Finding community structures in complex networks using mixed integer optimisation

G. Xu, S. Tsoka and L. G. Papageorgiou ()

The European Physical Journal B: Condensed Matter and Complex Systems, 2007, vol. 60, issue 2, 231-239

Abstract: The detection of community structure has been used to reveal the relationships between individual objects and their groupings in networks. This paper presents a mathematical programming approach to identify the optimal community structures in complex networks based on the maximisation of a network modularity metric for partitioning a network into modules. The overall problem is formulated as a mixed integer quadratic programming (MIQP) model, which can then be solved to global optimality using standard optimisation software. The solution procedure is further enhanced by developing special symmetry-breaking constraints to eliminate equivalent solutions. It is shown that additional features such as minimum/maximum module size and balancing among modules can easily be incorporated in the model. The applicability of the proposed optimisation-based approach is demonstrated by four examples. Comparative results with other approaches from the literature show that the proposed methodology has superior performance while global optimum is guaranteed. Copyright EDP Sciences/Società Italiana di Fisica/Springer-Verlag 2007

Keywords: 89.75.Hc Networks and genealogical trees; 02.60.Pn Numerical optimization; 87.23.Ge Dynamics of social systems (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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