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Volume 108, Number 6, December 2014
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Article Number | 68009 | |
Number of page(s) | 6 | |
Section | Interdisciplinary Physics and Related Areas of Science and Technology | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/108/68009 | |
Published online | 15 January 2015 |
Measuring robustness of community structure in complex networks
1 School of Management Science and Engineering, Central University of Finance and Economics Beijing 100080, China
2 Key Laboratory of Systems Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences Shanghai 200233, China
(a) Hjli@amss.ac.cn (corresponding author)
(b) holy.wong@connect.polyu.hk (corresponding author)
Received: 22 July 2014
Accepted: 9 December 2014
The theory of community structure is a powerful tool for real networks, which can simplify their topological and functional analysis considerably. However, since community detection methods have random factors and real social networks derived from complex systems always contain error edges, evaluating the robustness of community structure is an urgent and important task. In this letter, we employ the critical threshold of resolution parameter in Hamiltonian function, , to measure the robustness of a network. According to spectral theory, a rigorous proof shows that the index we proposed is inversely proportional to robustness of community structure. Furthermore, by utilizing the co-evolution model, we provides a new efficient method for computing the value of . The research can be applied to broad clustering problems in network analysis and data mining due to its solid mathematical basis and experimental effects.
PACS: 89.75.Hc – Networks and genealogical trees / 89.75.Fb – Structures and organization in complex systems
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