Method for Measuring the Heterogeneity of complex Directed Network Based on Entropy
Lifeng Jiang · Systems Engineering · 2011
According to the research on the measurement of complex network heterogeneity,the existing methods took the degree distribution of network into account,but they didn't consider the difference between adjacent nodes and the direction of interaction.In view of this,this paper provides a new method for measuring the heterogeneity of complex directed network based on entropy,considers the degree distribution and the difference between adjacent nodes,gave prominence to the role of network's symmetry in the elimination of heterogeneity to quantify the structural heterogeneity of networks more precisely and proposes new idea for measuring the complexity of complex directed network.An illustrative example proves that the method is reasonable and valid.