Recently, there has been a lot of interest in monitoring and identifying changes in dynamic networks, which has led to the development of a variety of monitoring methods. New methods are often designed for a specialized use-case and rarely compared to competing methods in a systematic fashion. In light of this, the use of simulation is proposed to compare the performance of network monitoring methods over a variety of dynamic network changes. Using the family of simulated dynamic networks, the performance of several state-of-the-art social network monitoring methods from the literature are compared. Their performance over a variety of types of change is compared; both increases in communication levels as well as changes in community structure are considered. It is shown that there does not exist one method that is uniformly superior to the others; the best method depends on the context and the type of change one wishes to detect. As such, it is concluded that a variety of methods are needed for network monitoring and that it is important to understand in which scenarios a given method is appropriate.

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监测动态网络：用于比较监测方法和比较研究的基于模拟的策略

最近，人们对监测和识别动态网络的变化产生了很大的兴趣，这导致了各种监测方法的发展。新方法通常是为专门的用例设计的，很少以系统的方式与竞争方法进行比较。有鉴于此，建议使用仿真来比较网络监控方法在各种动态网络变化下的性能。使用模拟动态网络系列，比较了文献中几种最先进的社交网络监控方法的性能。比较了它们在各种类型的变化上的表现；沟通水平的提高以及社区结构的变化都被考虑在内。结果表明，不存在一种一致优于其他方法的方法；最好的方法取决于上下文和希望检测到的变化类型。因此，得出的结论是，网络监控需要多种方法，并且了解给定方法适用于哪些场景非常重要。