Third International Workshop on

High Performance Big Graph Data

Management, Analysis, and Mining

December 5, 2016

To be held in conjunction with the

2016 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData 2016)
Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C., USA

Workshop Description

Modern Big Data increasingly appears in the form of complex graphs and networks. Examples include the physical Internet, the world wide web, online social networks, phone networks, and biological networks. In addition to their massive sizes, these graphs are dynamic, noisy, and sometimes transient. They also conform to all five Vs (Volume, Velocity, Variety, Value and Veracity) that define Big Data. However, many graph-related problems are computationally difficult, and thus big graph data brings unique challenges, as well as numerous opportunities for researchers, to solve various problems that are significant to our communities.

Big graph problems are currently solved using several complementary paradigms. The most popular approach is perhaps by exploiting parallelism, through specialized algorithms for supercomputers, shared-memory multicore and manycore systems, and heterogeneous CPU-GPU systems. However, since real-world graphs are sparse and highly irregular, there are very few parallel implementations that can actually deliver high performance. The major challenges to scaling and efficiency include irregular data dependencies, poor locality, and high synchronization costs of current approaches. In addition to parallelism, researchers are developing approximation algorithms that use sampling for compressing and summarizing graph data. Streaming algorithms are also being considered for scenarios where the rate of updates is too fast to process the entire graph in a single pass. Further, out-of-core algorithms are necessary for massive graphs that do not fit in the main memory of a typical system. Researchers can use graph-based solutions for solving problems from many diverse disciplines, including routing and transportation, social networks, bioinformatics, computational science, health care, security and intelligence analysis.

This workshop aims to bring together researchers from different paradigms solving big graph problems under a unified platform for sharing their work and exchanging ideas. We are soliciting novel and original research contributions related to big graph data management, analysis, and mining (algorithms, software systems, applications, best practices, performance). Significant work-in-progress papers are also encouraged. Papers can be from any of the following areas, including but not limited to:

Submissions must be at most 8 pages long, including all figures, tables, and references. They must be formatted according to the style files used by the IEEE BigData 2016 conference proceedings. Papers must be submitted online through the workshop submissions page by 11.59 pm PDT (Pacific Daylight Time) on October 20, 2016.

Past Workshops

BigGraphs 2014
BigGraphs 2015

Important Dates

Keynote

Nick G. Duffield
Nick G. Duffield
Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Texas A&M University

Adaptive Sampling: From Data Streams to Graph Streams
slides

Workshop Program

December 5, 2016

Location: Columbia Foyer meeting room, Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C.

15-minute oral presentation of papers (12-minute talk and 3 minutes for Q&A)

8.00 am Opening remarks
Mohammad Al Hasan

8.10 am On the Hyperbolicity of Large-Scale Networks and Its Estimation
Iraj Saniee, Sean Kennedy, and Onuttom Narayan

8.25 am Parallel Graph Mining with Dynamic Load Balancing
Nilothpal Talukder and Mohammed Zaki

8.40 am Distributed Exact Subgraph Matching in Small Diameter Dynamic Graphs
Charith Wickramaarachchi, Rajgopal Kannan, Charalampos Chelmis, and Viktor Prasanna
slides

8.55 am Optional 5-minute break

9.00 am Keynote: Adaptive Sampling: From Data Streams to Graph Streams
Nick G. Duffield
slides

10.00 am Coffee break

10.20 am GraphFlow: Workflow-based Big Graph Processing
Sara Riazi and Boyana Norris

10.35 am Massive Graph Processing on Nanocomputers
Bryan Rainey and David Gleich
slides

10.50 am GFP-X: A Parallel Approach To Massive Graph Comparison Using Spark
Stephen Bonner, John Brennan, Georgios Theodoropoulos, Ibad Kureshi, and Stephen McGough

11.05 am Deep Topology Classification: A New Approach for Massive Graph Classification
Stephen Bonner, John Brennan, Georgios Theodoropoulos, Ibad Kureshi, and Stephen McGough

11.20 am Optional 5-minute break

11.25 am Fast Reachability Query Computation on Big Attributed Graphs
Ka Wai Yung and Shi-Kuo Chang
slides

11.40 am Fast distributed k-nn graph update
Thibault Debatty, Fabio Pulvirenti, Pietro Michiardi, and Wim Mees
slides

11.55 am An Incremental Local-First Community Detection Method for Dynamic Graphs
Hiroki Kanezashi and Toyotaro Suzumura

Workshop Organizers

Nesreen Ahmed
Nesreen Ahmed
Intel Labs
Santa Clara, CA 95054

Mohammad Al Hasan
Mohammad Al Hasan
Department of Computer and Information Science
Indiana University - Purdue University
Indianapolis, IN 46202

Kamesh Madduri
Kamesh Madduri
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802

Program Committee

Nesreen Ahmed (Intel Labs)
Mohammad Al Hasan (Indiana University - Purdue University)
Ariful Azad (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
Sanjukta Bhowmick (University of Nebraska at Omaha)
Mehmet Deveci (Sandia National Laboratories)
Nick Duffield (Texas A&M University)
Assefaw Gebremedhin (Washington State University)
Oded Green (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Irena Holubova (Charles University)
Kamesh Madduri (The Pennsylvania State University)
Ali Pinar (Sandia National Laboratories)
Ryan Rossi (Palo Alto Research Center)
George Slota (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Narayanan Sundaram (Intel Labs)
Ted Willke (Intel Labs)
Yinglong Xia (Huawei Research America)
Rong Zhou (Palo Alto Research Center)

Contact

Please send email to one of the workshop organizers.