English
Related papers

Related papers: Finding Communities in Site Web-Graphs and Citatio…

200 papers

Discovering community structure in complex networks is a mature field since a tremendous number of community detection methods have been introduced in the literature. Nevertheless, it is still very challenging for practioners to determine…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Vinh-Loc Dao , Cécile Bothorel , Philippe Lenca

Community structures are an important feature of many social, biological and technological networks. Here we study a variation on the method for detecting such communities proposed by Girvan and Newman and based on the idea of using…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Santo Fortunato , Vito Latora , Massimo Marchiori

We survey some of the concepts, methods, and applications of community detection, which has become an increasingly important area of network science. To help ease newcomers into the field, we provide a guide to available methodology and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-09-08 Mason A. Porter , Jukka-Pekka Onnela , Peter J. Mucha

Numerous networked systems feature a structure of nontrivial communities, which often correspond to their functional modules. Such communities have been detected in real-world biological, social and technological systems, as well as in…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-07-08 Charo I. del Genio

Discovering communities in complex networks means grouping nodes similar to each other, to uncover latent information about them. There are hundreds of different algorithms to solve the community detection task, each with its own…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-07-05 Michele Coscia

From many datasets gathered in online social networks, well defined community structures have been observed. A large number of users participate in these networks and the size of the resulting graphs poses computational challenges. There is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-01-15 Alexander V. Mantzaris

Identifying communities in networks is a fundamental and challenging problem of practical importance in many fields of science. Current methods either ignore the heterogeneous distribution of nodal degrees or assume prior knowledge of the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Xin-Jian Xu , Cheng Chen , J. F. F. Mendes

Recent researches have discovered that rich interactions among entities in nature and society bring about complex networks with community structures. Although the investigation of the community structures has promoted the development of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2008-04-24 Nan Du , Bin Wu , Bai Wang , Yi Wang

Finding meaningful communities in social network has attracted the attentions of many researchers. The community structure of complex networks reveals both their organization and hidden relations among their constituents. Most of the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-04-28 Ali Reihanian , Behrouz Minaei-Bidgoli , Muhammad Yousefnezhad

Social communities extraction and their dynamics are one of the most important problems in today's social network analysis. During last few years, many researchers have proposed their own methods for group discovery in social networks.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-09-27 Piotr Bródka , Tomasz Filipowski , Przemysław Kazienko

Community detection is crucial in data mining. Traditional methods primarily focus on graph structure, often neglecting the significance of attribute features. In contrast, deep learning-based approaches incorporate attribute features and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Hong Wang , Yinglong Zhang , Zhangqi Zhao , Zhicong Cai , Xuewen Xia , Xing Xu

Community search over large graphs is a fundamental problem in graph analysis. Recent studies propose to compute top-k influential communities, where each reported community not only is a cohesive subgraph but also has a high influence…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-12-15 Fei Bi , Lijun Chang , Xuemin Lin , Wenjie Zhang

This master's thesis work has the objective of performing an analysis of the methods for detecting communities in networks. As an initial part, I study of the main features of graph theory and communities, as well as common measures in this…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Julio Omar Palacio Niño

In this paper, a new comparative definition for community in networks is proposed and the corresponding detecting algorithm is given. A community is defined as a set of nodes, which satisfy that each node's degree inside the community…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-13 Yanqing Hu , Hongbin Chen , Peng Zhang , Menghui Li , Zengru Di , Ying Fan

Community detection, a fundamental task for network analysis, aims to partition a network into multiple sub-structures to help reveal their latent functions. Community detection has been extensively studied in and broadly applied to many…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Di Jin , Zhizhi Yu , Pengfei Jiao , Shirui Pan , Dongxiao He , Jia Wu , Philip S. Yu , Weixiong Zhang

Benchmarking the performance of community detection methods on empirical social network data has been identified as critical for improving these methods. In particular, while most current research focuses on detecting communities in data…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-02-05 Conrad Lee , Pádraig Cunningham

Socially-based recommendation systems have recently attracted significant interest, and a number of studies have shown that social information can dramatically improve a system's predictions of user interests. Meanwhile, there are now many…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-06-19 Ko-Jen Hsiao , Alex Kulesza , Alfred Hero

Online social networks are a dominant medium in everyday life to stay in contact with friends and to share information. In Twitter, users can connect with other users by following them, who in turn can follow back. In recent years,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Christoph Schweimer , Christine Gfrerer , Florian Lugstein , David Pape , Jan A. Velimsky , Robert Elsässer , Bernhard C. Geiger

Social networks are the social structures which are composed of people and their relationships and nowadays, play an important role in data extension. In such networks, the communities are recognized as the groups of users who are often…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-11-26 Reyhaneh Rigia , Mehrdad Jalali , Mohammad Hosein Moattar

This paper considers a new framework to detect communities in a graph from the observation of signals at its nodes. We model the observed signals as noisy outputs of an unknown network process, represented as a graph filter that is excited…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Hoi-To Wai , Santiago Segarra , Asuman E. Ozdaglar , Anna Scaglione , Ali Jadbabaie