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Community detection is one of the most studied problems on complex networks. Although hundreds of methods have been proposed so far, there is still no universally accepted formal definition of what is a good community. As a consequence, the…
How different cultures evaluate a person? Is an important person in one culture is also important in the other culture? We address these questions via ranking of multilingual Wikipedia articles. With three ranking algorithms based on…