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Understanding community structures is crucial for analyzing networks, as nodes join communities that collectively shape large-scale networks. In real-world settings, the formation of communities is often impacted by several social factors,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Elze de Vink , Frank W. Takes , Akrati Saxena

Given the increasing popularity of algorithms for overlapping clustering, in particular in social network analysis, quantitative measures are needed to measure the accuracy of a method. Given a set of true clusters, and the set of clusters…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-08-05 Aaron F. McDaid , Derek Greene , Neil Hurley

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

Community structures detection in signed network is very important for understanding not only the topology structures of signed networks, but also the functions of them, such as information diffusion, epidemic spreading, etc. In this paper,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Chao Yan , Hui-Min Cheng , Xin Liu , Zhong-Yuan Zhang

To obtain the optimal number of communities is an important problem in detecting community structure. In this paper, we extend the measurement of community detecting algorithms to find the optimal community number. Based on the normalized…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-27 Zhifang Li , Yanqing Hu , Beishan Xu , Zengru Di , Ying Fan

We introduce resampled mutual information (ResMI), a novel measure of clustering similarity that combines insights from information theoretic and pair counting approaches to clustering and community detection. Similar to chance-corrected…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Cheaheon Lim

Community detection refers to the problem of clustering the nodes of a network into groups. Existing inferential methods for community structure mainly focus on unweighted (binary) networks. Many real-world networks are nonetheless weighted…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-04-21 Mingao Yuan , Zuofeng Shang

It has been shown that the communities of complex networks often overlap with each other. However, there is no effective method to quantify the overlapping community structure. In this paper, we propose a metric to address this problem.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-07-28 Hua-Wei Shen , Xue-Qi Cheng , Jia-Feng Guo

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

Many empirical networks have community structure, in which nodes are densely interconnected within each community (i.e., a group of nodes) and sparsely across different communities. Like other local and meso-scale structure of networks,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-05-10 Sadamori Kojaku , Naoki Masuda

A number of recent studies have focused on the statistical properties of networked systems such as social networks and the World-Wide Web. Researchers have concentrated particularly on a few properties which seem to be common to many…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Michelle Girvan , M. E. J. Newman

Discovering community structure in complex networks is a mature field since a tremendous number of community detection methods have been introduced in the literature. Nevertheless, it is still very challenging for practioners to determine…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Vinh-Loc Dao , Cécile Bothorel , Philippe Lenca

Community structure analysis is a powerful tool for complex networks, which can simplify their functional analysis considerably. Recently, many approaches were proposed to community structure detection, but few works were focused on the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-02-11 Yanqing Hu , Yiming Ding , Ying Fan , Zengru Di

Detecting and analyzing dense groups or communities from social and information networks has attracted immense attention over last one decade due to its enormous applicability in different domains. Community detection is an ill-defined…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-04-13 Tanmoy Chakraborty , Ayushi Dalmia , Animesh Mukherjee , Niloy Ganguly

Characterizing the community structure of complex networks is a key challenge in many scientific fields. Very diverse algorithms and methods have been proposed to this end, many working reasonably well in specific situations. However, no…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-01-01 Rodrigo Aldecoa , Ignacio Marín

The discovery of community structure is a common challenge in the analysis of network data. Many methods have been proposed for finding community structure, but few have been proposed for determining whether the structure found is…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2008-04-29 Brian Karrer , Elizaveta Levina , M. E. J. Newman

Communities of vertices within a giant network such as the World-Wide Web are likely to be vastly smaller than the network itself. However, Fortunato and Barth\'{e}lemy have proved that modularity maximization algorithms for community…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-05-29 Jonathan W. Berry , Bruce Hendrickson , Randall A. LaViolette , Cynthia A. Phillips

We compare recent approaches to community structure identification in terms of sensitivity and computational cost. The recently proposed modularity measure is revisited and the performance of the methods as applied to ad hoc networks with…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Leon Danon , Jordi Duch , Albert Diaz-Guilera , Alex Arenas

Many complex systems can be represented as networks and separating a network into communities could simplify the functional analysis considerably. Recently, many approaches have been proposed for finding communities, but none of them can…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-13 Yanqing Hu , Yuchao Nie , Hua Yang , Jie Cheng , Ying Fan , Zengru Di

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