The communities in a network have distinct characteristics and interrelationships. Community discovery methods based on node embedding and deep learning have surpassed spectral clustering and statistical inference as the preferred methods for handling high-dimensional network data. Community...

This paper aims to further our emerging knowledge on the external linkages of regional clusters. We adopt a network governance perspective and study connected clusters as goal-directed, multilevel whole networks that we denote as “cluster networks.” Based on an analysis of four empirical...