Extracting Skeleton of the Global Terrorism Network Based on m-Modified Topology Potential

Table 4

Topological features of the original network compared with the skeleton network.

Network					ø
Original network	34199	70113	4.100	5246	1	1	5.99E − 05	0.330	900
DF	3875	5206	2.686	369	12341	1	3.47E − 04	0.193	417
GWT	3609	4514	2.501	696	12341	1	3.47E − 04	0.382	328
k-core	3193	32792	20.54	2864	0.9998	1	3.22E − 03	0.493	35
MST	34199	33299	1.947	2699	0.3785	1	2.85E − 05	0	900
w-skeleton	6646	10651	3.205	1679	12341	1	2.41E − 04	0.403	1
TPKS-skeleton	904	1349	2.985	302	126025	1	1.65E − 03	0.836	10

and are the numbers of nodes and the number of edges. and denote the average degree and the maximum degree. ø and are the diameter and the average shortest path length. and represent the network density and global clustering coefficient, while stands for the number of communities that existed in the network.