Publications

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Representative Publications

Books

  1. Lijun Chang and Lu Qin
    Cohesive Subgraph Computation over Large Sparse Graphs
    Springer Series in the Data Sciences, 2018
    [ICDE 2019 Tutorial Slides] [Source Code]

  2. Jeffrey Xu Yu, Lu Qin and Lijun Chang
    Keyword Search in Databases
    Morgan & Claypool, 2009

Conference Publication

  1. Lijun Chang
    Efficient Maximum k-Defective Clique Computation with Improved Time Complexity
    Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD’24), 2024
    [Source Code]

  2. Lijun Chang, Mouyi Xu and Darren Strash
    Efficient Maximum k-Plex Computation over Large Sparse Graphs
    Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB’23), 2023
    [Source Code]

  3. Tran Ba Trung, Lijun Chang, Nguyen Tien Long, Kai Yao, and Huynh Thi Thanh Binh
    Verification-Free Approaches to Effifficient Locally Densest Subgraph Discovery
    Proceedings of the International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE’23), 2023

  4. Kai Yao, Xin Yang, and Lijun Chang
    On Directed Densest Subgraph Detection
    ADC’23, 2023

  5. Yizhou Dai, Miao Qiao, and Lijun Chang
    Anchored Densest Subgraph
    Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD’22), 2022

  6. Wentao Li, Miao Qiao, Lu Qin, Lijun Chang, Ying Zhang, and Xuemin Lin
    On Scalable Computation of Graph Eccentricities
    Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD’22), 2022

  7. Lijun Chang and Zhiyi Wang
    A Near-Optimal Approach to Edge Connectivity-Based Hierarchical Graph Decomposition
    Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB’22), 2022
    [Source Code]

  8. Kai Yao and Lijun Chang
    Identifying Similar-Bicliques in Bipartite Graphs
    Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB’22), 2022

  9. Junhua Zhang, Wentao Li, Long Yuan, Lu Qin, Ying Zhang, and Lijun Chang
    Shortest-Path Queries on Complex Networks: Experiments, Analyses, and Improvement
    Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB’22), 2022

  10. Kai Yao, Lijun Chang, and Lu Qin
    Computing Maximum Structural Balanced Cliques in Signed Graphs
    Proceedings of the International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE’22), 2022

  11. Kai Yao and Lijun Chang
    Efficient Size-Bounded Community Search over Large Networks
    Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB’21), 2021

  12. Lijun Chang, Xing Feng, Xuemin Lin, Lu Qin, Wenjie Zhang, and Dian Ouyang
    Speeding Up GED Verification for Graph Similarity Search
    Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE’20), 2020
    [Source Code] [Slides] [Earlier version in arxiv 20/09/2017]

  13. Lijun Chang and Miao Qiao
    Deconstruct Densest Subgraphs
    The Web Conference (WWW’20), 2020
    [Source Code] [Slides]

  14. Wentao Li, Miao Qiao, Lu Qin, Ying Zhang, Lijun Chang, and Xuemin Lin
    Scaling Up Distance Labeling on Graphs with Core-Periphery Properties
    Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD’20), 2020

  15. Dian Ouyang, Dong Wen, Lu Qin, Lijun Chang, Ying Zhang, and Xuemin Lin
    Progressive Top-K Nearest Neighbors Search in Large Road Networks
    Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD’20), 2020

  16. Dian Ouyang, Long Yuan, Lu Qin, Lijun Chang, Ying Zhang, and Xuemin Lin
    Efficient Shortest Path Index Maintenance on Dynamic Road Networks with Theoretical Guarantees
    Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB’20), 2020

  17. Lijun Chang
    Efficient Maximum Clique Computation over Large Sparse Graphs
    Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Knowledge Discovery&Data Mining (KDD’19), 2019
    [Source Code]

  18. Wentao Li, Miao Qiao, Lu Qin, Ying Zhang, Lijun Chang, and Xuemin Lin
    Scaling Distance Labeling on Small-World Networks
    Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD’19), 2019

  19. Bohua Yang, Dong Wen, Lu Qin, Ying Zhang, Lijun Chang, and Rong-Hua Li
    Index-based Optimal Algorithm for Computing K-Cores in Large Uncertain Graphs
    Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE’19), 2019

  20. Dong Wen, Lu Qin, Ying Zhang, Lijun Chang, and Ling Chen
    Enumerating k-Vertex Connected Components in Large Graphs
    Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE’19), 2019

  21. Pavle Subotic, Herbert Jordan, Lijun Chang, Alan Fekete, and Bernhard Scholz
    Automatic Index Selection for Large-Scale Datalog Computation
    Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB’18), 2018

  22. Fei Bi, Lijun Chang, Xuemin Lin, and Wenjie Zhang
    An Optimal and Progressive Approach to Online Search of Top-K Influential Communities
    Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB’18), 2018

  23. Dian Ouyang, Lu Qin, Lijun Chang, Xuemin Lin, Ying Zhang, and Qing Zhu
    When Hierarchy Meets 2-Hop-Labeling: Efficient Shortest Distance Queries on Road Networks
    Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD’18), 2018

