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Community Structure: An Introduction

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As a salient and important structural characteristic of real world networks, community structure is increasingly attracting much research attention from various fields. In this chapter, we will briefly introduce the research progress about the detection of community structure in networks. These include community definition, community detection methods, community evolution, measurements for evaluation, and test datasets used in this monograph. We also describe the unresolved problems which deserves much more efforts in the future. This chapter can serve as a brief survey for beginners to the study of community structure in networks.

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Shen, HW. (2013). Community Structure: An Introduction. In: Community Structure of Complex Networks. Springer Theses. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31821-4_1

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