Int J Performability Eng ›› 2018, Vol. 14 ›› Issue (11): 2612-2623.doi: 10.23940/ijpe.18.11.p7.26122623

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An Improved Influential Cover Set Mining Algorithm

Jia Liua, b, Wei Chena, b, *, Ziyang Chena, c, and Huijuan Liua   

  1. a School of Information Science and Engineering, YanShan University, Qinhuangdao, 066004, China;
    b Department of Information Engineering, Hebei University of Environmental Engineering, Qinhuangdao, 066102, China;
    c School of Information and Management, Shanghai Lixin University of Accounting and Finance, Shanghai, 201620, China
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  • Contact: * E-mail address: chenwei@ysu.edu.cn
  • About author:Jia Liu is currently working toward a Ph.D. in the Department of Computer Science and Technology at Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao, China. She is also an associate professor. Her research interests include querying and processing on spatial information.Wei Chen is currently working toward a Ph.D. in the Department of Computer Science and Technology at Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao, China. She is also an associate professor. Her research interests include query processing on graph data.Ziyang Chen received his bachelor's degree, Master's degree, and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao, China in 1996, 2000, and 2009, respectively. He is currently a professor, Ph.D. supervisor, and distinguished professor at Shanghai Lixin University of Accounting and Finance. His research interests include database theory and techniques.Huijuan Liu is currently working toward a Master's degree in the Department of Computer Science and Technology at Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao, China. Her research interests include query processing on graph data.

Abstract: The influential cover set (ICS) problem is a hot research issue in social networks and road networks. Considering that existing methods cannot take into account both the efficiency and the accuracy of results, we propose a partition-based influential cover set mining algorithm with the index. Firstly, we create the inverted index for each attribute to be queried, thus avoiding traversing all nodes while querying the node covered attributes and reducing the query time with high accuracy. Then, we design the pruning strategy according to the upper bound of cover-group for filtering, which reduces the number of the partition combination in the treatment on each tuple in the linked list of partitions, reduces the overall computation, and improves the processing speed and efficiency. Our experimental results on 15 real datasets verify the efficiency of our method in terms of different metrics, including indexing time, accuracy of results, influence of results, and query processing time.

Key words: road network, social network, influential cover set (ICS)