Collaboration graph as a new graph definition approach

Abstract

Modelling is a crucial step for analyzing the data. Graph is an important modelling technique for some areas especially if the data has some kind of relation between each other like complex networks. There are plenty of study in complex network area which uses graphs as a modelling tool. Collaboration networks are a kind of complex evolving networks. Also community detection and evaluation is an important topic in graph mining. Especially in recent years, the importance of social networks is increased and mining of these networks became more vital. However, there is no specific topic about collaboration graph which focus on how to evaluate the how strong a bond is and meaning of it. This study aims to propose a definition which named collaboration graph as a graph type for understanding structure of the network more clearly and less noisy.