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Diffusion approach for community discovering within the complex networks: LiveJournal study

  • Zakharov, Pavel Department of Physics, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
    02.01.2007
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  • Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications. - 2007, vol. 378, no. 2, p. 550-560
English The diffusion approach of concentration mapping is used to discover communities in the directional friendship network of LiveJournal users. We show that this Internet-based social network has a power-law region in degree distribution with exponent γ=3.45. It is also a small-world network with high clustering of nodes. To study the community structure we simulate diffusion of a virtual substance immersed in such a network as in a multi-dimensional porous system. By analyzing concentration profiles at intermediate stage of the diffusion process the well-interconnected cliques of users can be identified as nodes with equal values of concentration.
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Faculté des sciences et de médecine
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Département de Physique
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  • English
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Physics
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