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Revealing the community structure exhibited by real networks is a fundamental phase towards a comprehensive understanding of complex systems beyond the local organization of their components. Community detection techniques help on providing…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-12-12 Stephanie Rendón de la Torre , Jaan Kalda , Robert Kitt , Jüri Engelbrecht

Overlap is one of the characteristics of social networks, in which a person may belong to more than one social group. For this reason, discovering overlapping structures is necessary for realistic social analysis. In this paper, we present…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-05-15 Jierui Xie , Boleslaw K. Szymanski , Xiaoming Liu

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

Several recent studies of complex networks have suggested algorithms for locating network communities, also called modules or clusters, which are mostly defined as groups of nodes with dense internal connections. Along with the rapid…

Physics and Society · Physics 2008-09-04 Peter Pollner , Gergely Palla , Daniel Abel , Andras Vicsek , Illes J. Farkas , Imre Derenyi , Tamas Vicsek

While there has been a plethora of approaches for detecting disjoint communities from real-world complex networks, some methods for detecting overlapping community structures have also been recently proposed. In this work, we argue that,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-08-21 Tanmoy Chakraborty , Saptarshi Ghosh , Noseong Park

Many networks display community structure which identifies groups of nodes within which connections are denser than between them. Detecting and characterizing such community structure, which is known as community detection, is one of the…

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

The issue of network community detection has been extensively studied across many fields. Most community detection methods assume that nodes belong to only one community. However, in many cases, nodes can belong to multiple communities…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Do Duy Hieu , Phan Thi Ha Duong

An efficient and relatively fast algorithm for the detection of communities in complex networks is introduced. The method exploits spectral properties of the graph Laplacian-matrix combined with hierarchical-clustering techniques, and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Luca Donetti , Miguel A. Munoz

Many complex systems in nature and society can be described in terms of networks capturing the intricate web of connections among the units they are made of. A key question is how to interpret the global organization of such networks as the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-05-23 Gergely Palla , Imre Derenyi , Illes Farkas , Tamas Vicsek

A network is a composition of many communities, i.e., sets of nodes and edges with stronger relationships, with distinct and overlapping properties. Community detection is crucial for various reasons, such as serving as a functional unit of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Isa Inuwa-Dutse , Mark Liptrott , Yannis Korkontzelos

Most networks found in social and biochemical systems have modular structures. An important question prompted by the modularity of these networks is whether nodes can be said to belong to a single group. If they cannot, we would need to…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2009-05-02 Erin N. Sawardecker , Marta Sales-Pardo , Luís A. Nunes Amaral

Discovery of communities in complex networks is a topic of considerable recent interest within the complex systems community. Due to the dynamic and rapidly evolving nature of large-scale networks, like online social networks, the notion of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-10-04 Nasheen Nur , Wenwen Dou , Xi Niu , Siddharth Krishnan , Noseong Park

Community detection for large networks poses challenges due to the high computational cost as well as heterogeneous community structures. In this paper, we consider widely existing real-world networks with ``grouped communities'' (or ``the…

Computation · Statistics 2024-11-04 Sheng Zhang , Rui Song , Wenbin Lu , Ji Zhu

The maximum clique problem is a well known NP-Hard problem with applications in data mining, network analysis, information retrieval and many other areas related to the World Wide Web. There exist several algorithms for the problem with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-12-01 Bharath Pattabiraman , Md. Mostofa Ali Patwary , Assefaw H. Gebremedhin , Wei-keng Liao , Alok Choudhary

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

Detecting community structures in social networks has gained considerable attention in recent years. However, lack of prior knowledge about the number of communities, and their overlapping nature have made community detection a challenging…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-05-10 Mahsa Ghorbani , Hamid R. Rabiee , Ali Khodadadi

Overlapped community detection in social networks has become an important research area with the increasing popularity and complexity of the networks. Most of the existing solutions are either centralized or parallel algorithms, which are…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Dibakar Saha , Partha Sarathi Mandal

Community structure exists in many real-world networks and has been reported being related to several functional properties of the networks. The conventional approach was partitioning nodes into communities, while some recent studies start…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-08-15 Youngdo Kim , Hawoong Jeong

Detecting community structure in social networks is a fundamental problem empowering us to identify groups of actors with similar interests. There have been extensive works focusing on finding communities in static networks, however, in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-02-26 Saeed Haji Seyed Javadi , Pedram Gharani , Shahram Khadivi

Community detection, which uncovers closely connected vertex groups in networks, is vital for applications in social networks, recommendation systems, and beyond. Real-world networks often have bipartite structures (vertices in two disjoint…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Yue Zeng , Rong-Hua Li , Qiangqiang Dai , Guoren Wang