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We discuss two views on extending existing methods for complex network modeling which we dub the communities first and the networks first view, respectively. Inspired by the networks first view that we attribute to White, Boorman, and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-12-01 Bjarne Ørum Fruergaard , Tue Herlau

Complex network theory aims to model and analyze complex systems that consist of multiple and interdependent components. Among all studies on complex networks, topological structure analysis is of the most fundamental importance, as it…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2010-09-15 Bo Yang , Jiming Liu

It is well known that tree-based theories can describe the properties of undirected clustered networks with extremely accurate results [S. Melnik, \textit{et al}. Phys. Rev. E 83, 036112 (2011)]. It is reasonable to suggest that a motif…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-05-17 Peter Mann , Simon Dobson

As two main focuses of the study of complex networks, the community structure and the dynamics on networks have both attracted much attention in various scientific fields. However, it is still an open question how the community structure is…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-05-11 Xue-Qi Cheng , Hua-Wei Shen

Common experience suggests that many networks might possess community structure - division of vertices into groups, with a higher density of edges within groups than between them. Here we describe a new computer algorithm that detects…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-24 M. E. J. Newman , M. Girvan

Community detection in social network graphs plays a vital role in uncovering group dynamics, influence pathways, and the spread of information. Traditional methods focus primarily on graph structural properties, but recent advancements in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Ekta Gujral , Apurva Sinha

Dynamic networks are a general language for describing time-evolving complex systems, and discrete time network models provide an emerging statistical technique for various applications. It is a fundamental research question to detect the…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-12-21 Kevin H. Lee , Lingzhou Xue , David R. Hunter

Inspired by practical importance of social networks, economic networks, biological networks and so on, studies on large and complex networks have attracted a surge of attentions in the recent years. Link prediction is a fundamental issue to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-04-05 Ratha Pech , Dong Hao , Liming Pan , Hong Cheng , Tao Zhou

This article explores the relationship between communities and short cycles in complex networks, based on the fact that nodes more densely connected amongst one another are more likely to be linked through short cycles. By identifying…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 James Bagrow , Erik Bollt , Luciano da F. Costa

The exponential growth in scale and relevance of social networks enable them to provide expansive insights. Predicting missing links in social networks efficiently can help in various modern-day business applications ranging from generating…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Samarth Khanna , Sree Bhattacharyya , Sudipto Ghosh , Kushagra Agarwal , Asit Kumar Das

The rich set of interactions between individuals in the society results in complex community structure, capturing highly connected circles of friends, families, or professional cliques in a social network. Thanks to frequent changes in the…

Methodology · Statistics 2007-12-12 Gergely Palla , Albert-Laszlo Barabasi , Tamas Vicsek

There are many networks in real life which exist as form of Scale-free networks such as World Wide Web, protein-protein interaction network, semantic networks, airline networks, interbank payment networks, etc. If we want to analyze these…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Rakib Hassan Pran

Link prediction is a cornerstone of the Web ecosystem, powering applications from recommendation and search to knowledge graph completion and collaboration forecasting. However, large-scale networks present unique challenges: they contain…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Zhejian Yang , Songwei Zhao , Zilin Zhao , Hechang Chen

Cliques are defined as complete graphs or subgraphs; they are the strongest form of cohesive subgroup, and are of interest in both social science and engineering contexts. In this paper we show how to efficiently estimate the distribution…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-08-16 Minas Gjoka , Emily Smith , Carter T. Butts

Many real-world networks were found to be highly clustered, and contain a large amount of small cliques. We here investigate the number of cliques of any size k contained in a geometric inhomogeneous random graph: a scale-free network model…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-06-06 Riccardo Michielan , Clara Stegehuis

In this work, we analyse and predict the stability of communities in complex networks. We use a variant of closeness centrality, known as profile closeness, to measure the loyalty of a member towards its community. We show that the profile…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Sruthi K S , Divya Sindhu Lekha , A Sreekumar , Kannan Balakrishnan

In social networks, link prediction predicts missing links in current networks and new or dissolution links in future networks, is important for mining and analyzing the evolution of social networks. In the past decade, many works have been…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-12-09 Peng Wang , Baowen Xu , Yurong Wu , Xiaoyu Zhou

Many real world, complex phenomena have underlying structures of evolving networks where nodes and links are added and removed over time. A central scientific challenge is the description and explanation of network dynamics, with a key test…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-08-15 Catherine A. Bliss , Morgan R. Frank , Christopher M. Danforth , Peter Sheridan Dodds

Recent empirical observations suggest that network transitivity is highly correlated with community structure in many real-world networks. In this paper, we theoretically investigate this relationship by deriving the limits of the global…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-22 Mingao Yuan , Irin Rahman , Chengay S Wangchuk

Human behavior presents significant challenges for data-driven approaches and machine learning, particularly in modeling the emergent and complex dynamics observed in social dilemmas. These challenges complicate the accurate prediction of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-12-17 Huaiyu Tan , Yikang Lu , Alfonso de Miguel-Arribas , Lei Shi