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Overlapping communities are key characteristics of the structure and function analysis of complex networks. Shared or overlapping nodes within overlapping communities can form either subcommunities or act as intersections between larger…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Vesa Kuikka , Kosti Koistinen , Kimmo K Kaski

Many networks in nature, society and technology are characterized by a mesoscopic level of organization, with groups of nodes forming tightly connected units, called communities or modules, that are only weakly linked to each other.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-03-11 Andrea Lancichinetti , Santo Fortunato , Janos Kertesz

In this paper, I present a method to solve a node discovery problem in a networked organization. Covert nodes refer to the nodes which are not observable directly. They affect social interactions, but do not appear in the surveillance logs…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Yoshiharu Maeno

Community detection is considered as a fundamental task in analyzing social networks. Even though many techniques have been proposed for community detection, most of them are based exclusively on the connectivity structures. However, there…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-12-25 Hadi Zare , Mahdi Hajiabadi , Mahdi Jalili

Many real-world networks are so large that we must simplify their structure before we can extract useful information about the systems they represent. As the tools for doing these simplifications proliferate within the network literature,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-13 M. Rosvall , D. Axelsson , C. T. Bergstrom

Community detection in social networks is a problem with considerable interest, since, discovering communities reveals hidden information about networks. There exist many algorithms to detect inherent community structures and recently few…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Waqas Nawaz

The interactions between individuals play a pivotal role in shaping the structure and dynamics of social systems. Complex network models have proven invaluable in uncovering the underlying mechanisms that govern the formation and evolution…

Network science is an interdisciplinary endeavor, with methods and applications drawn from across the natural, social, and information sciences. A prominent problem in network science is the algorithmic detection of tightly-connected groups…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2010-07-14 Peter J. Mucha , Thomas Richardson , Kevin Macon , Mason A. Porter , Jukka-Pekka Onnela

The detection of overlapping communities is a challenging problem which is gaining increasing interest in recent years because of the natural attitude of individuals, observed in real-world networks, to participate in multiple groups at the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-11-17 Alessia Amelio , Clara Pizzuti

Identification of communities in complex networks has become an effective means to analysis of complex systems. It has broad applications in diverse areas such as social science, engineering, biology and medicine. Finding communities of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-09-19 Dongxiao He , Di Jin , Weixiong Zhang

A precise definition of what constitutes a community in networks has remained elusive. Consequently, network scientists have compared community detection algorithms on benchmark networks with a particular form of community structure and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-05-08 Martin Rosvall , Jean-Charles Delvenne , Michael T. Schaub , Renaud Lambiotte

Many networked datasets with units interacting in groups of two or more, encoded with hypergraphs, are accompanied by extra information about nodes, such as the role of an individual in a workplace. Here we show how these node attributes…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Anna Badalyan , Nicolò Ruggeri , Caterina De Bacco

This entry discusses the problem of describing some communities identified in a complex network of interest, in a way allowing to interpret them. We suppose the community structure has already been detected through one of the many methods…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-05-18 Vincent Labatut , Günce Keziban Orman

Community detecting is one of the main approaches to understanding networks \cite{For2010}. However it has been a longstanding challenge to give a definition for community structures of networks. Here we found that community structures are…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-11-01 Angsheng Li , Jiankou Li , Yicheng Pan

Uncovering structural patterns in collaboration networks is key for understanding how knowledge flows and innovation emerges. These networks often exhibit a rich interplay of meso-scale structures, such as communities, core-periphery…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-11-25 Sara Geremia , Domenico De Stefano , Michael Fop

The complexity of many biological, social and technological systems stems from the richness of the interactions among their units. Over the past decades, a great variety of complex systems has been successfully described as networks whose…

Community structure describes the organization of a network into subgraphs that contain a prevalence of edges within each subgraph and relatively few edges across boundaries between subgraphs. The development of community-detection methods…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-05-08 Saray Shai , Natalie Stanley , Clara Granell , Dane Taylor , Peter J. Mucha

The discovery of community structures in social networks has gained considerable attention as a fundamental problem for various network analysis tasks. However, due to privacy concerns or access restrictions, the network structure is often…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Yu Hou , Cong Tran , Won-Yong Shin

Community structure is one of the most relevant features encountered in numerous real-world applications of networked systems. Despite the tremendous effort of scientists working on this subject over the past few decades to characterize,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-12-18 Hocine Cherifi , Gergely Palla , Boleslaw K. Szymanski , Xiaoyan Lu

Many complex systems can be represented as networks, and the problem of network comparison is becoming increasingly relevant. There are many techniques for network comparison, from simply comparing network summary statistics to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-04-04 Anatol E. Wegner , Luis Ospina-Forero , Robert E. Gaunt , Charlotte M. Deane , Gesine Reinert