Community evolution in dynamic multi-mode networks

Lei Tang, Huan Liu, Jianping Zhang, Zohreh Nazeri

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204 Scopus citations

Abstract

A multi-mode network typically consists of multiple heterogeneous social actors among which various types of interactions could occur. Identifying communities in a multi-mode network can help understand the structural properties of the network, address the data shortage and unbalanced problems, and assist tasks like targeted marketing and finding influential actors within or between groups. In general, a network and the membership of groups often evolve gradually. In a dynamic multi-mode network, both actor membership and interactions can evolve, which poses a challenging problem of identifying community evolution. In this work, we try to address this issue by employing the temporal information to analyze a multi-mode network. A spectral framework and its scalability issue are carefully studied. Experiments on both synthetic data and real-world large scale networks demonstrate the efficacy of our algorithm and suggest its generality in solving problems with complex relationships.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationKDD 2008 - Proceedings of the 14th ACMKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
Pages677-685
Number of pages9
DOIs
StatePublished - 2008
Event14th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, KDD 2008 - Las Vegas, NV, United States
Duration: Aug 24 2008Aug 27 2008

Publication series

NameProceedings of the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

Other

Other14th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, KDD 2008
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityLas Vegas, NV
Period8/24/088/27/08

Keywords

  • Community evolution
  • Dynamic heterogeneous network
  • Dynamic network analysis
  • Evolution
  • Multi-mode networks

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Information Systems

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