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Reachability Queries on Dynamic Temporal Bipartite Graphs

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Temporal graphs are widely used to model movement phenomena in various real-world applications, such as disease spreading, information propagation, and logistics. In particular, the spread of diseases on a people-location network can be effectively represented using temporal bipartite graphs with edges available at specified time intervals. The main objective of this research is to address the problem of querying reachability on dynamic temporal bipartite graphs, where the graph is subject to changes such as vertex/edge deletion or addition. Graph modifications can reflect phenomena such as location closures or shifting population. To tackle this problem, we propose an effective index called the WTB-index (Wedge-based Temporal Bipartite Index), designed specifically for querying reachability on dynamic temporal bipartite graphs. Unlike existing approaches, the WTB-index enables efficient query processing without the need for index reconstruction when the graph undergoes changes. Experiments on a variety of datasets as well as a case study on a real-world people-location network are conducted using the WTB-index to demonstrate its effectiveness.

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SIGSPATIAL '23: Proceedings of the 31st ACM International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems
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DOI:10.1145/3589132
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  1. temporal graphs
  2. bipartite graphs
  3. reachability queries
  4. index
  5. graph modifications
  6. vertex deletion

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