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A Weighting Scheme for Enhancing Community Detection in Networks

Khadivi, A.  
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Hasler, M.  
2010
2010 IEEE International Conference on Communications
ICC 2010 - 2010 IEEE International Conference on Communications

Many algorithms have recently been proposed for finding communities in networks. By definition, a community is a subset of vertices with a high number of connections among the vertices, but only few connections with other vertices. The worst drawback of most of the proposed algorithms is their computational complexity which is usually an exponentially increasing function of the number of the vertices. Newman-Fast is a well-known community detection algorithm which is suitable for large networks due to its low computational cost. Although the performance of this algorithm is good for well structured networks, it does not perform well for more fuzzy-clustered networks. In this paper, we propose a weighting scheme which considerably enhances the performance of the Newman-Fast algorithm with a little effort. We also show that the modified algorithm effectively enhances the community discovery process in both computer-generated and real-world networks.

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conference paper
DOI
10.1109/ICC.2010.5502187
Web of Science ID

WOS:000287029400143

Author(s)
Khadivi, A.  
Hasler, M.  
Date Issued

2010

Publisher

IEEE

Published in
2010 IEEE International Conference on Communications
ISBN of the book

978-1-4244-6404-3

Series title/Series vol.

IEEE International Conference on Communications

Start page

1

End page

4

Subjects

Community Detection

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Complex Networks

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Modularity

Editorial or Peer reviewed

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Event nameEvent placeEvent date
ICC 2010 - 2010 IEEE International Conference on Communications

Cape Town, South Africa

23-27 05 2010

Available on Infoscience
September 21, 2010
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