Computer Science – Data Structures and Algorithms
Scientific paper
2012-04-04
Computer Science
Data Structures and Algorithms
19 pages, 3 figures, 1 table, 4 algorithms
Scientific paper
Nowadays, networks are almost ubiquitous. In the past decade, community detection received an increasing interest as a way to uncover the structure of networks by grouping nodes into communities more densely connected internally than externally. Yet most of the effective methods available do not consider the potential levels of organisation, or scales, a network may encompass and are therefore limited. In this paper we present a method compatible with global and local criteria that enables fast multi-scale community detection. The method is derived in two algorithms, one for each type of criterion, and implemented with 6 known criteria. Uncovering communities at various scales is a computationally expensive task. Therefore this work puts a strong emphasis on the reduction of computational complexity. Some heuristics are introduced for speed-up purposes. Experiments demonstrate the efficiency and accuracy of our method with respect to each algorithm and criterion by testing them against large generated multi-scale networks. This study also offers a comparison between criteria and between the global and local approaches.
Hankin Chris
Martelot Erwan Le
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