Relation Strength-Aware Clustering of Heterogeneous Information Networks with Incomplete Attributes

Summary: Model-based clustering for heterogeneous networks with incomplete attributes, mapping objects into a space using attributes and links. Learns link-type strengths for clustering, with iterative refinement weights and clustering quality reinforce. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 10675
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2012
Pagerank: 7.7036411e-05
Overall Rank: 3,151 | 78.39%
DOI: 10.14778/2140436.2140437

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Authors

1. Yizhou Sun (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
2. Charu C. Aggarwal (IBM)
3. Jiawei Han (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

BibTeX Citation

@article{sun_vldb12,
        title = {{Relation Strength-Aware Clustering of Heterogeneous Information Networks with Incomplete Attributes}},
        author = {Sun, Yizhou and Aggarwal, Charu C. and Han, Jiawei},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '12},
        volume = {5},
        number = {5},
        pages = {394},
        doi = {10.14778/2140436.2140437},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2140436.2140437},
        year = {2012}
}

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1,647	Effective and Efficient Community Search over Large Heterogeneous Information Networks	2020	VLDB	0.00010125633
2,321	Effective and Efficient Relational Community Detection and Search in Large Dynamic Heterogeneous Information Networks	2020	VLDB	8.7540322e-05
4,681	Influential Community Search over Large Heterogeneous Information Networks	2023	VLDB	6.5665144e-05
4,921	Effective Community Search over Large Star-Schema Heterogeneous Information Networks	2022	VLDB	6.4448544e-05
5,503	MEGA: Multi-View Semi-Supervised Clustering of Hypergraphs	2020	VLDB	6.1948574e-05
8,227	From Anomaly Detection to Rumour Detection using Data Streams of Social Platforms	2019	VLDB	5.4622609e-05
9,690	Searching and Detecting Structurally Similar Communities in Large Heterogeneous Information Networks	2025	VLDB	5.2351259e-05
10,448	Efficient Influential Community Search over Dynamic Graphs	2026	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
10,528	Effective Durable Community Search in Large Temporal Graph	2026	VLDB	5.093636e-05
12,023	From Community Detection to Community Profiling	2017	VLDB	5.093636e-05
12,345	Mining Knowledge from Interconnected Data: A Heterogeneous Information Network Analysis Approach	2012	VLDB	5.093636e-05

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
364	Graph Clustering Based on Structural/Attribute Similarities	2009	VLDB	0.00020054172
5,203	A Particle-and-Density Based Evolutionary Clustering Method for Dynamic Networks	2009	VLDB	6.3192921e-05

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