Truss Decomposition in Massive Networks

Summary: Truss decomposition for massive networks; the paper uses k-truss as a polynomial-time, informative core of the k-core. It strengthens the in-memory algorithm and introduces two I/O-efficient methods for out-of-core graphs, with real-data experiments showing scalability and the value of k-truss. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h4060b042ad2a133e
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2012
Pagerank: 0.0003396253
Overall Rank: 100 | 99.33%
DOI: 10.14778/2315356.2315361

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Authors

1. Jia Wang (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
2. James Cheng (Nanyang Technological University)

BibTeX Citation

@article{wang_vldb12,
        title = {{Truss Decomposition in Massive Networks}},
        author = {Wang, Jia and Cheng, James},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '12},
        volume = {5},
        number = {9},
        pages = {812--823},
        doi = {10.14778/2315356.2315361},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2315356.2315361},
        year = {2012}
}

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184	Querying K-Truss Community in Large and Dynamic Graphs	2014	SIGMOD	0.00026097449
589	Large Scale Cohesive Subgraphs Discovery for Social Network Visual Analysis	2013	VLDB	0.00015898419
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959	Blogel: A Block-Centric Framework for Distributed Computation on Real-World Graphs	2014	VLDB	0.00012849025
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3,875	Cohesive Subgraph Search over Big Heterogeneous Information Networks: Applications, Challenges, and Solutions	2021	SIGMOD	6.9503439e-05
4,315	Neighborhood-based Hypergraph Core Decomposition	2023	VLDB	6.6663685e-05
4,424	Global Reinforcement of Social Networks: The Anchored Coreness Problem	2020	SIGMOD	6.6029248e-05
4,758	Efficient Cohesive Subgraphs Detection in Parallel	2014	SIGMOD	6.4293075e-05
5,280	Top-K Structural Diversity Search in Large Networks	2013	VLDB	6.1970455e-05
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6,214	I/O Efficient ECC Graph Decomposition via Graph Reduction	2016	VLDB	5.8459668e-05
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6,655	Efficient Parallel D-core Decomposition at Scale	2024	VLDB	5.717615e-05
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7,153	Topic-based Community Search over Spatial-Social Networks	2020	VLDB	5.5959729e-05
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8,072	Efficient Star-based Truss Maintenance on Dynamic Graphs	2023	SIGMOD	5.3924812e-05
8,324	Efficient Index for Temporal Core Queries over Bipartite Graphs	2024	VLDB	5.3530306e-05
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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
264	On Triangulation-based Dense Neighborhood Graph Discovery	2011	VLDB	0.00022768034
645	Finding Maximal Cliques in Massive Networks by H*-graph	2010	SIGMOD	0.00015208902

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