Further Results on Betweenness Centrality of Graphs

Document Type : Research Paper

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Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, I R Iran

Abstract

Betweenness centrality is a distance-based invariant of graphs. In this paper, we use
lexicographic product to compute betweenness centrality of some important classes of
graphs. Finally, we pose some open problems related to this topic.

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