Graph Mining and Communities Detection

The incredible rising of on-line social networks gives a new and very strong interest to the set of techniques developed since several decades to mining graphs and social networks. In particularly community detection methods can bring very valuable informations about the structure of an existing social network in the Business Intelligence framework. In this chapter we give a large view, firstly of what could be a community in a social network, and then we list he most popular techniques to detect such communities. Some of these techniques were particularly developed in the SNA context, while other are adaptations of classical clustering techniques. We have sorted them in following an increasing complexity order, because with very big graphs the complexity can be decisive for the choice of an algorithm.

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Source First European Summer School, eBISS 2011, Paris, France, July 3-8, 2011, Tutorial Lectures
Author Cuvelier, Etienne, Aufaure, Marie-Aude
Maintainer CCSD
Last Updated May 16, 2026, 03:58 (UTC)
Created May 16, 2026, 03:58 (UTC)
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contributor Mathématiques Appliquées aux Systèmes - EA 4037 (MAS) ; École centrale Paris
creator Cuvelier, Etienne
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