Overlapping Community Discovery Method Based on Two Expansions of Seeds

• Main Authors: Yan Li, Jing He, Youxi Wu, Rongjie Lv
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2021-12-01
• Series: Symmetry
• Subjects: overlapping community discovery; gravitational degree; greedy strategy; two expansions
• Online Access: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/13/1/18

The real world can be characterized as a complex network sto in symmetric matrix. Community discovery (or community detection) can effectively reveal the common features of network groups. The communities are overlapping since, in fact, one thing often belongs to multiple categories. Hence, overlapping community discovery has become a new research hotspot. Since the results of the existing community discovery algorithms are not robust enough, this paper proposes an effective algorithm, named Two Expansions of Seeds (TES). TES adopts the topological feature of network nodes to find the local maximum nodes as the seeds which are based on the gravitational degree, which makes the community discovery robust. Then, the seeds are expanded by the greedy strategy based on the fitness function, and the community cleaning strategy is employed to avoid the nodes with negative fitness so as to improve the accuracy of community discovery. After that, the gravitational degree is used to expand the communities for the second time. Thus, all nodes in the network belong to at least one community. Finally, we calculate the distance between the communities and merge similar communities to obtain a less- undant community structure. Experimental results demonstrate that our algorithm outperforms other state-of-the-art algorithms.