Discovering and leveraging communities in dark multi-layered networks for network disruption

Abstract

In this paper we introduce a methodology to identify communities in dark multilayered networks, taking into account that the main challenges of these networks are incompleteness, fuzzy boundaries, and dynamic behavior. To account for these characteristics, we create knowledge sharing communities (KSC) that determine the community detection. KSC is driven by weighing the edge attributes as desired for the application that the communities are used. We provide an interactive algorithm that allows the operator to decide on the weights and the thresholds applied to create the communities. By choosing these variables, our results quantitatively outperform community detection on the collapsed monoplex network.