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Community structure is an important structural property that extensively exists in various complex networks. In the past decade, much attention has been paid to the design of community-detection methods, but analyzing the behaviors of the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-06-28 Ju Xiang , Zhi-Zhong Wang , Hui-Jia Li , Yan Zhang , Fang Li , Li-Ping Dong , Jian-Ming Li

Over the past decade network theory has turned out to be a powerful methodology to investigate complex systems of various sorts. Through data analysis, modeling, and simulation quite an unparalleled insight into their structure, function,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-07-16 Kimmo Kaski

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

Many community detection algorithms require the introduction of a measure on the set of nodes. Previously, a lot of efforts have been made to find the top-performing measures. In most cases, experiments were conducted on several datasets or…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Rinat Aynulin

The discovery and analysis of community structure in networks is a topic of considerable recent interest within the physics community, but most methods proposed so far are unsuitable for very large networks because of their computational…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-04-12 Aaron Clauset , M. E. J. Newman , Cristopher Moore

We introduce a new conception of community structure, which we refer to as hidden community structure. Hidden community structure refers to a specific type of overlapping community structure, in which the detection of weak, but meaningful,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-01-26 Kun He , Sucheta Soundarajan , Xuezhi Cao , John Hopcroft , Menglong Huang

The human brain displays rich communication dynamics that are thought to be particularly well-reflected in its marked community structure. Yet, the precise relationship between community structure in structural brain networks and the…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-12-23 Shubhankar P. Patankar , Jason Z. Kim , Fabio Pasqualetti , Danielle S. Bassett

Communities are a common and widely studied structure in networks, typically under the assumption that the network is fully and correctly observed. In practice, network data are often collected by querying nodes about their connections. In…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-03-22 Tianxi Li , Elizaveta Levina , Ji Zhu

We propose a generalized stochastic block model to explore the mesoscopic structures in signed networks by grouping vertices that exhibit similar positive and negative connection profiles into the same cluster. In this model, the group…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-06-17 Jonathan Q. Jiang

Community structure discovery in complex networks is a quite challenging problem spanning many applications in various disciplines such as biology, social network and physics. Emerging from various approaches numerous algorithms have been…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-08-16 Günce Keziban Orman , Vincent Labatut , Hocine Cherifi

Based on signaling process on complex networks, a method for identification community structure is proposed. For a network with $n$ nodes, every node is assumed to be a system which can send, receive, and record signals. Each node is taken…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-05-29 Yanqing Hu , Menghui Li , Peng Zhang , Ying Fan , Zengru Di

Community detection algorithms are fundamental tools to understand organizational principles in social networks. With the increasing power of social media platforms, when detecting communities there are two possi- ble sources of information…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-04-14 Yuan Li

Most existing approaches for community detection require complete information of the graph in a specific scale, which is impractical for many social networks. We propose a novel algorithm that does not embrace the universal approach but…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-03-30 Hui-Jia Li , Junhua Zhang , Zhi-Ping Liu , Luonan Chen , Xiang-Sun Zhang

We propose a multi-phase approach to explore network structures. In this method, structure analysis is not carried out on the observed network directly. Instead, certain similarity measures of the nodes are derived from the network firstly,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-07-03 Xiaofeng Gong , Shuguang Guan , C. -H. Lai

Network is a simple but powerful representation of real-world complex systems. Network community analysis has become an invaluable tool to explore and reveal the internal organization of nodes. However, only a few methods were directly…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-03-23 Xuemei Ning , Zhaoqi Liu , Shihua Zhang

Social networks are organized into communities with dense internal connections, giving rise to high values of the clustering coefficient. In addition, these networks have been observed to be assortative, i.e. highly connected vertices tend…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-09-08 R. Toivonen , J. -P. Onnela , J. Saramäki , J. Hyvönen , K. Kaski

A multiplex network models different modes of interaction among same-type entities. In this article we provide a taxonomy of community detection algorithms in multiplex networks. We characterize the different algorithms based on various…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-01-21 Matteo Magnani , Obaida Hanteer , Roberto Interdonato , Luca Rossi , Andrea Tagarelli

The notion of structural heterogeneity is pervasive in real networks, and their community organization is no exception. Still, a vast majority of community detection methods assume neatly hierarchically organized communities of a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-01-23 Wonhee Jeong , Daekyung Lee , Heetae Kim , Sang Hoon Lee

Community detection is a key tool for analyzing the structure of large networks. Standard methods, such as modularity optimization, focus on identifying densely connected groups but often overlook natural local separations in the graph. In…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Sarah Frenkel , Johannes Carmesin

Our recent paper [Grauwin et al. Sci. Rep. 7 (2017)] demonstrates that community and hierarchical structure of the networks of human interactions largely determines the least and should be taken into account while modeling them. In the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-12-18 Stanislav Sobolevsky