A survey of community detection methods in multilayer networks

• Published in: Data mining and knowledge discovery Vol. 35; no. 1; pp. 1 - 45
• Main Authors: Huang, Xinyu, Chen, Dongming, Ren, Tao, Wang, Dongqi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 01.01.2021; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Academic Surveys and Tutorials; Algorithms; Artificial Intelligence; Chemistry and Earth Sciences; Complex systems; Computer Science; Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery; Information Storage and Retrieval; Monolayers; Multilayers; Networks; Nodes; Physics; Sociology; Statistics for Engineering; Community detection; Multiplex network; Multilevel network; Temporal network; Multilayer network

Community detection is one of the most popular researches in a variety of complex systems, ranging from biology to sociology. In recent years, there’s an increasing focus on the rapid development of more complicated networks, namely multilayer networks. Communities in a single-layer network are grou...