Efficient Comparison of Multiple Complex Networks

Abstract

Network alignment (NA), one of the most popular network science/mining tasks, aims to compare networks corresponding to different systems in order to identify network regions of the systems (dis)similarities, thus allowing for learning something about a poorly understood system from a well understood system based on their aligned network regions. As such, NA has applications in a variety of domains, including computational biology, chemoinformatics, neuroscience, computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, computer vision, and web mining. Since complexity theory dictates that the problem of NA is computationally hard, this project introduced novel computationally efficient yet accurate heuristic NA approaches, such as those for alignment of multiple networks (as opposed to traditional pairwise NA), dynamic networks (as opposed to traditional static NA), or heterogeneous networks (as opposed to traditional homogeneous NA). The project resulted in 10 published or submitted papers and 16 conference presentations of the project results. It supported eight researchers (the principal investigator, a postdoctoral researcher, four Ph.D. students, and two undergraduate students).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 06, 2019
Accession Number
AD1097136

Entities

People

  • Tijana Milenković

Organizations

  • University of Notre Dame

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Alzheimer Disease
  • Big Data
  • Computational Biology
  • Computational Science
  • Computer Programs
  • Data Mining
  • Electronic Mail
  • Heterogeneous Networks
  • Intelligent Systems
  • Machine Learning
  • Molecular Biology
  • Network Science
  • Networks
  • Protein-Protein Interactions
  • Social Media
  • Social Networks
  • Three Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Information Retrieval
  • Research Science/Academic Research

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - Machine Learning Algorithms