  24. Wentao Li, Miao Qiao, Lu Qin, Ying Zhang, Lijun Chang, and Xuemin Lin
    Exacting Eccentricity for Small-World Networks
    Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE’18), 2018

  25. Yuanyuan Zhu, Lu Qin, Lijun Chang, and Jeffrey Xu Yu
    Querying Cohesive Subgraphs by Keywords
    Short Paper, Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE’18), 2018

  26. Dong Wen, Lu Qin, Ying Zhang, Lijun Chang, and Xuemin Lin
    Efficient Structural Graph Clustering: An Index-Based Approach
    Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB’18), 2018

  27. Long Yuan, Lu Qin, Xuemin Lin, Lijun Chang, and Wenjie Zhang
    Effective and Efficient Dynamic Graph Coloring
    Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB’18), 2018

  28. Lijun Chang, Chen Zhang, Xuemin Lin, and Lu Qin
    Scalable Top-K Structural Diversity Search
    Short Paper, Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE’17), 2017
    [Binary Code] [Poster]

  29. Lijun Chang, Wei Li, and Wenjie Zhang
    Computing A Near-Maximum Independent Set in Linear Time by Reducing-Peeling
    Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD’17), 2017
    [Source Code] [Slides] [Poster]

  30. Longbin Lai, Lu Qin, Xuemin Lin, Ying Zhang, Lijun Chang, and Shiyu Yang
    Scalable Distributed Subgraph Enumeration
    Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB’17), 2017

  31. Fei Bi, Lijun Chang, Xuemin Lin, Lu Qin, and Wenjie Zhang
    Efficient Subgraph Matching by Postponing Cartesian Products
    Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD’16), 2016
    [Slides]

  32. Lijun Chang, Wei Li, Xuemin Lin, Lu Qin, and Wenjie Zhang
    pSCAN: Fast and Exact Structural Graph Clustering
    Proceedings of the 32nd International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE’16), 2016
    [Source Code] [Slides]

  33. Xing Feng, Lijun Chang, Xuemin Lin, Lu Qin, and Wenjie Zhang
    Computing Connected Components with Linear Communication Cost in Pregel-like Systems
    Proceedings of the 32nd International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE’16), 2016

  34. Bingqing Lyu, Lu Qin, Xuemin Lin, Lijun Chang, and Jeffrey Xu Yu
    Scalable Supergraph Search in Large Graph Databases
    Proceedings of the 32nd International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE’16), 2016

  35. Long Yuan, Lu Qin, Xuemin Lin, Lijun Chang, and Wenjie Zhang
    I/O Efficient ECC Graph Decomposition via Graph Reduction
    Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB’16), 2016

  36. Lijun Chang, Xuemin Lin, Lu Qin, Jeffrey Xu Yu, and Wenjie Zhang
    Index-based Optimal Algorithms for Computing Steiner Components with Maximum Connectivity
    Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD’15), 2015

  37. Lijun Chang, Xuemin Lin, Wenjie Zhang, Jeffrey Xu Yu, Ying Zhang, and Lu Qin
    Optimal Enumeration: Efficient Top-k Tree Matching
    Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB’15), 2015

  38. Longbin Lai, Lu Qin, Xuemin Lin, and Lijun Chang
    Scalable Subgraph Enumeration in MapReduce
    Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB’15), 2015

  39. Lu Qin, Rong-Hua Li, Lijun Chang, and Chengqi Zhang
    Locally Densest Subgraph Discovery
    Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Knowledge Discovery&Data Mining (KDD’15), 2015

  40. Lijun Chang, Xuemin Lin, Lu Qin, Jeffrey Xu Yu, and Jian Pei
    Efficiently Computing Top-K Shortest Path join
    Full paper, EDBT’15, 2015

  41. Long Yuan, Lu Qin, Xuemin Lin, Lijun Chang, and Wenjie Zhang
    Diversified Top-k Clique Search
    Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE’15), 2015

  42. Lu Qin, Jeffrey Xu Yu, Lijun Chang, Hong Cheng, Chengqi Zhang, and Xuemin Lin
    Scalable Big Graph Processing in MapReduce
    Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD’14), 2014

  43. Wenjie Zhang, Aiping Li, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Ying Zhang, and Lijun Chang
    Probabilistic n-of-N Skyline Computation over Uncertain Data Streams
    Full paper, WISE’13, 2013. (Best paper Award)

  44. Lijun Chang, Jeffrey Xu Yu, Lu Qin, Xuemin Lin, Chengfei Liu, and Weifa Liang
    Efficiently Computing k-Edge Connected Components via Graph Decomposition
    Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD’13), 2013
    [Source Code]

  45. Zhiwei Zhang, Jeffrey Xu Yu, Lu Qin, Lijun Chang, and Xuemin Lin
    I/O Efficient: Computing SCCs in Massive Graphs
    Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD’13), 2013

