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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

Modularity is a very widely used measure of the level of clustering or community structure in networks. Here we consider a recent generalisation of the definition of modularity to temporal graphs, whose edge-sets change over discrete…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-24 Vilhelm Agdur , Jessica Enright , Laura Larios-Jones , Kitty Meeks , Fiona Skerman , Ella Yates

Proximity measures on graphs have a variety of applications in network analysis, including community detection. Previously they have been mainly studied in the context of networks without attributes. If node attributes are taken into…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Rinat Aynulin , Pavel Chebotarev

The modern science of networks has brought significant advances to our understanding of complex systems. One of the most relevant features of graphs representing real systems is community structure, or clustering, i. e. the organization of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-09-17 Santo Fortunato

In this paper, we study the crucial elements of complex networks, namely nodes, and edges and their properties such as their community structure, which play an important role in dictating the robustness of the network towards structural…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-02-04 V. Parimi , A. Pal , S. Ruj , P. Kumaraguru , T. Chakraborty

Modularity is a popular metric for quantifying the degree of community structure within a network. The distribution of the largest eigenvalue of a network's edge weight or adjacency matrix is well studied and is frequently used as a…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-07-15 Rong Ma , Ian Barnett

The local structure of unweighted networks can be characterized by the number of times a subgraph appears in the network. The clustering coefficient, reflecting the local configuration of triangles, can be seen as a special case of this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. -P. Onnela , J. Saramäki , J. Kertész , K. Kaski

Metros (heavy rail transit systems) are integral parts of urban transportation systems. Failures in their operations can have serious impacts on urban mobility, and measuring their robustness is therefore critical. Moreover, as physical…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-27 Xiangrong Wang , Yakup Koç , Sybil Derrible , Sk Nasir Ahmad , Robert E. Kooij

We study the structure of loops in networks using the notion of modulus of loop families. We introduce a new measure of network clustering by quantifying the richness of families of (simple) loops. Modulus tries to minimize the expected…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-01-25 Heman Shakeri , Pietro Poggi-Corradini , Nathan Albin , Caterina Scoglio

Modularity is widely used to effectively measure the strength of the disjoint community structure found by community detection algorithms. Although several overlapping extensions of modularity were proposed to measure the quality of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-07-02 Mingming Chen , Konstantin Kuzmin , Boleslaw K. Szymanski

Much effort has gone into understanding the modular nature of complex networks. Communities, also known as clusters or modules, are typically considered to be densely interconnected groups of nodes that are only sparsely connected to other…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-06-26 James P. Bagrow

In recent years, community structure has emerged as a key component of complex network analysis. As more data has been collected, researchers have begun investigating changing community structure across multiple networks. Several methods…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2011-08-03 Matthew Steen , Satoru Hayasaka , Karen Joyce , Paul Laurienti

Robustness in response to unexpected events is always desirable for real-world networks. To improve the robustness of any networked system, it is important to analyze vulnerability to external perturbation such as random failures or…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-02-01 Alan Kuhnle , Nam P. Nguyen , Thang N. Dinh , My T. Thai

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

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

Many complex systems can be represented as networks, and how a network breaks up into subnetworks or communities is of wide interest. However, the development of a method to detect nodes important to communities that is both fast and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-27 Yang Wang , Zengru Di , Ying Fan

Nodes in real-world networks are usually organized in local modules. These groups, called communities, are intuitively defined as sub-graphs with a larger density of internal connections than of external links. In this work, we introduce a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-04-21 Andrea Lancichinetti , Filippo Radicchi , Jose J. Ramasco

Modularity, first proposed by [Newman and Girvan, 2004], is one of the most popular ways to quantify the significance of community structure in complex networks. It can serve as both a standard benchmark to compare different community…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Qian Wang , Yongkang Guo , Zhihuan Huang , Yuqing Kong

Nestedness is a property of interaction networks widely observed in natural mutualistic communities. Despite a widespread interest on this pattern, no general consensus exists on how to measure it. Instead, several metrics aiming at…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-02-04 Claudia Payrato-Borras , Laura Hernandez , Yamir Moreno

Measures of complex network analysis, such as vertex centrality, have the potential to unveil existing network patterns and behaviors. They contribute to the understanding of networks and their components by analyzing their structural…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Felipe Grando , Diego Noble , Luis C. Lamb