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A wide range of complex systems can be modeled as networks with corresponding constraints on the edges and nodes, which have been extensively studied in recent years. Nowadays, with the progress of information technology, systems that…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-05-24 Han Zhang , Chang-Dong Wang , Jian-Huang Lai , Philip S. Yu

Many complex networks display a mesoscopic structure with groups of nodes sharing many links with the other nodes in their group and comparatively few with nodes of different groups. This feature is known as community structure and encodes…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-07-31 Andrea Lancichinetti , Santo Fortunato

The characterization of network community structure has profound implications in several scientific areas. Therefore, testing the algorithms developed to establish the optimal division of a network into communities is a fundamental problem…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-08-02 Rodrigo Aldecoa , Ignacio Marín

Community analysis algorithm proposed by Clauset, Newman, and Moore (CNM algorithm) finds community structure in social networks. Unfortunately, CNM algorithm does not scale well and its use is practically limited to networks whose sizes…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Ken Wakita , Toshiyuki Tsurumi

With invaluable theoretical and practical benefits, the problem of partitioning networks for community structures has attracted significant research attention in scientific and engineering disciplines. In literature, Newman's modularity…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Wenye Li

Community detection algorithms are fundamental tools that allow us to uncover organizational principles in networks. When detecting communities, there are two possible sources of information one can use: the network structure, and the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Jaewon Yang , Julian McAuley , Jure Leskovec

Detecting communities in large-scale networks is a challenging task when each vertex may belong to multiple communities, as is often the case in social networks. The multiple memberships of vertices and thus the strong overlaps among…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Elvis H. W. Xu , P. M. Hui

Community detection has arisen as one of the most relevant topics in the field of graph data mining due to its importance in many fields such as biology, social networks or network traffic analysis. The metrics proposed to shape communities…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-07-27 Arnau Prat-Pérez , David Dominguez-Sal , Josep M. Brunat , Josep-Lluis Larriba-Pey

There has been a surge of interest in community detection in homogeneous single-relational networks which contain only one type of nodes and edges. However, many real-world systems are naturally described as heterogeneous multi-relational…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-07-21 Xin Liu , Weichu Liu , Tsuyoshi Murata , Ken Wakita

Community detection and edge prediction are both forms of link mining: they are concerned with discovering the relations between vertices in networks. Some of the vertex similarity measures used in edge prediction are closely related to the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-03 Bowen Yan , Steve Gregory

Research into detection of dense communities has recently attracted increasing attention within network science, various metrics for detection of such communities have been proposed. The most popular metric -- Modularity -- is based on the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-04-30 Ke-ke Shang , Michael Small , Yan Wang , Di Yin , Shu Li

Modularity-based algorithms used for community detection have been increasing in recent years. Modularity and its application have been generating controversy since some authors argue it is not a metric without disadvantages. It has been…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Rui Portocarrero Sarmento

Community detection is a widely-studied unsupervised learning problem in which the task is to group similar entities together based on observed pairwise entity interactions. This problem has applications in diverse domains such as social…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Jimit Majmudar , Stephen Vavasis

Complex networks are intrinsically modular. Resolving small modules is particularly difficult when the network is densely connected; wide variation of link weights invites additional complexities. In this article we present an algorithm to…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2014-01-16 Mahashweta Basu

One of the most widely studied problem in mining and analysis of complex networks is the detection of community structures. The problem has been extensively studied by researchers due to its high utility and numerous applications in various…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-07-29 Muhammad Qasim Pasta , Faraz Zaidi , Guy Melançon

Community detection in networks refers to the process of seeking strongly internally connected groups of nodes which are weakly externally connected. In this work, we introduce and study a community definition based on internal edge…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-01-15 Richard K. Darst David R. Reichman Peter Ronhovde , Zohar Nussinov

Discovering communities in complex networks helps to understand the behaviour of the network. Some works in this promising research area exist, but communities uncovering in time-dependent and/or multiplex networks has not deeply…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-04-05 Vincenza Carchiolo , Alessandro Longheu , Michele Malgeri , Giuseppe Mangioni

In many networks, it is of great interest to identify "communities", unusually densely knit groups of individuals. Such communities often shed light on the function of the networks or underlying properties of the individuals. Recently,…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2009-11-13 Gaurav Agarwal , David Kempe

We consider the problem of detecting communities or modules in networks, groups of vertices with a higher-than-average density of edges connecting them. Previous work indicates that a robust approach to this problem is the maximization of…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2007-05-23 M. E. J. Newman

When searching for communities in networks, domain experts may have some prior expectations about the size of communities. Yet, community detection methods normally do not optimize communities under cluster size constraints.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-05-26 Filipi N. Silva , Samin Aref , Vincent Traag , Santo Fortunato