The border k-means clustering algorithm for one dimensional data

R Froese, JW Klassen, CK Leung… - … Conference on Big …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Clustering has been widely used for data pre-processing, mining, and analysis. The k-
means clustering algorithm is commonly used because of its simplicity and flexibility to work …

Improvement to the discretized initial condition of the generalized density evolution equation

G Liu, K Gao, Q Yang, W Tang, SS Law - Reliability Engineering & System …, 2021 - Elsevier
The probability density evolution method has been popularly used for various stochastic
analysis of structural systems including the reliability analysis. The generalized density …

Towards effective discovery of natural communities in complex networks and implications in e-commerce

S Chattopadhyay, T Basu, AK Das, K Ghosh… - Electronic Commerce …, 2021 - Springer
Automated community detection is an important problem in the study of complex networks.
The idea of community detection is closely related to the concept of data clustering in pattern …

Statistical degree screening method for combustion mechanism reduction

J Wang, Y Li, M Liu, L Ji - Combustion and Flame, 2021 - Elsevier
From a statistical perspective, large complex reaction networks have the power-law degree
distributions, which means a small fraction of hub nodes are responsible for most of the …

Uncovering patterns in heavy-tailed networks: A journey beyond scale-free

S Chattopadhyay, T Chakraborty, K Ghosh… - Proceedings of the 3rd …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Real-world heavy-tailed networks are claimed to be scale-free, meaning that the degree
distributions follow the classical power-law. But it is evident from a closer observation that …

Modified Lomax model: A heavy-tailed distribution for fitting large-scale real-world complex networks

S Chattopadhyay, T Chakraborty, K Ghosh… - Social Network Analysis …, 2021 - Springer
Real-world networks are generally claimed to be scale-free. This means that the degree
distributions follow the classical power-law, at least asymptotically. However, closer …

Complex Network Analysis of Mass Violation, Specifically Mass Killing

I Erum, RAS Malick, G Ahmed, H Cherifi - Entropy, 2022 - mdpi.com
News reports in media contain news about society's social and political conditions. With the
help of publicly available digital datasets of events, it is possible to study a complex network …

Sampling in weighted social networks using a levy flight-based learning automata

S Roohollahi, A Khatibi Bardsiri, F Keynia - The Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Recently, there has been growing interest in social network analysis. Graph models for
social network analysis are usually assumed to be a deterministic graph with fixed weights …

Complex network structure extraction based on community relevance

J Ding, L Jiao, J Wu, F Liu - International Journal of Modern Physics …, 2020 - World Scientific
One way to understand the network function and analyze the network structure is to find the
communities of the network accurately. Now, there are many works about designing …

The Effect of Foreign Military Education Competition on Foreign Policy Influence in Postcolonial Africa

EM Lemons - 2023 - search.proquest.com
Foreign military education (FME) is education or training that a sponsoring state provides to
military service members of a recipient state. Since World War II, most states in the …