2009 International Conference on Advances in Social Network Analysis and Mining A Multi-Agent Based Decentralized Algorithm for Social Network Community Mining Athens, Greece July 20-July 22 ISBN: 978-0-7695-3689-7
Research has shown that many social networks come into being hierarchically based on some basic building blocks called communities, within which the social interactions are very intensive, but between which they are very weak. Network community mining algorithms aim at efficiently and effectively discovering all such communities from a given network. Many related methods have been proposed and applied to different areas including social network analysis, gene network analysis and web clustering engine. Most of the existing methods for mining communities are centralized. In this paper, we present a multi-agent based decentralized algorithm, in which a group of autonomous agents work together to mine a network through a proposed self-aggregation and self-organization mechanism. Thanks to its decentralized feature, our method is potentially suitable for dealing with distributed networks, whose global structures are hard to obtain due to their geographical distributions, decentralized controls or huge sizes. The effectiveness of our method has been tested against different benchmark networks.
Index Terms:
social network, community mining, multi-agent system, decentralized algorithm
Citation:
Bo Yang, Jing Huang, Dayou Liu, Jiming Liu, "A Multi-Agent Based Decentralized Algorithm for Social Network Community Mining," asonam, pp.78-82, 2009 International Conference on Advances in Social Network Analysis and Mining, 2009 Usage of this product signifies your acceptance of the Terms of Use. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||