Genetic algorithm with a local search strategy for discovering communities in complex networks

• Autor(a) principal: Liu, Dayou
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Outros Autores: Di, Jin, Baquero, Carlos, He, Dongxiao, Yang, Bo, Yu, Qiangyuan
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/34943
• topic: Complex network; Community mining; Network clustering; Genetic algorithm; Local search; Modularity Q; Local search; Modularity Q; Genetic algorithm; Science & Technology

In order to further improve the performance of current genetic algorithms aiming at discovering communities, a local search based genetic algorithm GALS is here proposed. The core of GALS is a local search based mutation technique. In order to overcome the drawbacks of traditional mutation methods, the paper develops the concept of marginal gene and then the local monotonicity of modularity function Q is deduced from each nodes local view. Based on these two elements, a new mutation method combined with a local search strategy is presented. GALS has been evaluated on both synthetic benchmarks and several real networks, and compared with some presently competing algorithms. Experimental results show that GALS is highly effective and efficient for discovering community.