Title
A Probabilistic Framework For Structural Analysis In Directed Networks
Abstract
In our recent works, we developed a probabilistic framework for structural analysis in undirected networks. The key idea of that framework is to sample a network by a symmetric bivariate distribution and then use that bivariate distribution to formerly define various notions, including centrality, relative centrality, community, and modularity. The main objective of this paper is to extend the probabilistic framework to directed networks, where the sampling bivariate distributions could be asymmetric. Our main finding is that we can relax the assumption from symmetric bivariate distributions to bivariate distributions that have the same marginal distributions. By using such a weaker assumption, we show that various notions for structural analysis in directed networks can also be defined in the same manner as before. However, since the bivariate distribution could be asymmetric, the community detection algorithms proposed in our previous work cannot be directly applied. For this, we show that one can construct another sampled graph with a symmetric bivariate distribution so that for any partition of the network, the modularity index remains the same as that of the original sampled graph. Based on this, we propose a hierarchical agglomerative algorithm that returns a partition of communities when the algorithm converges.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/ICC.2016.7511157
2016 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMMUNICATIONS (ICC)
Keywords
DocType
Volume
centrality, community, modularity, PageRank
Journal
abs/1510.04828
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1550-3607
1
0.38
References 
Authors
6
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Cheng-Shang Chang12392246.97
Duan-Shin Lee267071.00
liheng liou3172.83
Sheng-Min Lu421.10
Mu-Huan Wu510.72