C-Explorer: Browsing Communities in Large Graphs
Summary: Introduces C-Explorer, an online system for interactive retrieval, visualization, and analysis of communities in large graphs. It discovers attributed communities by jointly leveraging graph structure and vertex labels/keywords, implements state-of-the-art CR algorithms, and exposes open-source APIs for developers. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Yixiang Fang (University of Hong Kong)
- 2. Reynold Cheng (University of Hong Kong)
- 3. Siqiang Luo (University of Hong Kong)
- 4. Jiafeng Hu (University of Hong Kong)
- 5. Kai Huang (University of Hong Kong)
BibTeX Citation
@article{fang_vldb17,
title = {{C-Explorer: Browsing Communities in Large Graphs}},
author = {Fang, Yixiang and Cheng, Reynold and Luo, Siqiang and Hu, Jiafeng and Huang, Kai},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '17},
volume = {10},
number = {12},
pages = {1885--1888},
doi = {10.14778/3137765.3137803},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3137765.3137803},
year = {2017}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 5 of 5 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,663 | Effective and Efficient Community Search over Large Heterogeneous Information Networks | 2020 | VLDB | 9.9441685e-05 |
| 3,875 | Cohesive Subgraph Search over Big Heterogeneous Information Networks: Applications, Challenges, and Solutions | 2021 | SIGMOD | 6.9536357e-05 |
| 4,634 | Hop-constrained s-t Simple Path Enumeration: Towards Bridging Theory and Practice | 2020 | VLDB | 6.4933103e-05 |
| 6,177 | Answering Billion-Scale Label-Constrained Reachability Queries within Microsecond | 2020 | VLDB | 5.8598586e-05 |
| 12,148 | Data Pipelines for User Group Analytics | 2019 | SIGMOD | 4.9793485e-05 |
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 7 of 7 cited papers.
Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 184 | Querying K-Truss Community in Large and Dynamic Graphs | 2014 | SIGMOD | 0.00026100147 |
| 285 | Local Search of Communities in Large Graphs | 2014 | SIGMOD | 0.00022150572 |
| 714 | Effective Community Search for Large Attributed Graphs | 2016 | VLDB | 0.00014569079 |
| 1,414 | Effective Community Search over Large Spatial Graphs | 2017 | VLDB | 0.0001073756 |
| 2,692 | A Model-based Approach to Attributed Graph Clustering | 2012 | SIGMOD | 8.1241746e-05 |
| 3,116 | VIIQ: Auto-Suggestion Enabled Visual Interface for Interactive Graph Query Formulation | 2015 | VLDB | 7.6338057e-05 |
| 7,590 | AutoG: A Visual Query Autocompletion Framework for Graph Databases | 2016 | VLDB | 5.4881675e-05 |
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