MODES is short for Mining Overlapping DENSE Subgraphs. MODES is developed based on HCS (Mining Highly Connected Subgraphs) (Hartuv & Shamir, 2000), with two new features: (1) MODES is more efficient in identifying dense subgraphs; and more importantly, (2) MODES can discover overlapping subgraphs.
MODES is used in CODENSE to identify dense subgraphs.