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A temporal graph is a sequence of graphs (called layers) over the same vertex set -- describing a graph topology which is subject to discrete changes over time. A $\Delta$-temporal matching $M$ is a set of time edges $(e,t)$ (an edge $e$…

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Investigating the frequency and distribution of small subgraphs with a few nodes/edges, i.e., motifs, is an effective analysis method for static networks. Motif-driven analysis is also useful for temporal networks where the spectrum of…

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A great variety of complex systems ranging from user interactions in communication networks to transactions in financial markets can be modeled as temporal graphs, which consist of a set of vertices and a series of timestamped and directed…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Jingjing Wang , Yanhao Wang , Wenjun Jiang , Yuchen Li , Kian-Lee Tan

A temporal network is a dynamic graph where every edge is assigned an integer time label that indicates at which discrete time step the edge is available. We consider the problem of hierarchically decomposing the network and introduce an…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Lutz Oettershagen , Athanasios L. Konstantinidis , Giuseppe F. Italiano

Most networks are not static objects, but instead they change over time. This observation has sparked rigorous research on temporal graphs within the last years. In temporal graphs, we have a fixed set of nodes and the connections between…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Davide Bilò , Sarel Cohen , Tobias Friedrich , Hans Gawendowicz , Nicolas Klodt , Pascal Lenzner , George Skretas

A temporal graph is a data structure, consisting of nodes and edges in which the edges are associated with time labels. To analyze the temporal graph, the first step is to find a proper graph dataset/benchmark. While many temporal graph…

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We solve the subgraph isomorphism problem in planar graphs in linear time, for any pattern of constant size. Our results are based on a technique of partitioning the planar graph into pieces of small tree-width, and applying dynamic…

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Temporal graphs are graphs where the presence or properties of their vertices and edges change over time. When time is discrete, a temporal graph can be defined as a sequence of static graphs over a discrete time span, called lifetime, or…

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Graph representation learning (also known as network embedding) has been extensively researched with varying levels of granularity, ranging from nodes to graphs. While most prior work in this area focuses on node-level representation,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Lili Wang , Chenghan Huang , Weicheng Ma , Xinyuan Cao , Soroush Vosoughi

Pattern counting in graphs is fundamental to network science tasks, and there are many scalable methods for approximating counts of small patterns, often called motifs, in large graphs. However, modern graph datasets now contain richer…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-10-03 Paul Liu , Austin Benson , Moses Charikar

Motifs are the fundamental components of complex systems. The topological structure of networks representing complex systems and the frequency and distribution of motifs in these networks are intertwined. The complexities associated with…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Ali Jazayeri , Christopher C. Yang

The mining of pattern subgraphs, known as motifs, is a core task in the field of graph mining. Edges in real-world networks often have timestamps, so there is a need for temporal motif mining. A temporal motif is a richer structure that…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Yunjie Pan , Omkar Bhalerao , C. Seshadhri , Nishil Talati

Network classification has a variety of applications, such as detecting communities within networks and finding similarities between those representing different aspects of the real world. However, most existing work in this area focus on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-08-08 Kun Tu , Jian Li , Don Towsley , Dave Braines , Liam D. Turner

Identifying communities from temporal networks facilitates the understanding of potential dynamic relationships among entities, which has already received extensive applications. However, existing methods primarily rely on lower-order…

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In many real-world applications, the evolving relationships between entities can be modeled as temporal graphs, where each edge has a timestamp representing the interaction time. As a fundamental problem in graph analysis, {\it community…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Yue Zhang , Yankai Chen , Yingli Zhou , Yucan Guo , Xiaolin Han , Chenhao Ma

Graph coloring is one of the most famous computational problems with applications in a wide range of areas such as planning and scheduling, resource allocation, and pattern matching. So far coloring problems are mostly studied on static…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-06-12 George B. Mertzios , Hendrik Molter , Viktor Zamaraev

Finding densely connected subsets of vertices in an unsupervised setting, called clustering or community detection, is one of the fundamental problems in network science. The edge clustering approach instead detects communities by…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Ryan DeWolfe , François Théberge

In this paper we study the problem of discovering a timeline of events in a temporal network. We model events as dense subgraphs that occur within intervals of network activity. We formulate the event-discovery task as an optimization…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-09-17 Polina Rozenshtein , Francesco Bonchi , Aristides Gionis , Mauro Sozio , Nikolaj Tatti

Modern, inherently dynamic systems are usually characterized by a network structure, i.e. an underlying graph topology, which is subject to discrete changes over time. Given a static underlying graph $G$, a temporal graph can be represented…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Eleni C. Akrida , George B. Mertzios , Paul G. Spirakis , Viktor Zamaraev

Logistics and transportation networks require a large amount of resources to realize necessary connections between locations and minimizing these resources is a vital aspect of planning research. Since such networks have dynamic connections…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Argyrios Deligkas , Michelle Döring , Eduard Eiben , Tiger-Lily Goldsmith , George Skretas , Georg Tennigkeit