Authors:
Konstantin Kueffner
1
and
Mark Strembeck
2
Affiliations:
1
Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Vienna), Austria, Secure Business Austria Research Center (SBA) and Austria
;
2
Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Vienna), Austria, Secure Business Austria Research Center (SBA), Austria, Complexity Science Hub Vienna (CSH) and Austria
Keyword(s):
Multilayer Network, Multivalued Path, Temporal Network, Temporal Path, Time, Weighted Network.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Cloud Computing
;
Collaboration and e-Services
;
Data Communication Networking
;
e-Business
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Platforms and Applications
;
Social Networks
;
Telecommunications
Abstract:
Most approaches for modeling and analyzing temporal networks do not explicitly discuss the underlying notion of time. In this paper, we therefore introduce a generalized notion of time for temporal networks. Our approach also allows for considering non-deterministic time and incomplete data, two issues that are often found when analyzing data-sets extracted from online social networks, for example. In order to demonstrate the consequences of our generalized notion of time, we also discuss the implications for the computation of (shortest) temporal paths in temporal networks.