Community detection in social networks based on fire propagation

Community detection is an effective approach to unveil relationships among individuals in online social networks. In the literature, quite a few algorithms have been proposed to conduct community detection by exploiting the topology of social networks and the attributes of social actors. In practice, community detection is usually conducted by third parties, such as advertisement companies and hospitals, with access to social networks for different purposes, which can easily lead to a privacy breach. In this paper, we investigate community detection in social networks aiming to protect the privacy of both the network topology and the users' attributes. We show that with additional prior knowledge, community detection can be performed by querying the information of only a fraction of instead of the entire population. In particular, we first propose a new scheme called differentially private community detection (DPCD). DPCD detects communities in social networks via a probabilistic generative model, which can be decomposed into subproblems solved by individual users. The private social relationships and attributes of each user are protected by objective perturbation with differential privacy guarantees. Then, we propose a parsimonious node affiliation recovery (NAR) algorithm, which is also differentially private, to unveil the community affiliation information of the whole population based on that of the limited number of queried individuals by solving a sparse optimization problem. Through both theoretical analysis and experimental validation using synthetic and real-world social networks, we demonstrate that the proposed DPCD scheme detects social communities under the modest privacy budget. In addition, we show the effectiveness of NAR to perform community detection by querying a limited number of individuals in social networks.

Advances in Web 2.0 technologies have led to unstructured information overload in the complex and multidimensional datasets that originate in social networks. This overload can diminish the quality of web-related services such as recommender systems in the social web and can overwhelm users with irrelevant information. Such overload indicates the need to design and develop efficient and accurate information management and retrieval systems in social networks and anticipate recommendations in the semantic context of user interest. Community detection in social networks can help identify higher-order structures that unveil insight into networks and their functional organization and reduce irrelevant information received by the user. In this study, the application of community detection in online social networks is investigated within the framework of topic discovery-based user link identification and is consequently used to uncover implicit user communities (ad hoc communities). In the proposed approach, we use a graph-based information extraction technique that provides for a personalized information retrieval (recommender) system. We hypothesize that the ad hoc communities of users sharing similar interests embedded in a folksonomy-based social network can be identified by overlapping tag clusters in the tag concept hierarchy. Our methodology incorporates the novel information extraction techniques of topic modeling for topic extraction (feature extraction), user profile modeling for user profile extraction, and community extraction from the social graph, modeled in a framework to derive relevant ad hoc user communities of social interest from folksonomy data. Our experimental results demonstrate an accuracy of 70–98 % in community detection using data obtained from CiteULike®.

With the rapid increase in popularity of online social networks, community detection in these networks has become a key aspect of research field. Overlapping community detection is an important NP-hard problem of social network analysis. Modularity-based community detection is one of the most widely used approaches for social network analysis. However, modularity-based community detection technique may fail to resolve small-size communities. Hence, we propose a novel two-step approach for overlapping community detection in social networks. In the first step, modularity density-based hybrid meta-heuristics approach is used to find the disjoint communities and the quality of these disjoint communities can be verified using Silhouette coefficient. In the second step, the quality disjoint communities with low computation cost are used to detect overlapping nodes based on Min-Max Ratio of minimum(indegree, outdegree) to the maximum(indegree, outdegree) values of nodes. We tested the proposed algorithm based on 10 standard community quality metrics along with Silhouette score using seven standard datasets. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed approach outperforms the current state-of-the-art works in terms of quality and scalability.

Parallel and distributed paradigms for community detection in social networks: A methodological review

Multi-relational community detection is a very important task in social network analysis because in the real world social networks are mostly multi-relational. In this paper, we propose a user-dependent method to detect communities in multi-relational social networks. We define a multi-relational community as a shared community over multiple single-relational graphs while the quality of a partitioning of nodes is assessed by a multi-relational modularity, and we design a desirable set of communities to represent the requests of users and use Normalized mutual information (NMI) between the desirable set of communities and the sets of communities detected in each single-relational graph as the weights for measuring the importance of all kinds of relationship types. We then use a greedy agglomerative manner to identify communities. Experiments have been conducted on synthetic networks to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.

The progress of website and different social network sites (SNS) have made the clients to communicate on a collective environment. A graph is applied to denote the working of social networks. Graph is nothing but a collection of nodes and edges, where the edges are used to connect the nodes. In social networks, the individuals / entities are represented by nodes and also the edges represent the interaction between entities. The disposition of individuals with connected perceptions, decisions and inclinations is connected with a social networking model, which ends up in the event of virtual clusters or communities. Revealing those groups is useful for frequent claims by discovering a typical analysis space network, discovering the fact of finding a set of similar minded individuals for promoting proposals and to discover macromolecule interface network in biological system. In the literature review, an outsized variety of detecting the community algorithm is proposed and applied to various domains. This research study presents a review of the prevailing algorithms and methodologies used for communities' detection in social networking. Also, this research work tends to conjointly deliberate a number of applications for Community Detection (CD) in social media networks.

Revealing the community structure in social networks witnessed a determined effort. In this respect, a different category of social network can be handled, such as, dynamic social networks, social networks with node attributes, etc. In this article, we introduce a new method to solve this thriving issue in the social network with node attributes. This latter can be represented by a bipartite graph, which consists of a two sets of nodes and edges connecting these nodes. The tendency of people with similar node attributes leads to the hidden information of clusters or communities. A wealthy number of community-detection algorithms have been proposed for bipartite graphs and applied to several domains in the literature. To palliate some of the highlighted shortcomings, we introduce a new approach, called Fast-Bi Community Detection (FBCD), that aims to an efficient community detection in social networks. The main idea of this approach is to explore the set of maximum matching in the bipartite graph in order to reduce the complexity of our algorithm. The carried out experiments show the high quality of the obtained communities versus those by the pioneering ones of the literature.

