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Recently, there has been significant interest in the study of the community search problem in social and information networks: given one or more query nodes, find densely connected communities containing the query nodes. However, most…

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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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Density Peak Clustering (DPC), a popular density-based clustering approach, has received considerable attention from the research community primarily due to its simplicity and fewer-parameter requirement. However, the resultant clusters…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Zafaryab Rasool , Rui Zhou , Lu Chen , Chengfei Liu , Jiajie Xu

Graph similarity search has received considerable attention in many applications, such as bioinformatics, data mining, pattern recognition, and social networks. Existing methods for this problem have limited scalability because of the huge…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-12-30 Xiaoyang Chen , Hongwei Huo , Jun Huan , Jeffrey Scott Vitter

Community search is a personalized community discovery problem aimed at finding densely-connected subgraphs containing the query vertex. In particular, the search for communities with high-importance vertices has recently received a great…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Yanghao Liu , Fangda Guo , Bingbing Xu , Peng Bao , Huawei Shen , Xueqi Cheng

Connectivity query processing is a fundamental problem in graph processing. Given an undirected graph and two query vertices, the problem aims to identify whether they are connected via a path. Given frequent edge updates in real graph…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Lantian Xu , Junhua Zhang , Dong Wen , Lu Qin , Ying Zhang , Xuemin Lin

Given a graph $G$, a query node $q$, and an integer $k$, community search (CS) seeks a cohesive subgraph (measured by community models such as $k$-core or $k$-truss) from $G$ that contains $q$. It is difficult for ordinary users with less…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Yuxiang Wang , Yuyang Zhao , Xiaoliang Xu , Yue Wu , Tianxing Wu , Xiangyu Ke

Several approaches have been recently proposed for community search in bipartite graphs. These methods have shown promising results in identifying communities in real-world bipartite networks, such as social and biological networks. Given a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Kovan A. Bavi , Xiang Lian

Community search, retrieving the cohesive subgraph which contains the query vertex, has been widely touched over the past decades. The existing studies on community search mainly focus on static networks. However, real-world networks…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Yifei Zhang , Longlong Lin , Pingpeng Yuan , Hai Jin

We consider two problems for a directed graph $G$, which we show to be closely related. The first one is to find $k$ edge-disjoint forests in $G$ of maximal size such that the indegree of each vertex in these forests is at most $k$. We…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Pavel Arkhipov , Vladimir Kolmogorov

How can we find a good graph clustering of a real-world network, that allows insight into its underlying structure and also potential functions? In this paper, we introduce a new graph clustering algorithm Dcut from a density point of view.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-06-06 Junming Shao , Qinli Yang , Jinhu Liu , Stefan Kramer

Searching for local communities is an important research problem that supports advanced data analysis in various complex networks, such as social networks, collaboration networks, cellular networks, etc. The evolution of such networks over…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Yifu Tang , Jianxin Li , Nur Al Hasan Haldar , Ziyu Guan , Jiajie Xu , Chengfei Liu

Hypergraphs, increasingly utilised to model complex and diverse relationships in modern networks, have gained significant attention for representing intricate higher-order interactions. Among various challenges, cohesive subgraph discovery…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Dahee Kim , Hyewon Kim , Song Kim , Minseok Kim , Junghoon Kim , Yeon-Chang Lee , Sungsu Lim

Subgraph queries also known as subgraph isomorphism search is a fundamental problem in querying graph-like structured data. It consists to enumerate the subgraphs of a data graph that match a query graph. This problem arises in many…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-07-11 C. Nabti , T. Mecharnia , S. E. Boukhetta , H. Seba , K. Amrouche

Property graphs often contain tree-shaped substructures, yet they are not captured by existing proposals for graph schemas; likewise, query languages and query engines offer little-to-no native support for managing them systematically. As a…

In this paper, we present an approach to search result clustering, using partitioning of underlying link graph. We define the notion of "query-induced subgraph" and formulate the problem of search result clustering as a problem of efficient…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2008-11-27 Aleksandar Bradic

Hypergraphs, increasingly utilised for modelling complex and diverse relationships in modern networks, gain much attention representing intricate higher-order interactions. Among various challenges, cohesive subgraph discovery is one of the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Song Kim , Dahee Kim , Taejoon Han , Junghoon Kim , Hyun Ji Jeong , Jungeun Kim

We introduce a novel keyword-aware influential community query KICQ that finds the most influential communities from an attributed graph, where an influential community is defined as a closely connected group of vertices having some…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Md. Saiful Islam , Mohammed Eunus Ali , Yong-Bin Kang , Timos Sellis , Farhana M. Choudhury

Community detection in graphs has many important and fundamental applications including in distributed systems, compression, image segmentation, divide-and-conquer graph algorithms such as nested dissection, document and word clustering,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Ryan A. Rossi , Nesreen K. Ahmed , Eunyee Koh , Sungchul Kim

As a fundamental topic in graph mining, Densest Subgraph Discovery (DSD) has found a wide spectrum of real applications. Several DSD algorithms, including exact and approximation algorithms, have been proposed in the literature. However,…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Yingli Zhou , Qingshuo Guo , Yi Yang , Yixiang Fang , Chenhao Ma , Laks Lakshmanan