Analysis of Communities Evolution in Dynamic Social Networks

Autor: Nikolai Nefedov
Rok vydání: 2013
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Zdroj: Complex Networks IV ISBN: 9783642368431
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-36844-8_4
Popis: In this paper we present a framework to study evolution of communities in dynamic networks. A dynamic network is represented by a sequence of static graphs named as network snapshots.We introduce a distance measure between static graphs to study similarity among network snapshots and to detect outlier events. To find a detailed structure within each network snapshot we used a modularity maximization algorithm based on a fast greedy search extended with a random walk approach. Community detection often results in a different number of communities in different network snapshots. To make communities evolution studies feasible we propose a greedy method to match clustering labels assigned to different networks. The suggested framework is applied for analysis of dynamic networks built from real-world mobile datasets.
Databáze: OpenAIRE