C-Explorer: Browsing Communities in Large Graphs

Summary: Introduces C-Explorer, an online system for interactive retrieval, visualization, and analysis of communities in large graphs. It discovers attributed communities by jointly leveraging graph structure and vertex labels/keywords, implements state-of-the-art CR algorithms, and exposes open-source APIs for developers. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 11477
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2017
Pagerank: 4.8752317e-05
Overall Rank: 6,978 | 51.46%
DOI: -

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 5 of 5 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,286	Effective and Efficient Community Search over Large Heterogeneous Information Networks	2020	VLDB	9.0982591e-05
4,534	Hop-constrained s-t Simple Path Enumeration: Towards Bridging Theory and Practice	2020	VLDB	6.1049756e-05
4,743	Cohesive Subgraph Search over Big Heterogeneous Information Networks: Applications, Challenges, and Solutions	2021	SIGMOD	5.9586508e-05
6,795	Answering Billion-Scale Label-Constrained Reachability Queries within Microsecond	2020	VLDB	4.9242446e-05
11,653	Data Pipelines for User Group Analytics	2019	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05

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Showing 7 of 7 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
283	Querying K-Truss Community in Large and Dynamic Graphs	2014	SIGMOD	0.00029041257
353	Local Search of Communities in Large Graphs	2014	SIGMOD	0.00026277992
999	Effective Community Search for Large Attributed Graphs	2016	VLDB	0.00014726563
1,844	Effective Community Search over Large Spatial Graphs	2017	VLDB	0.00010341077
2,807	A Model-based Approach to Attributed Graph Clustering	2012	SIGMOD	8.0905959e-05
3,202	VIIQ: Auto-Suggestion Enabled Visual Interface for Interactive Graph Query Formulation	2015	VLDB	7.3911717e-05
7,285	AutoG: A Visual Query Autocompletion Framework for Graph Databases	2016	VLDB	4.7762476e-05

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