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Answering reachability queries with ordered label constraints over labeled graphs

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Reachability query plays a vital role in many graph analysis tasks. Previous researches proposed many methods to efficiently answer reachability queries between vertex pairs. Since many real graphs are labeled graph, it highly demands Label-Constrained Reachability (LCR) query in which constraint includes a set of labels besides vertex pairs. Recent researches proposed several methods for answering some LCR queries which require appearance of some labels specified in constraints in the path. Besides that constraint may be a label set, query constraint may be ordered labels, namely OLCR (Ordered-Label-Constrained Reachability) queries which retrieve paths matching a sequence of labels. Currently, no solutions are available for OLCR. Here, we propose DHL, a novel bloom filter based indexing technique for answering OLCR queries. DHL can be used to check reachability between vertex pairs. If the answers are not no, then constrained DFS is performed. So, we employ DHL followed by performing constrained DFS to answer OLCR queries. We show that DHL has a bounded false positive rate, and it’s powerful in saving indexing time and space. Extensive experiments on 10 real-life graphs and 12 synthetic graphs demonstrate that DHL achieves about 4.8–22.5 times smaller index space and 4.6–114 times less index construction time than two state-of-art techniques for LCR queries, while achieving comparable query response time. The results also show that our algorithm can answer OLCR queries effectively.

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The research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61932004 and 62072205).

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Daoliang He received the BS degree in Electronic and Information Engineering from Northwestern Polytechnical University, China in 2015. He is currently working toward the PhD degree in computer science and technology with Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China. His research interests include big data analysis and processing, graph mining and graph representation learning.

Pingpeng Yuan received the PhD degree in computer science from Zhejiang University, China. Currently, he is a Professor with the School of Computer Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China. His research interests include databases, knowledge representation, and reasoning and information retrieval, with a focus on high performance computing. During exploring his research, he implements systems and innovative applications in addition to investigating theoretical solutions and algorithmic design. Thus, he is the Principle Developer in multiple system prototypes, including TripleBit, PathGraph, and SemreX.

Hai Jin received the PhD degree in computer engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China in 1994. He is a Chair Professor of Computer Science and Engineering with Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China. In 1996, he was awarded a German Academic Exchange Service Fellowship to visit the Technical University of Chemnitz in Germany. He is the Chief Scientist of ChinaGrid, the largest grid computing project in China, and also the Chief Scientists of National 973 Basic Research Program Project of Virtualization Technology of Computing System and Cloud Security. Dr. Jin is a fellow of IEEE, a Fellow of CCF, and a member of the ACM. He has coauthored 22 books and published over 700 research papers. His research interests include computer architecture, virtualization technology, cluster computing and cloud computing, peer-to-peer computing, network storage, and network security.

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He, D., Yuan, P. & Jin, H. Answering reachability queries with ordered label constraints over labeled graphs. Front. Comput. Sci. 18, 181601 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11704-022-2368-y

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