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The representation of complex systems as networks is inappropriate for the study of certain problems. We show several examples of social, biological, ecological and technological systems where the use of complex networks gives very limited…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-04-02 Ernesto Estrada , Juan A. Rodriguez-Velazquez

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 detection of overlapping communities is a challenging problem which is gaining increasing interest in recent years because of the natural attitude of individuals, observed in real-world networks, to participate in multiple groups at the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-11-17 Alessia Amelio , Clara Pizzuti

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

Complex networks pervade various real-world systems, from the natural environment to human societies. The essence of these networks is in their ability to transition and evolve from microscopic disorder-where network topology and node…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Jingtao Ding , Chang Liu , Yu Zheng , Yunke Zhang , Zihan Yu , Ruikun Li , Hongyi Chen , Jinghua Piao , Huandong Wang , Jiazhen Liu , Yong Li

Communities are not static; they evolve, split and merge, appear and disappear, i.e. they are product of dynamical processes that govern the evolution of the network. A good algorithm for community detection should not only quantify the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-11-24 Angel Stanoev , Daniel Smilkov , Ljupco Kocarev

Many real-world complex systems such as social, biological, information as well as technological systems results of a decentralized and unplanned evolution which leads to a common structuration. Irrespective of their origin, these so-called…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-05-03 Chantal Cherifi , Jean-François Santucci

Networks are a fundamental tool for understanding and modeling complex systems in physics, biology, neuroscience, engineering, and social science. Many networks are known to exhibit rich, lower-order connectivity patterns that can be…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-01-08 Austin R. Benson , David F. Gleich , Jure Leskovec

Discovering community structure in complex networks is a mature field since a tremendous number of community detection methods have been introduced in the literature. Nevertheless, it is still very challenging for practioners to determine…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Vinh-Loc Dao , Cécile Bothorel , Philippe Lenca

A precise definition of what constitutes a community in networks has remained elusive. Consequently, network scientists have compared community detection algorithms on benchmark networks with a particular form of community structure and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-05-08 Martin Rosvall , Jean-Charles Delvenne , Michael T. Schaub , Renaud Lambiotte

The problem of clustering large complex networks plays a key role in several scientific fields ranging from Biology to Sociology and Computer Science. Many approaches to clustering complex networks are based on the idea of maximizing a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-10-17 Pasquale De Meo , Emilio Ferrara , Giacomo Fiumara , Alessandro Provetti

Network science has presented community detection as a valuable tool for revealing functional modules in complex systems rooted in the wiring architectures of complex networks. The varying procedures of community detection can produce,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-04-11 Karsten N. Economou , Cassie R. Norman , Wendy C. Gentleman

A large body of work has been devoted to defining and identifying clusters or communities in social and information networks. We explore from a novel perspective several questions related to identifying meaningful communities in large…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-10-13 Jure Leskovec , Kevin J. Lang , Anirban Dasgupta , Michael W. Mahoney

Multiplex networks have emerged as a promising approach for modeling complex systems, where each layer represents a different mode of interaction among entities of the same type. A core task in analyzing these networks is to identify the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Meiby Ortiz-Bouza , Selin Aviyente

We study how to detect groups in a complex network each of which consists of component nodes sharing a similar connection pattern. Based on the mixture models and the exploratory analysis set up by Newman and Leicht (Newman and Leicht 2007…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2008-12-17 J. Wang , C. -H. Lai

We use the concept of the network communicability (Phys. Rev. E 77 (2008) 036111) to define communities in a complex network. The communities are defined as the cliques of a communicability graph, which has the same set of nodes as the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-07-17 Ernesto Estrada , Naomichi Hatano

The analysis of multilayer networks is among the most active areas of network science, and there are now several methods to detect dense "communities" of nodes in multilayer networks. One way to define a community is as a set of nodes that…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-05-24 Lucas G. S. Jeub , Michael W. Mahoney , Peter J. Mucha , Mason A. Porter

Most complex systems can be captured by graphs or networks. Networks connect nodes (e.g.\ neurons) through edges (synapses), thus summarizing the system's structure. A popular way of interrogating graphs is community detection, which…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-09-23 Luis F Seoane

Social communities extraction and their dynamics are one of the most important problems in today's social network analysis. During last few years, many researchers have proposed their own methods for group discovery in social networks.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-09-27 Piotr Bródka , Tomasz Filipowski , Przemysław Kazienko

Complex networks describe a wide range of systems in nature and society, much quoted examples including the cell, a network of chemicals linked by chemical reactions, or the Internet, a network of routers and computers connected by physical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-31 Reka Albert , Albert-Laszlo Barabasi