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As critical topological properties in the network, node\u2019s degree and clustering coefficient are well-suited for describing the tightness of connection between nodes. The importance of node can affect the possibility of link existence to a certain extent. By analyzing the impact of different centrality on links, which concluded that the degree centrality and proximity centrality have the greatest influence on network link prediction. A link prediction algorithm combines importance of node and network topological properties, called DCCLP, is proposed in this paper, the symmetry of the adjacency matrix is considered in the DCCLP link prediction algorithm to further describe the structural similarity of network nodes. In the training phase of the DCCLP algorithm, the maximized AUC indicator in the training set as the objective, and the optimal parameters are estimated by utilizing the White Shark Optimization algorithm. Then the prediction accuracy of the DCCLP algorithm is evaluated in the test set. By experimenting on twenty-one networks with different scales, and comparing with existing algorithms, the experimental results show that the effectiveness and feasibility of DCCLP algorithm, and further illustrate the importance of the degree centrality of node pairs and proximity centrality of nodes to improve the prediction accuracy of link prediction.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/sym15081492","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,7,28]],"date-time":"2023-07-28T01:51:47Z","timestamp":1690509107000},"page":"1492","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":7,"title":["Integrating Node Importance and Network Topological Properties for Link Prediction in Complex Network"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"given":"Junxi","family":"Zhu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Science, Xi\u2019an University of Technology, Xi\u2019an 710054, China"}]},{"given":"Fang","family":"Dai","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Science, Xi\u2019an University of Technology, Xi\u2019an 710054, China"}]},{"given":"Fengqun","family":"Zhao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Science, Xi\u2019an University of Technology, Xi\u2019an 710054, China"}]},{"given":"Wenyan","family":"Guo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Science, Xi\u2019an University of Technology, Xi\u2019an 710054, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,7,27]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1","DOI":"10.1145\/3172867","article-title":"Community discovery in dynamic networks: A survey","volume":"51","author":"Rossetti","year":"2018","journal-title":"ACM Comput. 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