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The widespread use of graph data in various applications and the highly dynamic nature of today's networks have made it imperative to analyze structural trends in dynamic graphs on a continual basis. The shortest path is a fundamental…

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Dense subgraph search in bipartite graphs is a fundamental problem in graph analysis, with wide-ranging applications in fraud detection, recommendation systems, and social network analysis. The recently proposed $(\alpha, \beta)$-dense…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Yalong Zhang , Rong-Hua Li , Qi Zhang , Guoren Wang

Subgraph matching is a core task in graph analytics, widely used in domains such as biology, finance, and social networks. Existing top-k diversified methods typically focus on maximizing vertex coverage, but often return results in the…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Liuyi Chen , Yuchen Hu , Zhengyi Yang , Xu Zhou , Wenjie Zhang , Kenli Li

A modified version of the Dijkstra algorithm using an inventive contraction hierarchy is proposed. The algorithm considers a directed acyclic graph with a conical or semi-circular structure for which a pair of edges is chosen iteratively…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Ugochi A. Okengwu , Enoch O. Nwachukwu , Emmanuel N. Osegi

We consider how to assign labels to any undirected graph with n nodes such that, given the labels of two nodes and no other information regarding the graph, it is possible to determine the distance between the two nodes. The challenge in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-04-20 Stephen Alstrup , Cyril Gavoille , Esben Bistrup Halvorsen , Holger Petersen

Searching for high-dimensional vector data with high accuracy is an inevitable search technology for various types of data. Graph-based indexes are known to reduce the query time for high-dimensional data. To further improve the query time…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-10-18 Masajiro Iwasaki , Daisuke Miyazaki

Computing shortest distances is one of the fundamental problems on graphs, and remains a {\em challenging} task today. {\em Distance} {\em landmarks} have been recently studied for shortest distance queries with an auxiliary data structure,…

Databases · Computer Science 2014-01-14 Shuai Ma , Kaiyu Feng , Haixun Wang , Jianxin Li , Jinpeng Huai

A shortest-path algorithm finds a path containing the minimal cost between two vertices in a graph. A plethora of shortest-path algorithms is studied in the literature that span across multiple disciplines. This paper presents a survey of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-05-08 Amgad Madkour , Walid G. Aref , Faizan Ur Rehman , Mohamed Abdur Rahman , Saleh Basalamah

Although Dijkstra's algorithm has near-optimal time complexity for the problem of finding a shortest path from a given vertex $s$ to a given vertex $t$, in practice other algorithms are often superior on huge graphs. A prominent example is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Bernhard Haeupler , Richard Hladík , Vaclav Rozhon , Robert E. Tarjan , Jakub Tětek

The search is based on the preliminary transformation of matrices or adjacency lists traditionally used in the study of graphs into projections cleared of redundant information (refined) followed by the selection of the desired shortest…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-16 V. A. Melent'ev

As techniques for graph query processing mature, the need for optimization is increasingly becoming an imperative. Indices are one of the key ingredients toward efficient query processing strategies via cost-based optimization. Due to the…

Databases · Computer Science 2013-11-11 Belma Yelbay , S. Ilker Birbil , Kerem Bulbul , Hasan M. Jamil

Constrained shortest distance (CSD) querying is one of the fundamental graph query primitives, which finds the shortest distance from an origin to a destination in a graph with a constraint that the total cost does not exceed a given…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-09-24 Meng Shen , Baoli Ma , Liehuang Zhu , Rashid Mijumbi , Xiaojiang Du , Jiankun Hu

Given a graph G and a query vertex q, the topic of community search (CS), aiming to retrieve a dense subgraph of G containing q, has gained much attention. Most existing works focus on undirected graphs which overlooks the rich information…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Yankai Chen , Jie Zhang , Yixiang Fang , Xin Cao , Irwin King

This paper details a new algorithm to solve the shortest path problem in valued graphs. Its complexity is $O(D \log v)$ where $D$ is the graph diameter and $v$ its number of vertices. This complexity has to be compared to the one of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Michel Koskas

Biharmonic distance (\bd) is a powerful graph distance metric with many applications, including identifying critical links in road networks and mitigating over-squashing problem in \gnn. However, computing \bd\ is extremely difficult,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Yueyang Pan , Meihao Liao , Rong-Hua Li

We propose a new exact method for shortest-path distance queries on large-scale networks. Our method precomputes distance labels for vertices by performing a breadth-first search from every vertex. Seemingly too obvious and too inefficient…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-04-18 Takuya Akiba , Yoichi Iwata , Yuichi Yoshida

A temporal graph is a graph in which vertices communicate with each other at specific time, e.g., $A$ calls $B$ at 11 a.m. and talks for 7 minutes, which is modeled by an edge from $A$ to $B$ with starting time "11 a.m." and duration "7…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-01-26 Huanhuan Wu , Yuzhen Huang , James Cheng , Jinfeng Li , Yiping Ke

The goal of graph inference is to design algorithms for learning properties of a hidden graph using queries to an oracle that returns information about the graph. Graph reconstruction, verification, and property testing are all types of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Huck Bennett , Mitchell Black , Amir Nayyeri , Evelyn Warton

We introduce stronger notions for approximate single-source shortest-path distances, show how to efficiently compute them from weaker standard notions, and demonstrate the algorithmic power of these new notions and transformations. One…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Václav Rozhoň , Bernhard Haeupler , Anders Martinsson , Christoph Grunau , Goran Zuzic

Similarity search approaches based on graph walks have recently attained outstanding speed-accuracy trade-offs, taking aside the memory requirements. In this paper, we revisit these approaches by considering, additionally, the memory…

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