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6 December 2022

Link prediction, which is used to identify the potential relationship between nodes, is an important issue in network science. In existing studies, the traditional methods based on the structural similarity of nodes make it challenging to complete th...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,411 Views
18 Pages

14 December 2022

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between network structure attributes, sensing capability and growth performance of logistics service integrators for logistics service supply chain. Using survey research of logistics servi...

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481 Views
21 Pages

An Evaluation Method for Influential Nodes Based on Multi-Attribute Neighbor Contributions in Complex Networks

  • Na Zhao,
  • Chao Dai,
  • Guolin Yang,
  • Ting Luo and ,
  • Nifei Xiong and
  • Jian Wang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

21 August 2026

Accurately identifying influential nodes is essential for analyzing network structures and optimizing information propagation. Existing methods predominantly rely on single indicators such as degree, H-index, or k-shell, inherently limiting their abi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Complex Networks and Their Applications, from COMPLEX NETWORKS 2025)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,435 Views
26 Pages

14 February 2025

Understanding mixing patterns in urban networks is crucial for exploring the connectivity relationships between nodes and revealing the connection tendencies. Based on multi-source data (Baidu index data, investment data of listed companies, high-spe...

(This article belongs to the Section Earth Sciences)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,343 Views
19 Pages

27 November 2023

Current network representation learning models mainly use matrix factorization-based and neural network-based approaches, and most models still focus only on local neighbor features of nodes. Knowledge representation learning aims to learn low-dimens...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
549 Views
20 Pages

9 July 2026

Identifying homogeneous flash flood regions through regionalization is essential for effective mitigation and prevention. However, most existing regionalization methods focus primarily on attribute similarity (e.g., meteorological and underlying fact...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Regional Sustainable Development of Yangtze River Delta, China—Fourth Edition)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
868 Views
25 Pages

We present ESNformer, a hybrid architecture that couples an Echo State Network (ESN) reservoir with a Transformer encoder for classification of structured, multi-indicator assessment data: a fixed-order vector of complementary indicators per assessme...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,338 Views
11 Pages

Structural Adversarial Variational Auto-Encoder for Attributed Network Embedding

  • Junjian Zhan,
  • Feng Li,
  • Yang Wang,
  • Daoyu Lin and
  • Guangluan Xu

7 March 2021

As most networks come with some content in each node, attributed network embedding has aroused much research interest. Most existing attributed network embedding methods aim at learning a fixed representation for each node encoding its local proximit...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,894 Views
15 Pages

Detecting Anomalies in Network Communities Based on Structural and Attribute Deviation

  • Hedia Zardi,
  • Hanen Karamti,
  • Walid Karamti and
  • Norah Saleh Alghamdi

20 November 2022

Anomaly detection in online social networks (OSNs) is an important data mining task that aims to detect unexpected and suspicious users. To enhance anomaly exploration, anomaly ranking is used to assess the degree of user anomaly rather than applying...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
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  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,023 Views
19 Pages

30 November 2022

With the development of big data, data collection and publishing are symmetrical. The purpose of data collection is to better publish data. To better collect user data and promote data analysis, publishing massive amounts of data can better provide s...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,200 Views
14 Pages

Monitoring Sparse and Attributed Network Streams with MultiLevel and Dynamic Structures

  • Mostafa Mostafapour,
  • Farzad Movahedi Sobhani and
  • Abbas Saghaei

28 November 2022

In this study, we create a new monitoring system for change detection in sparse attributed network streams with multilevel or nested dynamic structures. To achieve this, we hypothesize that the contingency of establishing an edge between two network...

