Finding overlapping communities in social networks: Toward a rigorous approach

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 37-54

  Arora, Sanjeev ^a   Ge, Rong ^a   Sachdeva, Sushant ^a   Schoenebeck, Grant ^a  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

overlapping community detection; social network analysis

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE-CASE; AVERAGE-CASE ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; DENSE GRAPHS; GLOBAL STRUCTURE; GRAPH-THEORETIC; HIER-ARCHICAL CLUSTERING; NETWORK PARAMETERS; NONOVERLAPPING; OVERLAPPING COMMUNITIES; PROBABILISTIC MODELS; PROPERTY-TESTING; RANDOM SAMPLING; RIGOROUS ANALYSIS; RIGOROUS APPROACH; RUNNING TIME; SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS; SOCIAL NETWORKS; SOLUTION CONCEPTS; SUBGRAPHS; UNDERLYING NETWORKS;

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DISTILLATION; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; GRAPH THEORY; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); SOCIAL SCIENCES;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84863507265     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2229012.2229020     Document Type: Conference Paper

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