Community detection in social networks based on information propagation and user engagement

Abstract

The iterative propagation of information between nodes will strengthen the connection strength between nodes, and the network can evolve into different groups according to difference edge strength. Based on this observation, we present the user engagement to quantify the influences of users different propagation modes to network propagation, and construct weight network to simulate real social network, and proposed the community detection method in social networks based on information propagation and user engagement. Our method can produce different scale communities and overlapping community. We also applied our method to real-world social networks. The experiment proved that the network spread and the community division interact with each other. The community structure is significantly different in the network propagation of different scales.