检测网络社团结构的基于最短路径的$k$-均值算法

我们考虑复杂网络社团结构的检测问题,即检测出那些具有高于平均密度的边所连接的节点的集合.本文我们利用模拟退火策略来极大化可表示为稳定效益函数的模量(modularity),并结合基于最短路径的$k$-均值迭代过程来对网络进行分区.该算法不仅能检测出社团,而且能够识别出在最短路径度量下,该社团中位于中心位置的节点.社团的最优数目可以在无需任何关于网络结构的先验信息下自动确定.对人工生成网络和真实世界中的网络的成功应用表明了算法的有效性.     

A note on the Estrada-Hatano communicability algorithm for detecting community structure in complex networks

Recently Estrada and Hatano proposed an algorithm for the detection of community structure in complex networks using the concept of network communicability. Here we amend this algorithm by eliminating the subjectivity of choosing degree of overlapping and including an additional check of the fitness of detected communities. We show that this amendment can detect some communities which remain undetected by Estrada and Hatano’s algorithm. For instance, let G(p, q) be a graph obtained from two cliques, K_p and K_q(p ? q ? 3), joined by a single edge. It is apparent that this graph contains two communities, namely the two cliques. However, Estrada and Hatano’s algorithm detects only K_q as a community when p is sufficiently larger than q. Our algorithm correctly detects both communities. Also, our method also finds the correct community structure in one of the classic benchmark networks, the Zachary karate club.     

Information dynamics algorithm for detecting communities in networks

The problem of community detection is relevant in many scientific disciplines, from social science to statistical physics. Given the impact of community detection in many areas, such as psychology and social sciences, we have addressed the issue of modifying existing well performing algorithms by incorporating elements of the domain application fields, i.e. domain-inspired. We have focused on a psychology and social network-inspired approach which may be useful for further strengthening the link between social network studies and mathematics of community detection. Here we introduce a community-detection algorithm derived from the van Dongen’s Markov Cluster algorithm (MCL) method [4] by considering networks’ nodes as agents capable to take decisions. In this framework we have introduced a memory factor to mimic a typical human behavior such as the oblivion effect. The method is based on information diffusion and it includes a non-linear processing phase. We test our method on two classical community benchmark and on computer generated networks with known community structure. Our approach has three important features: the capacity of detecting overlapping communities, the capability of identifying communities from an individual point of view and the fine tuning the community detectability with respect to prior knowledge of the data. Finally we discuss how to use a Shannon entropy measure for parameter estimation in complex networks.     

Ranking hubs and authorities using matrix functions

The notions of subgraph centrality and communicability, based on the exponential of the adjacency matrix of the underlying graph, have been effectively used in the analysis of undirected networks. In this paper we propose an extension of these measures to directed networks, and we apply them to the problem of ranking hubs and authorities. The extension is achieved by bipartization, i.e., the directed network is mapped onto a bipartite undirected network with twice as many nodes in order to obtain a network with a symmetric adjacency matrix. We explicitly determine the exponential of this adjacency matrix in terms of the adjacency matrix of the original, directed network, and we give an interpretation of centrality and communicability in this new context, leading to a technique for ranking hubs and authorities. The matrix exponential method for computing hubs and authorities is compared to the well known HITS algorithm, both on small artificial examples and on more realistic real-world networks. A few other ranking algorithms are also discussed and compared with our technique. The use of Gaussian quadrature rules for calculating hub and authority scores is discussed.     

An interactive graphical method for community detection in network data

The detection of community structures within network data is a type of graph analysis with increasing interest across a broad range of disciplines. In a network, communities represent clusters of nodes that exhibit strong intra-connections or relationships among nodes in the cluster. Current methodology for community detection often involves an algorithmic approach, and commonly partitions a graph into node clusters in an iterative manner before some stopping criterion is met. Other statistical approaches for community detection often require model choices and prior selection in Bayesian analyses, which are difficult without some amount of data inspection and pre-processing. Because communities are often fuzzily-defined human concepts, an alternative approach is to leverage human vision to identify communities. The work presents a tool for community detection in form of a web application, called gravicom, which facilitates the detection of community structures through visualization and direct user interaction. In the process of detecting communities, the gravicom application can serve as a standalone tool or as a step to potentially initialize (and/or post-process) another community detection algorithm. In this paper we discuss the design of gravicom and demonstrate its use for community detection with several network data sets. An “Appendix” describes details in the technical formulation of this web application built on the R package Shiny and the JavaScript library D3.     

