maintenance of structural hole spanners in dynamic networks",
abstract = "Structural Hole (SH) spanners are the set of users who bridge different groups of users and are vital in numerous applications. Despite their importance, existing work for identifying SH spanners focuses only on static networks. However, real-world networks are highly dynamic where the underlying structure of the network evolves continuously. Consequently, we study SH spanner problem for dynamic networks. We propose an efficient solution for updating SH spanners in dynamic networks. Our solution reuses the information obtained during the initial runs of the static algorithm and avoids the recomputations for the nodes unaffected by the updates. Experimental results show that the proposed solution achieves a minimum speedup of 3.24 over recomputation. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first attempt to address the problem of maintaining SH spanners in dynamic networks.",
keywords = "Connected components, Dynamic networks, Pair-wise connectivity, Structural hole spanners",
author = "Diksha Goel and Hong Shen and Hui Tian and Mingyu Guo",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2021 IEEE.; 46th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks, LCN 2021 ; Conference date: 04-10-2021 Through 07-10-2021",
year = "2021",
month = oct,
day = "4",
doi = "10.1109/LCN52139.2021.9524948",
language = "English",
series = "Proceedings - Conference on Local Computer Networks, LCN",
publisher = "IEEE Computer Society",
pages = "339--342",
editor = "Lyes Khoukhi and Sharief Oteafy and Eyuphan Bulut",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the IEEE 46th Conference on Local Computer Networks, LCN 2021",
address = "United States",
}