Detect overlapping and hierarchical community structure in networks
Computers and Society
2009-02-20 v3 Physics and Society
Abstract
Clustering and community structure is crucial for many network systems and the related dynamic processes. It has been shown that communities are usually overlapping and hierarchical. However, previous methods investigate these two properties of community structure separately. This paper proposes an algorithm (EAGLE) to detect both the overlapping and hierarchical properties of complex community structure together. This algorithm deals with the set of maximal cliques and adopts an agglomerative framework. The quality function of modularity is extended to evaluate the goodness of a cover. The examples of application to real world networks give excellent results.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0810.3093,
title = {Detect overlapping and hierarchical community structure in networks},
author = {Huawei Shen and Xueqi Cheng and Kai Cai and Mao-Bin Hu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0810.3093},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
7 pages, 5 figures