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Discovering Hidden Groups in Communication Networks

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We describe models and efficient algorithms for detecting groups (communities) functioning in communication networks which attempt to hide their functionality – hidden groups. Our results reveal the properties of the background network activity that make detection of the hidden group easy, as well as those that make it difficult.

This research was partially supported by NSF grants 0324947 and 0346341

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Baumes, J., Goldberg, M., Magdon-Ismail, M., Wallace, W.A. (2004). Discovering Hidden Groups in Communication Networks. In: Chen, H., Moore, R., Zeng, D.D., Leavitt, J. (eds) Intelligence and Security Informatics. ISI 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3073. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-25952-7_28

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