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A fundamental problem in the analysis of network data is the detection of network communities, groups of densely interconnected nodes, which may be overlapping or disjoint. Here we describe a method for finding overlapping communities based…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Brian Ball , Brian Karrer , M. E. J. Newman

The study of community networks has attracted considerable attention recently. In this paper, we propose an evolving community network model based on local processes, the addition of new nodes intra-community and new links intra- or…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-13 Xin-Jian Xu , Xun Zhang , J. F. F. Mendes

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

Many real-world phenomena are best represented as interaction networks with dynamic structures (e.g., transaction networks, social networks, traffic networks). Interaction networks capture flow of data which is transferred between their…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-10-22 Chrysanthi Kosyfaki , Nikos Mamoulis , Evaggelia Pitoura , Panayiotis Tsaparas

We discuss various models for epidemics on networks that rely on Markov chains. Random walks on graphs are often used to predict epidemic spread and to investigate possible control actions to mitigate them. In this study, we demonstrate…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-07-07 Sooyeong Kim , Jane Breen , Ekaterina Dudkina , Federico Poloni , Emanuele Crisostomi

Recent years have seen a surge of interest in the analysis of complex networks, facilitated by the availability of relational data and the increasingly powerful computational resources that can be employed for their analysis. Naturally, the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-08-08 Jean-Charles Delvenne , Michael T. Schaub , Sophia N. Yaliraki , Mauricio Barahona

This paper deals with the modeling and estimation of the sociological phenomena called echo chambers and segregation in social networks. Specifically, we present a novel community-based graph model that represents the emergence of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Rui Luo , Buddhika Nettasinghe , Vikram Krishnamurthy

Differential equations are a ubiquitous tool to study dynamics, ranging from physical systems to complex systems, where a large number of agents interact through a graph with non-trivial topological features. Data-driven approximations of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-04-26 Vaiva Vasiliauskaite , Nino Antulov-Fantulin

Markov chains are simple yet powerful mathematical structures to model temporally dependent processes. They generally assume stationary data, i.e., fixed transition probabilities between observations/states. However, live, real-world…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Kutalmış Coşkun , Borahan Tümer , Bjarne C. Hiller , Martin Becker

Temporal networks are commonly used to model real-life phenomena. When these phenomena represent interactions and are captured at a fine-grained temporal resolution, they are modeled as link streams. Community detection is an essential…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Victor Brabant , Yasaman Asgari , Pierre Borgnat , Angela Bonifati , Remy Cazabet

Networks are widely used in the biological, physical, and social sciences as a concise mathematical representation of the topology of systems of interacting components. Understanding the structure of these networks is one of the outstanding…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2007-06-21 M. E. J. Newman , E. A. Leicht

Discovery of communities in complex networks is a fundamental data analysis problem with applications in various domains. Most of the existing approaches have focused on discovering communities of nodes, while recent studies have shown…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-03-20 Dongxiao He , Dayou Liu , Weixiongzhang , Di Jin , Bo Yang

Dynamic networks are used in a variety of fields to represent the structure and evolution of the relationships between entities. We present a model which embeds longitudinal network data as trajectories in a latent Euclidean space. A Markov…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-05-19 Daniel K. Sewell , Yuguo Chen

We study the evolution of networks through `triplets' - three-node graphlets. We develop a method to compute a transition matrix to describe the evolution of triplets in temporal networks. To identify the importance of higher-order…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-08-02 Qing Yao , Bingsheng Chen , Kim Christensen , Tim S. Evans

A community within a network is a group of vertices densely connected to each other but less connected to the vertices outside. The problem of detecting communities in large networks plays a key role in a wide range of research areas, e.g.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-03-08 Pasquale De Meo , Emilio Ferrara , Giacomo Fiumara , Alessandro Provetti

We develop a class of exponential-family point processes based on a latent social space to model the coevolution of social structure and behavior over time. Temporal dynamics are modeled as a discrete Markov process specified through…

Other Statistics · Statistics 2016-10-04 Joshua D. EmBree , Mark S. Handcock

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

A procedure to characterize chaotic dynamical systems with concepts of complex networks is pursued, in which a dynamical system is mapped onto a network. The nodes represent the regions of space visited by the system, while edges represent…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-12-20 Ernesto P. Borges , Daniel O. Cajueiro , Roberto F. S. Andrade

Many real systems can be represented as networks whose analysis can be very informative regarding the original system's organisation. In the past decade community detection received a lot of attention and is now an active field of research.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Erwan Le Martelot , Chris Hankin

High demands for industrial networks lead to increasingly large sensor networks. However, the complexity of networks and demands for accurate data require better stability and communication quality. Conventional clustering methods for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-10 Shufan Huang , Yongpeng Wu , Siyuan Gao