Title
Discovering overlapping communities in ego-nets using friend intimacy
Abstract
Methods for detecting overlapping communities are essential for understanding complex network structures and extracting implied information. Traditional community detection algorithms have been proven to be unsatisfactory when the network community structure is relatively fuzzy. In this paper, we proposed a novel overlapping community discovery algorithm (ENFI) to address this problem on the micro level using ego-nets. The ENFI approach exploits the micro-characteristics of ego-nets, extracts the ego-net's local community by calculating the friend intimacy, and then forms the overlapping communities of the network. We conducted experiments on both synthetic and real-world social networks using normalized mutual information (NMI) and overlapping community modularity as evaluation criteria. The results demonstrated that the proposed ENFI algorithm can detect community structures in complex networks more efficiently and accurately than existing state-of-the-art algorithms.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.3233/JIFS-172242
JOURNAL OF INTELLIGENT & FUZZY SYSTEMS
Keywords
Field
DocType
Ego-net,overlapping community,friend intimacy,complex network
Cognitive science,Id, ego and super-ego,Artificial intelligence,Mathematics,Machine learning
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
36
6
1064-1246
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Furong Chang101.69
Bofeng Zhang217941.38
Haiyan Li386.32
Mingqing Huang492.51
Bingchun Li500.34
Yue Zhao65828.59