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: 11996
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2019
Pagerank: 6.9021704e-05
Overall Rank: 3,622 | 74.83%
DOI: 10.14778/3311880.3311884

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6,164	Shortest Paths and Centrality in Uncertain Networks	2021	VLDB	5.1731827e-05
8,909	Shortest Paths Discovery in Uncertain Networks via Transfer Learning	2023	SIGMOD	4.4229886e-05
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734	Large Scale Cohesive Subgraphs Discovery for Social Network Visual Analysis	2013	VLDB	0.00017419528
1,159	k-Nearest Neighbors in Uncertain Graphs	2010	VLDB	0.00013584223
1,448	Distance-Constraint Reachability Computation in Uncertain Graphs	2011	VLDB	0.00011928845
1,798	Online Processing Algorithms for Influence Maximization	2018	SIGMOD	0.00010500792
2,375	From Competition to Complementarity: Comparative Influence Diffusion and Maximization	2016	VLDB	8.9401216e-05
2,685	Truss Decomposition of Probabilistic Graphs: Semantics and Algorithms	2016	SIGMOD	8.314724e-05
3,106	Injecting Uncertainty in Graphs for Identity Obfuscation	2012	VLDB	7.5550946e-05
3,873	Efficient Subgraph Similarity Search on Large Probabilistic Graph Databases	2012	VLDB	6.673504e-05
4,165	The Pursuit of a Good Possible World: Extracting Representative Instances of Uncertain Graphs	2014	SIGMOD	6.3843974e-05
4,323	How to Build Templates for RDF Question/Answering —An Uncertain Graph Similarity Join Approach	2015	SIGMOD	6.281058e-05
4,959	Efficient Subgraph Search over Large Uncertain Graphs	2011	VLDB	5.7992713e-05
6,373	On Uncertain Graphs Modeling and Queries	2015	VLDB	5.0875991e-05
6,522	Clustering Uncertain Graphs	2018	VLDB	5.0230003e-05

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