Many complex systems can be described as networks exhibiting inner organization as communities of nodes. The identification of communities is a key factor to understand community-based functionality. We propose a family ...

The problem of community detection is relevant in many disciplines of science. A community is usually defined, in a qualitative way, as a subset of nodes of a network which are more connected among themselves than to the ...

This paper argues that existing examples of Community Networks (CNs) provide a solid evidence-base on which a right to “network self-determination” can be constructed. Network selfdetermination should be seen as the right ...

Users of online social networks voluntarily participate in different user groups or communities. Researches suggest the presence of strong local community structure in these social networks, i.e., users tend to meet other ...

© 2018, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.The relationship of friends in social networks can be strong or weak. Some research works have shown that a close relationship between friends conducts ...

One fundamental problem in social networks is the identification of groups of elements (also known as communities) when group membership is not explicitly available. Community detection has proven to be valuable in diverse ...

Past attempts at creating stakeholder networks for specific fields of research or industrial sectors have shown to be a resource-consuming and time-consuming process, which requires continuous monitoring and political ...

This study proposes an investigation to prove that when companies organize in networks and use social innovation in a productive system gets economic and social gain. The object of study is a case study of Milk Producers ...