
Many systems exhibit complex temporal dynamics due to the presence of different processes taking place simultaneously. An important task in these systems is to extract a simplified view of their time-dependent network of interactions. Community detection in temporal networks usually relies on aggregation over time windows or consider sequences of different stationary epochs. For dynamics-based methods, attempts to generalize static-network methodologies also face the fundamental difficulty that a stationary state of the dynamics does not always exist. Here, we derive a method based on a dynamical process evolving on the temporal network. Our method allows dynamics that do not reach a steady state and uncovers two sets of communities for a given time interval that accounts for the ordering of edges in forward and backward time. We show that our method provides a natural way to disentangle the different dynamical scales present in a system with synthetic and real-world examples.
Social and Information Networks (cs.SI), FOS: Computer and information sciences, 1000 Multidisciplinary, Physics - Physics and Society, 11476 Digital Society Initiative, FOS: Physical sciences, Computer Science - Social and Information Networks, Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph), Dynamical Systems (math.DS), Social and Interdisciplinary Sciences, 10123 Institute of Mathematics, 510 Mathematics, Physics - Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability, FOS: Mathematics, Mathematics - Dynamical Systems, Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
Social and Information Networks (cs.SI), FOS: Computer and information sciences, 1000 Multidisciplinary, Physics - Physics and Society, 11476 Digital Society Initiative, FOS: Physical sciences, Computer Science - Social and Information Networks, Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph), Dynamical Systems (math.DS), Social and Interdisciplinary Sciences, 10123 Institute of Mathematics, 510 Mathematics, Physics - Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability, FOS: Mathematics, Mathematics - Dynamical Systems, Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
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