scholarly journals A New Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithm for Community Detection in Dynamic Complex Networks

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guoqiang Chen ◽  
Yuping Wang ◽  
Jingxuan Wei
Keyword(s):  
Evolutionary Algorithm ◽  
Community Detection ◽  
Dynamic Networks ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
Detection Methods ◽  
Genetic Operators ◽  
Normalized Mutual Information ◽  
Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithm ◽  
Important Research Topic ◽  
Synthetic Datasets

Community detection in dynamic networks is an important research topic and has received an enormous amount of attention in recent years. Modularity is selected as a measure to quantify the quality of the community partition in previous detection methods. But, the modularity has been exposed to resolution limits. In this paper, we propose a novel multiobjective evolutionary algorithm for dynamic networks community detection based on the framework of nondominated sorting genetic algorithm. Modularity density which can address the limitations of modularity function is adopted to measure the snapshot cost, and normalized mutual information is selected to measure temporal cost, respectively. The characteristics knowledge of the problem is used in designing the genetic operators. Furthermore, a local search operator was designed, which can improve the effectiveness and efficiency of community detection. Experimental studies based on synthetic datasets show that the proposed algorithm can obtain better performance than the compared algorithms.

scholarly journals Decomposition-Based Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithm for Community Detection in Dynamic Social Networks

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jingjing Ma ◽  
Jie Liu ◽  
Wenping Ma ◽  
Maoguo Gong ◽  
Licheng Jiao
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Community Structure ◽  
Evolutionary Algorithm ◽  
Community Detection ◽  
Dynamic Networks ◽  
Time Step ◽  
Current Time ◽  
Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithm ◽  
Dynamic Social Networks

Community structure is one of the most important properties in social networks. In dynamic networks, there are two conflicting criteria that need to be considered. One is the snapshot quality, which evaluates the quality of the community partitions at the current time step. The other is the temporal cost, which evaluates the difference between communities at different time steps. In this paper, we propose a decomposition-based multiobjective community detection algorithm to simultaneously optimize these two objectives to reveal community structure and its evolution in dynamic networks. It employs the framework of multiobjective evolutionary algorithm based on decomposition to simultaneously optimize the modularity and normalized mutual information, which quantitatively measure the quality of the community partitions and temporal cost, respectively. A local search strategy dealing with the problem-specific knowledge is incorporated to improve the effectiveness of the new algorithm. Experiments on computer-generated and real-world networks demonstrate that the proposed algorithm can not only find community structure and capture community evolution more accurately, but also be steadier than the two compared algorithms.

Uncovering local community structure on line graph through degree centrality and expansion

2021 ◽  
pp. 2150120
Author(s):  
Guishen Wang ◽  
Kaitai Wang ◽  
Hongmei Wang ◽  
Huimin Lu ◽  
Xiaotang Zhou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Community Structure ◽  
Community Detection ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Line Graph ◽  
Detection Methods ◽  
Degree Centrality ◽  
Original Graph ◽  
Normalized Mutual Information ◽  
Local Community Detection ◽  
On Line

Local community detection algorithms are an important type of overlapping community detection methods. Local community detection methods identify local community structure through searching seeds and expansion process. In this paper, we propose a novel local community detection method on line graph through degree centrality and expansion (LCDDCE). We firstly employ line graph model to transfer edges into nodes of a new graph. Secondly, we evaluate edges relationship through a novel node similarity method on line graph. Thirdly, we introduce local community detection framework to identify local node community structure of line graph, combined with degree centrality and PageRank algorithm. Finally, we transfer them back into original graph. The experimental results on three classical benchmarks show that our LCDDCE method achieves a higher performance on normalized mutual information metric with other typical methods.

scholarly journals Identifying Communities in Dynamic Networks Using Information Dynamics

Entropy ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 425
Author(s):  
Zejun Sun ◽  
Jinfang Sheng ◽  
Bin Wang ◽  
Aman Ullah ◽  
FaizaRiaz Khawaja
Keyword(s):  
Community Detection ◽  
Dynamic Networks ◽  
Parameter Tuning ◽  
Detection Algorithm ◽  
Network Evolution ◽  
Detection Methods ◽  
Detection Accuracy ◽  
Information Dynamics ◽  
Dynamic Community Detection ◽  
Dynamic Community

Identifying communities in dynamic networks is essential for exploring the latent network structures, understanding network functions, predicting network evolution, and discovering abnormal network events. Many dynamic community detection methods have been proposed from different viewpoints. However, identifying the community structure in dynamic networks is very challenging due to the difficulty of parameter tuning, high time complexity and detection accuracy decreasing as time slices increase. In this paper, we present a dynamic community detection framework based on information dynamics and develop a dynamic community detection algorithm called DCDID (dynamic community detection based on information dynamics), which uses a batch processing technique to incrementally uncover communities in dynamic networks. DCDID employs the information dynamics model to simulate the exchange of information among nodes and aims to improve the efficiency of community detection by filtering out the unchanged subgraph. To illustrate the effectiveness of DCDID, we extensively test it on synthetic and real-world dynamic networks, and the results demonstrate that the DCDID algorithm is superior to the representative methods in relation to the quality of dynamic community detection.

scholarly journals A New Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithm Based on Decomposition of the Objective Space for Multiobjective Optimization

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cai Dai ◽  
Yuping Wang
Keyword(s):  
Multiobjective Optimization ◽  
Evolutionary Algorithm ◽  
Pareto Front ◽  
Optimization Problems ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
Evolutionary Process ◽  
Optimal Solution ◽  
Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithm ◽  
Multiobjective Optimization Problems ◽  
Objective Space

In order to well maintain the diversity of obtained solutions, a new multiobjective evolutionary algorithm based on decomposition of the objective space for multiobjective optimization problems (MOPs) is designed. In order to achieve the goal, the objective space of a MOP is decomposed into a set of subobjective spaces by a set of direction vectors. In the evolutionary process, each subobjective space has a solution, even if it is not a Pareto optimal solution. In such a way, the diversity of obtained solutions can be maintained, which is critical for solving some MOPs. In addition, if a solution is dominated by other solutions, the solution can generate more new solutions than those solutions, which makes the solution of each subobjective space converge to the optimal solutions as far as possible. Experimental studies have been conducted to compare this proposed algorithm with classic MOEA/D and NSGAII. Simulation results on six multiobjective benchmark functions show that the proposed algorithm is able to obtain better diversity and more evenly distributed Pareto front than the other two algorithms.

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