We propose a method for the Distributed Assessment of the Closeness CEntrality Ranking (DACCER) in complex networks. DACCER computes centrality based only on localized information restricted to a given neighborhood around each node, thus not requiring full knowledge of the network topology. We show that the node centrality ranking computed by DACCER is highly correlated with the node ranking ba...

The use of predefined phrase patterns like: N-grams (N>=2), longest common sub sequences or pre defined linguistic patterns etc do not give any credit to non-matching/smaller-size useful patterns and thus, may result in loss of information. Next, the use of 1-gram based model results in several noisy matches. Additionally, due to presence of more than one topic with different levels of importan...

Abstract The paper makes two points. First, any theory of knowledge must explain the difference between cases from falsehood (provided there are any) and Gettier where subject relies on reasoning falsehood. Second, closeness-to-the-truth approach to explaining knowledge-yielding knowledge-suppressing falsehoods does not hold up scrutiny.

Closeness is a widely-studied centrality measure. Since it requires all pairwise distances, computing closeness for all nodes is infeasible for large real-world networks. However, for many applications, it is only necessary to find the k most central nodes and not all closeness values. Prior work has shown that computing the top-k nodes with highest closeness can be done much faster than comput...

This study examines sexual communication by describing the content of sexual disclosures within marital relationships and assessing the association between sexual disclosures and relational outcomes, specifically relational satisfaction and closeness. A survey administered to 293 married individuals (58% female) who had an average age of 40 years (range = 20-73), 13.7 years of marriage (range =...

Any interactive communication system can support personal relationships by facilitating a welcome and timely presence of an absent person in the mind of the other. This paper presents a consideration of how short term feelings, as experienced during acts of communication, relate to a relationship’s longer term feelings towards one another. Through a 21-day study with 63 participants, we report ...

Qualitative reasoning is an area of AI which provides solutions to problems where the quantitative information either is not available or can not be used; in particular, order of magnitude qualitative reasoning assumes different qualitative classes and relations such as negligibility and closeness. In this paper, we focus mainly on the very important notion of closeness from the logical point o...