Title
Optimization Algorithms for Detection of Social Interactions.
Abstract
Community detection is one of the most challenging and interesting problems in many research areas. Being able to detect highly linked communities in a network can lead to many benefits, such as understanding relationships between entities or interactions between biological genes, for instance. Two different immunological algorithms have been designed for this problem, called OPT-IA and HYBRID-IA, respectively. The main difference between the two algorithms is the search strategy and related immunological operators developed: the first carries out a random search together with purely stochastic operators; the last one is instead based on a deterministic Local Search that tries to refine and improve the current solutions discovered. The robustness of OPT-IA and HYBRID-IA has been assessed on several real social networks. These same networks have also been considered for comparing both algorithms with other seven different metaheuristics and the well-known greedy optimization LOUVAIN algorithm. The experimental analysis conducted proves that OPT-IA and HYBRID-IA are reliable optimization methods for community detection, outperforming all compared algorithms.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.3390/a13060139
ALGORITHMS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
community detection,optimization,modularity optimization,complex networks,metaheuristics,immunological-inspired computation
Journal
13
Issue
Citations 
PageRank 
6
0
0.34
References 
Authors
12
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
vincenzo cutello155357.63
Georgia Fargetta200.34
Mario Pavone321219.41
Rocco A. Scollo400.34