MCS+: An Efficient Algorithm for Crawling the Community Structure in Multiplex Networks
- Syracuse Univ., NY (United States)
- Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
In this article, we consider the problem of crawling a multiplex network to identify the community structure of a layer-of-interest. A multiplex network is one where there are multiple types of relationships between the nodes. In many multiplex networks, some layers might be easier to explore (in terms of time, money etc.). We propose MCS+, an algorithm that can use the information from the easier to explore layers to help in the exploration of a layer-of-interest that is expensive to explore. We consider the goal of exploration to be generating a sample that is representative of the communities in the complete layer-of-interest. This work has practical applications in areas such as exploration of dark (e.g., criminal) networks, online social networks, biological networks, and so on. For example, in a terrorist network, relationships such as phone records, e-mail records, and so on are easier to collect; in contrast, data on the face-to-face communications are much harder to collect, but also potentially more valuable. We perform extensive experimental evaluations on real-world networks, and we observe that MCS+ consistently outperforms the best baseline—the similarity of the sample that MCS+ generates to the real network is up to three times that of the best baseline in some networks. We also perform theoretical and experimental evaluations on the scalability of MCS+ to network properties, and find that it scales well with the budget, number of layers in the multiplex network, and the average degree in the original network.
- Research Organization:
- Sandia National Laboratories (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC04-94AL85000; NA0003525
- OSTI ID:
- 1810757
- Report Number(s):
- SAND--2020-14338J; 693137
- Journal Information:
- ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data, Journal Name: ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 16; ISSN 1556-4681
- Publisher:
- Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)Copyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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