(This article belongs to the Topic Complex Networks and Social Networks)
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  • Open Access
19 Citations
7,129 Views
23 Pages

Identification of Significative LiDAR Metrics and Comparison of Machine Learning Approaches for Estimating Stand and Diversity Variables in Heterogeneous Brazilian Atlantic Forest

  • Rorai Pereira Martins-Neto,
  • Antonio Maria Garcia Tommaselli,
  • Nilton Nobuhiro Imai,
  • Hassan Camil David and ,
  • Milto Miltiadou and
  • Eija Honkavaara
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23 June 2021

Data collection and estimation of variables that describe the structure of tropical forests, diversity, and richness of tree species are challenging tasks. Light detection and ranging (LiDAR) is a powerful technique due to its ability to penetrate sm...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing for Agricultural, Environmental and Forestry Policies)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,336 Views
24 Pages

Tray-Rotating Microwave Vacuum Drying of Scutellaria baicalensis Slices: Multivariate Links Between Bioactive Retention, Color, and Sensory Quality

  • Zewen Zhu,
  • Guojun Ma,
  • Xiaopeng Huang,
  • Fangxin Wan and ,
  • Xiaoping Yang,
  • Pan Wang,
  • Ying Liu,
  • Changsheng Kang,
  • Yuqing Zheng and
  • Zepeng Zang
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

11 November 2025

To improve the drying efficiency and quality of Scutellaria baicalensis (S. baicalensis) for both medicinal and beverage purposes, this study examined the effects of temperature, vacuum degree, and rotation speed during rotary microwave vacuum drying...

(This article belongs to the Section Agricultural Product Quality and Safety)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,844 Views
18 Pages

9 December 2022

Scientific and technological developments have led to gradual abstraction in architectural research and design. People no longer interpret spatial meaning simply through external forms, rather, the emphasis is put on the essence of design thinking. T...

(This article belongs to the Topic Architectures, Materials and Urban Design)
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  • Open Access
27 Citations
6,458 Views
19 Pages

Coupled Node Similarity Learning for Community Detection in Attributed Networks

  • Fanrong Meng,
  • Xiaobin Rui,
  • Zhixiao Wang,
  • Yan Xing and
  • Longbing Cao

17 June 2018

Attributed networks consist of not only a network structure but also node attributes. Most existing community detection algorithms only focus on network structures and ignore node attributes, which are also important. Although some algorithms using b...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Research Frontier in Chaos Theory and Complex Networks)
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  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,193 Views
17 Pages

20 January 2019

Community detection is a challenging task in attributed networks, due to the data inconsistency between network topological structure and node attributes. The problem of how to effectively and robustly fuse multi-source heterogeneous data plays an im...

(This article belongs to the Section Complexity)
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  • Open Access
336 Views
40 Pages

18 September 2026

Complex networks are widely used to represent interactions in communication systems, biological systems, and large-scale infrastructure. Learning informative network-level representations is important for network analysis, structural similarity retri...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematical Modeling and Learning-Based Control of Information Dynamics in Complex Networks and Communication Systems)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,435 Views
18 Pages

Attribute Network Representation Learning with Dual Autoencoders

  • Jinghong Wang,
  • Zhixia Zhou,
  • Bi Li and
  • Mancai Wu

5 September 2022

The purpose of attribute network representation learning is to learn the low-dimensional dense vector representation of nodes by combining structure and attribute information. The current network representation learning methods have insufficient inte...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Granular Computing for Intelligent Data Analysis)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,264 Views
13 Pages

Network Embedding Algorithm Taking in Variational Graph AutoEncoder

  • Dongming Chen,
  • Mingshuo Nie,
  • Hupo Zhang,
  • Zhen Wang and
  • Dongqi Wang

2 February 2022

Complex networks with node attribute information are employed to represent complex relationships between objects. Research of attributed network embedding fuses the topology and the node attribute information of the attributed network in the common l...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information Systems Modeling Based on Graph Theory)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,643 Views
12 Pages

NAGNE: Node-to-Attribute Generation Network Embedding for Heterogeneous Network

  • Zheding Zhang,
  • Huanliang Xu,
  • Yanbin Li,
  • Zhaoyu Zhai and
  • Yu Ding

26 January 2024

Heterogeneous network embedding aims to project multiple types of nodes into a low-dimensional space, and has become increasingly ubiquitous. However, several challenges have not been addressed so far. First, existing heterogeneous network embedding...

