Incremental Graph Computations: Doable and Undoable

Summary: Incremental graph computations: for standard queries such as traversal, connectivity, and pattern matching the incremental problem is unbounded. Introduces localizable and bounded-by-batch notions; gives algorithms that localize updates or reuse batch checks, validated on real graphs. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 5372
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2017
Pagerank: 8.1129891e-05
Overall Rank: 2,798 | 80.81%
DOI: 10.1145/3055918.3055944

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Authors

1. Wenfei Fan (Beihang University; University of Edinburgh)
2. Chunming Hu (Beihang University)
3. Chao Tian (Beihang University; University of Edinburgh)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{fan_sigmod17,
        title = {{Incremental Graph Computations: Doable and Undoable}},
        author = {Fan, Wenfei and Hu, Chunming and Tian, Chao},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '17},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3055918.3055944},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3055918.3055944},
        year = {2017}
}

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956	Parallelizing Sequential Graph Computations	2017	SIGMOD	0.0001297452
2,209	Regular Path Query Evaluation on Streaming Graphs	2020	SIGMOD	8.9437338e-05
2,243	Unboundedness and Efficiency of Truss Maintenance in Evolving Graphs	2019	SIGMOD	8.8813183e-05
3,612	Relative Subboundedness of Contraction Hierarchy and Hierarchical 2-Hop Index in Dynamic Road Networks	2022	SIGMOD	7.2579119e-05
4,443	Incrementalizing Graph Algorithms	2021	SIGMOD	6.7004839e-05
5,415	Making Graphs Compact by Lossless Contraction	2021	SIGMOD	6.2255551e-05
5,567	iTurboGraph: Scaling and Automating Incremental Graph Analytics	2021	SIGMOD	6.1709411e-05
5,608	Big Graphs: Challenges and Opportunities	2022	VLDB	6.1514145e-05
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6,203	Automating Incremental and Asynchronous Evaluation for Recursive Aggregate Data Processing	2020	SIGMOD	5.9447217e-05
6,403	Parallel Discrepancy Detection and Incremental Detection	2021	VLDB	5.8859374e-05
6,599	Adaptive Asynchronous Parallelization of Graph Algorithms	2018	SIGMOD	5.8250554e-05
6,728	BOOMER: Blending Visual Formulation and Processing of P-Homomorphic Queries on Large Networks	2018	SIGMOD	5.7898807e-05
6,876	A Hierarchical Contraction Scheme for Querying Big Graphs	2022	SIGMOD	5.7483615e-05
7,322	DLCR: Efficient Indexing for Label-Constrained Reachability Queries on Large Dynamic Graphs	2022	VLDB	5.644647e-05
7,365	Extending Graph Patterns with Conditions	2020	SIGMOD	5.6329929e-05
8,149	Efficient Index for Temporal Core Queries over Bipartite Graphs	2024	VLDB	5.4784885e-05
8,830	Graphsurge: Graph Analytics on View Collections Using Differential Computation	2021	SIGMOD	5.3611079e-05
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10,266	Maintaining Biconnected Components in Streaming Graphs	2026	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
10,448	Efficient Influential Community Search over Dynamic Graphs	2026	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
10,478	Order-based Algorithms for Efficient Core Maintenance in Large Bipartite Graphs	2026	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
11,262	Enriching Relations with Additional Attributes for ER	2024	VLDB	5.093636e-05
11,671	MIDAS: Towards Efficient and Effective Maintenance of Canned Patterns in Visual Graph Query Interfaces	2021	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
11,910	Catching Numeric Inconsistencies in Graphs	2018	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
61	Maintaining Views Incrementally	1993	SIGMOD	0.00039026867
272	BLINKS: Ranked Keyword Searches on Graphs	2007	SIGMOD	0.00022695855
302	Bidirectional Expansion For Keyword Search on Graph Databases	2005	VLDB	0.00021963347
956	Parallelizing Sequential Graph Computations	2017	SIGMOD	0.0001297452
1,133	Algorithms for Deferred View Maintenance	1996	SIGMOD	0.00012039326
1,296	Incremental Graph Pattern Matching	2011	SIGMOD	0.00011269684
1,834	Incremental Maintenance for Materialized Views over Semistructured Data	1998	VLDB	9.6540074e-05
2,973	Functional Dependencies for Graphs	2016	SIGMOD	7.9083516e-05
3,008	Scalable Big Graph Processing in MapReduce	2014	SIGMOD	7.8578871e-05
4,474	Querying Big Graphs within Bounded Resources	2014	SIGMOD	6.6803983e-05
5,878	Distributed Graph Simulation: Impossibility and Possibility	2014	VLDB	6.0539311e-05

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