Title
An Evolutionary Multiobjective Framework for Complex Network Reconstruction Using Community Structure
Abstract
The problem of inferring nonlinear and complex dynamical systems from available data is prominent in many fields, including engineering, biological, social, physical, and computer sciences. Many evolutionary algorithm (EA)-based network reconstruction methods have been proposed to address this problem, but they ignore several useful information of network structure, such as community structure, which widely exists in various complex networks. Inspired by the community structure, this article develops a community-based evolutionary multiobjective network reconstruction framework to promote the reconstruction performance of EA-based network reconstruction methods due to their good performance; we refer this framework as CEMO-NR. CEMO-NR is a generic framework and any population-based multiobjective metaheuristic algorithm can be employed as the base optimizer. CEMO-NR employs the community structure of networks to divide the original decision space into multiple small decision spaces, and then any multiobjective EA (MOEA) can be used to search for improved solutions in the reduced decision space. To verify the performance of CEMO-NR, this article also designs a test suite for complex network reconstruction problems. Three representative MOEAs are embedded into CEMO-NR and compared with their original versions, respectively. The experimental results have demonstrated the significant improvement benefiting from the proposed CEMO-NR in 30 multiobjective network reconstruction problems (MONRPs).
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1109/TEVC.2020.3020423
IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Community structure,complex network reconstruction,evolutionary algorithm (EA),large-scale optimization,multiobjective optimization
Journal
25
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
2
1089-778X
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
32
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kai Wu18714.27
Jing Liu21043115.54
Xingxing Hao320.72
Penghui Liu491.83
Fang Shen5266.80