Title
Identifying Overlapping Communities and Their Leading Members in Social Networks.
Abstract
With the recent increasing popularity of social networking services like Facebook and Twitter, community structure has become a problem of considerable interest. Although there are more than a hundred algorithms that find communities in networks, only a few are able to detect overlapping communities, and an even smaller number of them follow an approach based on the evolution dynamics of these networks. Thus, we present FRINGE, an algorithm for the detection of overlapping communities in networks, which, based on the ideas of friendship and leadership, not only returns the overlapping communities detected, but also specifies their leading members. We describe the algorithm in detail and compare its results with those obtained by CFinder and iLCD for both synthetic and real-life networks. These results show that our proposal behaves well in networks with a clear social hierarchy, as seen in modern social networks.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1007/978-3-642-40643-0_6
ADVANCES IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, CAEPIA 2013
Keywords
Field
DocType
community detection,graph algorithms,overlapping communities,social influence,social networks
Graph algorithms,World Wide Web,Community structure,Social network,Friendship,Popularity,ILCD,Social influence,Engineering,Hierarchy
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
8109
0302-9743
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
9
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Camilo Palazuelos1123.22
Marta E. Zorrilla25116.05