Thanks for the nice suggestion.
I will do the check.

Many thanks,
chen
On Oct 3, 2012 11:01 PM, "Gábor Csárdi" <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Tamás Nepusz <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> I am not sure, because the results are different from the same
> algorithm in SNAP, which also implement Girvan-Newman's algorithm while
> only unweighted version.
> >
> > The edge betweenness algorithm is not deterministic in the sense that it
> is free to make a (possibly random) choice when there are two or more edges
> with the same edge betweenness. Therefore, it is not guaranteed that
> different implementations give exactly the same results, unless there are
> no ties in edge betweenness values throughout the course of the algorithm.
>
> The other option is that either igraph or SNAP are wrong (or both of
> them, probably unlikely).
>
> This would be quite easy to check, all you need to do is to look at
> the edge-betweenness values used for eliminating the edges from the
> graph, and the sequence of the eliminated edges themselves. These
> should match in the igraph and SNAP output, until the first ties, i.e.
> multiple edges with the same edge betweenness.
>
> If you send me your graph and the SNAP output, then I can check it.
>
> G.
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