Title
Context-aided analysis of community evolution in networks.
Abstract
We are interested in detecting and analyzing global changes in dynamic networks (networks that evolve with time). More precisely, we consider changes in the activity distribution within the network, in terms of density (ie, edge existence) and intensity (ie, edge weight). Detecting change in local properties, as well as individual measurements or metrics, has been well studied and often reduces to traditional statistical process control. In contrast, detecting change in larger scale structure of the network is more challenging and not as well understood. We address this problem by proposing a framework for detecting change in network structure based on separate pieces: a probabilistic model for partitioning nodes by their behavior, a label-unswitching heuristic, and an approach to change detection for sequences of complex objects. We examine the performance of one instantiation of such a framework using mostly previously available pieces. The dataset we use for these investigations is the publicly available New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission dataset covering all taxi trips in New York City since 2009. Using it, we investigate the evolution of an ensemble of networks under different spatiotemporal resolutions. We identify the community structure by fitting a weighted stochastic block model. We offer insights on different node ranking and clustering methods, their ability to capture the rhythm of life in the Big Apple, and their potential usefulness in highlighting changes in the underlying network structure.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1002/sam.11354
STATISTICAL ANALYSIS AND DATA MINING
Keywords
Field
DocType
change detection,community discovery,evolving networks,network analysis
Data mining,Heuristic,Change detection,Ranking,Computer science,Evolving networks,Stochastic block model,Statistical model,Artificial intelligence,Network analysis,Cluster analysis,Machine learning
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
10.0
SP5
1932-1864
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
13
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Giuliana Pallotta1906.29
Goran Konjevod277957.82
Jose Cadena3987.53
Phan Nguyen421.04