Device-to-device (D2D) communications over the licensed wireless spectrum has been
recently proposed as a promising technology to meet the capacity crunch of next generation …

A bipartite network is an important type of complex network in human social activities.
Newman defined modularity as a measurement for evaluating community structure in …

Many complex networks display community structure—group of nodes within which
connections are dense but between which they are sparser. A quantitative measure called …

Currently, much of the information of the real world is network-structured, and extracting
hidden information from network-structured data helps to understand the corresponding …

In smart grids, two-way communication between end-users and the grid allows frequent data
exchange, which on one hand enhances users' experience, while on the other hand …

Most real-world social networks are usually dynamic (evolve over time), thus communities
are constantly changing in memberships. In this paper, an incremental approach based on …

Online social networking sites are considered as one of the most influential facilitator of
many recent social movements. In this paper we investigate both the dynamics of friendship …

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like express the deepest appreciation to my committee
chair, Professor My T. Thai for always being a great advisor of my Ph. D. journey. She …