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Community structure detection in complex networks is important since it can help better understand the network topology and how the network works. However, there is still not a clear and widely-accepted definition of community structure,…

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Community detection algorithms are fundamental tools to understand organizational principles in social networks. With the increasing power of social media platforms, when detecting communities there are two possi- ble sources of information…

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The investigation of community structures in networks is an important issue in many domains and disciplines. This problem is relevant for social tasks (objective analysis of relationships on the web), biological inquiries (functional…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Filippo Radicchi , Claudio Castellano , Federico Cecconi , Vittorio Loreto , Domenico Parisi

Community detection in networks is one of the most popular topics of modern network science. Communities, or clusters, are usually groups of vertices having higher probability of being connected to each other than to members of other…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-11-04 Santo Fortunato , Darko Hric

Network structures, consisting of nodes and edges, have applications in almost all subjects. A set of nodes is called a community if the nodes have strong interrelations. Industries (including cell phone carriers and online social media…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-02-13 Haoye Lu , Amiya Nayak

We propose and study a set of algorithms for discovering community structure in networks -- natural divisions of network nodes into densely connected subgroups. Our algorithms all share two definitive features: first, they involve iterative…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. E. J. Newman , M. Girvan

In the study of networked systems such as biological, technological, and social networks the available data are often uncertain. Rather than knowing the structure of a network exactly, we know the connections between nodes only with a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-01-20 Travis Martin , Brian Ball , M. E. J. Newman

Community structure is one of the key properties of complex networks and plays a crucial role in their topology and function. While an impressive amount of work has been done on the issue of community detection, very little attention has…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-09-17 Andrea Lancichinetti , Mikko Kivela , Jari Saramaki , Santo Fortunato

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

Community detection in networks is commonly performed using information about interactions between nodes. Recent advances have been made to incorporate multiple types of interactions, thus generalizing standard methods to multilayer…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Martina Contisciani , Eleanor Power , Caterina De Bacco

Community structure is one of the key properties of real-world complex networks. It plays a crucial role in their behaviors and topology. While an important work has been done on the issue of community detection, very little attention has…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-04-02 Malek Jebabli , Hocine Cherifi , Chantal Cherifi , Atef Hamouda

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

Understanding community structures is crucial for analyzing networks, as nodes join communities that collectively shape large-scale networks. In real-world settings, the formation of communities is often impacted by several social factors,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Elze de Vink , Frank W. Takes , Akrati Saxena

A multiplex network models different modes of interaction among same-type entities. In this article we provide a taxonomy of community detection algorithms in multiplex networks. We characterize the different algorithms based on various…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-01-21 Matteo Magnani , Obaida Hanteer , Roberto Interdonato , Luca Rossi , Andrea Tagarelli

To understand the formation, evolution, and function of complex systems, it is crucial to understand the internal organization of their interaction networks. Partly due to the impossibility of visualizing large complex networks, resolving…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-11-30 Takashi Nishikawa , Adilson E. Motter

The empirical validation of community detection methods is often based on available annotations on the nodes that serve as putative indicators of the large-scale network structure. Most often, the suitability of the annotations as…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-09-30 Darko Hric , Tiago P. Peixoto , Santo Fortunato

The detection of community structure is probably one of the hottest trends in complex network research as it reveals the internal organization of people, molecules or processes behind social, biological or computer networks\dots The issue…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Franck Delaplace

Community detection methods have so far been tested mostly on small empirical networks and on synthetic benchmarks. Much less is known about their performance on large real-world networks, which nonetheless are a significant target for…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-03-17 Gergely Tibely , Lauri Kovanen , Marton Karsai , Kimmo Kaski , Janos Kertesz , Jari Saramaki

We introduce a new paradigm that is important for community detection in the realm of network analysis. Networks contain a set of strong, dominant communities, which interfere with the detection of weak, natural community structure. When…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-02-27 Kun He , Yingru Li , Sucheta Soundarajan , John E. Hopcroft

One of the main organizing principles in real-world social, information and technological networks is that of network communities, where sets of nodes organize into densely linked clusters. Even though detection of such communities is of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-09-27 Jaewon Yang , Jure Leskovec