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Modularity is widely used to effectively measure the strength of the disjoint community structure found by community detection algorithms. Several overlapping extensions of modularity were proposed to measure the quality of overlapping…

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

Centrality is an important notion in network analysis and is used to measure the degree to which network structure contributes to the importance of a node in a network. While many different centrality measures exist, most of them apply to…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2010-06-04 Kristina Lerman , Rumi Ghosh , Jeon Hyung Kang

We consider an alternate definition of community structure that is functionally motivated. We define network community structure-based on the function the network system is intended to perform. In particular, as a specific example of this…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-03-13 Sanjeev Chauhan , Michelle Girvan , Edward Ott

In this paper, we study the crucial elements of complex networks, namely nodes, and edges and their properties such as their community structure, which play an important role in dictating the robustness of the network towards structural…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-02-04 V. Parimi , A. Pal , S. Ruj , P. Kumaraguru , T. Chakraborty

To measure node importance, network scientists employ centrality scores that typically take a microscopic or macroscopic perspective, relying on node features or global network structure. However, traditional centrality measures such as…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Christopher Blöcker , Juan Carlos Nieves , Martin Rosvall

Detecting community structure is fundamental to clarify the link between structure and function in complex networks and is used for practical applications in many disciplines. A successful method relies on the optimization of a quantity…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-05-23 Santo Fortunato , Marc Barthelemy

The idea underlying the modal formulation of density-based clustering is to associate groups with the regions around the modes of the probability density function underlying the data. This correspondence between clusters and dense regions…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-01-22 Giovanna Menardi , Domenico De Stefano

Network analysis is an important tool in understanding the behavior of complex systems of interacting entities. However, due to the limitations of data gathering technologies, some interactions might be missing from the network model. This…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-08-25 Soumya Sarkar , Sanjukta Bhowmick , Suhansanu Kumar , Animesh Mukherjee

Many complex networks have an underlying modular structure, i.e., structural subunits (communities or clusters) characterized by highly interconnected nodes. The modularity $Q$ has been introduced as a measure to assess the quality of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 Stefanie Muff , Francesco Rao , Amedeo Caflisch

There are several metrics (Modularity, Mutual Information, Conductance, etc.) to evaluate the strength of graph clustering in large graphs. These metrics have great significance to measure the effectiveness and they are often used to find…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-10-12 Md. Khaledur Rahman

Temporal networks are commonly used to model real-life phenomena. When these phenomena represent interactions and are captured at a fine-grained temporal resolution, they are modeled as link streams. Community detection is an essential…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Victor Brabant , Yasaman Asgari , Pierre Borgnat , Angela Bonifati , Remy Cazabet

Modularity is a widely used measure for evaluating community structure in networks. The definition of modularity involves a comparison of within-community edges in the observed network and that number in an equivalent randomized network.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-02-13 Xin Liu , Tsuyoshi Murata , Ken Wakita

Numerous centrality measures have been proposed to evaluate the importance of nodes in networks, yet comparative analyses of these measures remain limited. Based on 80 real-world networks, we conducted an empirical analysis of 16…

Other Statistics · Statistics 2025-08-14 Yilin Bi , Xinshan Jiao , Tao Zhou

Network science has presented community detection as a valuable tool for revealing functional modules in complex systems rooted in the wiring architectures of complex networks. The varying procedures of community detection can produce,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-04-11 Karsten N. Economou , Cassie R. Norman , Wendy C. Gentleman

Modularity is a very widely used measure of the level of clustering or community structure in networks. Here we consider a recent generalisation of the definition of modularity to temporal graphs, whose edge-sets change over discrete…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-24 Vilhelm Agdur , Jessica Enright , Laura Larios-Jones , Kitty Meeks , Fiona Skerman , Ella Yates

Complex systems are usually illustrated by networks which captures the topology of the interactions between the entities. To better understand the roles played by the entities in the system one needs to uncover the underlying community…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-05-23 Han Zhang , Chang-Dong Wang , Jian-Huang Lai , Philip S. Yu

In this work we address the problem of detecting overlapping communities in social networks. Because the word "community" is an ambiguous term, it is necessary to quantify what it means to be a community within the context of a particular…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-01-23 Michael Brutz , Francois G. Meyer

Multi-layer networks are networks on a set of entities (nodes) with multiple types of relations (edges) among them where each type of relation/interaction is represented as a network layer. As with single layer networks, community detection…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-12-10 Subhadeep Paul , Yuguo Chen

In numerous networks, it is vital to identify communities consisting of closely joined groups of individuals. Such communities often reveal the role of the networks or primary properties of the individuals. In this perspective, Newman and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Ghazal Ghajari , Hooshang Jazayeri-Rad , Mashalla Abbasi Dezfooli

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