Community detection in social networks using ant colony algorithm and fuzzy clustering

Author(s):  
Ehsan Noveiri ◽  
Marjan Naderan ◽  
Seyed Enayatollah Alavi









2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xianjin Shi ◽  
Xiajiong Shen

Recent studies have shown that compared with traditional social networks, networks in which users socialize through interest recommendation have obvious homogeneity characteristics. Recommending topics of interest to users has become one of the main objectives of recommendation systems in such social networks, and the widespread data sparsity in such social networks has become the main problem faced by such recommendation systems. Particularly, in the oracle interest network, this problem is more difficult to solve because there are very few people who read and understand the Oracle. To address this problem, we propose an ant colony algorithm based recognition algorithm that can greatly expand the data in the oracle interest network and thus improve the efficiency of oracle interest network recommendation in this paper. Using the one-to-one correspondence between characters and translation in Oracle rubbings, the Oracle recognition problem is transformed into character matching problem, which can skip manual feature engineering experts, so as to realize efficient Oracle recognition. First, the coordinates of each character in the oracle bones are extracted. Then, the matching degree value of each oracle character corresponding to the translation of the oracle rubbings is assigned according to the coordinates. Finally, the maximum matching degree value of each character is searched using the improved ant colony algorithm, and the search result is the Chinese character corresponding to the oracle rubbings. In this paper, through experimental simulation, it is proved that this method is very effective when applied to the field of oracle recognition, and the recognition rate can approach 100% in some special oracle rubbings.



2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (9) ◽  
pp. 2521-2534 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruochen Liu ◽  
Jiangdi Liu ◽  
Manman He

Community detection in complex networks plays an important role in mining and analyzing the structure and function of networks. However, traditional algorithms for community detection-based graph partition and hierarchical clustering usually have to face expensive computational costs or require some specific conditions when dealing with complex networks. Recently, community detection based on intelligent optimization attracts more and more attention because of its good effectiveness. In this paper, a new multi-objective ant colony optimization with decomposition (MACOD) for community detection in complex networks is proposed. Firstly, a new framework of multi-objective ant colony algorithm specialized initially for the complex network clustering is developed, in which two-objective optimization problem can be decomposed into a series of subproblems and each ant is responsible for one single objective subproblem and it targets a particular point in the Pareto front. Secondly, a problem-specific individual encoding strategy based on graph is proposed. Moreover, a new efficient local search mechanism is designed in order to improve the stability of the algorithm. The proposed MACOD has been compared with four other state of the art algorithms on two benchmark networks and seven real-world networks including three large-scale networks. Experimental results show that MACOD performs competitively for the community detection problems.



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