Generalized communities in networks
Social and Information Networks
2015-08-26 v1 Statistical Mechanics
Physics and Society
Abstract
A substantial volume of research has been devoted to studies of community structure in networks, but communities are not the only possible form of large-scale network structure. Here we describe a broad extension of community structure that encompasses traditional communities but includes a wide range of generalized structural patterns as well. We describe a principled method for detecting this generalized structure in empirical network data and demonstrate with real-world examples how it can be used to learn new things about the shape and meaning of networks.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1505.07478,
title = {Generalized communities in networks},
author = {M. E. J. Newman and Tiago P. Peixoto},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1505.07478},
year = {2015}
}
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5 pages, 1 figure