Community structure is an important feature to understand structural and functional properties in various complex networks. In this paper, we use Multidimensional Scaling (MDS) to map nodes of network into Euclidean space to keep the distance information of nodes, and then we use topology feature of communities to propose the local expansion strategy to detect initial seeds for FCM. Finally, the FCM are used to uncover overlapping communities in the complex networks. The test results in real-world and artificial networks show that the proposed algorithm is efficient and robust in uncovering overlapping community structure.
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