Methods and apparatus for distributed community finding

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8825654
APP PUB NO 20130046842A1
SERIAL NO

13660955

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Methods and apparatus for a new approach to the problem of finding communities in complex networks relating to a social definition of communities and percolation are disclosed. Instead of partitioning the graph into separate subgraphs from top to bottom a local algorithm (communities of each vertex) allows overlapping of communities. The performance of an algorithm on synthetic, randomly-generated graphs and real-world networks is used to benchmark this method against others. An heuristic is provided to generate a list of communities for networks using a local community finding algorithm. Unlike diffusion based algorithms, The provided algorithm finds overlapping communities and provides a means to measure confidence in community structure. It features locality and low complexity for exploring the communities for a subset of network nodes, without the need for exploring the whole graph.

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NETSEER INC2400 SAND HILL ROAD SUITE 150 MENLO PARK CA 94025

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Muntz, Alice Hwei-Yuan Meng Pacific Palisades, US 8 963
Rezaei, Behnam Attaran Santa Clara, US 9 459

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