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7 Citations
3,403 Views
19 Pages

11 December 2022

User alignment (UA), a central issue for social network analysis, aims to recognize the same natural persons across different social networks. Existing studies mainly focus on the positive effects of incorporating user attributes and network structur...

(This article belongs to the Topic Social Computing and Social Network Analysis)
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  • Open Access
3,697 Views
16 Pages

31 December 2022

Link prediction aims at predicting missing or potential links based on the known information of complex networks. Most existing methods focus on pairwise low-order relationships while ignoring the high-order interaction and the rich attribute informa...

(This article belongs to the Section Complexity)
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  • Open Access
40 Citations
9,164 Views
17 Pages

19 May 2021

Many real-world networks can be modeled as attributed networks, where nodes are affiliated with attributes. When we implement attributed network embedding, we need to face two types of heterogeneous information, namely, structural information and att...

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22 Citations
5,514 Views
15 Pages

Identifying Influential Nodes of Complex Networks Based on Trust-Value

  • Jinfang Sheng,
  • Jiafu Zhu,
  • Yayun Wang,
  • Bin Wang and
  • Zheng’ang Hou

5 November 2020

The real world contains many kinds of complex network. Using influence nodes in complex networks can promote or inhibit the spread of information. Identifying influential nodes has become a hot topic around the world. Most of the existing algorithms...

(This article belongs to the Section Analysis of Algorithms and Complexity Theory)
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  • Open Access
397 Views
32 Pages

An Attribute–Relation Analytical Framework for Regional Carbon Emission Systems: Evidence from Counties in Shandong Province, China

  • Yongpeng Deng,
  • Run Wang,
  • Rongqiang Ma,
  • Wenhui Xie and ,
  • Jiachen Liu,
  • Le Yin and
  • Baolei Zhang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

12 August 2026

Regional carbon emission systems evolve through the continuous interaction between local emission attributes and interregional spatial relationships. However, existing studies have largely examined the spatiotemporal evolution of carbon emissions and...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems Practice in Social Science)
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  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,425 Views
19 Pages

Influence of Non-Thermal Plasma Treatment on Structural Network Attributes of Wheat Flour and Respective Dough

  • Muhammad Jehanzaib Khan,
  • Vojislav Jovicic,
  • Ana Zbogar-Rasic,
  • Viktoria Zettel and ,
  • Antonio Delgado and
  • Bernd Hitzmann
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

19 May 2023

Due to its “generally recognized as safe status” (GRAS) and moderate treatment temperatures, non-thermal plasma (NTP) has lately been considered a suitable replacement for chemicals in the modification of food properties and for preservin...

(This article belongs to the Section Plant Foods)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,704 Views
18 Pages

Improving Network Representation Learning via Dynamic Random Walk, Self-Attention and Vertex Attributes-Driven Laplacian Space Optimization

  • Shengxiang Hu,
  • Bofeng Zhang,
  • Hehe Lv,
  • Furong Chang and ,
  • Chenyang Zhou,
  • Liangrui Wu and
  • Guobing Zou
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

30 August 2022

Network data analysis is a crucial method for mining complicated object interactions. In recent years, random walk and neural-language-model-based network representation learning (NRL) approaches have been widely used for network data analysis. Howev...

(This article belongs to the Topic Artificial Intelligence and Computational Methods: Modeling, Simulations and Optimization of Complex Systems)
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  • Open Access
724 Views
20 Pages

11 January 2026

Structural balance in fully signed networks, integrating both individual attributes and relationships, represents a critical challenge in social computing; however, its dynamic transformation remains underexplored. This study extends structural balan...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Statistical Approaches for Modeling Human Social Systems)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
593 Views
37 Pages

7 July 2026

Designing sustainable closed-loop supply chain (CLSC) networks requires jointly assessing node-level operational attributes (recovery efficiency, processing capacity, unit cost) and inter-node spatial structure. Existing methods, including mixed-inte...

