We present a method that allows for the discovery of communities within graphs of arbitrary size in times that scale linearly with their size. This method avoids edge cutting and is based on notions of voltage drops across networks that are both intuitive and easy to solve regardless of the complexity of the graph involved. We additionally show how this algorithm allows for the swift discovery of the community surrounding a given node without having to extract all the communities out of a graph.
%0 Journal Article
%1 Wu2004
%A Wu, F.
%A Huberman, B. A.
%D 2004
%J The European Physical Journal B - Condensed Matter and Complex Systems
%K circuit community detection electronic
%N 2
%P 331--338
%R 10.1140/epjb/e2004-00125-x
%T Finding communities in linear time: a physics approach
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2004-00125-x
%V 38
%X We present a method that allows for the discovery of communities within graphs of arbitrary size in times that scale linearly with their size. This method avoids edge cutting and is based on notions of voltage drops across networks that are both intuitive and easy to solve regardless of the complexity of the graph involved. We additionally show how this algorithm allows for the swift discovery of the community surrounding a given node without having to extract all the communities out of a graph.
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abstract = {We present a method that allows for the discovery of communities within graphs of arbitrary size in times that scale linearly with their size. This method avoids edge cutting and is based on notions of voltage drops across networks that are both intuitive and easy to solve regardless of the complexity of the graph involved. We additionally show how this algorithm allows for the swift discovery of the community surrounding a given node without having to extract all the communities out of a graph.},
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author = {Wu, F. and Huberman, B. A.},
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journal = {The European Physical Journal B - Condensed Matter and Complex Systems},
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pages = {331--338},
timestamp = {2016-07-11T15:55:31.000+0200},
title = {Finding communities in linear time: a physics approach},
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volume = 38,
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