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. 2011 May 6;6(5):e19608. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019608

Table 1. The terminologies used in this study.

Terminology Explanation
Community or module A set of nodes with denser links among them, but sparser with the rest of the network.
Overlapping community structure
Cover of overlapping community structure The overlapping community structure can be represented as a cover of network in which one node
can belong to more than one community.
Overlapped node A node can be shared by more than one community.
Non-overlapped node A node only belongs to one community.
Non-overlapping community structure
Partition of non-overlapping community structure The non-overlapping community structure can be represented as a partition of network in which
each node only belongs to one community.