Community detection in social network: Literature review and research perspectives

Social network community detection has occupied an important place in many scientific fields like biology, sociology, or computer science. This problem still attracted a lot of work. The challenge is how to identify inside these networks, groups of persons strongly linked and sharing the same preferences. As in the literature, there are many works trying to detect communities we tried in this paper to do a review of the most important ones and we tried to present some tips for improvement of obtained results.