Computational intelligence for network structure analytics

Description

This book presents the latest research advances in complex network structure analytics based on computational intelligence (CI) approaches, particularly evolutionary optimization. Most if not all network issues are actually optimization problems, which are mostly NP-hard and challenge conventional optimization techniques. To effectively and efficiently solve these hard optimization problems, CI based network structure analytics offer significant advantages over conventional network analytics techniques. Meanwhile, using CI techniques may facilitate smart decision making by providing multiple options to choose from, while conventional methods can only offer a decision maker a single suggestion. In addition, CI based network structure analytics can greatly facilitate network modeling and analysis. And employing CI techniques to resolve network issues is likely to inspire other fields of study such as recommender systems, system biology, etc., which will in turn expand CI’s scope and applications. As a comprehensive text, the book covers a range of key topics, including network community discovery, evolutionary optimization, network structure balance analytics, network robustness analytics, community-based personalized recommendation, influence maximization, and biological network alignment. Offering a rich blend of theory and practice, the book is suitable for students, researchers and practitioners interested in network analytics and computational intelligence, both as a textbook and as a reference work. Front Matter ....Pages i-xi Introduction (Maoguo Gong, Qing Cai, Lijia Ma, Shanfeng Wang, Yu Lei)....Pages 1-20 Network Community Discovery with Evolutionary Single-Objective Optimization (Maoguo Gong, Qing Cai, Lijia Ma, Shanfeng Wang, Yu Lei)....Pages 21-72 Network Community Discovery with Evolutionary Multi-objective Optimization (Maoguo Gong, Qing Cai, Lijia Ma, Shanfeng Wang, Yu Lei)....Pages 73-134 Network Structure Balance Analytics with Evolutionary Optimization (Maoguo Gong, Qing Cai, Lijia Ma, Shanfeng Wang, Yu Lei)....Pages 135-199 Network Robustness Analytics with Optimization (Maoguo Gong, Qing Cai, Lijia Ma, Shanfeng Wang, Yu Lei)....Pages 201-228 Real-World Cases of Network Structure Analytics (Maoguo Gong, Qing Cai, Lijia Ma, Shanfeng Wang, Yu Lei)....Pages 229-280 Concluding Remarks (Maoguo Gong, Qing Cai, Lijia Ma, Shanfeng Wang, Yu Lei)....Pages 281-283