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6 Citations
4,058 Views
23 Pages

5 February 2023

With the cyclical development of emerging technologies, in reality, the evolution dynamics of their innovation networks will inevitably show obvious time attributes. Numerous network analyses of real complex systems usually focus on static networks;...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems Practice in Social Science)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,079 Views
17 Pages

Influential Attributed Communities via Graph Convolutional Network (InfACom-GCN)

  • Nariman Adel Hussein,
  • Hoda M. O. Mokhtar and
  • Mohamed E. El-Sharkawi

28 September 2022

Community search is a basic problem in graph analysis. In many applications, network nodes have certain properties that are important for the community to make sense of the application; hence, attributes are associated with nodes to capture their pro...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,480 Views
12 Pages

14 December 2016

Devising methods to publish social network data in a form that affords utility without compromising privacy remains a longstanding challenge, while many existing methods based on k-anonymity algorithms on social networks may result in nontrivial util...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,288 Views
14 Pages

Community Detection Fusing Graph Attention Network

  • Ruiqiang Guo,
  • Juan Zou,
  • Qianqian Bai,
  • Wei Wang and
  • Xiaomeng Chang

7 November 2022

It has become a tendency to use a combination of autoencoders and graph neural networks for attribute graph clustering to solve the community detection problem. However, the existing methods do not consider the influence differences between node neig...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computational Intelligence: Theory and Applications)
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  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,177 Views
20 Pages

13 February 2020

Communities are often associated with important structural characteristics of a complex network system, therefore detecting communities is considered to be a fundamental problem in network analysis. With the development of data collection technology...

(This article belongs to the Section E: Applied Mathematics)
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  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,360 Views
13 Pages

Anchor Link Prediction across Attributed Networks via Network Embedding

  • Shaokai Wang,
  • Xutao Li,
  • Yunming Ye,
  • Shanshan Feng and ,
  • Raymond Y. K. Lau,
  • Xiaohui Huang and
  • Xiaolin Du
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

6 March 2019

Presently, many users are involved in multiple social networks. Identifying the same user in different networks, also known as anchor link prediction, becomes an important problem, which can serve numerous applications, e.g., cross-network recommenda...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Complex Networks from Information Measures)
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  • Open Access
318 Views
28 Pages

Technological innovation in China’s new energy vehicle (NEV) industry has grown rapidly, yet the transfer of joint NEV technologies remains limited. Based on jointly filed invention patents in China’s NEV industry, this study constructs a...

(This article belongs to the Section Marketing, Promotion and Socio Economics)
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  • Open Access
28 Citations
5,415 Views
15 Pages

10 January 2019

With the enrichment of the entity information in the real world, many networks with attributed nodes are proposed and studied widely. Community detection in these attributed networks is an essential task that aims to find groups where the intra-nodes...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,061 Views
14 Pages

Bridge Node Detection between Communities Based on GNN

  • Hairu Luo,
  • Peng Jia,
  • Anmin Zhou,
  • Yuying Liu and
  • Ziheng He

13 October 2022

In a complex network, some nodes are relatively concentrated in topological structure, thus forming a relatively independent node group, which we call a community. Usually, there are multiple communities on a network, and these communities are interc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence in Complex Networks)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,075 Views
18 Pages

Scalably Using Node Attributes and Graph Structure for Node Classification

  • Arpit Merchant,
  • Ananth Mahadevan and
  • Michael Mathioudakis

30 June 2022

The task of node classification concerns a network where nodes are associated with labels, but labels are known only for some of the nodes. The task consists of inferring the unknown labels given the known node labels, the structure of the network, a...

