Meso-scale Structures in Large Graphs: Finding Communities with Substructure

This website contains information and updates concerning the collaborative project titled, "Meso-scale Structures in Large Graphs: Finding Communities with Substructure",  one of several supported by the Illinois:Insper Partnership.

Key Personnel:

• Fabio Ayres (Insper)

• George Chacko (UIUC)

• Charles Kirschbaum (Insper)

• Tandy Warnow (UIUC)

Publications, preprints, and manuscripts from this project:

• GUI-CM Cardoso Lamy et al. (2025) (in prep)

• An agent based model of citation behavior (2025) Chacko et al. [in review JASSS]

• The EC-SBM Synthetic Network Generator (2025) Vu-Le et al. (2025) [In Press. Applied Network Science]

• RECCS: Realistic Cluster Connectivity Simulator for Synthetic Network Generation (2025) Anne et al. (invited submission Advances in Complex Systems) [in review]

• Synthetic Networks That Preserve Edge Connectivity (2024).  Anne, Lahari; Vu-Le, The-Anh; Park, Minhyuk; Warnow, Tandy; Chacko, George.  Accepted : XIII International Conference on Complex Networks and Applications CNA 2024 [Conference Talk + Paper]

• Improved Community Detection using Stochastic Block Models (2024) Park, Minhyuk; Feng, Daniel; Digra, Siya; Vu-Le, The-Anh; Chacko, George; Warnow, Tandy. Accepted: XIII International Conference on Complex Networks and Applications CNA 2024 [Conference Talk + Paper]

• Well-Connectedness and Community Detection (2024) Park, Minhyuk; Tabatabaee, Yasamin; Ramavarapu, Vikram; Liu, Baqiao; Pailodi, Vidya; Korobskiy, Dmitriy; Ayres, Fabio; Ramachandran, Rajiv; Chacko, George; Warnow, Tandy.  PLOS Complex Systems. [IN PRESS Nov 2024. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcsy.0000009]

• CM++ A Meta-method for Well-Connected Community Detection (2024) Ramavarapu, Vikram; Ayres, Fabio; Park, Minhyuk; Pailodi, Vidya; Lamy, João AC; Warnow, Tandy; Chacko, George. Journal of Open Source Software DOI: 10.21105/joss.06073

• Identifying Well Connected Communities in Real-World and Synthetic Networks (2024) Park, Minhyuk; Tabatabaee, Yasamin; Ramavarapu, Vikram; Liu Baqiao; Pailodi, Vidya; Ramachandran, Rajiv; Korobskiy, Dmitriy, Ayres, Fabio, Chacko, George; Warnow, Tandy. Complex Networks & Their Applications XII [Conference Talk + Paper] DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-53499-7_1

In Preparation:

• Dense Subgraph Clustering (2024/2025) Park, Minhyuk; Lamy, João AC; Alessi, Tomás; Chacko, George; Warnow, Tandy.

• A Simple Portable GUI to Access Clustering Algorithms (2024/2025) Alessi, Tomás; Lamy, João AC; Park Minhyuk, Warnow, Tandy; Chacko, George

Undergraduate/Graduate Students' Collaborative Network:

• João Alfredo Cardoso Lamy (Insper)

• Tomàs Alessi (Insper)

• Sergiu Pod (UIUC: MCS)

• Daniel Wang Feng (UIUC: undergraduate)

• Digra, Siya (UIUC: undergraduate)

• Park, Minhyuk (UIUC, PhD)

• Vu-Le, The-Anh (UIUC, PhD)

• Ramavarapu, Vikram (UIUC, PhD)

• Anne, Lahari (UIUC, MS)