Title
A comparative analysis of evolutionary and memetic algorithms for community detection from signed social networks
Abstract
To detect communities in signed networks consisting of both positive and negative links, two new evolutionary algorithms (EAs) and two new memetic algorithms (MAs) are proposed and compared. Furthermore, two measures, namely the improved modularity Q and the improved modularity density D-value, are used as the objective functions. The improved measures not only preserve all properties of the original ones, but also have the ability of dealing with negative links. Moreover, D-value can also control the partition to different resolutions. To fully investigate the performance of these four algorithms and the two objective functions, benchmark social networks and various large-scale randomly generated signed networks are used in the experiments. The experimental results not only show the capability and high efficiency of the four algorithms in successfully detecting communities from signed networks, but also indicate that the two MAs outperform the two EAs in terms of the solution quality and the computational cost. Moreover, by tuning the parameter in D-value, the four algorithms have the multi-resolution ability.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1007/s00500-013-1060-4
Soft Comput.
Keywords
Field
DocType
community detection problems,evolutionary algorithms,memetic algorithms,signed social networks
Memetic algorithm,Mathematical optimization,Social network,Evolutionary algorithm,Computer science,Theoretical computer science,Artificial intelligence,Partition (number theory),Machine learning,Modularity
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
18
2
14337479
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
20
0.74
29
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yadong Li1200.74
Jing Liu21043115.54
Chenlong Liu3221.13