Graph pattern matching: From intractable to polynomial time

W Fan, J Li, S Ma, N Tang, Y Wu… - Proceedings of the VLDB …, 2010 - research.ed.ac.uk
Graph pattern matching is typically defined in terms of subgraph isomorphism, which makes
it an np-complete problem. Moreover, it requires bijective functions, which are often too …

Incremental graph pattern matching

W Fan, X Wang, Y Wu - ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS …, 2013 - dl.acm.org
Graph pattern matching is commonly used in a variety of emerging applications such as
social network analysis. These applications highlight the need for studying the following two …

Strong simulation: Capturing topology in graph pattern matching

S Ma, Y Cao, W Fan, J Huai, T Wo - ACM Transactions on Database …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
Graph pattern matching is finding all matches in a data graph for a given pattern graph and
is often defined in terms of subgraph isomorphism, an np-complete problem. To lower its …

Capturing topology in graph pattern matching

S Ma, Y Cao, W Fan, J Huai, T Wo - arXiv preprint arXiv:1201.0229, 2011 - arxiv.org
Graph pattern matching is often defined in terms of subgraph isomorphism, an NP-complete
problem. To lower its complexity, various extensions of graph simulation have been …

Graph pattern matching revised for social network analysis

W Fan - Proceedings of the 15th international conference on …, 2012 - dl.acm.org
Graph pattern matching is fundamental to social network analysis. Traditional techniques
are subgraph isomorphism and graph simulation. However, these notions often impose too …

Diversified top-k graph pattern matching

W Fan, X Wang, Y Wu - Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment …, 2013 - research.ed.ac.uk
Graph pattern matching has been widely used in eg, social data analysis. A number of
matching algorithms have been developed that, given a graph pattern Q and a graph G …

Growing a graph matching from a handful of seeds

E Kazemi, SH Hassani, M Grossglauser - Proceedings of the VLDB …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
In many graph--mining problems, two networks from different domains have to be matched.
In the absence of reliable node attributes, graph matching has to rely on only the link …

Graph homomorphism revisited for graph matching

W Fan, J Li, S Ma, H Wang, Y Wu - Proceedings of the VLDB …, 2010 - research.ed.ac.uk
In a variety of emerging applications one needs to decide whether a graph G matches
another Gp, ie, whether G has a topological structure similar to that of Gp. The traditional …

Graphpi: High performance graph pattern matching through effective redundancy elimination

T Shi, M Zhai, Y Xu, J Zhai - SC20: International Conference for …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Graph pattern matching, which aims to discover structural patterns in graphs, is considered
one of the most fundamental graph mining problems in many real applications. Despite …

Distributed graph pattern matching

S Ma, Y Cao, J Huai, T Wo - … of the 21st international conference on …, 2012 - dl.acm.org
Graph simulation has been adopted for pattern matching to reduce the complexity and
capture the need of novel applications. With the rapid development of the Web and social …