Truss decomposition in massive networks

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 which is also efficient to compute, k-truss represents the...

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Main Authors: Wang, Jia, Cheng, James
Other Authors: School of Computer Engineering
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2013
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/98773
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/13430
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2311909
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English
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Summary: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 which is also efficient to compute, k-truss represents the "core" of a k-core that keeps the key information of, while filtering out less important information from, the k-core. However, existing algorithms for computing k-truss are inefficient for handling today's massive networks. We first improve the existing in-memory algorithm for computing k-truss in networks of moderate size. Then, we propose two I/O-efficient algorithms to handle massive networks that cannot fit in main memory. Our experiments on real datasets verify the efficiency of our algorithms and the value of k-truss.