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IS-LABEL: an Independent-Set based Labeling Scheme for Point-to-Point Distance Querying on Large Graphs

Databases 2012-11-13 v1

Abstract

We study the problem of computing shortest path or distance between two query vertices in a graph, which has numerous important applications. Quite a number of indexes have been proposed to answer such distance queries. However, all of these indexes can only process graphs of size barely up to 1 million vertices, which is rather small in view of many of the fast-growing real-world graphs today such as social networks and Web graphs. We propose an efficient index, which is a novel labeling scheme based on the independent set of a graph. We show that our method can handle graphs of size three orders of magnitude larger than those existing indexes.

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@article{arxiv.1211.2367,
  title  = {IS-LABEL: an Independent-Set based Labeling Scheme for Point-to-Point Distance Querying on Large Graphs},
  author = {Ada Wai-Chee Fu and Huanhuan Wu and James Cheng and Shumo Chu and Raymond Chi-Wing Wong},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1211.2367},
  year   = {2012}
}

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