Finding representative nodes in probabilistic graphs

  • Authors:
  • Laura Langohr;Hannu Toivonen

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science and Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT, University of Helsinki, Finland;Department of Computer Science and Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT, University of Helsinki, Finland

  • Venue:
  • Bisociative Knowledge Discovery
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

We introduce the problem of identifying representative nodes in probabilistic graphs, motivated by the need to produce different simple views to large BisoNets. We define a probabilistic similarity measure for nodes, and then apply clustering methods to find groups of nodes. Finally, a representative is output from each cluster. We report on experiments with real biomedical data, using both the k-medoids and hierarchical clustering methods in the clustering step. The results suggest that the clustering based approaches are capable of finding a representative set of nodes.