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Community detection is crucial in data mining. Traditional methods primarily focus on graph structure, often neglecting the significance of attribute features. In contrast, deep learning-based approaches incorporate attribute features and…

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Networks are commonly used to model complex systems. The different entities in the system are represented by nodes of the network and their interactions by edges. In most real life systems, the different entities may interact in different…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Meiby Ortiz-Bouza , Selin Aviyente

Although the effects of the social norm on mitigating misinformation are identified, scant knowledge exists about the patterns of social norm emergence, such as the patterns and variations of social tipping in online communities with…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Shangde Gao , Yan Wang , My T. Thai

When a group of people strives to understand new information, struggle ensues as various ideas compete for attention. Steep learning curves are surmounted as teams learn together. To understand how these team dynamics play out in software…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Pamela Bilo Thomas , Rachel Krohn , Tim Weninger

In a real-world social network, weak ties (reflecting low-intensity, infrequent interactions) act as bridges and connect people to different social circles, giving them access to diverse information and opportunities that are not available…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Hongbo Fang , Patrick Park , James Evans , James Herbsleb , Bogdan Vasilescu

Commit is an important operation of revision control for open-source software (OSS). Recent research has been pursued to explore the statistical laws of such an operation, but few of those papers conduct empirical investigations on commit…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-11-26 Yutao Ma , Yang Wu , Youwei Xu

Open digital public infrastructure needs community management to ensure accountability, sustainability, and robustness. Yet open-source projects often rely on centralized decision-making, and the determinants of successful community…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Mobina Noori , Mahasweta Chakraborti , Amy X Zhang , Seth Frey

Discovering communities in complex networks means grouping nodes similar to each other, to uncover latent information about them. There are hundreds of different algorithms to solve the community detection task, each with its own…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-07-05 Michele Coscia

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

GitHub plays a critical role in modern software supply chains, making its security an important research concern. Existing studies have primarily focused on CI/CD automation, collaboration patterns, and community management, while abuse…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Yuli Cheng , Xiaoyu Zhang , Jiongchi Yu , Shiqing Ma , Chao Shen , Yang Liu

Unknown node attributes in complex networks may introduce community structures that are important to distinguish from those driven by known attributes. We propose a block-corrected modularity that discounts given block structures present in…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-08-04 Hasti Narimanzadeh , Takayuki Hiraoka , Mikko Kivelä

Open source software development, particularly within institutions such as universities and research laboratories, is often decentralized and difficult to track. Although academic teams produce many impactful scientific tools, their…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Juanita Gomez , Emily Lovell , Stephanie Lieggi , Alvaro A. Cardenas , James Davis

Many scientific collaboration networks exhibit clear community and small world structures. However, the studies on the underlying mechanisms for the formation and evolution of community and small world structures are still insufficient. The…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-10-28 Peng Liu , Shuangling Luo , Haoxiang Xia

Online social networks (OSNs) are trendy and rapid information propagation medium on the web where millions of new connections either positive such as acquaintance or negative such as animosity, are being established every day around the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-05-03 Mudasir Ahmad Wani , Suraiya Jabin

Open Source Software (OSS) plays an important role in the digital economy. Yet although software production is amenable to remote collaboration and its outputs are easily shared across distances, software development seems to cluster…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Johannes Wachs , Mariusz Nitecki , William Schueller , Axel Polleres

This paper proposes a novel community detection method that integrates the Louvain algorithm with Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), enabling the discovery of communities without prior knowledge. Compared to most existing solutions, the proposed…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Dalila Khettaf , Djamel Djenouri , Zeinab Rezaeifar , Youcef Djenouri

Communities are subsets of a network that are densely connected inside and share only few connections to the rest of the network. The aim of this research is the development and evaluation of an efficient algorithm for detection of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-09-29 Jan Dreier

Background: Open source requires participation of volunteer and commercial developers (users) in order to deliver functional high-quality components. Developers both contribute effort in the form of patches and demand effort from the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Tapajit Dey , Yuxing Ma , Audris Mockus

Community structure is prevalent in real-world networks, with empirical studies revealing heterogeneous distributions where a few dominant majority communities coexist with many smaller groups. These small-scale groups, which we term…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Jiaze Li , Leto Peel

Software developed on public platform is a source of data that can be used to make predictions about those projects. While the individual developing activity may be random and hard to predict, the developing behavior on project level can be…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Tianpei Xia , Wei Fu , Rui Shu , Rishabh Agrawal , Tim Menzies