Overlapping Community Detection Based on Strong Tie Detection and Non-Overlapping Link Clustering

Abstract

Many clustering algorithms are in favour of node-based methods, but a link between nodes has one single feature, so link-based clustering is sometimes easier than node-based methods. Being dependent on the characteristics of links, a detection algorithm for a non-overlapping link community is put forward in this paper. The method proposed also distinguishes the differences between nodes with a high degree of accuracy and detects communities with a minimal number of overlapping nodes. On the basis of three different datasets, experiments were conducted to compare the proposed algorithm with different non-overlapping and overlapping clustering algorithms, and the results show that our algorithm generates the least number of overlapping nodes and achieves a good community partition.