Community detection in large-scale social networks
Citations Over TimeTop 10% of 2007 papers
Abstract
Recent years have seen that WWW is becoming a flourishing social media which enables individuals to easily share opinions, experiences and expertise at the push of a single button. With the pervasive usage of instant messaging systems and the fundamental shift in the ease of publishing content, social network researchers and graph theory researchers are now concerned with inferring community structures by analyzing the linkage patterns among individuals and web pages. Although the investigation of community structures has motivated many diverse algorithms, most of them are unsuitable for large-scale social networks because of the computational cost. Moreover, in addition to identify the possible community structures, how to define and explain the discovered communities is also significant in many practical scenarios.