Tracking the evolution of communities in co-authorship networks: A semantically aware approach

Dionisios N. Sotiropoulos, Demitrios E. Pournarakis, George M. Giaglis

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    Abstract

    This paper addresses the problem of tracking the time evolution of communities within co-authorship networks. We consider an evolutionary clustering approach which adapts the statistical framework of shrinkage estimation to obtain a smoothed version of the overall affinity matrix as the optimal weighted average between the matrices of past and current affinities. Moreover, the current affinity matrix at each time step is formed as the optimal mixing between the raw structural relationships between authors coupled with the semantic similarity of their published works, captured by performing LDA-based topic modeling on the corresponding corpora of abstracts. The proposed parametric weighting scheme is simultaneously optimized on a real co-authorship dataset emerging from the network of participants in the ICMB conferences, held from 2002 to 2013. Finally, community detection at each time step is conducted by employing spectral clustering on the estimated overall weight matrix. The obtained results justify that our approach provides a clearer revelation of the inherent authors' communities dynamics when compared against incremental cluster formations that rely exclusively on the structural information of the co-authorship network.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationIISA 2015 - 6th International Conference on Information, Intelligence, Systems and Applications
    PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
    ISBN (Electronic)9781467393119
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 20 Jan 2016
    Event6th International Conference on Information, Intelligence, Systems and Applications, IISA 2015 - Corfu, Greece
    Duration: 6 Jul 20158 Jul 2015

    Other

    Other6th International Conference on Information, Intelligence, Systems and Applications, IISA 2015
    Country/TerritoryGreece
    CityCorfu
    Period6/07/158/07/15

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