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ARTICLE IN PRESS Pattern Recognition Letters xxx (2009) xxx–xxx Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Pattern Recognition Letters journal homepage: www.else /locate/patrec Identifying and evaluating community structure in complex networks Karsten Steinhaeuser, Nitesh V. Chawla * University of Notre Dame, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Interdisciplinary Center for Network Science and Applications (iCeNSA), Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: We compare and evaluate different metrics for community structure in networks. In this context we also Received 3 March 2009 discuss a simple approach to community detection, and show that it performs as well as other methods, Received in revised form 4 September 2009 but at lower computational complexity. Available online xxxx 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Communicated by F. Roli Keywords: Complex networks Community detection Social networks Random walks Scalability Evaluation metrics 1. Introduction be more tightly connected than they would be by chance, has been adopted for a variety of uses including the validation and compar- Modern data mining is often confronted with problems arising ison of community structures (Newman and Girvan, 2004; Pons from comple