Answering label-constraint reachability in large graphs

  • Authors:
  • Kun Xu;Lei Zou;Jeffery Xu Yu;Lei Chen;Yanghua Xiao;Dongyan Zhao

  • Affiliations:
  • Peking University, Beijing, China;Peking University, Beijing, China;The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China;Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China;Fudan University, Shanghai, China;Peking University, Beijing, China

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 20th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

In this paper, we study a variant of reachability queries, called label-constraint reachability (LCR) queries, specifically,given a label set S and two vertices u1 and u2 in a large directed graph G, we verify whether there exists a path from u1 to u2 under label constraint S. Like traditional reachability queries, LCR queries are very useful, such as pathway finding in biological networks, inferring over RDF (resource description f ramework) graphs, relationship finding in social networks. However, LCR queries are much more complicated than their traditional counterpart.Several techniques are proposed in this paper to minimize the search space in computing path-label transitive closure. Furthermore, we demonstrate the superiority of our method by extensive experiments.