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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…

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Understanding the information behind social relationships represented by a network is very challenging, especially, when the social interactions change over time inducing updates on the network topology. In this context, this paper proposes…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Youcef Abdelsadek , Kamel Chelghoum , Francine Herrmann , Imed Kacem , Benoît Otjacques

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

Community detecting is one of the main approaches to understanding networks \cite{For2010}. However it has been a longstanding challenge to give a definition for community structures of networks. Here we found that community structures are…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-11-01 Angsheng Li , Jiankou Li , Yicheng Pan

We present a new model of the evolutionary dynamics and the growth of on-line social networks. The model emulates people's strategies for acquiring information in social networks, emphasising the local subjective view of an individual and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-10-01 Emanuele Massaro , Henrik Olsson , Andrea Guazzini , Franco Bagnoli

Numerous networked systems feature a structure of nontrivial communities, which often correspond to their functional modules. Such communities have been detected in real-world biological, social and technological systems, as well as in…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-07-08 Charo I. del Genio

Network embeddings learn to represent nodes as low-dimensional vectors to preserve the proximity between nodes and communities of the network for network analysis. The temporal edges (e.g., relationships, contacts, and emails) in dynamic…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Chuanchang Chen , Yubo Tao , Hai Lin

In this paper we present the application of a novel methodology to scientific citation and collaboration networks. This methodology is designed for understanding the governing dynamics of evolving networks and relies on an attachment…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-09-29 Gabor Csardi , Katherine Strandburg , Laszlo Zalanyi , Jan Tobochnik , Peter Erdi

Uncovering structural patterns in collaboration networks is key for understanding how knowledge flows and innovation emerges. These networks often exhibit a rich interplay of meso-scale structures, such as communities, core-periphery…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-11-25 Sara Geremia , Domenico De Stefano , Michael Fop

Communities are an important feature of social networks. The goal of this paper is to propose a mathematical model to study the community structure in social networks. For this, we consider a particular case of a social network, namely…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Peter Marbach

A fundamental technical challenge in the analysis of network data is the automated discovery of communities - groups of nodes that are strongly connected or that share similar features or roles. In this commentary we review progress in the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-07-11 Santo Fortunato , M. E. J. Newman

Community detection is one of the fundamental problems in the study of network data. Most existing community detection approaches only consider edge information as inputs, and the output could be suboptimal when nodal information is…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-12-13 Haolei Weng , Yang Feng

Complex networks are frequently employed to model physical or virtual complex systems. When certain entities exist across multiple systems simultaneously, unveiling their corresponding relationships across the networks becomes crucial. This…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-04-16 Rui Tang , Ziyun Yong , Shuyu Jiang , Xingshu Chen , Yaofang Liu , Yi-Cheng Zhang , Gui-Quan Sun , Wei Wang

Graphs representing real world systems may be studied from their underlying community structure. A community in a network is an intuitive idea for which there is no consensus on its objective mathematical definition. The most used metric in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Daniel Gamermann , José Antônio Pellizaro

Many real-world processes evolve in cascades over complex networks, whose topologies are often unobservable and change over time. However, the so-termed adoption times when blogs mention popular news items, individuals in a community catch…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-09-30 Brian Baingana , Gonzalo Mateos , Georgios B. Giannakis

This chapter provides an overview of the different techniques and methods that exist for the analysis and visualization of dynamic networks. Basic definitions and formal notations are discussed and important references are cited. A major…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-09-18 Faraz Zaidi , Chris Muelder , Arnaud Sallaberry

Network embedding has recently emerged as a promising technique to embed nodes of a network into low-dimensional vectors. While fairly successful, most existing works focus on the embedding techniques for static networks. But in practice,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Zenan Xu , Zijing Ou , Qinliang Su , Jianxing Yu , Xiaojun Quan , Zhenkun Lin

Interactive networks representing user participation and interactions in specific "events" are highly dynamic, with communities reflecting collective behaviors that evolve over time. Predicting these community evolutions is crucial for…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Yanmei Hu , Yihang Wu , Biao Cai

From many datasets gathered in online social networks, well defined community structures have been observed. A large number of users participate in these networks and the size of the resulting graphs poses computational challenges. There is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-01-15 Alexander V. Mantzaris

In many complex systems, networks and graphs arise in a natural manner. Often, time evolving behavior can be easily found and modeled using time-series methodology. Amongst others, two common research problems in network analysis are…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Rex C. Y. Cheung , Alexander Aue , Seungyong Hwang , Thomas C. M. Lee