Efficient community discovery with user engagement and similarity
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- Journal Article
- Citation:
- VLDB Journal, 2019, 28 (6), pp. 987 - 1012
- Issue Date:
- 2019-12-01
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© 2019, Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature. In this paper, we investigate the problem of (k,r)-core which intends to find cohesive subgraphs on social networks considering both user engagement and similarity perspectives. In particular, we adopt the popular concept of k-core to guarantee the engagement of the users (vertices) in a group (subgraph) where each vertex in a (k,r)-core connects to at least k other vertices. Meanwhile, we consider the pairwise similarity among users based on their attributes. Efficient algorithms are proposed to enumerate all maximal (k,r)-cores and find the maximum (k,r)-core, where both problems are shown to be NP-hard. Effective pruning techniques substantially reduce the search space of two algorithms. A novel (k,k′)-core based (k,r)-core size upper bound enhances the performance of the maximum (k,r)-core computation. We also devise effective search orders for two algorithms with different search priorities for vertices. Besides, we study the diversified (k,r)-core search problem to find l maximal (k,r)-cores which cover the most vertices in total. These maximal (k,r)-cores are distinctive and informationally rich. An efficient algorithm is proposed with a guaranteed approximation ratio. We design a tight upper bound to prune unpromising partial (k,r)-cores. A new search order is designed to speed up the search. Initial candidates with large size are generated to further enhance the pruning power. Comprehensive experiments on real-life data demonstrate that the maximal (k,r)-cores enable us to find interesting cohesive subgraphs, and performance of three mining algorithms is effectively improved by all the proposed techniques.
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