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We live in a world increasingly dominated by networks -- communications, social, information, biological etc. A central attribute of many of these networks is that they are dynamic, that is, they exhibit structural changes over time. While…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-12-02 Prithwish Basu , Amotz Bar-Noy , Ram Ramanathan , Matthew P. Johnson

Many score-based active learning methods have been successfully applied to graph-structured data, aiming to reduce the number of labels and achieve better performance of graph neural networks based on predefined score functions. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Yinchuan Li , Zhigang Li , Wenqian Li , Yunfeng Shao , Yan Zheng , Jianye Hao

We introduce the concept of compactly representing a large number of state sequences, e.g., sequences of activities, as a flow diagram. We argue that the flow diagram representation gives an intuitive summary that allows the user to detect…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Kevin Buchin , Maike Buchin , Joachim Gudmundsson , Michael Horton , Stef Sijben

We propose a new model for networks of time series that influence each other. Graph structures among time series are found in diverse domains, such as web traffic influenced by hyperlinks, product sales influenced by recommendation, or…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Alasdair Tran , Alexander Mathews , Cheng Soon Ong , Lexing Xie

We propose a method for characterizing large complex networks by introducing a new matrix structure, unique for a given network, which encodes structural information; provides useful visualization, even for very large networks; and allows…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2008-02-28 J. P. Bagrow , E. M. Bollt , J. D. Skufca , D. ben-Avraham

We introduce a community detection algorithm (Fluid Communities) based on the idea of fluids interacting in an environment, expanding and contracting as a result of that interaction. Fluid Communities is based on the propagation…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-10-10 Ferran Parés , Dario Garcia-Gasulla , Armand Vilalta , Jonatan Moreno , Eduard Ayguadé , Jesús Labarta , Ulises Cortés , Toyotaro Suzumura

Group interactions arise in our daily lives (email communications, on-demand ride sharing, comment interactions on online communities, to name a few), and they together form hypergraphs that evolve over time. Given such temporal…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Geon Lee , Kijung Shin

Discrete dynamic models are a powerful tool for the understanding and modeling of large biological networks. Although a lot of progress has been made in developing analysis tools for these models, there is still a need to find approaches…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2013-06-14 Jorge G. T. Zañudo , Réka Albert

Real-world graphs, such as social networks, financial transactions, and recommendation systems, often demonstrate dynamic behavior. This phenomenon, known as graph stream, involves the dynamic changes of nodes and the emergence and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Yanping Zheng , Zhewei Wei , Jiajun Liu

Networks are a powerful tool to model the structure and dynamics of complex systems across scales. Direct connections between system components are often represented as edges, while paths and walks capture indirect interactions. This…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-01-15 Rohit Sahasrabuddhe , Renaud Lambiotte , Martin Rosvall

Many real world networks are very large and constantly change over time. These dynamic networks exist in various domains such as social networks, traffic networks and biological interactions. To handle large dynamic networks in downstream…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Shima Khoshraftar , Sedigheh Mahdavi , Aijun An , Yonggang Hu , Junfeng Liu

Diagnosing problems in deployed distributed applications continues to grow more challenging. A significant reason is the extreme mismatch between the powerful abstractions developers have available to build increasingly complex distributed…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Mania Abdi , Peter Desnoyers , Mark Crovella , Raja R. Sambasivan

Motivated by applications in social network community analysis, we introduce a new clustering paradigm termed motif clustering. Unlike classical clustering, motif clustering aims to minimize the number of clustering errors associated with…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-01-31 Pan Li , Hoang Dau , Gregory Puleo , Olgica Milenkovic

Through legislation and technical advances users gain more control over how their data is processed, and they expect online services to respect their privacy choices and preferences. However, data may be processed for many different…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Dorota Filipczuk , Enrico H. Gerding , George Konstantinidis

Trends change rapidly in today's world, prompting this key question: What is the mechanism behind the emergence of new trends? By representing real-world dynamic systems as complex networks, the emergence of new trends can be symbolized by…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Michael Fire , Carlos Guestrin

A novel constructive mathematical model based on the multifractal formalism in order to accurately characterizing the localized fluctuations present in the course of traffic flows today high-speed computer networks is presented. The…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-06-29 G. Millán , G. Lefranc , R. Osorio-Comparán

The advantages of temporal networks in capturing complex dynamics, such as diffusion and contagion, has led to breakthroughs in real world systems across numerous fields. In the case of human behavior, face-to-face interaction networks…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Nicolò Alessandro Girardini , Antonio Longa , Gaia Trebucchi , Giulia Cencetti , Andrea Passerini , Bruno Lepri

The widespread application of Large Language Models (LLMs) has motivated a growing interest in their capacity for processing dynamic graphs. Temporal motifs, as an elementary unit and important local property of dynamic graphs which can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Bing Hao , Minglai Shao , Zengyi Wo , Yunlong Chu , Yuhang Liu , Ruijie Wang

For scale-free networks with degrees following a power law with an exponent $\tau\in(2,3)$, the structures of motifs (small subgraphs) are not yet well understood. We introduce a method designed to identify the dominant structure of any…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-05-24 Clara Stegehuis , Remco van der Hofstad , Johan S. H. van Leeuwaarden

Time series of graphs are increasingly prevalent in modern data and pose unique challenges to visual exploration and pattern extraction. This paper describes the development and application of matrix factorizations for exploration and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-06-16 Shawn Mankad , George Michailidis