Title
Community Detection In Dynamic Social Networks: A Game-Theoretic Approach
Keywords
community detection; dynamic social networks; game-theoretic models
Abstract
Most real-world social networks are inherently dynamic and composed of communities that are constantly changing in membership. As a result, recent years have witnessed increased attention toward the challenging problem of detecting evolving communities. This paper presents a game-theoretic approach for community detection in dynamic social networks in which each node is treated as a rational agent who periodically chooses from a set of predefined actions in order to maximize its utility function. The community structure of a snapshot emerges after the game reaches Nash equilibrium; the partitions and agent information are then transferred to the next snapshot. An evaluation of our method on two real world dynamic datasets (AS-Internet Routers Graph and AS-Oregon Graph) demonstrates that we are able to report more stable and accurate communities over time compared to the benchmark methods.
Publication Date
10-10-2014
Publication Title
ASONAM 2014 - Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining
Number of Pages
101-107
Document Type
Article; Proceedings Paper
Personal Identifier
scopus
DOI Link
https://doi.org/10.1109/ASONAM.2014.6921567
Copyright Status
Unknown
Socpus ID
84911087193 (Scopus)
Source API URL
https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84911087193
STARS Citation
Alvari, Hamidreza; Hajibagheri, Alireza; and Sukthankar, Gita, "Community Detection In Dynamic Social Networks: A Game-Theoretic Approach" (2014). Scopus Export 2010-2014. 8119.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/scopus2010/8119