Title
Communities and Balance in Signed Networks: A Spectral Approach
Abstract
Discussion based websites like Epinions.com and Slashdot.com allow users to identify both friends and foes. Such networks are called Signed Social Networks and mining communities of like-minded users from these networks has potential value. We extend existing community detection algorithms that work only on unsigned networks to be applicable to signed networks. In particular, we develop a spectral approach augmented with iterative optimization. We use our algorithms to study both communities and structural balance. Our results indicate that modularity based communities are distinct from structurally balanced communities.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/ASONAM.2012.48
Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining
Keywords
Field
DocType
mining community,like-minded user,spectral approach,potential value,social networks,balanced community,signed network,iterative optimization,structural balance,community detection algorithm,data mining,iterative methods
Data mining,Structural balance,Social network,Iterative method,Computer science,Spectral approach,Theoretical computer science,Artificial intelligence,Modularity,Machine learning
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4673-2497-7
29
1.21
References 
Authors
11
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Pranay Anchuri1502.27
Malik Magdon-Ismail2914104.34