Cascades are ubiquitous in various network environments such as epidemic networks, traffic
networks, water distribution networks and social networks. The outbreaks of cascades will …

Eliminating interactions among individuals is an important means of blocking contagion
spread, eg, closing schools during an epidemic or shutting down electronic communication …

The diffusion of undesirable phenomena over social, information and technological
networks is a common problem in different domains. Domain experts typically intervene to …

Analyzing networks requires complex algorithms to extract meaningful information.
Centrality metrics have shown to be correlated with the importance and loads of the nodes in …

Despite the wealth of research on frequent graph pattern mining, how to efficiently mine the
complete set of those with constraints still poses a huge challenge to the existing algorithms …

Dynamics of social processes in populations, such as the spread of emotions, influence,
opinions, and mass movements (often referred to individually and collectively as …

Special thanks to Prof. Mohammed J. Zaki, Prof. Abdoulaye Baniré Diallo and Prof. Jan
Ramon for having accepted to review my thesis manuscript and for their kind efforts to …

This thesis is in the intersection of two proliferating research fields, namely data mining and
bioinformatics. With the emergence of graph data in the last few years, many efforts have …

With the emergence of graph databases, the task of frequent subgraph discovery has been
extensively addressed. Although the proposed approaches in the literature have made this …