Publication Type

Conference Proceeding Article

Version

submittedVersion

Publication Date

5-2014

Abstract

While community detection is an active area of research in social network analysis, little effort has been devoted to community detection using time-evolving social network data. We propose an algorithm, Persistent Community Detection (PCD), to identify those communities that exhibit persistent behavior over time, for usage in such settings. Our motivation is to distinguish between steady-state network activity, and impermanent behavior such as cascades caused by a noteworthy event. The results of extensive empirical experiments on real-life big social networks data show that our algorithm performs much better than a set of baseline methods, including two alternative models and the state-of-the-art.

Keywords

Community detection, persistent behavior, social networks

Discipline

Computer Sciences | Theory and Algorithms

Publication

Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining: 17th Pacific-Asia Conference, PAKDD 2013, Gold Coast, Australia, April 14-17, 2013, Proceedings, Part II

First Page

78

Last Page

89

ISBN

978-3-319-06608-0

Identifier

10.1007/978-3-319-06608-0_7

Publisher

Springer

Copyright Owner and License

LARC

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