Efficient and Effective Algorithms for Clustering Uncertain Graphs

Summary: Clustering graphs with edge uncertainty under k-median and k-center objectives, maximizing probability to cluster centers. Gives (1-1/e)-approx for k-median and OPT_ck-approx to k-center; practical optimizations; experiments show speed and quality gains. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 11995
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2019
Pagerank: 6.8976555e-05
Overall Rank: 3,636 | 74.71%
DOI: 10.14778/3311880.3311884

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1,801	Online Processing Algorithms for Influence Maximization	2018	SIGMOD	0.00010510943
2,371	From Competition to Complementarity: Comparative Influence Diffusion and Maximization	2016	VLDB	8.9482922e-05
2,684	Truss Decomposition of Probabilistic Graphs: Semantics and Algorithms	2016	SIGMOD	8.3136866e-05
3,101	Injecting Uncertainty in Graphs for Identity Obfuscation	2012	VLDB	7.5598015e-05
3,873	Efficient Subgraph Similarity Search on Large Probabilistic Graph Databases	2012	VLDB	6.6779082e-05
4,179	The Pursuit of a Good Possible World: Extracting Representative Instances of Uncertain Graphs	2014	SIGMOD	6.3800553e-05
4,328	How to Build Templates for RDF Question/Answering —An Uncertain Graph Similarity Join Approach	2015	SIGMOD	6.2866586e-05
4,958	Efficient Subgraph Search over Large Uncertain Graphs	2011	VLDB	5.8031038e-05
6,393	On Uncertain Graphs Modeling and Queries	2015	VLDB	5.0837624e-05
6,545	Clustering Uncertain Graphs	2018	VLDB	5.0193115e-05

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