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US Military Scientists Solve the Fundamental Problem of Viral Marketing | MIT Technology Review

  The West Point Group on Network Science proposes a new method for determining the minimum number and the profile of the people in a network that need to be “seeded” with a message such that the message would become viral.  In…

Finding Community Structure in Mega-scale Social Networks

Rhia improves upon work done by http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0408187 Community analysis algorithm proposed by Clauset, Newman, and Moore (CNM algorithm) finds community structure in social networks. Unfortunately, CNM algorithm does not scale well and its use is practically limited to networks whose sizes are…

Wow: An Algorithm for calculating community structure

MEJ Newman seems to have not only cracked the tough nut of detecting community structure in large networks but has also written the code to help the research community do it as well… Many kudos…. A. Clauset, M.E.J. Newman and C. Moore,…