Truss Decomposition of Probabilistic Graphs: Semantics and Algorithms

Summary: Defines (k, gamma)-truss for probabilistic graphs: maximal subgraphs where each edge has prob ≥ gamma of in ≥(k−2) triangles; provides a dynamic-programming local-decomposition algorithm. Global (k, gamma)-truss is intractable; introduces a sampling-based approximate discovery with high probability, validated on real datasets. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 5166
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2016
Pagerank: 8.750808e-05
Overall Rank: 2,323 | 84.07%
DOI: 10.1145/2882903.2882913

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Authors

1. Xin Huang (University of British Columbia)
2. Wei Lu (University of British Columbia)
3. Laks V.S. Lakshmanan (University of British Columbia)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{huang_sigmod16,
        title = {{Truss Decomposition of Probabilistic Graphs: Semantics and Algorithms}},
        author = {Huang, Xin and Lu, Wei and Lakshmanan, Laks V.S.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '16},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/2882903.2882913},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2882903.2882913},
        year = {2016}
}

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1,069	Truss-based Community Search: a Truss-equivalence Based Indexing Approach	2017	VLDB	0.00012323497
2,024	Efficient Algorithms for Densest Subgraph Discovery	2019	VLDB	9.2907829e-05
2,083	Fast Hierarchy Construction for Dense Subgraphs	2017	VLDB	9.1976617e-05
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3,723	Butterfly Counting on Uncertain Bipartite Graphs	2022	VLDB	7.1725638e-05
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5,556	Fast Maximal Clique Enumeration on Uncertain Graphs: A Pivot-based Approach	2022	SIGMOD	6.1751704e-05
5,697	Local Algorithms for Distance-generalized Core Decomposition over Large Dynamic Graphs	2021	VLDB	6.1174514e-05
6,617	Efficient Parallel D-core Decomposition at Scale	2024	VLDB	5.8212982e-05
7,455	Scalable Approximate Butterfly and Bi-triangle Counting for Large Bipartite Networks	2023	SIGMOD	5.6127752e-05
8,011	Efficient Star-based Truss Maintenance on Dynamic Graphs	2023	SIGMOD	5.5074939e-05
9,281	Sage: A System for Uncertain Network Analysis	2022	VLDB	5.2933125e-05
11,866	Finding Theme Communities from Database Networks	2019	VLDB	5.093636e-05

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
102	Truss Decomposition in Massive Networks	2012	VLDB	0.00034255289
189	Querying K-Truss Community in Large and Dynamic Graphs	2014	SIGMOD	0.00026114928
442	Efficient Subgraph Matching on Billion Node Graphs	2012	VLDB	0.00018398144
590	Large Scale Cohesive Subgraphs Discovery for Social Network Visual Analysis	2013	VLDB	0.0001605572
674	Finding Maximal Cliques in Massive Networks by H*-graph	2010	SIGMOD	0.00015081844
1,049	k-Nearest Neighbors in Uncertain Graphs	2010	VLDB	0.00012415522
1,254	Distance-Constraint Reachability Computation in Uncertain Graphs	2011	VLDB	0.0001147266

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