Alternate views of graph clusterings based on thresholds: a case study for a student forum

  • Authors:
  • Maria Pouliopoulou;George Gkotsis;Christos Makris

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Patras, Patra, Greece;University of Warwick, Warwick, United Kingdom;University of Patras, Patra, Greece

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the sixth workshop on Ph.D. students in information and knowledge management
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

A network represented as a graph, can be transformed to a sparser graph, if a threshold is applied to the relationship between its objects. The threshold can be used as an upper or lower limit or define a range based on which we can exclude connections from the graph, thus resulting to different views of a graph. We examine for various values of the threshold the effect it has on the task of community detection and we propose a method to validate the results of the corresponding clusterings against the clustering of the original graph. We transform the clusterings in comparable forms and we employ four known measures for clustering validation in order to examine their resemblance. We present some preliminary experiments to evaluate the effects of a threshold on the clustering task and we outline possible usage of the different views that are produced.