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The past decade has seen tremendous growth in the field of Complex Social Networks. Several network generation models have been extensively studied to develop an understanding of how real world networks evolve over time. Two important…

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Detecting abrupt changes in streaming graph signals is relevant in a variety of applications ranging from energy and water supplies, to environmental monitoring. In this paper, we address this problem when anomalies activate localized…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-16 André Ferrari , Cédric Richard , Louis Verduci

Temporal networks are commonly used to represent dynamical complex systems like social networks, simultaneous firing of neurons, human mobility or public transportation. Their dynamics may evolve on multiple time scales characterising for…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-02-27 Elsa Andres , Alain Barrat , Márton Karsai

Graphlet counting is an important problem as it has numerous applications in several fields, including social network analysis, biological network analysis, transaction network analysis, etc. Most of the practical networks are dynamic. A…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Hriday G , Pranav Saikiran Sista , Apurba Das

Temporal network analysis and time evolution of network characteristics are powerful tools in describing the changing topology of dynamic networks. This paper uses such approaches to better visualize and provide analytical measures for the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-10-04 N. DiBrita , K. Eledlebi , H. Hildmann , L. Culley , A. F. Isakovic

Detecting social bots has evolved into a pivotal yet intricate task, aimed at combating the dissemination of misinformation and preserving the authenticity of online interactions. While earlier graph-based approaches, which leverage…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Buyun He , Yingguang Yang , Qi Wu , Hao Liu , Renyu Yang , Hao Peng , Xiang Wang , Yong Liao , Pengyuan Zhou

The topology of social networks can be understood as being inherently dynamic, with edges having a distinct position in time. Most characterizations of dynamic networks discretize time by converting temporal information into a sequence of…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2012-12-03 Aaron Clauset , Nathan Eagle

Dynamic community detection concerns inferring how community memberships evolve over time, including the emergence, persistence, merging, and dissolution of groups in temporal networks. We propose a Bayesian nonparametric model for…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-09 Xenia Miscouridou , Francesca Panero , Antreas Laos

We live in a world increasingly dominated by networks -- communications, social, information, biological etc. A central attribute of many of these networks is that they are dynamic, that is, they exhibit structural changes over time. While…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-12-02 Prithwish Basu , Amotz Bar-Noy , Ram Ramanathan , Matthew P. Johnson

Community structure is pervasive in various real-world networks, portraying the strong local clustering of nodes. Unveiling the community structure of a network is deemed to a crucial step towards understanding the dynamics on the network.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-10-30 Weihua Zhan , Lei Deng , Jihong Guan , Jun Niu

We consider an approach for community detection in time-varying networks. At its core, this approach maintains a small sketch graph to capture the essential community structure found in each snapshot of the full network. We demonstrate how…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-12-06 Andre Beckus , George K. Atia

Dynamic graphs refer to graphs whose structure dynamically changes over time. Despite the benefits of learning vertex representations (i.e., embeddings) for dynamic graphs, existing works merely view a dynamic graph as a sequence of changes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Yu Yang , Hongzhi Yin , Jiannong Cao , Tong Chen , Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen , Xiaofang Zhou , Lei Chen

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

Community structure analysis is a powerful tool for social networks, which can simplify their topological and functional analysis considerably. However, since community detection methods have random factors and real social networks obtained…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-11 Hui-Jia Li , J J. Daniels

Temporal networks model how the interaction between elements in a complex system evolve over time. Just like complex systems display collective dynamics, here we interpret temporal networks as trajectories performing a collective motion in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Lucas Lacasa , Jorge P. Rodriguez , Victor M. Eguiluz

With the growing amount of available temporal real-world network data, an important question is how to efficiently study these data. One can simply model a temporal network as either a single aggregate static network, or as a series of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-12-15 Yuriy Hulovatyy , Huili Chen , Tijana Milenkovic

Random intersection graphs containing an underlying community structure are a popular choice for modelling real-world networks. Given the group memberships, the classical random intersection graph is obtained by connecting individuals when…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-08-31 Marta Milewska , Remco van der Hofstad , Bert Zwart

Many complex networks display a mesoscopic structure with groups of nodes sharing many links with the other nodes in their group and comparatively few with nodes of different groups. This feature is known as community structure and encodes…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-07-31 Andrea Lancichinetti , Santo Fortunato

Social networks are the social structures which are composed of people and their relationships and nowadays, play an important role in data extension. In such networks, the communities are recognized as the groups of users who are often…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-11-26 Reyhaneh Rigia , Mehrdad Jalali , Mohammad Hosein Moattar

Large-scale online campaigns, malicious or otherwise, require a significant degree of coordination among participants, which sparked interest in the study of coordinated online behavior. State-of-the-art methods for detecting coordinated…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Serena Tardelli , Leonardo Nizzoli , Maurizio Tesconi , Mauro Conti , Preslav Nakov , Giovanni Da San Martino , Stefano Cresci