Multiobjective discrete particle swarm optimization for community detection in dynamic networks

作者:Gao, Chao*; Chen, Zhengpeng; Li, Xianghua; Tian, Zhihong; Li, Shudong; Wang, Zhen
来源:EPL, 2018, 122(2): 28001.
DOI:10.1209/0295-5075/122/28001

摘要

Tracking and identifying the dynamic patterns of evolving communities has recently drawn great attention. How to detect the community structure in a dynamic network has become a popular problem in the field of complex network and evolutionary computing. As a new concept, evolutionary clustering, is proposed to detect the process of dynamic networks under the temporal smoothness framework. Evolutionary-based clustering approaches try to maximize clustering accuracy at the current time step and minimize clustering drift at two successive time steps. But the low accuracy and the pre-setting of parameters limit their effectiveness. In order to overcome these weaknesses, in this paper, the community detection in a dynamic network is transformed into a multiobjective optimization problem. Specifically, we propose a novel decomposition strategy for multiobjective discrete particle swarm optimizationm, which balances the accuracy and the smoothness. The experimental results on synthetic and real-world datasets demonstrate the superiority of the proposed method compared with other state-of-the-art methods.