HE, DONGXIAO; LIU, JIE; YANG, BO; HUANG, YUXIAO; LIU, DAYOU - In: Advances in Complex Systems (ACS) 15 (2012) 08, pp. 1250036-1
In this paper, we propose a multi-layer ant-based algorithm (MABA), which detects communities from networks by means of locally optimizing modularity using individual ants. The basic version of MABA, namely SABA, combines a self-avoiding label propagation technique with a simulated annealing...