The fast growth of social networks and their privacy requirements in recent years, has lead to increasing difficulty in obtaining complete topology of these networks. However, diffusion information over these networks is available and many algorithms have been proposed to infer the underlying networks by using this information. The previously proposed algorithms only focus on inferring more links and do not pay attention to the important characteristics of the underlying social networks In this paper, we propose a novel algorithm, called DANI, to infer the underlying network structure while preserving its properties by using the diffusion information. Moreover, the running time of the proposed method is considerably lower than the previous methods. We applied the proposed method to both real and synthetic networks. The experimental results showed that DANI has higher accuracy and lower run time compared to well-known network inference methods.
Network inference is the main goal of this article which is more related to works explained in the category. Community detection algorithms that are based on diffusion concepts are not relevant to the proposed method in this paper, because they assume that the complete network topology is accessible. On the other hand, @cite_6 which is the only community detection work that does not consider the aforementioned assumption, utilizes a network inference approach ( @cite_1 ).
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Time plays an essential role in the diffusion of information, influence and disease over networks. In many cases we only observe when a node copies information, makes a decision or becomes infected -- but the connectivity, transmission rates between nodes and transmission sources are unknown. Inferring the underlying dynamics is of outstanding interest since it enables forecasting, influencing and retarding infections, broadly construed. To this end, we model diffusion processes as discrete networks of continuous temporal processes occurring at different rates. Given cascade data -- observed infection times of nodes -- we infer the edges of the global diffusion network and estimate the transmission rates of each edge that best explain the observed data. The optimization problem is convex. The model naturally (without heuristics) imposes sparse solutions and requires no parameter tuning. The problem decouples into a collection of independent smaller problems, thus scaling easily to networks on the order of hundreds of thousands of nodes. Experiments on real and synthetic data show that our algorithm both recovers the edges of diffusion networks and accurately estimates their transmission rates from cascade data. This article presents a hub-based approach to community finding in complex networks. After identifying the network nodes with highest degree (the so-called hubs), the network is flooded with wavefronts of labels emanating from the hubs, accounting for the identification of the involved communities. The simplicity and potential of this method, which is presented for direct undirected and weighted unweighted networks, is illustrated with respect to the Zachary karate club data, image segmentation, and concept association. Attention is also given to the identification of the boundaries between communities.