Information content: assessing meso-scale structures in complex networks
Abstract
We propose a novel measure to assess the presence of meso-scale structures in complex networks. This measure is based on the identification of regular patterns in the adjacency matrix of the network, and on the calculation of the quantity of information lost when pairs of nodes are iteratively merged. We show how this measure is able to quantify several meso-scale structures, like the presence of modularity, bipartite and core-periphery configurations, or motifs. Results corresponding to a large set of real networks are used to validate its ability to detect non-trivial topological patterns.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1401.5247,
title = {Information content: assessing meso-scale structures in complex networks},
author = {Massimiliano Zanin and Pedro A. Sousa and Ernestina Menasalvas},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1401.5247},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
Published as: M. Zanin, P. A. Sousa and E. Menasalvas, Information content: assessing meso-scale structures in complex networks EPL 106 (3), (2014) 30001