01699nas a2200121   4500008004100000245005400041210005300095490000700148520133500155100002101490700001901511856004701530       2018                        eng d00aCommunity Discovery in Dynamic Networks: a Survey0 aCommunity Discovery in Dynamic Networks a Survey0 v513 aNetworks built to model real world phenomena are characeterised by some properties that have attracted the attention of the scientific community: (i) they are organised according to community structure and (ii) their structure evolves with time. Many researchers have worked on methods that can efficiently unveil substructures in complex networks, giving birth to the field of community discovery. A novel and challenging problem started capturing researcher interest recently: the identification of evolving communities. To model the evolution of a system, dynamic networks can be used: nodes and edges are mutable and their presence, or absence, deeply impacts the community structure that composes them. The aim of this survey is to present the distinctive features and challenges of dynamic community discovery, and propose a classification of published approaches. As a "user manual", this work organizes state of art methodologies into a taxonomy, based on their rationale, and their specific instanciation. Given a desired definition of network dynamics, community characteristics and analytical needs, this survey will support researchers to identify the set of approaches that best fit their needs. The proposed classification could also help researchers to choose in which direction should future research be oriented. 1 aRossetti, Giulio1 aCazabet, Rémy  uhttps://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3172867