Structural Properties of a Network

After having discussed the basic building blocks of networks in detail, let us now deal with ways to capture and describe the structure of networks. The following measures are available for these tasks:

• Connectivity (Beta-Index)
• Diameter of a graph
• Accessability of nodes and places
• Centrality / location in the network
• Hierarchies in trees

For most of these measures we will present one unweighted and one weighted (metric) case.