Publications
Community Assessment Using Evidence Networks
Mitzlaff, F.; Atzmueller, M.; Benz, D.; Hotho, A. & Stumme, G.
Atzmueller, M.; Hotho, A.; Strohmaier, M. & Chin, A., ed., 'Analysis of Social Media and Ubiquitous Data', 6904(), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, [10.1007/978-3-642-23599-3_5], 79-98 (2011) [pdf]
Community mining is a prominent approach for identifying (user) communities in social and ubiquitous contexts. While there are a variety of methods for community mining and detection, the effective evaluation and validation of the mined communities is usually non-trivial. Often there is no evaluation data at hand in order to validate the discovered groups.