Re: [igraph] best measure of network integrity?

[Bernie Hogan]

Ben,

That's certainly less of a igraph help question than one that's specific to the literature at hand. That is to say, its probably best validated experimentally or through something that you're trying to maximize or minimize. 

For example, try simulating a contagion over the model, and look at times to infection under different parameters? Calculating the geodesic (i.e. shortest path)? Deleting nodes til you get separate components?

I suspect that if you articulate the specific network process you're trying to model, people here would have code snippets to go along with that in some other network. 

Take care,

BERNiE 

Dr Bernie Hogan

Research Fellow, Oxford Internet Institute

University of Oxford

http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/hogan/

On 3 Jul 2012, at 15:58, Ben Sidders wrote:

Dear All,

I am looking to evaluate the susceptibility of a biological network to
the removal of central nodes.  However, I do not know what the best
measure for evaluating the effect of node removal on the network as a
whole is.  Can you suggest something appropriate?

Thanks,

--
Dr Ben Sidders
@sidderb

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