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Social applications mine user social graphs to improve performance in search, provide recommendations, allow resource sharing and increase data privacy. When such applications are implemented on a peer-to-peer (P2P) architecture, the social…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-10-24 Nicolas Kourtellis , Adriana Iamnitchi

Recently, the community search problem has attracted significant attention, due to its wide spectrum of real-world applications such as event organization, friend recommendation, advertisement in e-commence, and so on. Given a query vertex,…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Ahmed Al-Baghdadi , Xiang Lian

Given a location-based social network, how to find the communities that are highly relevant to query users and have top overall scores in multiple attributes according to user preferences? Typically, in the face of such a problem setting,…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Fangda Guo , Ye Yuan , Guoren Wang , Xiangguo Zhao , Hao Sun

Recently, graphs have been widely used to represent many different kinds of real world data or observations such as social networks, protein-protein networks, road networks, and so on. In many cases, each node in a graph is associated with…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-09-28 Jihwan Lee , Keehwan Park , Sunil Prabhakar

Extracting topics from large collections of unstructured text-documents has become a central task in current NLP applications and algorithms like NMF, LDA as well as their generalizations are the well-established current state of the art.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Mattias Luber , Anton Thielmann , Christoph Weisser , Benjamin Säfken

Community detection is a fundamental problem in social network analysis consisting in unsupervised dividing social actors (nodes in a social graph) with certain social connections (edges in a social graph) into densely knitted and highly…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Petr Chunaev

In real-world scenarios, large graphs represent relationships among entities in complex systems. Mining these large graphs often containing millions of nodes and edges helps uncover structural patterns and meaningful insights. Dividing a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Shrabani Ghosh , Erik Saule

Academic Search is a search task aimed to manage and retrieve scientific documents like journal articles and conference papers. Personalization in this context meets individual researchers' needs by leveraging, through user profiles, the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Pranav Kasela , Gabriella Pasi , Raffaele Perego

Analyzing structural properties of social networks, such as identifying their clusters or finding their most central nodes, has many applications. However, these applications are not supported by federated social networks that allow users…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Aashish Kolluri , Teodora Baluta , Prateek Saxena

Federated recommendation systems (FedRecs) have gained significant attention for providing privacy-preserving recommendation services. However, existing FedRecs assume that all users have the same requirements for privacy protection, i.e.,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Ce Na , Kai Yang , Dengzhao Fang , Yu Li , Jingtong Gao , Chengcheng Zhu , Jiale Zhang , Xiaobing Sun , Yi Chang

Searching for local communities is an important research challenge that allows for personalized community discovery and supports advanced data analysis in various complex networks, such as the World Wide Web, social networks, and brain…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Farnoosh Hashemi , Ali Behrouz , Milad Rezaei Hajidehi

Community detection in graphs, data clustering, and local pattern mining are three mature fields of data mining and machine learning. In recent years, attributed subgraph mining is emerging as a new powerful data mining task in the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Anes Bendimerad , Ahmad Mel , Jefrey Lijffijt , Marc Plantevit , Céline Robardet , Tijl De Bie

Community structure is of paramount importance for the understanding of complex networks. Consequently, there is a tremendous effort in order to develop efficient community detection algorithms. Unfortunately, the issue of a fair assessment…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Jebabli Malek , Cherifi Hocine , Cherifi Chantal , Hamouda Atef

Networks (or graphs) appear as dominant structures in diverse domains, including sociology, biology, neuroscience and computer science. In most of the aforementioned cases graphs are directed - in the sense that there is directionality on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-06-16 Fragkiskos D. Malliaros , Michalis Vazirgiannis

In standard graph clustering/community detection, one is interested in partitioning the graph into more densely connected subsets of nodes. In contrast, the "search" problem of this paper aims to only find the nodes in a "single" such…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-06-22 Avik Ray , Sujay Sanghavi , Sanjay Shakkottai

The goal of privacy-preserving social graph publishing is to protect individual privacy while preserving data utility. Community structure, which is an important global pattern of nodes, is a crucial data utility as it serves as fundamental…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Sen Zhang , Weiwei Ni , Nan Fu

Cyberspace hosts abundant interactions between users and different kinds of objects, and their relations are often encapsulated as bipartite graphs. Detecting user community in such heterogeneous graphs is an essential task to uncover user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Zheng Gao , Hongsong Li , Zhuoren Jiang , Xiaozhong Liu

Bipartite graphs, modeling relationships between two types of entities, are widely used in practical applications. Community search, a fundamental problem in bipartite graphs, has gained significant attention. However, existing studies…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Fangda Guo , Xuanpu Luo , Shiyuan Xu , Haowen Gao , Yanghao Liu , Huawei Shen , Xueqi Cheng

In the last few years many real-world networks have been found to show a so-called community structure organization. Much effort has been devoted in the literature to develop methods and algorithms that can efficiently highlight this hidden…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-06-18 Michele Coscia , Fosca Giannotti , Dino Pedreschi

Community search is a well-studied problem which, given a static graph and a query set of vertices, requires to find a cohesive (or dense) subgraph containing the query vertices. In this paper we study the problem of community search in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Ioanna Tsalouchidou , Francesco Bonchi , Ricardo Baeza-Yates