Comparison of different values of <i>α</i> on both layers.

<p>Comparison of different values of <i>α</i> on both layers.</p

How <i>α</i> affected both similarities.

<p>How <i>α</i> affected both similarities.</p

Comparison of different values of <i>α</i> on the cross layers.

<p>Comparison of different values of <i>α</i> on the cross layers.</p

Node behaviors in the original three-layer networks.

<p>Node behaviors in the original three-layer networks.</p

A toy example to show two advantages of multilayer network analysis.

<p>Fig (a) shows that by co-analysis the layers, node A, B, C are within the same community. Fig (b) shows that the edge (B, C) in layer 1 is the noise edge.</p

Precision rate comparison of our method and two other methods on synthetic multilayer networks.

<p>Precision rate comparison of our method and two other methods on synthetic multilayer networks.</p

Three-layer multilayer networks on students’ cooperation behaviors.

<p>(a) Partner Network with 183 nodes and 240 edges. (b) Computer Network with 39 nodes and 23 edges. (c) Time Network with 106 nodes and 97 edges.</p

A toy example of how our algorithm works.

<p>A toy example of how our algorithm works.</p

Comparison between our method and the Louvain method.

<p>Comparison between our method and the Louvain method.</p

How <i>α</i> affected the cross-layer similarity.

<p>How <i>α</i> affected the cross-layer similarity.</p