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Current approaches to community detection in social networks often ignore the spatial location of the nodes. In this paper, we look to extract spatially-near communities in a social network. We introduce a new metric to measure the quality…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-09-12 Joseph Hannigan , Guillermo Hernandez , Richard M. Medina , Patrcik Roos , Paulo Shakarian

In numerous networks, it is vital to identify communities consisting of closely joined groups of individuals. Such communities often reveal the role of the networks or primary properties of the individuals. In this perspective, Newman and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Ghazal Ghajari , Hooshang Jazayeri-Rad , Mashalla Abbasi Dezfooli

Maximizing the modularity of a network is a successful tool to identify an important community of nodes. However, this combinatorial optimization problem is known to be NP-complete. Inspired by recent nonlinear modularity eigenvector…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-06-08 Andrea Cristofari , Francesco Rinaldi , Francesco Tudisco

Identifying community structure in networks is an issue of particular interest in network science. The modularity introduced by Newman and Girvan [Phys. Rev. E 69, 026113 (2004)] is the most popular quality function for community detection…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-01-27 Atsushi Miyauchi , Yasushi Kawase

How should we gather information in a network, where each node's visibility is limited to its local neighborhood? This problem arises in numerous real-world applications, such as surveying and task routing in social networks, team formation…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-05-07 Adish Singla , Eric Horvitz , Pushmeet Kohli , Ryen White , Andreas Krause

When analyzing complex networks a key target is to uncover their modular structure, which means searching for a family of modules, namely node subsets spanning each a subnetwork more densely connected than the average. This work proposes a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-09-10 Giovanni Rossi

We demonstrate an exact equivalence between two widely used methods of community detection in networks, the method of modularity maximization in its generalized form which incorporates a resolution parameter controlling the size of the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-11-24 M. E. J. Newman

We present a new layout algorithm for complex networks that combines a multi-scale approach for community detection with a standard force-directed design. Since community detection is computationally cheap, we can exploit the multi-scale…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-03-13 Oliver Dürr , Arnd Brandenburg

Community structure is of paramount importance for the understanding of complex networks. Consequently, there is a tremendous effort in order to develop efficient community detection algorithms. Unfortunately, the issue of a fair assessment…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Jebabli Malek , Cherifi Hocine , Cherifi Chantal , Hamouda Atef

With the recent advances in complex networks theory, graph-based techniques for image segmentation has attracted great attention recently. In order to segment the image into meaningful connected components, this paper proposes an image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Youssef Mourchid , Mohammed El Hassouni , Hocine Cherifi

Characterizing large-scale organization in networks, including multilayer networks, is one of the most prominent topics in network science and is important for many applications. One type of mesoscale feature is community structure, in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-12-10 A. Roxana Pamfil , Sam D. Howison , Renaud Lambiotte , Mason A. Porter

Temporal Networks, and more specifically, Markovian Temporal Networks, present a unique challenge regarding the community discovery task. The inherent dynamism of these systems requires an intricate understanding of memory effects and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-04-20 Giulio Virginio Clemente , Diego Garlaschelli

We propose a new local community detection algorithm that finds communities by identifying borderlines between them using boundary nodes. Our method performs label propagation for community detection, where nodes decide their labels based…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-10-17 Mursel Tasgin , Haluk O. Bingol

In real-world scenarios, large graphs represent relationships among entities in complex systems. Mining these large graphs often containing millions of nodes and edges helps uncover structural patterns and meaningful insights. Dividing a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Shrabani Ghosh , Erik Saule

Based on cluster de-synchronization properties of phase oscillators, we introduce an efficient method for the detection and identification of modules in complex networks. The performance of the algorithm is tested on computer generated and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-26 S. Boccaletti , M. Ivanchenko , V. Latora , A. Pluchino , A. Rapisarda

We propose a simple method to extract the community structure of large networks. Our method is a heuristic method that is based on modularity optimization. It is shown to outperform all other known community detection method in terms of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2008-12-01 Vincent D. Blondel , Jean-Loup Guillaume , Renaud Lambiotte , Etienne Lefebvre

We present a compact matrix formulation of the modularity, a commonly used quality measure for the community division in a network. Using this formulation we calculate the density of modularities, a statistical measure of the probability of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-16 Erik Holmström , Nicolas Bock , Johan Brännlund

Community detection is the task of discovering groups of nodes sharing similar patterns within a network. With recent advancements in deep learning, methods utilizing graph representation learning and deep clustering have shown great…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-11-14 E. Dmitriev , M. W. Chekol , S. Wang

Community detection is a key aspect of network analysis, as it allows for the identification of groups and patterns within a network. With the ever-increasing size of networks, it is crucial to have fast algorithms to analyze them…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Subhajit Sahu

Detecting communities in complex networks can shed light on the essential characteristics and functions of the modeled phenomena. This topic has attracted researchers of various fields from both academia and industry. Among the different…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Sajjad Hesamipour , Mohammad Ali Balafar , Saeed Mousazadeh