00893nas a2200181   4500000000100000008004100001100001600042700001900058700001900077700001700096700001800113245006200131856004800193300001100241490000600252520043900258022001400697       2016                            d1 aDavide Vega1 aMatteo Magnani1 aDanilo Montesi1 aRoc Meseguer1 aFelix Freitag00aA new approach to role and position detection in networks  uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13278-016-0346-9  a1–230 v63 aWe rethink and extend the concepts of position and role in a network, basing them on various well-known measures that were not previously associated with these concepts, such as geodesic distance and modularity. The effectiveness of our new role and position detection algorithms is evaluated both qualitatively and quantitatively, on synthetic and real data, showing that we can identify new types of meaningful patterns in networks.  a1869-5469