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The rise in complexity of network data in neuroscience, social networks, and protein-protein interaction networks has been accompanied by several efforts to model and understand these data at different scales. A key multiscale network…

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An important challenge in big data analysis nowadays is detection of cohesive groups in large-scale networks, including social networks, genetic networks, communication networks and so. In this paper, we propose LabelRank, an efficient…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-05-15 Jierui Xie , Boleslaw K. Szymanski

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

A number of recent studies have focused on the statistical properties of networked systems such as social networks and the World-Wide Web. Researchers have concentrated particularly on a few properties which seem to be common to many…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Michelle Girvan , M. E. J. Newman

In this paper, the dynamics of heuristic algorithms for constructing small vertex covers (or independent sets) of finite-connectivity random graphs is analysed. In every algorithmic step, a vertex is chosen with respect to its vertex…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-24 Martin Weigt

In complex networks, especially social networks, networks could be divided into disjoint partitions that the ratio between the number of internal edges (the edges between the vertices within same partition) to the number of outer edges…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-02-07 Hamid Shahrivari Joghan , Alireza Bagheri , Meysam Azad

Given a social network, which of its nodes have a stronger impact in determining its structure? More formally: which node-removal order has the greatest impact on the network structure? We approach this well-known problem for the first time…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2011-10-21 Paolo Boldi , Marco Rosa , Sebastiano Vigna

Knowledge silos emerge when structural properties of organizational interaction networks limit the diffusion of information. These structural barriers are known to take many forms at different scales - hubs in otherwise sparse…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-03-03 Laurent Hébert-Dufresne , Guillaume St-Onge , John Meluso , James Bagrow , Antoine Allard

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

This thesis conducts a focused literature review on online communities, centering on Stack Overflow, employing social network analysis and graph algorithms. It examines the evolving landscape of health information quality within the digital…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Rapheal Cyril Igbudu , Rowanda Ahmed

In real world domains, most graphs naturally exhibit a hierarchical structure. However, data-driven graph generation is yet to effectively capture such structures. To address this, we propose a novel approach that recursively generates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Mahdi Karami , Jun Luo

The statistical field theory of information dynamics on complex networks concerns the dynamical evolution of large classes of models of complex systems. Previous work has focused on networks where nodes carry an information field, which…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-05-15 Wout Merbis , Manlio de Domenico

Community structure analysis is a powerful tool for social networks, which can simplify their topological and functional analysis considerably. However, since community detection methods have random factors and real social networks obtained…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-11 Hui-Jia Li , J J. Daniels

Label propagation has proven to be an extremely fast method for detecting communities in large complex networks. Furthermore, due to its simplicity, it is also currently one of the most commonly adopted algorithms in the literature. Despite…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-06-29 Lovro Šubelj , Marko Bajec

Identifying the most influential nodes in information networks has been the focus of many research studies. This problem has crucial applications in various contexts, such as controlling the propagation of viruses or rumours in real-world…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Ahmad Asgharian Rezaei , Justin Munoz , Mahdi Jalili , Hamid Khayyam

The study of time-varying (dynamic) networks (graphs) is of fundamental importance for computer network analytics. Several methods have been proposed to detect the effect of significant structural changes in a time series of graphs. The…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Peter Wills , Francois G. Meyer

Detecting and analyzing dense groups or communities from social and information networks has attracted immense attention over last one decade due to its enormous applicability in different domains. Community detection is an ill-defined…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-04-13 Tanmoy Chakraborty , Ayushi Dalmia , Animesh Mukherjee , Niloy Ganguly

In this paper we present results from a method of community detection using label propagation in undirected, unweighted graphs which incorporates elements of neural computing and spike-based data. Using a fully connected, edge-weighted…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-10-24 Kathleen E. Hamilton , Travis S. Humble

Many real-world networks, including nervous systems, exhibit meso-scale structure. This means that their elements can be grouped into meaningful sub-networks. In general, these sub-networks are unknown ahead of time and must be "discovered"…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-11-16 Richard F. Betzel

Community finding algorithms for networks have recently been extended to dynamic data. Most of these recent methods aim at exhibiting community partitions from successive graph snapshots and thereafter connecting or smoothing these…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2011-11-09 Bivas Mitra , Lionel Tabourier , Camille Roth