Detecting local communities in real-world graphs such as large social networks, web graphs, and biological networks has received a great deal of attention because obtaining complete information from a large network is still difficult and unrealistic nowadays. In this paper, we define the term...

In this paper, we present a local method for detecting communities in networks. We define an outside rate coefficient ψout in our method. ψout has a very simple form and is easy to calculate. The local community enclosing a starting node can be detected by agglomerating the node with the...