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In a temporal network, the presence and activity of nodes and links can change through time. To describe temporal networks we introduce the notion of temporal quantities. We define the addition and multiplication of temporal quantities in a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-02-06 Vladimir Batagelj , Selena Praprotnik

Temporal graph learning is pivotal for deciphering dynamic systems, where the core challenge lies in explicitly modeling the underlying evolving patterns that govern network transformation. However, prevailing methods are predominantly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Yijun Ma , Zehong Wang , Weixiang Sun , Yanfang Ye

Analyzing the temporal behavior of nodes in time-varying graphs is useful for many applications such as targeted advertising, community evolution and outlier detection. In this paper, we present a novel approach, STWalk, for learning…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Supriya Pandhre , Himangi Mittal , Manish Gupta , Vineeth N Balasubramanian

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

We study the parameterized complexity of maximum temporal connected components (tccs) in temporal graphs, i.e., graphs that deterministically change over time. In a tcc, any pair of vertices must be able to reach each other via a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Argyrios Deligkas , Michelle Döring , Eduard Eiben , Tiger-Lily Goldsmith , George Skretas , Georg Tennigkeit

Deterministic graph grammars generate regular graphs, that form a structural extension of configuration graphs of pushdown systems. In this paper, we study a probabilistic extension of regular graphs obtained by labelling the terminal arcs…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2010-11-02 Nathalie Bertrand , Christophe Morvan

Two-way regular path queries (2RPQs) have received increased attention recently due to their ability to relate pairs of objects by flexibly navigating graph-structured data. They are present in property paths in SPARQL 1.1, the new standard…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-03-05 Meghyn Bienvenu , Diego Calvanese , Magdalena Ortiz , Mantas Simkus

Temporal knowledge graph question answering (TKGQA) involves multi-hop reasoning over temporally constrained entity relationships in the knowledge graph to answer a given question. However, at each hop, large language models (LLMs) retrieve…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Wuzhenghong Wen , Chao Xue , Su Pan , Yuwei Sun , Minlong Peng

Temporal knowledge graphs represent temporal facts $(s,p,o,\tau)$ relating a subject $s$ and an object $o$ via a relation label $p$ at time $\tau$, where $\tau$ could be a time point or time interval. Temporal knowledge graphs may exhibit…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Jiaxin Pan , Mojtaba Nayyeri , Yinan Li , Steffen Staab

We present team semantics for two of the most important linear and branching time specification languages, Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) and Computation Tree Logic (CTL). With team semantics, LTL is able to express hyperproperties, which have…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Andreas Krebs , Arne Meier , Jonni Virtema , Martin Zimmermann

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

Temporal graphs are commonly used to represent time-resolved relations between entities in many natural and artificial systems. Many techniques were devised to investigate the evolution of temporal graphs by comparing their state at…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Lorenzo Dall'Amico , Alain Barrat , Ciro Cattuto

Temporal point process (TPP) models combined with recurrent neural networks provide a powerful framework for modeling continuous-time event data. While such models are flexible, they are inherently sequential and therefore cannot benefit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Oleksandr Shchur , Nicholas Gao , Marin Biloš , Stephan Günnemann

Spatio-temporal knowledge graphs (STKGs) enhance traditional KGs by integrating temporal and spatial annotations, enabling precise reasoning over questions with spatio-temporal dependencies. Despite their potential, research on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Xinbang Dai , Huiying Li , Nan Hu , Yongrui Chen , Rihui Jin , Huikang Hu , Guilin Qi

Topology of urban environments can be represented by means of graphs. We explore the graph representations of several compact urban patterns by random walks. The expected time of recurrence and the expected first passage time to a node…

Physics and Society · Physics 2008-04-21 Ph. Blanchard , D. Volchenkov

We consider the problem of assigning appearing times to the edges of a digraph in order to maximize the (average) temporal reachability between pairs of nodes. Motivated by the application to public transit networks, where edges cannot be…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Filippo Brunelli , Pierluigi Crescenzi , Laurent Viennot

Temporal graphs are graphs whose topology is subject to discrete changes over time. Given a static underlying graph $G$, a temporal graph is represented by assigning a set of integer time-labels to every edge $e$ of $G$, indicating the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-09-30 George B. Mertzios , Hendrik Molter , Rolf Niedermeier , Viktor Zamaraev , Philipp Zschoche

Conjunctive path queries (CPQ) are one of the most frequently used queries for complex graph analysis. However, current graph indexes are not tailored to fully support the power of query languages to express CPQs. Consequently, current…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Yuya Sasaki , George Fletcher , Makoto Onizuka

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become the leading paradigm for learning on (static) graph-structured data. However, many real-world systems are dynamic in nature, since the graph and node/edge attributes change over time. In recent…

Temporal text, i.e., time-stamped text data are found abundantly in a variety of data sources like newspapers, blogs and social media posts. While today's data management systems provide facilities for searching full-text data, they do not…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Kai Lin , Subhasis Dasgupta , Amarnath Gupta