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We present a dynamic data structure for representing a graph $G$ with tree-depth at most $D$. Tree-depth is an important graph parameter which arose in the study of sparse graph classes. The structure allows addition and removal of edges…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-07-11 Zdenek Dvorak , Martin Kupec , Vojtech Tuma

Many large, real-world complex networks have rich community structure that a network scientist seeks to understand. These communities may overlap or have intricate internal structure. Extracting communities with particular topological…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-09-20 Christine Klymko , Geoffrey Sanders

Many networks can be characterised by the presence of communities, which are groups of units that are closely linked. Identifying these communities can be crucial for understanding the system's overall function. Recently, hypergraphs have…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Quintino Francesco Lotito , Federico Musciotto , Alberto Montresor , Federico Battiston

Hypertree decompositions of hypergraphs are a generalization of tree decompositions of graphs. The corresponding hypertree-width is a measure for the cyclicity and therefore tractability of the encoded computation problem. Many NP-hard…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-10-12 Georg Gottlob , Marko Samer

The tree-cut width of a graph is a graph parameter defined by Wollan [J. Comb. Theory, Ser. B, 110:47-66, 2015] with the help of tree-cut decompositions. In certain cases, tree-cut width appears to be more adequate than treewidth as an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-16 Eunjung Kim , Sang-il Oum , Christophe Paul , Ignasi Sau , Dimitrios M. Thilikos

In this paper, we propose a method that extends the persistence-based topological data analysis (TDA) that is typically used for characterizing shapes to general networks. We introduce the concept of the community tree, a tree structure…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Wei Guo , Ruqian Chen , Yen-Chi Chen , Ashis G. Banerjee

Detailed network models of social, biological and other complex systems are often dense, which increases their computational complexity in simulations and analysis. To address this challenge, graph sparsification is used to remove edges…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-03-19 Bernardo Pereira , Felipe Xavier Costa , Luís M. Rocha

Graphs are a fundamental data structure used to represent relationships in domains as diverse as the social sciences, bioinformatics, cybersecurity, the Internet, and more. One of the central observations in network science is that…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Sabyasachi Basu , Daniel Paul-Pena , Kun Qian , C. Seshadhri , Edward W Huang , Karthik Subbian

Given a graph $G=(V,E)$, the minimum branch vertices problem consists in finding a spanning tree $T=(V,E')$ of $G$ minimizing the number of vertices with degree greater than two. We consider a simple combinatorial lower bound for the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-07-04 Rafael A. Melo , Phillippe Samer , Sebastián Urrutia

We consider a dynamic model for competition in a social network, where two strategic agents have fixed beliefs and the non-strategic/regular agents adjust their states according to a distributed consensus protocol. We suppose that one…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-05-06 M. Bini , P. Frasca , C. Ravazzi , F. Dabbene

The aim of this chapter is to provide an adequate graph theoretic framework for the description of periodic bifurcations which have recently been discovered in descendant trees of finite p-groups. The graph theoretic concepts of rooted…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2017-01-30 Daniel C. Mayer

We study the use of local heuristics to determine spanning subgraphs for use in the dissemination of information in complex networks. We introduce two different heuristics and analyze their behavior in giving rise to spanning subgraphs that…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2007-05-23 A. O. Stauffer , V. C. Barbosa

Knots are commonly represented and manipulated via diagrams, which are decorated planar graphs. When such a knot diagram has low treewidth, parameterized graph algorithms can be leveraged to ensure the fast computation of many invariants…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Corentin Lunel , Arnaud de Mesmay

Graphs are widely used in various fields of computer science. They have also found application in unrelated areas, leading to a diverse range of problems. These problems can be modeled as relationships between entities in various contexts,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Davide Rucci

Graphs have been utilized as a powerful tool to model pairwise relationships between people or objects. Such structure is a special type of a broader concept referred to as hypergraph, in which each hyperedge may consist of an arbitrary…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-06-15 Manh Tuan Do , Se-eun Yoon , Bryan Hooi , Kijung Shin

In many models for large-scale computation, decomposition of the problem is key to efficient algorithms. For distance-related graph problems, it is often crucial that such a decomposition results in clusters of small diameter, while the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-09-20 Ruben Becker , Yuval Emek , Christoph Lenzen

Contour trees describe the topology of level sets in scalar fields and are widely used in topological data analysis and visualization. A main challenge of utilizing contour trees for large-scale scientific data is their computation at scale…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Mingzhe Li , Hamish Carr , Oliver Rübel , Bei Wang , Gunther H. Weber

Social hierarchy (i.e., pyramid structure of societies) is a fundamental concept in sociology and social network analysis. The importance of social hierarchy in a social network is that the topological structure of the social hierarchy is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-02-17 Can Lu , Jeffrey Xu Yu , Rong-Hua Li , Hao Wei

Dynamic programming on various graph decompositions is one of the most fundamental techniques used in parameterized complexity. Unfortunately, even if we consider concepts as simple as path or tree decompositions, such dynamic programming…

In real-world scenarios, large graphs represent relationships among entities in complex systems. Mining these large graphs often containing millions of nodes and edges helps uncover structural patterns and meaningful insights. Dividing a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Shrabani Ghosh , Erik Saule