Extract Cliques
Unlike the smaller components, the GCC and the k-cores are usually too large to be considered a single structural element. Depending on your interpretation of the nodes and edges, you should zoom in even further in a search for smaller network building blocks, such as cliques.
A clique, or, more accurately, a k-clique is a subset of k nodes such that each node is directly connected to each other node in the clique. (We distinguish weak and strong cliques in directed graphs.) Cliques are also known as complete subgraphs. The nodes in a clique may be connected to other nodes as well, but they do not have to—that is, the degree of a node in a k-clique is at least k-1. The principal difference between cliques and connected components ...
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