Characterizing the Structure of Affiliation Networks

ur society contains all types of organizations, such as companies, research groups and hobby clubs. Affliation networks, as a large and important portion of social networks, consist of individuals and their affiation relations: Two individuals are connected by a link if they belong to the same organization(s). Affliation networks naturally...

A Social Network Model Exhibiting Tunable Overlapping Community Structure

Social networks, as well as many other real-world networks, exhibit overlapping community structure. In this paper, we present formulas which facilitate the computation for characterizing the overlapping community structure of networks. A hypergraph representation of networks with overlapping community structure is introduced. Using the...