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Generalized Communities in Networks

M. E. J. Newman and Tiago P. Peixoto
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 088701 – Published 20 August 2015
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Abstract

A substantial volume of research is devoted to studies of community structure in networks, but communities are not the only possible form of large-scale network structure. Here, we describe a broad extension of community structure that encompasses traditional communities but includes a wide range of generalized structural patterns as well. We describe a principled method for detecting this generalized structure in empirical network data and demonstrate with real-world examples how it can be used to learn new things about the shape and meaning of networks.

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M. E. J. Newman1,2 and Tiago P. Peixoto3

  • 1Department of Physics and Center for the Study of Complex Systems, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
  • 2Santa Fe Institute, 1399 Hyde Park Road, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501, USA
  • 3Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Bremen, Hochschulring 18, D-28359 Bremen, Germany

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Vol. 115, Iss. 8 — 21 August 2015

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