A new measure for community structures through indirect social connections
Based on an expert systems approach, the issue of community detection can be conceptualized as a clus- tering model for networks. Building upon this further, community structure can be measured through a clustering coefficient, which is generated from the number of existing triangles around the nodes over the number of triangles that can be hypothetically constructed. This paper provides a new definition of the clustering coefficient for weighted networks under a generalized definition of triangles.