Computer Science ›› 2017, Vol. 44 ›› Issue (Z6): 407-413.doi: 10.11896/j.issn.1002-137X.2017.6A.092

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Distributed and Heterogeneous Multi-agent System for Attributed Graph Clustering

BIAN Zhai-an, LI Hui-jia, CHEN Jun-hua, MA Yu-han and ZHAO Dan   

  • Online:2017-12-01 Published:2018-12-01

Abstract: Recent years have witnessed a renewed attention towards attributed graph clustering,which aims to divide the nodes in the attribute graph into several clusters,so that each cluster has a densely connected intra-cluster structure and homogeneous attribute values.Existing methods ignore nodes/objects selfish nature in real-life contexts.Meanwhile,some open problems,such as heterogeneous information integration,high computational cost,etc.,have not been effectively resolved yet.To this end,we considered the attribute graph clustering problem as the cluster formation game of selfish node-agents.To effectively integrate both topological and attributive information,we proposed both tightness and homogeneity constraints on node-agents’ strategy selection.To be specific,the game process will converge to weakly Pareto-Nash equilibrium almost surely.In the aspect of implement,we carefully designed a distributed and heterogeneous multiagent system,based on which,a fast distributed learning algorithm is also given.The main feature of the proposed algorithm is that the overlap rate of the resulted partition can be well controlled by a pre-specified threshold.Finally,we conducted a set of simulation experiments on real-life social networks and comparisons are listed.

Key words: Attributed graph clustering,Cluster formation game,Tightness and homogeneity constraints,Distributed learning algorithm,Multiagent system

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