Efficiency-Modularity for Finding Communities and Anticommunities in Networks
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-1-2017
Description
The modularity quality function commonly employed for finding community structure in complex networksis generalized in this article to a one-parameter family of quality functions. The generalization of networkmodularity proposed in this work is based on the concept of network efficiency, a metric first proposedby V. Latora and M. Marchiori. We define the efficiency-modularity of a partition based on the differencebetween the actual and expected efficiency among nodes in a community. The one adjustable parameter inefficiency-modularity can be tuned to detect either community or anticommunity structure with a singleunified algorithm.
Citation Information
Bales, Kristen N.; Eager, Zachary D.; and Harkin, Anthony A.. 2017. Efficiency-Modularity for Finding Communities and Anticommunities in Networks. Journal of Complex Networks. Vol.5(1). 70-83. https://doi.org/10.1093/comnet/cnw012 ISSN: 2051-1310
