CoViFlowPro: A Community Visualization method based on a Flow Propagation Algorithm

We propose a method (CoViFlowPro) for the visualization of a community of a node based on the results of a flow propagation algorithm (FlowPro) [15]. FlowPro computes the community of a node in a network without the knowledge of the structure of the entire graph resulting at the same time to a metric that is related with the probability of a node belonging to the requested community. In this work, we use this metric to visualize the community of a node on the curve of the Archimedean spiral. The novelty of CoViFlowPro is the fact that the proposed community visualization method is local and it does not require the knowledge of the entire graph as most of the existing visualization methods from the literature. Moreover, it visualizes the community of a node taking into account the significance of the node membership.