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Bi-clique Communities

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability 2008-07-22 v2 Physics and Society

Abstract

We present a novel method for detecting communities in bipartite networks. Based on an extension of the kk-clique community detection algorithm, we demonstrate how modular structure in bipartite networks presents itself as overlapping bicliques. If bipartite information is available, the bi-clique community detection algorithm retains all of the advantages of the kk-clique algorithm, but avoids discarding important structural information when performing a one-mode projection of the network. Further, the bi-clique community detection algorithm provides a new level of flexibility by incorporating independent clique thresholds for each of the non-overlapping node sets in the bipartite network.

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@article{arxiv.0710.4867,
  title  = {Bi-clique Communities},
  author = {Sune Lehmann and Martin Schwartz and Lars Kai Hansen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0710.4867},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

10 pages, 6 figures

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