Community Detection and Clustering Complex Networks and Their Applications

Dear Colleagues,

Community structure is one of the most relevant features encountered in numerous real-world applications of networked systems. Despite the tremendous effort of a large interdisciplinary community of scientists working on this subject over the past few years to characterize, model, and analyze communities, more investigations are needed to better understand the impact of their structure and dynamics on networked systems. Therefore, the primary goal of this Special Issue is to demonstrate the cutting-edge research advances in community structures in networks in order to provide a landscape of research progress and application potentials in related areas.

Papers ranging from a broad nature to focusing on various aspects of community structure with strong algorithmic innovations and also application-oriented works are solicited.

Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Models of communities;
• Embedding models of communities;
• Evolution/temporal communities;
• Dynamics of communities;
• Community detection;
• Communities in uncertain data;
• Entropy metrics for communities;
• Visual representation of communities;
• Parallel algorithms for communities;
• Hierarchy and ego-networks;
• Communities and sampling;
• Communities and controllability;
• Communities and synchronization;
• Communities and machine learning;
• Communities and resilience;
• Communities and link prediction;
• Communities in social networks;
• Communities in multiplex;
• Communities in economics and finance;
• Communities in epidemics;
• Communities in rumor spreading;
• Communities in mobile networks;
• Communities in biological networks;
• Communities in the brain;
• Communities in technological networks.

Prof. Dr. Boleslaw K. Szymanski
Prof. Dr. Kevin E. Bassler
Prof. Dr. Tao Jia
Guest Editors

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