Community detection in social networks is a promising research area. However, network exploration with multiple types of relationships remains an underexplored yet crucial domain. To address the challenge of community detection in multiplex networks, we propose SFCSA, a smart flattening-based Cuckoo Search Algorithm, designed to address the complexities of such networks effectively. SFCSA unfolds in three integral steps. Firstly, we employ DeepWalk and node2vec algorithms to extract node embeddings, which are merged to construct the multiplex network node embeddings, minimizing information loss. Secondly, a flattened network is built by merging the network layers and adopting the Pearson correlation coefficient as a weight to capture node similarity. Thirdly, we employ a community detection approach that unveils the community structure through a cuckoo search algorithm applied to the multiplex node embeddings to extract the best set of cluster centres by maximizing the modularity function. Experimental evaluations across synthetic and real-world multiplex networks attest to the efficiency and effectiveness of our approach, outperforming state-of-the-art algorithms.

The topic of community detection in social networks has attracted a lot of attention in recent years. Existing methods always depict the relationship of two nodes using the snapshot of the network, but these snapshots cannot reveal the real relationships, especially when the connection history among nodes is considered. The problem of detecting the stable community in mobile social networks has been studied in this paper. Community cores are considered as stable subsets of the network in previous work. Based on these observations, this paper divides all nodes into a few of communities due to the community cores. Meanwhile, communities can be tracked through incremental computing. Experimental results based on real-world social networks demonstrate that our proposed method performs better than the well-known static community detection algorithm in mobile social networks.

Community structure is found everywhere from simple networks to real world complex networks. The problem of community detection is to predict clusters of nodes that are densely connected among themselves. The task of community detection has a wide variety of applications ranging from recommendation systems, advertising, marketing, epidemic spreading, cancer detection etc. The two mainly existing approaches for community detection, namely, stochastic block model and modularity maximization model focus on building a low dimensional network embedding to reconstruct the original network structure. However the mapping to low dimensional space in these methods is purely linear. Understanding the fact that real world networks contain non-linear structures in abundance, aforementioned methods become less practical for real world networks. Considering the nonlinear representation power of deep neural networks, several solutions based on autoencoders are being proposed in the recent literature. In this work, we propose a deep neural network architecture for community detection wherein we stack multiple autoencoders and apply parameter sharing. This method of training autoencoders has been successfully applied for the problems of link prediction and node classification in the literature. Our enhanced model with modified architecture produced better results compared to many other existing methods. We tested our model on a few benchmark datasets and obtained competitive results.

The modern science of networks has brought significant advances to our understanding of complex systems. One of the most relative features of graphs representing in real systems is community detection. The community detection can be considered as fairly independent compartments of a graph and a similar role play. It is an important problem in the analysis of computer networks, social networks, biological networks and many other natural and artificial networks. Thus, these networks are in general very large. And the finding hidden structures and functional modules are very hard tasks. This problem is very hard and not yet satisfactorily solved. Many methods have been intended to deal with this problem in networks. Some of the most expectation are methods based on statistical inference, which support on solid mathematical foundations and return excellent results in practice. In this paper we show the blockmodeling, a collection of methods for partitioning networks according to well-specified criteria. We use the term "blockmodeling" to characterize the usual approach to blockmodeling, which based on the concepts of structural equivalence and regular equivalence. We also gives the idea about how community is detected in social networking by Euclidean distance algorithm and REGE algorithm.

One of the most significant attributes of networks is their community structure. One can define a quality criterion for a community of a network in such a way that a high-quality community refers to a group of vertices that contains more highly-connected edges between its members than between its members and the rest of the network. Various algorithms have been developed to discover communities of networks, although there is not a straightforward solution to see which algorithms are good and how they are good. However, generating synthetic graphs, which are similar to real-world networks and also have a built-in community structure (known community structure), can be used in evaluating accurately different community detection algorithms. This paper presents and programs two very important categories of synthetic networks with known community structures. Afterward, it challenges several well-known community detection algorithms to discover communities in these networks.

Network contents including node contents and edge contents can be utilized for community detection in social networks. Thus, the topic of each community can be extracted as its semantic information. A plethora of models integrating topic model and network topologies have been proposed. However, a key problem has not been resolved that is the semantic division of a community. Since the definition of community is based on topology, a community might involve several topics. To ach

The detection of communities is an important problem in social network analysis, which has applications in various domains like sociology, biology, computer science, and marketing. In this context, genetic algorithms have proven to be effective in detecting communities by optimizing the modularity score of the network. The proposed work in this research paper uses an elitism-based genetic algorithm with some modified crossover and mutation techniques to detect communities in social networks. The proposed methodology incorporates the concepts of elitism, N-point crossover, and inverse mutation to enhance the effectiveness of genetic algorithms in solving optimization problems. The idea introduced in this article significantly extends the current understanding of optimization and evolutionary algorithms. We present an advanced methodology that leverages various genetic operators to improve the performance of a genetic algorithm in solving community detection problems in complex networks. Numerous research papers have extensively showcased the practicality of evolutionary and swarm-based algorithms in addressing real-world problems across diverse domains like viral marketing, link prediction, influence maximization, political polarization, etc. Hybridizing these algorithms with other optimization techniques has improved the performance and convergence speed, leading to enhanced optimization outcomes.

A cascade information diffusion based label propagation algorithm for community detection in dynamic social networks