English
Related papers

Related papers: Exploring Communities in Large Profiled Graphs

200 papers

A recent line of research concerns the problem of soft happy colouring (SHC), which requires that a partially coloured graph be extended to a complete colouring to maximise local agreements, so that as many vertices as possible end up…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Mohammad Hadi Shekarriz , Dhananjay Thiruvady , Asef Nazari

Community detection, which focuses on clustering nodes or detecting communities in (mostly) a single network, is a problem of considerable practical interest and has received a great deal of attention in the research community. While being…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-07 Soumendu Sundar Mukherjee , Purnamrita Sarkar , Lizhen Lin

The community detection problem for graphs asks one to partition the n vertices V of a graph G into k communities, or clusters, such that there are many intracluster edges and few intercluster edges. Of course this is equivalent to finding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-21 Ming-Jun Lai , Daniel Mckenzie

Network analysis has played a key role in knowledge discovery and data mining. In many real-world applications in recent years, we are interested in mining multilayer networks, where we have a number of edge sets called layers, which encode…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Yasushi Kawase , Atsushi Miyauchi , Hanna Sumita

Community detection has become an extremely active area of research in recent years, with researchers proposing various new metrics and algorithms to address the problem. Recently, the Weighted Community Clustering (WCC) metric was proposed…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-11-04 Matthew Saltz , Arnau Prat-Pèrez , David Dominguez-Sal

We propose a new distribution-free model of social networks. Our definitions are motivated by one of the most universal signatures of social networks, triadic closure---the property that pairs of vertices with common neighbors tend to be…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-04-26 Jacob Fox , Tim Roughgarden , C. Seshadhri , Fan Wei , Nicole Wein

K-clique percolation is an overlapping community finding algorithm which extracts particular structures, comprised of overlapping cliques, from complex networks. While it is conceptually straightforward, and can be elegantly expressed using…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-05-02 Fergal Reid , Aaron McDaid , Neil Hurley

Due to the advent of the expressions of data other than tabular formats, the topological compositions which make samples interrelated came into prominence. Analogically, those networks can be interpreted as social connections, dataflow…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Hacı İsmail Aslan , Chang Choi , Hoon Ko

Signed graphs have been used to model interactions in social net-works, which can be either positive (friendly) or negative (antagonistic). The model has been used to study polarization and other related phenomena in social networks, which…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Han Xiao , Bruno Ordozgoiti , Aristides Gionis

A searcher is tasked with exploring a graph with edge lengths and vertex weights, starting from a designated vertex. Initially, only the starting vertex is considered explored. At each step, the searcher adds an edge to the solution,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Svenja M. Griesbach , Felix Hommelsheim , Max Klimm , Kevin Schewior

This paper considers the Target Set Selection (TSS) Problem in social networks, a fundamental problem in viral marketing. In the TSS problem, a graph and a threshold value for each vertex of the graph are given. We need to find a minimum…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Md. Samiur Rahman , Mohammad Shamim Ahsan , Cheng-Wu Chen , Vijayakumar Varadarajan

A significant problem in analysis of complex network is to reveal community structure, in which network nodes are tightly connected in the same communities, between which there are sparse connections. Previous algorithms for community…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-04-25 Jingming Zhang , Jianjun Cheng , Xing Su , Xinhong Yin , Shiyan Zhao , Xiaoyun Chen

Social networks have the surprising property of being "searchable": Ordinary people are capable of directing messages through their network of acquaintances to reach a specific but distant target person in only a few steps. We present a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-07 D. J. Watts , P. S. Dodds , M. E. J. Newman

Community detection, aiming to group the graph nodes into clusters with dense inner-connection, is a fundamental graph mining task. Recently, it has been studied on the heterogeneous graph, which contains multiple types of nodes and edges,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Linhao Luo , Yixiang Fang , Xin Cao , Xiaofeng Zhang , Wenjie Zhang

Finding large "cliquish" subgraphs is a central topic in graph mining and community detection. A popular clique relaxation are 2-clubs: instead of asking for subgraphs of diameter one (these are cliques), one asks for subgraphs of diameter…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-12-24 Christian Komusiewicz , André Nichterlein , Rolf Niedermeier , Marten Picker

Social network analysis is a popular discipline among the social and behavioural sciences, in which the relationships between different social entities are modelled as a network. One of the most popular problems in social network analysis…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Javier Fumanal-Idocin , Oscar Cordón , María Minárová , Amparo Alonso-Betanzos , Humberto Bustince

Community detection is the task of identifying clusters or groups of nodes in a network where nodes within the same group are more connected with each other than with nodes in different groups. It has practical uses in identifying similar…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-01-08 Mursel Tasgin , Haluk O. Bingol

We introduce a novel keyword-aware influential community query KICQ that finds the most influential communities from an attributed graph, where an influential community is defined as a closely connected group of vertices having some…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Md. Saiful Islam , Mohammed Eunus Ali , Yong-Bin Kang , Timos Sellis , Farhana M. Choudhury

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

Processing large complex networks recently attracted considerable interest. Complex graphs are useful in a wide range of applications from technological networks to biological systems like the human brain. Sometimes these networks are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Christian Schulz