Complex real-world networks commonly reveal characteristic groups of nodes like communities and modules. These are of value in various applications, especially in the case of large social and information networks. However, while numerous community detection techniques have been presented in the...

Communities are groups of nodes forming tightly connected units in networks. Some nodes can be shared between different communities of a network. The presence of overlapping nodes and their associated membership diversity is a common characteristic of social networks. Analyzing these overlapping...