An algorithm for detecting community structure of social networks based on prior knowledge and modularity

An algorithm is proposed to detect community structure in social network. The algorithm begins with a community division based on prior knowledge of the degrees of the nodes, and then combines the communities until a clear partition is obtained. In applications such as a computer‐generated network, Ucinet networks, and Chinese rural‐urban migrants' social networks, the algorithm can achieve higher modularity and greater speed than others in the recent literature. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Complexity 12: 53–60, 2007     

How Many Communities Are There?

Stochastic blockmodels and variants thereof are among the most widely used approaches to community detection for social networks and relational data. A stochastic blockmodel partitions the nodes of a network into disjoint sets, called communities. The approach is inherently related to clustering with mixture models; and raises a similar model selection problem for the number of communities. The Bayesian information criterion (BIC) is a popular solution, however, for stochastic blockmodels, the conditional independence assumption given the communities of the endpoints among different edges is usually violated in practice. In this regard, we propose composite likelihood BIC (CL-BIC) to select the number of communities, and we show it is robust against possible misspecifications in the underlying stochastic blockmodel assumptions. We derive the requisite methodology and illustrate the approach using both simulated and real data. Supplementary materials containing the relevant computer code are available online.     

A new modularity measure for Fuzzy Community detection problems based on overlap and grouping functions

One of the main challenges of fuzzy community detection problems is to be able to measure the quality of a fuzzy partition. In this paper, we present an alternative way of measuring the quality of a fuzzy community detection output based on n-dimensional grouping and overlap functions. Moreover, the proposed modularity measure generalizes the classical Girvan–Newman (GN) modularity for crisp community detection problems and also for crisp overlapping community detection problems. Therefore, it can be used to compare partitions of different nature (i.e. those composed of classical, overlapping and fuzzy communities). Particularly, as is usually done with the GN modularity, the proposed measure may be used to identify the optimal number of communities to be obtained by any network clustering algorithm in a given network. We illustrate this usage by adapting in this way a well-known algorithm for fuzzy community detection problems, extending it to also deal with overlapping community detection problems and produce a ranking of the overlapping nodes. Some computational experiments show the feasibility of the proposed approach to modularity measures through n-dimensional overlap and grouping functions.     

基于网络拓扑结构的重要节点发现算法

复杂网络中的重要节点发现在现实生活中有着广泛的应用价值。传统重要节点发现方法可分为局部发现和全局发现两类算法,全局发现算法中最具代表性的是特征向量中心性算法(Eigenvector Centrality, EC),EC算法将所有节点归为一个社区并利用邻居节点重要性反馈计算节点的影响力大小,具有较高的计算效率和识别精度。但是,EC算法忽略了网络的拓扑结构,未考虑到真实网络中节点所在社区的结构特征。为此,本文提出一种基于网络拓扑结构的可达中心性算法(Accessibility Centrality, AC),首先利用邻接矩阵作为反馈路径,在反馈过程中计算不同路径下的节点整体影响力。同时,利用影响力传递过程中的噪音干扰特性,修正每一路径长度下节点整体影响力大小,最后利用修正结果得到AC值。为评估AC算法,本文利用两种传染病模型模拟节点影响力在四组真实网络中的传播过程,并引入其他四种算法进行对比验证。实验结果表明,与其他算法相比,AC算法可以更准确、有效地识别出有具有影响力的重要节点。     

Solving a new stochastic multi-mode p-hub covering location problem considering risk by a novel multi-objective algorithm

In this paper, we develop a novel stochastic multi-objective multi-mode transportation model for hub covering location problem under uncertainty. The transportation time between each pair of nodes is an uncertain parameter and also is influenced by a risk factor in the network. We extend the traditional comprehensive hub location problem by considering two new objective functions. So, our multi-objective model includes (i) minimization of total current investment costs and (ii) minimization of maximum transportation time between each origin–destination pair in the network. Besides, a novel multi-objective imperialist competitive algorithm (MOICA) is proposed to obtain the Pareto-optimal solutions of the problem. The performance of the proposed solution algorithm is compared with two well-known meta-heuristics, namely, non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm (NSGA-II) and Pareto archive evolution strategy (PAES). Computational results show that MOICA outperforms the other meta-heuristics.     

