Community Definition

Learn what communities are and why they’re important in complex network analysis.

The concept of community is really prominent in complex network analysis and a large field of research, given its importance.

What’s a community?

The definition of a community is not exactly fixed, but the authors overall say that a community is a group of nodes densely connected between them and sparsely connected with the rest of the network. Therefore, dense regions in a graph are what we usually consider a community.

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