Generalized Communities in Networks.
A substantial volume of research is devoted to studies of community structure in networks, but communities are not the only possible form of large-scale network structure. Here, we describe a broad extension of community structure that encompasses traditional communities but includes a wide range of generalized structural patterns as well. We describe a principled method for detecting this generalized structure in empirical network data and demonstrate with real-world examples how it can be used to learn new things about the shape and meaning of networks.
Department of Physics and Center for the Study of Complex Systems, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA.|Santa Fe Institute, 1399 Hyde Park Road, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501, USA.
M E J
ME
Newman
Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Bremen, Hochschulring 18, D-28359 Bremen, Germany.
Tiago P
TP
Peixoto