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A Node Influence Based Memetic Algorithm for Community Detection in Complex Networks

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Bio-Inspired Computing: Theories and Applications (BIC-TA 2021)

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Abstract

Community structure is a significant property when analyzing the features and functions of complex systems. Heuristic algorithm-based community detection treats finding the community structure as an optimization problem, which has received great attentions in a variety of fields these years. Several community detection methods have been proposed. To make an approach of detecting the community structure in a more efficient way, a node influence based memetic algorithm (NIMA), considering node influence, is proposed in this paper. The NIMA consists of three main parts. First of all, a transition probability matrix-based initialization is employed to accelerate the convergence speed and provide an initial population with great diversity. Secondly, a network-specific crossover and a node degree-based mutation are designed to enlarge the search space and keep effective information. Last, a multi-level greedy search is deployed to find the potential optimal solutions quickly and effectively. Extensive experiments on 28 synthetic and 6 real-world networks demonstrate that compared with 11 existing algorithms, the proposed NIMA has effective performance on detecting communities in complex networks.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61703256, 61806119), Natural Science Basic Research Plan in Shaanxi Province of China (Program No. 2017JQ6070), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Program No. GK201803020) and the Graduate Innovation Team Project of Shaanxi Normal University (Grant No. TD2020014Z).

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    Zhuo Liu, Yifei Sun, Xin Sun & Kun Bian

  2. School of Computer Science, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an, 710119, China

    Shi Cheng & Ruoxia Yao

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Liu, Z., Sun, Y., Cheng, S., Sun, X., Bian, K., Yao, R. (2022). A Node Influence Based Memetic Algorithm for Community Detection in Complex Networks. In: Pan, L., Cui, Z., Cai, J., Li, L. (eds) Bio-Inspired Computing: Theories and Applications. BIC-TA 2021. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1565. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-1256-6_16

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