Identify implicit communities by graph clustering

Abstract

How to find these communities is an important research work. Recently, community discovery are mainly categorized to HITS algorithm, bipartite cores algorithm and maximum flow/minimum cut framework. In this paper, we proposed a new method to extract communities. The MCL algorithm, which is short for the Markov Cluster Algorithm, a fast and scalable unsupervised cluster algorithm is used to extract communities. By putting mirror deleting procedure behind graph clustering, we decrease comparing cost considerably. After MCL and mirror deletion, we use community member select algorithm to produce the sets of community candidates. The experiment and results show the new method works effectively and properly.