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Finding skyline communities in multi-valued networks

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Given a scientific collaboration network, how can we find a group of collaborators with high research indicator (e.g., h-index) and diverse research interests? Given a social network, how can we identify the communities that have high influence (e.g., PageRank) and also have similar interests to a specified user? In such settings, the network can be modeled as a multi-valued network where each node has d (\(d \ge 1\)) numerical attributes (i.e., h-index, diversity, PageRank, similarity score, etc.). In the multi-valued network, we want to find communities that are not dominated by the other communities in terms of d numerical attributes. Most existing community search algorithms either completely ignore the numerical attributes or only consider one numerical attribute of the nodes. To capture d numerical attributes, we propose a novel community model, called skyline community, based on the concepts of k-core and skyline. A skyline community is a maximal connected k-core that cannot be dominated by the other connected k-cores in the d-dimensional attribute space. We develop an elegant space-partition algorithm to efficiently compute the skyline communities. Two striking advantages of our algorithm are that (1) its time complexity relies mainly on the size of the answer s (i.e., the number of skyline communities), and thus, it is very efficient if s is small; and (2) it can progressively output the skyline communities, which is very useful for applications that only require part of the skyline communities. In addition, we also develop three efficient graph reduction techniques to further speed up the proposed algorithms. Extensive experiments on both synthetic and real-world networks demonstrate the efficiency, scalability, and effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.

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Acknowledgements

Rong-Hua Li was partially supported by the NSFC Grants 61772346 and U1809206. Lu Qin was supported by ARC DP 160101513. Jeffrey Xu Yu was supported by the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong SAR, China No. 14221716. Xiaokui Xiao was partially supported by NUS, Singapore, under an SUG grant.

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  1. Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China

    Rong-Hua Li & Guoren Wang

  2. University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

    Lu Qin

  3. Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China

    Fanghua Ye, Nong Xiao & Zibin Zheng

  4. Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

    Jeffrey Xu Yu

  5. National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

    Xiaokui Xiao

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Li, RH., Qin, L., Ye, F. et al. Finding skyline communities in multi-valued networks. The VLDB Journal 29, 1407–1432 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00778-020-00618-5

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