Listing all maximal cliques in sparse graphs in near-optimal time

D Eppstein, M Löffler, D Strash - … 2010, Jeju Island, Korea, December 15 …, 2010 - Springer
The degeneracy of an n-vertex graph G is the smallest number d such that every subgraph
of G contains a vertex of degree at most d. We show that there exists a nearly-optimal fixed …

Clique Relaxations in Social Network Analysis: The Maximum k-Plex Problem

B Balasundaram, S Butenko… - Operations Research, 2011 - pubsonline.informs.org
This paper introduces and studies the maximum k-plex problem, which arises in social
network analysis and has wider applicability in several important areas employing graph …

Fast algorithms for maximal clique enumeration with limited memory

J Cheng, L Zhu, Y Ke, S Chu - Proceedings of the 18th ACM SIGKDD …, 2012 - dl.acm.org
Maximal clique enumeration (MCE) is a long-standing problem in graph theory and has
numerous important applications. Though extensively studied, most existing algorithms …

Diversified top-k clique search

L Yuan, L Qin, X Lin, L Chang, W Zhang - The VLDB Journal, 2016 - Springer
Maximal clique enumeration is a fundamental problem in graph theory and has been
extensively studied. However, maximal clique enumeration is time-consuming in large …

Efficient maximum clique computation over large sparse graphs

L Chang - Proceedings of the 25th ACM SIGKDD International …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
This paper studies the problem of MCC-Sparse, Maximum Clique Computation over large
real-world graphs that are usually Sparse. In the literature, MCC-Sparse has been studied …

Finding maximal cliques in massive networks

J Cheng, Y Ke, AWC Fu, JX Yu, L Zhu - ACM Transactions on Database …, 2011 - dl.acm.org
Maximal clique enumeration is a fundamental problem in graph theory and has important
applications in many areas such as social network analysis and bioinformatics. The problem …

Finding the maximum clique in massive graphs

C Lu, JX Yu, H Wei, Y Zhang - Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Cliques refer to subgraphs in an undirected graph such that vertices in each subgraph are
pairwise adjacent. The maximum clique problem, to find the clique with most vertices in a …

Clique relaxation models in social network analysis

J Pattillo, N Youssef, S Butenko - Handbook of Optimization in Complex …, 2011 - Springer
Clique relaxation models that were originally introduced in the literature on social network
analysis are not only gaining increasing popularity in a wide spectrum of complex network …

Finding maximal cliques in massive networks by h*-graph

J Cheng, Y Ke, AWC Fu, JX Yu, L Zhu - Proceedings of the 2010 ACM …, 2010 - dl.acm.org
Maximal clique enumeration (MCE) is a fundamental problem in graph theory and has
important applications in many areas such as social network analysis and bioinformatics …

Distance-Based Clique Relaxations in Networks: s-Clique and s-Club

S Shahinpour, S Butenko - … for Network Analysis: Proceedings of the …, 2013 - Springer
The concept of the clique, originally introduced as a model of a cohesive subgroup in the
context of social network analysis, is a classical model of a cluster in networks. However, the …