TY - JOUR AU - Davide Vega AU - Matteo Magnani AU - Danilo Montesi AU - Roc Meseguer AU - Felix Freitag AB - We 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. BT - Social Network Analysis and Mining DO - 10.1007/s13278-016-0346-9 N2 - We 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. PY - 2016 EP - 1–23 T2 - Social Network Analysis and Mining TI - A new approach to role and position detection in networks UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13278-016-0346-9 VL - 6 SN - 1869-5469 ER -