Routing-efficient CDS construction in Disk-Containment Graphs

In wireless networks, Connected Dominating Sets (CDSs) are widely used as virtual backbones for communications. On one hand, reducing the backbone size will reduce the maintenance overhead. So how to minimize the CDS size is a critical issue. On the other hand, when evaluating the performance of a wireless network, the hop distance between two communication nodes, which reflect the energy consumption and response delay, is of great importance. Hence how to minimize the routing cost is also a key problem for constructing the network virtual backbone. In this paper, we study the problem of constructing applicable CDS in wireless networks in terms of size and routing cost. We formulate a wireless network as a Disk-Containment Graph (DCG), which is a generalization of the Unit-Disk Graph (UDG), and we develop an efficient algorithm to construct CDS in such kind of graphs. The algorithm contains two parts and is flexible to balance the performance between the two metrics. We also analyze the algorithm theoretically. It is shown that our algorithm has provable performance in minimizing the CDS size and reducing the communication distance for routing.     

Hierarchical approach for survivable network design

A central design challenge facing network planners is how to select a cost-effective network configuration that can provide uninterrupted service despite edge failures. In this paper, we study the Survivable Network Design (SND) problem, a core model underlying the design of such resilient networks that incorporates complex cost and connectivity trade-offs. Given an undirected graph with specified edge costs and (integer) connectivity requirements between pairs of nodes, the SND problem seeks the minimum cost set of edges that interconnects each node pair with at least as many edge-disjoint paths as the connectivity requirement of the nodes. We develop a hierarchical approach for solving the problem that integrates ideas from decomposition, tabu search, randomization, and optimization. The approach decomposes the SND problem into two subproblems, Backbone design and Access design, and uses an iterative multi-stage method for solving the SND problem in a hierarchical fashion. Since both subproblems are NP-hard, we develop effective optimization-based tabu search strategies that balance intensification and diversification to identify near-optimal solutions. To initiate this method, we develop two heuristic procedures that can yield good starting points. We test the combined approach on large-scale SND instances, and empirically assess the quality of the solutions vis-à-vis optimal values or lower bounds. On average, our hierarchical solution approach generates solutions within 2.7% of optimality even for very large problems (that cannot be solved using exact methods), and our results demonstrate that the performance of the method is robust for a variety of problems with different size and connectivity characteristics.     

Topology of the Italian airport network: A scale-free small-world network with a fractal structure?

In this paper, for the first time we analyze the structure of the Italian Airport Network (IAN) looking at it as a mathematical graph and investigate its topological properties. We find that it has very remarkable features, being like a scale-free network, since both the degree and the “betweenness centrality” distributions follow a typical power-law known in literature as a Double Pareto Law. From a careful analysis of the data, the Italian Airport Network turns out to have a self-similar structure. In short, it is characterized by a fractal nature, whose typical dimensions can be easily determined from the values of the power-law scaling exponents.Moreover, we show that, according to the period examined, these distributions exhibit a number of interesting features, such as the existence of some “hubs”, i.e. in the graph theory’s jargon, nodes with a very large number of links, and others most probably associated with geographical constraints.Also, we find that the IAN can be classified as a small-world network because the average distance between reachable pairs of airports grows at most as the logarithm of the number of airports. The IAN does not show evidence of “communities” and this result could be the underlying reason behind the smallness of the value of the clustering coefficient, which is related to the probability that two nearest neighbors of a randomly chosen airport are connected.     

