A survey on the densest subgraph problem and its variants

T Lanciano, A Miyauchi, A Fazzone, F Bonchi - ACM Computing Surveys, 2024 - dl.acm.org
The Densest Subgraph Problem requires us to find, in a given graph, a subset of vertices
whose induced subgraph maximizes a measure of density. The problem has received a …

A review on algorithms for maximum clique problems

Q Wu, JK Hao - European Journal of Operational Research, 2015 - Elsevier
The maximum clique problem (MCP) is to determine in a graph a clique (ie, a complete
subgraph) of maximum cardinality. The MCP is notable for its capability of modeling other …

Densest subgraph discovery on large graphs: Applications, challenges, and techniques

Y Fang, W Luo, C Ma - Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, 2022 - dl.acm.org
As one of the most fundamental problems in graph data mining, the densest subgraph
discovery (DSD) problem has found a broad spectrum of real applications, such as social …

Scalable algorithms for densest subgraph discovery

W Luo, Z Tang, Y Fang, C Ma… - 2023 IEEE 39th …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As a fundamental problem in graph data mining, Densest Subgraph Discovery (DSD) aims
to find the subgraph with the highest density from a graph. It has been studied for several …

A survey of densest subgraph discovery on large graphs

W Luo, C Ma, Y Fang, LVS Lakshmanan - arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.07927, 2023 - arxiv.org
With the prevalence of graphs for modeling complex relationships among objects, the topic
of graph mining has attracted a great deal of attention from both academic and industrial …

[HTML][HTML] Parameterized approximability of maximizing the spread of influence in networks

C Bazgan, M Chopin, A Nichterlein, F Sikora - Journal of Discrete …, 2014 - Elsevier
In this paper, we consider the problem of maximizing the spread of influence through a
social network. Given a graph with a threshold value thr (v) attached to each vertex v, the …

[HTML][HTML] An algorithmic framework for fixed-cardinality optimization in sparse graphs applied to dense subgraph problems

C Komusiewicz, M Sorge - Discrete Applied Mathematics, 2015 - Elsevier
We investigate the computational complexity of the Densest k-Subgraph problem, where the
input is an undirected graph G=(V, E) and one wants to find a subgraph on exactly k vertices …

Solving the Multiobjective Quasi-clique problem

DS dos Santos, K Klamroth, P Martins… - European Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Given a simple undirected graph G, a quasi-clique is a subgraph of G whose density is at
least γ (0< γ≤ 1). Finding a maximum quasi-clique has been addressed from two different …

Exact algorithms for problems related to the densest k-set problem

MS Chang, LH Chen, LJ Hung, P Rossmanith… - Information Processing …, 2014 - Elsevier
Many graph concepts such as cliques, k-clubs, and k-plexes are used to define cohesive
subgroups in a social network. The concept of densest k-set is one of them. A densest k-set …

Multi-parameter analysis for local graph partitioning problems: Using greediness for parameterization

E Bonnet, B Escoffier, VT Paschos, E Tourniaire - Algorithmica, 2015 - Springer
We study the parameterized complexity of a broad class of problems called “local graph
partitioning problems” that includes the classical fixed cardinality problems as max k k-vertex …