Detecting multiple stochastic network motifs in network data

Kai Liu*, Kwok Wai CHEUNG, Jiming LIU

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Network motif detection methods are known to be important for studying the structural properties embedded in network data. Extending them to stochastic ones help capture the interaction uncertainties in stochastic networks. In this paper, we propose a finite mixture model to detect multiple stochastic motifs in network data with the conjecture that interactions to be modeled in the motifs are of stochastic nature. Component-wise Expectation Maximization algorithm is employed so that both the optimal number of motifs and the parameters of their corresponding probabilistic models can be estimated. For evaluating the effectiveness of the algorithm, we applied the stochastic motif detection algorithm to both synthetic and benchmark datasets. Also, we discuss how the obtained stochastic motifs could help the domain experts to gain better insights on the over-represented patterns in the network data.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining - 16th Pacific-Asia Conference, PAKDD 2012, Proceedings
Pages205-217
Number of pages13
EditionPART 2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2012
Event16th Pacific-Asia Conference on Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2012 - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Duration: 29 May 20121 Jun 2012

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
NumberPART 2
Volume7301 LNAI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference16th Pacific-Asia Conference on Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2012
Country/TerritoryMalaysia
CityKuala Lumpur
Period29/05/121/06/12

Scopus Subject Areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Computer Science(all)

User-Defined Keywords

  • expectation maximization algorithm
  • finite mixture models
  • social networks
  • Stochastic motifs

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