(This article belongs to the Topic Complex Systems and Network Science)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,790 Views
19 Pages

DPGAD: Structure-Aware Dual-Path Attention Graph Node Anomaly Detection

  • Xinhua Dong,
  • Hui Zhang,
  • Hongmu Han and
  • Zhigang Xu

4 September 2025

Graph anomaly detection (GAD) is crucial for safeguarding the integrity and security of complex systems, such as social networks and financial transactions. Despite the advances made by Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) in the field of GAD, existing metho...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Computer Science)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,040 Views
22 Pages

Diagnosis and Assessment of Vulnerability Levels for Urban Sewage Pipeline Network System

  • Xiaobin Yin,
  • Wenbin Xu,
  • Teng Wang,
  • Jiale Sun and ,
  • Chunbo Jiang and
  • Kai Zhu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

14 February 2025

Long-distance sewerage network systems have serious vulnerabilities, specifically pipeline blockage, leakage, sedimentation, mixed connection, and other problems. A vulnerability evaluation system for a sewage network was established in this study wi...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,815 Views
17 Pages

6 August 2025

Graph anomaly detection aims at identifying rare, unusual entities in attributed networks with respect to their patterns or structures that deviate significantly from the majority within a graph. Over the years, extensive efforts in this field have b...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,954 Views
17 Pages

2 February 2024

As a structural indicator of dense subgraphs, k-core has been widely used in community search due to its concise and efficient calculation. Many community search algorithms have been expanded on the basis of k-core. However, relevant algorithms often...

(This article belongs to the Topic Applied Computing and Machine Intelligence (ACMI))
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,799 Views
21 Pages

20 April 2025

Community detection is particularly important in vehicular social networks because it helps identify closely connected groups of vehicles within the network. Community structures with overlapping relationships are identified through network topology...

(This article belongs to the Section Vehicular Sensing)
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  • Open Access
18 Citations
7,882 Views
22 Pages

Graph Autoencoder with Preserving Node Attribute Similarity

  • Mugang Lin,
  • Kunhui Wen,
  • Xuanying Zhu,
  • Huihuang Zhao and
  • Xianfang Sun

26 March 2023

The graph autoencoder (GAE) is a powerful graph representation learning tool in an unsupervised learning manner for graph data. However, most existing GAE-based methods typically focus on preserving the graph topological structure by reconstructing t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information Network Mining and Applications)
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  • Open Access
107 Citations
8,346 Views
25 Pages

Application of Unconventional Seismic Attributes and Unsupervised Machine Learning for the Identification of Fault and Fracture Network

  • Umar Ashraf,
  • Hucai Zhang,
  • Aqsa Anees,
  • Hassan Nasir Mangi and ,
  • Muhammad Ali,
  • Zaheen Ullah and
  • Xiaonan Zhang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

2 June 2020

The identification of small scale faults (SSFs) and fractures provides an improved understanding of geologic structural features and can be exploited for future drilling prospects. Conventional SSF and fracture characterization are challenging and ti...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fractured Reservoirs)
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,707 Views
13 Pages

Link Pruning for Community Detection in Social Networks

  • Jeongseon Kim,
  • Soohwan Jeong and
  • Sungsu Lim

5 July 2022

Attempts to discover knowledge through data are gradually becoming diversified to understand complex aspects of social phenomena. Graph data analysis, which models and analyzes complex data as graphs, draws much attention as it combines the latest ma...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,724 Views
19 Pages

SOINN Intrusion Detection Model Based on Three-Way Attribute Reduction

  • Jing Ren,
  • Lu Liu,
  • Haiduan Huang,
  • Jiang Ma and ,
  • Chunying Zhang,
  • Liya Wang,
  • Bin Liu and
  • Yingna Zhao
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

15 December 2023

With a large number of intrusion detection datasets and high feature dimensionality, the emergent nature of new attack types makes it impossible to collect network traffic data all at once. The modified three-way attribute reduction method is combine...

(This article belongs to the Section Networks)
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  • Open Access
878 Views
32 Pages

19 November 2025

Affiliation networks, with their bipartite structure and non-binary features, pose unique challenges due to their complex relationships and diverse node attributes. These challenges differ from those in symmetric one-mode networks. To address them, w...

(This article belongs to the Section B: Mathematics)
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  • Open Access
38 Citations
8,633 Views
13 Pages

5 June 2018

A classification of gluten polymer networks would support a better understanding of structure-function relationships of any gluten polymer material and thus, the control of processing properties. However, quantification and interpretation of the glut...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Protein Biopolymer)

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