Community detection using cooperative co-evolutionary differential evolution

Qiang Huang, Thomas White, Guanbo Jia, Mirco Musolesi, Nil Turan, Ke Tang, Shan He*, John K. Heath, Xin Yao

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Abstract

In many scientific fields, from biology to sociology, community detection in complex networks has become increasingly important. This paper, for the first time, introduces Cooperative Co-evolution framework for detecting communities in complex networks. A Bias Grouping scheme is proposed to dynamically decompose a complex network into smaller subnetworks to handle large-scale networks. We adopt Differential Evolution (DE) to optimize network modularity to search for an optimal partition of a network. We also design a novel mutation operator specifically for community detection. The resulting algorithm, Cooperative Co-evolutionary DE based Community Detection (CCDECD) is evaluated on 5 small to large scale real-world social and biological networks. Experimental results show that CCDECD has very competitive performance compared with other state-of-the-art community detection algorithms.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationParallel Problem Solving from Nature, PPSN XII - 12th International Conference, Proceedings
Pages235-244
Number of pages10
EditionPART 2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2012
Event12th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature, PPSN 2012 - Taormina, Italy
Duration: 1 Sept 20125 Sept 2012

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
NumberPART 2
Volume7492 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference12th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature, PPSN 2012
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityTaormina
Period1/09/125/09/12

Bibliographical note

Copyright:
Copyright 2012 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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