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The problem of clustering large complex networks plays a key role in several scientific fields ranging from Biology to Sociology and Computer Science. Many approaches to clustering complex networks are based on the idea of maximizing a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-10-17 Pasquale De Meo , Emilio Ferrara , Giacomo Fiumara , Alessandro Provetti

The analysis of multilayer networks is among the most active areas of network science, and there are now several methods to detect dense "communities" of nodes in multilayer networks. One way to define a community is as a set of nodes that…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-05-24 Lucas G. S. Jeub , Michael W. Mahoney , Peter J. Mucha , Mason A. Porter

Many networks including social networks, computer networks, and biological networks are found to divide naturally into communities of densely connected individuals. Finding community structure is one of fundamental problems in network…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2011-08-22 Thang N. Dinh , My T. Thai

Clustering and community structure is crucial for many network systems and the related dynamic processes. It has been shown that communities are usually overlapping and hierarchical. However, previous methods investigate these two…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2009-02-20 Huawei Shen , Xueqi Cheng , Kai Cai , Mao-Bin Hu

The characterization of network community structure has profound implications in several scientific areas. Therefore, testing the algorithms developed to establish the optimal division of a network into communities is a fundamental problem…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-08-02 Rodrigo Aldecoa , Ignacio Marín

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

A fundamental problem in the analysis of network data is the detection of network communities, groups of densely interconnected nodes, which may be overlapping or disjoint. Here we describe a method for finding overlapping communities based…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Brian Ball , Brian Karrer , M. E. J. Newman

Communities are clusters of nodes with a higher than average density of internal connections. Their detection is of great relevance to better understand the structure and hierarchies present in a network. Modularity has become a standard…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-03-17 Filippo Radicchi , Andrea Lancichinetti , José J. Ramasco

Clustering large high-dimensional datasets with diverse variable is essential for extracting high-level latent information from these datasets. Here, we developed an unsupervised clustering algorithm, we call "Village-Net". Village-Net is…

Community structure is common in many real networks, with nodes clustered in groups sharing the same connections patterns. While many community detection methods have been developed for networks with binary edges, few of them are applicable…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-03-13 Andressa Cerqueira , Elizaveta Levina

Many real-world complex networks exhibit a community structure, in which the modules correspond to actual functional units. Identifying these communities is a key challenge for scientists. A common approach is to search for the network…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-12-22 Federico Botta , Charo I. del Genio

One of the most widely studied problem in mining and analysis of complex networks is the detection of community structures. The problem has been extensively studied by researchers due to its high utility and numerous applications in various…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-07-29 Muhammad Qasim Pasta , Faraz Zaidi , Guy Melançon

We propose a generative model to detect globally optimal community structures in networks by utilizing random walks. Sophisticated parameter optimization algorithms are developed based on the Markov chain Monte Carlo methods to overcome…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-12-02 Takafumi J. Suzuki

Community detection in network analysis aims at partitioning nodes in a network into $K$ disjoint communities. Most currently available algorithms assume that $K$ is known, but choosing a correct $K$ is generally very difficult for real…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-07-03 Chong Chen , Ruibin Xi , Nan Lin

We develop an algorithm to detect community structure in complex networks. The algorithm is based on spectral methods and takes into account weights and links orientations. Since the method detects efficiently clustered nodes in large…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 Andrea Capocci , Vito D. P. Servedio , Guido Caldarelli , Francesca Colaiori

Community search in attributed networks poses a dual challenge: balancing structural connectivity -- the network's topological properties -- and attribute similarity -- the shared characteristics of nodes. This paper introduces a novel…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Nikolaos Georgiadis , Eleftherios Tiakas , Apostolos N. Papadopoulos

Real-world networks are often constructed from different sources or domains, including various types of entities and diverse relationships between networks, thus forming multi-domain networks. A single network typically fails to capture the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Li Ni , Zhou Xie , Yiwen Zhang , Wenjian Luo , Victor S. Sheng

A new method for identifying communities in networks is proposed. Reference nodes, either selected using a priory information about the network or according to relevant node measurements, are obtained so as to indicate putative communities.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Paulo J. P. de Souza , Cesar H. Comin , Luciano da F. Costa

Many methods have been proposed to detect communities, not only in plain, but also in attributed, directed or even dynamic complex networks. In its simplest form, a community structure takes the form of a partition of the node set. From the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-10-22 Günce Keziban Orman , Vincent Labatut , Marc Plantevit , Jean-François Boulicaut

Large-scale multi-layer networks with large numbers of nodes, edges, and layers arise across various domains, which poses a great computational challenge for the downstream analysis. In this paper, we develop an efficient randomized…

Computation · Statistics 2025-01-10 Wenqing Su , Xiao Guo , Xiangyu Chang , Ying Yang