Evolution of communities in dynamic social networks: An efficient map-based approach

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Highlights:

• Proposing a highly efficient approach to track community evolution.

• Defining a new community evolution terminology.

• Showing the effects of community detection algorithms on community evolution.

• Considering partial evolution and non-consecutive time windows.

摘要

•Proposing a highly efficient approach to track community evolution.•Defining a new community evolution terminology.•Showing the effects of community detection algorithms on community evolution.•Considering partial evolution and non-consecutive time windows.

论文关键词:Complex network,Social network analysis,Dynamic network,Community evolution,Community matching

论文评审过程:Received 15 October 2018, Revised 15 December 2019, Accepted 17 January 2020, Available online 20 January 2020, Version of Record 26 January 2020.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2020.113221