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A Degenerate Agglomerative Hierarchical Clustering Algorithm for Community Detection

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Community detection consists of grouping related vertices that usually show high intra-cluster connectivity and low inter-cluster connectivity. This is an important feature that many networks exhibit and detecting such communities can be challenging, especially when they are densely connected. The method we propose is a degenerate agglomerative hierarchical clustering algorithm (DAHCA) that aims at finding a community structure in networks. We tested this method using common classes of graph benchmarks and compared it to some state-of-the-art community detection algorithms.

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  1. C2DH, CSC-ILIAL, University of Luxembourg, 2, avenue de l’Université, 4365, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg

    Antonio Maria Fiscarelli, Aleksandr Beliakov & Stanislav Konchenko

  2. FSTC-CSC/ILIAS & SnT, University of Luxembourg, 2, avenue de l’Université, 4365, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg

    Aleksandr Beliakov, Stanislav Konchenko & Pascal Bouvry

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    Ngoc Thanh Nguyen

  2. Quang Binh University, Dong Hoi City, Vietnam

    Duong Hung Hoang

  3. National University of Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

    Tzung-Pei Hong

  4. Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA

    Hoang Pham

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    Bogdan Trawiński

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Fiscarelli, A.M., Beliakov, A., Konchenko, S., Bouvry, P. (2018). A Degenerate Agglomerative Hierarchical Clustering Algorithm for Community Detection. In: Nguyen, N., Hoang, D., Hong, TP., Pham, H., Trawiński, B. (eds) Intelligent Information and Database Systems. ACIIDS 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10751. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75417-8_22

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