广播网络的最佳源点集

广播是研究通信网络的某个成员的消息如何尽快地传递给所有其它成员的消息传递问题,有两类常见的通信模式,一类是shouting模式,即在一个单位时间内,一个顶点能够和它的户斤有邻点通信;另一类是whispering模式,即在一个单位时间以内,一个顶点最多只能和它的一个邻点通信,通信网络通常用图来描述,最初贮存消息的网络成员称为源点。     

Complexity of networks II: The set complexity of edge‐colored graphs

We previously introduced the concept of “set‐complexity,” based on a context‐dependent measure of information, and used this concept to describe the complexity of gene interaction networks. In a previous paper of this series we analyzed the set‐complexity of binary graphs. Here, we extend this analysis to graphs with multicolored edges that more closely match biological structures like the gene interaction networks. All highly complex graphs by this measure exhibit a modular structure. A principal result of this work is that for the most complex graphs of a given size the number of edge colors is equal to the number of “modules” of the graph. Complete multipartite graphs (CMGs) are defined and analyzed. The relation between complexity and structure of these graphs is examined in detail. We establish that the mutual information between any two nodes in a CMG can be fully expressed in terms of entropy, and present an explicit expression for the set complexity of CMGs (Theorem 3). An algorithm for generating highly complex graphs from CMGs is described. We establish several theorems relating these concepts and connecting complex graphs with a variety of practical network properties. In exploring the relation between symmetry and complexity we use the idea of a similarity matrix and its spectrum for highly complex graphs. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Complexity, 2012     

Designing WDM Optical Networks Using Branch-and-Price

In this paper, we present an exact solution procedure for the design of two-layer wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) optical networks with wavelength changers and bifurcated flows. This design problem closely resembles the traditional multicommodity flow problem, except that in the case of WDM optical networks, we are concerned with the routing of multiple commodities in two network layers. Consequently, the corresponding optimization models have to deal with two types of multicommodity variables defined for each of the network layers. The proposed procedure represents one of the first branch-and-price algorithms for a general WDM optical network setting with no assumptions on the number of logical links that can be established between nodes in the network. We apply our procedure in a computational study with four different network configurations. Our results show that for the three tested network configurations our branch-and-price algorithm provides solutions that are on average less than 5 % from optimality. We also provide a comparison of our branch-and-price algorithm with two simple variants of the upper bounding heuristic procedure HLDA that is commonly used for WDM optical network design.     

非对称视角下技术创新网络社群结构涌现及其对双元创新的影响研究

针对介于全局网络与自中心网络间的社群现象及其网络结构的创新悖论,分析了不同层面网络社群结构的涌现特征,从组织间关系的非对称视角,探究网络社群动态变化对双元创新的差异性影响。利用高科技生物制药行业的合作与专利数据,使用快速压缩社群识别算法和多元回归模型进行实证检验。研究结果表明:宏观层面的全局网络存在显著“抱团”的多社群巨元组结构;中观层面的网络社群存在选择偏好的核心-边缘结构;微观层面社群组织动态的跨社群运动和成员流动二维变化加剧;社群动态的二维变化对突破式创新具有正向影响,与渐进式创新呈现倒U型关系;位置非对称性正向调节社群动态对双元创新的影响,技术非对称性的调节作用不显著。研究结论有助于揭示技术创新网络社群的合作创新模式,对提升组织创新能力,维持创新网络平稳运行具有重要意义。     

Wide area telecommunication network design: application to the Alberta SuperNet

This article proposes a solution methodology for the design of a wide area telecommunication network. This study is motivated by the Alberta SuperNet project, which provides broadband Internet access to 422 communities across Alberta. There are two components to this problem: the network design itself, consisting of selecting which links will be part of the solution and which nodes should house shelters; and the loading problem which consists of determining which signal transport technology should be installed on the selected edges of the network. Mathematical models are described for these two subproblems. A tabu search algorithm heuristic is developed and tested on randomly generated instances and on Alberta SuperNet data.     

Cluster mixed synchronization via pinning control and adaptive coupling strength in community networks with nonidentical nodes

In this paper, complex networks with community structure and nonidentical nodes are investigated. The cluster mixed synchronization of these networks is studied by using some linear pinning control schemes. Only the nodes in one community which have direct connections to the nodes in other communities are controlled. Adaptive coupling strength method is adopted to achieve the synchronization as well. According to Lyapunov stability theory, several sufficient conditions for the network to achieve cluster mixed synchronization are derived. Numerical simulations are provided to verify the correctness and the effectiveness of the theoretical results.