Community detection in large-scale networks: A survey and empirical evaluation

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Computational Statistics

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 426-439

  Harenberg, Steve ^a,b   Bello, Gonzalo ^a,b   Gjeltema, L ^a,b   Ranshous, Stephen ^a,b   Harlalka, Jitendra ^a,b   Seay, Ramona ^a,b   Padmanabhan, Kanchana ^a,b   Samatova, Nagiza ^a,b  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Clustering; Community detection; Empirical evaluation; Graphs; Ground truth; Networks

Indexed keywords

DATA ANALYTICS; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS);

CLUSTERING; COMMUNITY DETECTION; EMPIRICAL EVALUATIONS; GRAPHS; GROUND TRUTH;

POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 84927598115     PISSN: 19395108     EISSN: 19390068     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wics.1319     Document Type: Review

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