Communities and Balance in Signed Networks: A Spectral Approach

  • Authors:
  • Pranay Anchuri;Malik Magdon-Ismail

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • ASONAM '12 Proceedings of the 2012 International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2012)
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Discussion based websites like Epinions.com and Slashdot.com allow users to identify both friends and foes. Such networks are called Signed Social Networks and mining communities of like-minded users from these networks has potential value. We extend existing community detection algorithms that work only on unsigned networks to be applicable to signed networks. In particular, we develop a spectral approach augmented with iterative optimization. We use our algorithms to study both communities and structural balance. Our results indicate that modularity based communities are distinct from structurally balanced communities.