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In social network analysis, the size of the k-core, i.e., the maximal induced subgraph of the network with minimum degree at least k, is frequently adopted as a typical metric to evaluate the cohesiveness of a community. We address the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-03 Martina Cerulli , Domenico Serra , Carmine Sorgente , Claudia Archetti , Ivana Ljubic

Finding a smallest subgraph that is k-edge-connected, or augmenting a k-edge-connected graph with a smallest subset of given candidate edges to become (k+1)-edge-connected, are among the most fundamental Network Design problems. They are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Meike Neuwohner , Vera Traub , Rico Zenklusen

The organisation of a network in a maximal set of nodes having at least $k$ neighbours within the set, known as $k$-core decomposition, has been used for studying various phenomena. It has been shown that nodes in the innermost $k$-shells…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-09-08 Irene Malvestio , Alessio Cardillo , Naoki Masuda

Motivated by the increasing need for fast processing of large-scale graphs, we study a number of fundamental graph problems in a message-passing model for distributed computing, called $k$-machine model, where we have $k$ machines that…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Khalid Hourani , Hartmut Klauck , William K. Moses , Danupon Nanongkai , Gopal Pandurangan , Peter Robinson , Michele Scquizzato

Two kinds of approximation algorithms exist for the k-BALANCED PARTITIONING problem: those that are fast but compute unsatisfying approximation ratios, and those that guarantee high quality ratios but are slow. In this paper we prove that…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-04-29 Andreas Emil Feldmann

Given an undirected graph, the $k$-core is a subgraph in which each node has at least $k$ connections. This is widely used in graph analytics to identify core subgraphs within a larger graph. The sequential $k$-core decomposition algorithm…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Bin Guo , Runze Zhao

Hypergraphs are a powerful abstraction for modeling high-order relations, which are ubiquitous in many fields. A hypergraph consists of nodes and hyperedges (i.e., subsets of nodes); and there have been a number of attempts to extend the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Fanchen Bu , Geon Lee , Kijung Shin

We study the problem of maximizing the number of spanning trees in a connected graph by adding at most $k$ edges from a given candidate edge set. We give both algorithmic and hardness results for this problem: - We give a greedy algorithm…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Huan Li , Stacy Patterson , Yuhao Yi , Zhongzhi Zhang

We study the following two fixed-cardinality optimization problems (a maximization and a minimization variant). For a fixed $\alpha$ between zero and one we are given a graph and two numbers $k \in \mathbb{N}$ and $t \in \mathbb{Q}$. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Tomohiro Koana , Christian Komusiewicz , André Nichterlein , Frank Sommer

Massive network exploration is an important research direction with many applications. In such a setting, the network is, usually, modeled as a graph $G$, whereas any structural information of interest is extracted by inspecting the way…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-12-11 Panagiotis Strouthopoulos , Apostolos Papadopoulos

$k$-core is a subgraph where every node has at least $k$ neighbors within the subgraph. The $k$-core subgraphs has been employed in large platforms like Network Repository to comprehend the underlying structures and dynamics of the network.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Yiping Liu , Bo Yan , Bo Zhao , Hongyi Su , Yang Chen , Michael Witbrock

A k-tree is either a complete graph on (k+1) vertices or given a k-tree G' with n vertices, a k-tree G with (n+1) vertices can be constructed by introducing a new vertex v and picking a k-clique Q in G' and then joining each vertex u in Q.…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2011-03-25 Suresh Badarla , R Rama

In many complex systems, the interactions between objects span multiple aspects. Multiplex networks are accurate paradigms to model such systems, where each edge is associated with a type. A key graph mining primitive is extracting dense…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Farnoosh Hashemi , Ali Behrouz

Among the novel metrics used to study the relative importance of nodes in complex networks, k-core decomposition has found a number of applications in areas as diverse as sociology, proteinomics, graph visualization, and distributed system…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-03-30 Alberto Montresor , Francesco De Pellegrini , Daniele Miorandi

Given a finite, simple graph $G$, the $k$-component order edge connectivity of $G$ is the minimum number of edges whose removal results in a subgraph for which every component has order at most $k-1$. In general, determining the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-10 Michael Yatauro

The $K$-core of a graph is the unique maximum subgraph within which each vertex connects to $K$ or more other vertices. The optimal $K$-core attack problem asks to delete the minimum number of vertices from the $K$-core to induce its…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-06-17 Jianwen Zhou , Hai-Jun Zhou

The balanced connected $k$-partition problem (\textsc{bcp}) is a classic problem, which consists in partitioning the set of vertices of a vertex-weighted connected graph into a collection of~$k$ classes such that each class induces a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Morteza Davari , Phablo F. S. Moura , Hande Yaman

In several applications in distributed systems, an important design criterion is ensuring that the network is sparse, i.e., does not contain too many edges, while achieving reliable connectivity. Sparsity ensures communication overhead…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Mansi Sood , Eray Can Elumar , Osman Yagan

The k-truss is a type of cohesive subgraphs proposed recently for the study of networks. While the problem of computing most cohesive subgraphs is NP-hard, there exists a polynomial time algorithm for computing k-truss. Compared with k-core…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-05-31 Jia Wang , James Cheng

One of the most important and well-studied settings for network design is edge-connectivity requirements. This encompasses uniform demands such as the Minimum $k$-Edge-Connected Spanning Subgraph problem ($k$-ECSS), as well as nonuniform…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-06-27 Michael Dinitz , Ama Koranteng , Guy Kortsarz