Community structure is the key aspect of complex network analysis and it has important practical significance. While in real networks, some nodes may belong to multiple communities, so overlapping community detection attracts more and more attention. But most of the existing overlapping community detection algorithms increase the time complexity in some extent. In order to detect overlapping co...

We are interested in observing changes to a particular web graph community over time. A small subset of the entire web graph can provide sufficient information about our community of interest. Therefore we use a local approach where knowledge of the entire web graph is not needed. In this paper we will consider how we may track the evolution of a community from a local point of view and analyze...

Based on the data of my fieldwork in Ahmedabad, India, this paper attempts to examine the processes of women’s empowerment at the intersection of local community-based activities of women’s organisations and individual interests and needs. The case discussed in this paper is of poor women’s participation in community-based organisations (CBOs) under a local government-NGO collaborated slum impr...

Online investing has seen a rapid growth. It has provided individual investors with the ability to control their own investments. Individual investors use virtual investment communities (VICs) to seek, disseminate and share relevant information. VICs are one of the largest subsets of virtual communities. Yet, very little is known about what contributes to the success of VICs. This research unde...