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Finding overlapping communities using seed set

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  • Yang, Jin-Xuan
  • Zhang, Xiao-Dong

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The local optimization algorithm using seed set to find overlapping communities has become more and more a significant method, but it is a great challenge how to choose a good seed set. In this paper, a new method is proposed to achieve the choice of candidate seed sets, and yields a new algorithm to find overlapping communities in complex networks. By testing in real world networks and synthetic networks, this method can successfully detect overlapping communities and outperform other state-of-the-art overlapping community detection methods.

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  • Yang, Jin-Xuan & Zhang, Xiao-Dong, 2017. "Finding overlapping communities using seed set," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 467(C), pages 96-106.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:phsmap:v:467:y:2017:i:c:p:96-106
    DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2016.10.006
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