igraph (version 0.5.1)

spinglass.community: Finding communities in graphs based on statistical meachanics

Description

This function tries to find communities in graphs via a spin-glass model and simulated annealing.

Usage

spinglass.community(graph, weights=NULL, spins=25, parupdate=FALSE,
                    start.temp=1, stop.temp=0.1, cool.fact=0.99,
                    update.rule=c("config", "random", "simple"), gamma=1)
spinglass.community(graph, weights=NULL, vertex, spins=25,
                    update.rule=c("config", "random", "simple"), gamma=1)

Arguments

graph

The input graph, can be directed but the direction of the edges is neglected.

weights

The weights of the edges. Either a numeric vector or NULL. If it is null and the input graph has a weight edge attribute then that will be used. If NULL and no such attribute is present then the edges

spins

Integer constant, the number of spins to use. This is the upper limit for the number of communities. It is not a problem to supply a (reasonably) big number here, in which case some spin states will be unpopulated.

parupdate

Logical constant, whether to update the spins of the vertices in parallel (synchronously) or not. This argument is ignored if the second form of the function is used (ie. the vertex argument is present).

start.temp

Real constant, the start temperature. This argument is ignored if the second form of the function is used (ie. the vertex argument is present).

stop.temp

Real constant, the stop temperature. The simulation terminates if the temperature lowers below this level. This argument is ignored if the second form of the function is used (ie. the vertex argument is presen

cool.fact

Cooling factor for the simulated annealing. This argument is ignored if the second form of the function is used (ie. the vertex argument is present).

update.rule

Character constant giving the null-model of the simulation. Possible values: simple and config. simple uses a random graph with the same number of edges as the baseline probab

gamma

Real constant, the gamma argument of the algorithm. This specifies the balance between the importance of present and non-present edges in a community. Roughly, a comunity is a set of vertices having many edges inside the community and few edge

vertex

This parameter can be used to calculate the community of a given vertex without calculating all communities. Note that if this argument is present then some other arguments are ignored.

Value

• If the vertex argument is not given, ie. the first form is used then a named list is returned with the following slots:
  • membership
  {Integer vector giving the communities found. The communities have ids starting from zero and for each graph vertex ids community id is given in this vector.}
• csize
  The sizes of the communities in the order of their ids.
• modularity
  The modularity score of the result, as defined by Newman and Girvan, see references.
• temperature
  The temperature of the system when the algorithm terminated.

concept

• Statistical mechanics
• Spin-glass
• Community structure

synopsis

spinglass.community(graph, weights=NULL, vertex=NULL, spins=25, parupdate=FALSE, start.temp=1, stop.temp=0.01, cool.fact=0.99, update.rule=c("config", "random", "simple"), gamma=1)

code

vertex

itemize

• community

item

• cohesion
• adhesion
• inner.links
• outer.links

Details

This function tries to find communities in a graph. A community is a set of nodes with many edges inside the community and few edges between outside it (ie. between the community itself and the rest of the graph.

References

J. Reichardt and S. Bornholdt: Statistical Mechanics of Community Detection, Phys. Rev. E, 74, 016110 (2006), http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0603718

M. E. J. Newman and M. Girvan: Finding and evaluating community structure in networks, Phys. Rev. E 69, 026113 (2004)

See Also

clusters

Examples

g <- erdos.renyi.game(10, 5/10) %du% erdos.renyi.game(9, 5/9)
  g <- add.edges(g, c(0, 11))
  g <- subgraph(g, subcomponent(g, 0))
  spinglass.community(g, spins=2)
  spinglass.community(g, vertex=0)