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One of the most widely used methods for community detection in networks is the maximization of the quality function known as modularity. Of the many maximization techniques that have been used in this context, some of the most conceptually…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-11-24 Xiao Zhang , M. E. J. Newman

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

A remarkable approach for grasping the relevant statistical features of real networks with the help of random graphs is offered by hyperbolic models, centred around the idea of placing nodes in a low-dimensional hyperbolic space, and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-09-17 Bianka Kovács , Gergely Palla

Examining the community structures within intricate networks is crucial for comprehending their intrinsic dynamics and functionality. The paper presents the Fast Local Move Iterated Greedy (FLMIG) algorithm, a novel method designed to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Salaheddine Taibi , Lyazid Toumi , Salim Bouamama

The Artificial Benchmark for Community Detection (ABCD) graph is a random graph model with community structure and power-law distribution for both degrees and community sizes. The model generates graphs with similar properties as the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Bogumil Kaminski , Bartosz Pankratz , Pawel Pralat , Francois Theberge

Social networks where the actors occupy geospatial locations are prevalent in military, intelligence, and policing operations such as counter-terrorism, counter-insurgency, and combating organized crime. These networks are often derived…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-05-17 Paulo Shakarian , Patrick Roos , Devon Callahan , Cory Kirk

Optimizing statistical measures for community structure is one of the most popular strategies for community detection, but many of them lack the flexibility of resolution and thus are incompatible with multi-scale communities of networks.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-04-23 Ju Xiang , Yan Zhang , Jian-Ming Li , Hui-Jia Li , Min Li

Network representations have been effectively employed to analyze complex systems across various areas and applications, leading to the development of network science as a core tool to study systems with multiple components and complex…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-07-25 ItaloIvo Lima Dias Pinto , Javier Omar Garcia , Kanika Bansal

Detecting clusters or communities in large real-world graphs such as large social or information networks is a problem of considerable interest. In practice, one typically chooses an objective function that captures the intuition of a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-04-21 Jure Leskovec , Kevin J. Lang , Michael W. Mahoney

Community structure represents the local organization of complex networks and the single most important feature to extract functional relationships between nodes. In the last years, the problem of community detection has been reformulated…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-13 Santo Fortunato

Given a graph of interactions, a module (also called a community or cluster) is a subset of nodes whose fitness is a function of the statistical significance of the pairwise interactions of nodes in the module. The topic of this paper is a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-08-20 Bhaskar DasGupta , Devendra Desai

Community discovery in complex networks is an interesting problem with a number of applications, especially in the knowledge extraction task in social and information networks. However, many large networks often lack a particular community…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-06-05 Michele Coscia , Giulio Rossetti , Fosca Giannotti , Dino Pedreschi

Modularity maximization has been one of the most widely used approaches in the last decade for discovering community structure in networks of practical interest in biology, computing, social science, statistical mechanics, and more.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-11-10 David Mehrle , Amy Strosser , Anthony Harkin

Detecting community structure is fundamental to clarify the link between structure and function in complex networks and is used for practical applications in many disciplines. A successful method relies on the optimization of a quantity…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-05-23 Santo Fortunato , Marc Barthelemy

With invaluable theoretical and practical benefits, the problem of partitioning networks for community structures has attracted significant research attention in scientific and engineering disciplines. In literature, Newman's modularity…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Wenye Li

We consider the problem of detecting communities or modules in networks, groups of vertices with a higher-than-average density of edges connecting them. Previous work indicates that a robust approach to this problem is the maximization of…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2007-05-23 M. E. J. Newman

Community detection is a critical challenge in analysing real graphs, including social, transportation, citation, cybersecurity, and many other networks. This article proposes three new, general, hierarchical frameworks to deal with this…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Łukasz Brzozowski , Grzegorz Siudem , Marek Gagolewski

One of the most useful measures of cluster quality is the modularity of a partition, which measures the difference between the number of the edges joining vertices from the same cluster and the expected number of such edges in a random…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2009-09-29 Hristo Djidjev

We consider the problem of finding communities or modules in directed networks. The most common approach to this problem in the previous literature has been simply to ignore edge direction and apply methods developed for community discovery…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2008-03-22 E. A. Leicht , M. E. J. Newman

Detecting groups of users, who have similar opinions, interests, or social behavior, has become an important task for many applications. A recent study showed that dynamic distance based Attractor, a community detection algorithm,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-26 Nguyen Vo , Kyumin Lee , Thanh Tran