A New Approach to Measuring Distances in Dense Graphs
| Autor: | Charles C. Taylor, Peter A. Thwaites, Fatimah A. Almulhim |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Discrete mathematics
Computer science k-means clustering Graph theory 01 natural sciences Graph 010305 fluids & plasmas Hierarchical clustering Vertex (geometry) Search algorithm 0103 physical sciences Adjacency matrix 010306 general physics Cluster analysis MathematicsofComputing_DISCRETEMATHEMATICS |
| Zdroj: | Machine Learning, Optimization, and Data Science ISBN: 9783030137083 LOD |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-030-13709-0_17 |
| Popis: | The problem of computing distances and shortest paths between vertices in graphs is one of the fundamental issues in graph theory. It is of great importance in many different applications, for example, transportation, and social network analysis. However, efficient shortest distance algorithms are still desired in many disciplines. Basically, the majority of dense graphs have ties between the shortest distances. Therefore, we consider a different approach and introduce a new measure to solve all-pairs shortest paths for undirected and unweighted graphs. This measures the shortest distance between any two vertices by considering the length and the number of all possible paths between them. The main aim of this new approach is to break the ties between equal shortest paths SP, which can be obtained by the Breadth-first search algorithm (BFS), and distinguish meaningfully between these equal distances. Moreover, using the new measure in clustering produces higher quality results compared with SP. In our study, we apply two different clustering techniques: hierarchical clustering and K-means clustering, with four different graph models, and for a various number of clusters. We compare the results using a modularity function to check the quality of our clustering results. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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