In this paper, we present an alternate algorithm for detecting overlapping community structures in the complex network. Two concepts named the maximal sub-graph and the clustering coefficient between two neighboring communities are introduced. First, all the maximal sub-graphs are extracted from...

Although many successful algorithms have been designed to discover community structures in network, most of them are dedicated to disjoint and non-overlapping communities. Very few of them are intended to discover overlapping communities, particularly the detection of such communities have...