Measuring robustness of community structure in complex networks

HJ Li, H Wang, L Chen - Europhysics Letters, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
HJ Li, H Wang, L Chen
Europhysics Letters, 2015iopscience.iop.org
The theory of community structure is a powerful tool for real networks, which can simplify
their topological and functional analysis considerably. However, since community detection
methods have random factors and real social networks derived from complex systems
always contain error edges, evaluating the robustness of community structure is an urgent
and important task. In this letter, we employ the critical threshold of resolution parameter in
Hamiltonian function, $\gamma_C $, to measure the robustness of a network. According to …
Abstract
The theory of community structure is a powerful tool for real networks, which can simplify their topological and functional analysis considerably. However, since community detection methods have random factors and real social networks derived from complex systems always contain error edges, evaluating the robustness of community structure is an urgent and important task. In this letter, we employ the critical threshold of resolution parameter in Hamiltonian function, , to measure the robustness of a network. According to spectral theory, a rigorous proof shows that the index we proposed is inversely proportional to robustness of community structure. Furthermore, by utilizing the co-evolution model, we provides a new efficient method for computing the value of . The research can be applied to broad clustering problems in network analysis and data mining due to its solid mathematical basis and experimental effects.
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