  46. Weiren Yu, Xuemin Lin, Wenjie Zhang, Lijun Chang, Jian Pei
    More is Simpler: Effectively and Efficiently Assessing Node-Pair Similarities Based on Hyperlinks
    Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB’14), 2014

  47. Miao Qiao, Hong Cheng, Lijun Chang, and Jeffrey Xu Yu
    Approximate shortest distance computing: a query-dependent local landmark scheme
    Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE’12), 2012

  48. Lu Qin, Jeffrey Xu Yu, and Lijun Chang
    Diversifying Top-K Results
    Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB’12), 2012

  49. Lijun Chang, Jeffrey Xu Yu, Lu Qin, Yuanyuan Zhu, and Haixun Wang
    Finding information nebula over large networks
    Full Paper, CIKM’11, 2011

  50. Lu Qin, Jeffrey Xu Yu and Lijun Chang
    Computing Structural Statistics by Keywords in Databases
    Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE’11), 2011. (One of the best papers)

  51. Lijun Chang, Jeffrey Xu Yu, Lu Qin and Xuemin Lin
    Probabilistic Ranking over Relations
    Full Paper, EDBT’10, 2010

  52. Lu Qin, Jeffrey Xu Yu and Lijun Chang
    Ten Thousand SQLs: Parallel Keyword Queries Computing
    Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB’09), 2009

  53. Lijun Chang, Jeffrey Xu Yu and Lu Qin
    Context-Sensitive Document Ranking
    Short Paper, CIKM’09, 2009

  54. Lu Qin, Jeffrey Xu Yu and Lijun Chang
    Keyword Search in Databases: The Power of RDBMS
    Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD’09), 2009

  55. Lijun Chang , Jeffrey Xu Yu and Lu Qin
    Query Ranking in Probabilistic XML Data
    Full Paper, EDBT’09, 2009

  56. Lu Qin, Jeffrey Xu Yu, Lijun Chang and Yufei Tao
    Scalable Keyword Search on Large Data Streams
    Short Paper. Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE’09), 2009

  57. Lu Qin, Jeffrey Xu Yu, Lijun Chang and Yufei Tao
    Querying Communities in Relational Databases
    Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE’09), 2009

Journal Publications

  1. Lijun Chang and Zhiyi Wang
    A Near-Optimal Approach to Edge Connectivity-Based Hierarchical Graph Decomposition
    Accepted by VLDB Journal in April 2023

  2. Kai Yao, Lijun Chang, and Lu Qin
    Identifying Large Structural Balanced Cliques in Signed Graphs
    Accepted by TKDE in July 2023

  3. Dian Ouyang, Dong Wen, Lu Qin, Lijun Chang, Xuemin Lin, Ying Zhang
    When hierarchy meets 2-hop-labeling: efficient shortest distance and path queries on road networks
    VLDB Journal, 32(6), 2023

  4. Lijun Chang, Xing Feng, Kai Yao, Lu Qin, and Wenjie Zhang
    Accelerating Graph Similarity Search via Efficient GED Computation
    TKDE, 35(5), 2023

  5. Xubo Wang, Dong Wen, Lu Qin, Lijun Chang, Ying Zhang, and Wenjie Zhang
    ScaleG: A Distributed Disk-based System for Vertex-centric Graph Processing
    TKDE, 35(2), 2023

  6. Jens Dietrich, Lijun Chang, Long Qian, Lyndon M. Henry, Catherine Mccartin, and Bernhard Scholz
    Efficient Sink-Reachability Analysis via Graph Reduction
    TKDE, 34(11), 2022

  7. Dong Wen, Bohua Yang, Lu Qin, Ying Zhang, Lijun Chang, and Ronghua Li
    Computing K-Cores in Large Uncertain Graphs: An Index-based Optimal Approach
    TKDE, 34(7), 2022

  8. Wentao Li, Miao Qiao, Lu Qin, Ying Zhang, Lijun Chang, and Xuemin Lin
    Distance Labeling: on Parallelism, Compression, and Ordering
    VLDB Journal, 31(1), 2022

  9. Yuanyuan Zhu, Qian Zhang, Lu Qin, Lijun Chang, Jeffrey Xu Yu
    Cohesive Subgraph Search Using Keywords in Large Networks
    IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. (TKDE’22), 34(1), 2022

  10. Lijun Chang
    Efficient Maximum Clique Computation and Enumeration over Large Sparse Graphs
    VLDB Journal, 29(5), 2020

  11. Wentao Li, Miao Qiao, Lu Qin, Ying Zhang, Lijun Chang, Xuemin Lin
    Eccentricities on small-world networks
    VLDB Journal, 28(5), 2019

  12. Dong Wen, Lu Qin, Ying Zhang, Lijun Chang, Xuemin Lin
    Efficient structural graph clustering: an index-based approach
    VLDB Journal, 28(3), 2019

  13. Xubo Wang, Lu Qin, Xuemin Lin, Ying Zhang, Lijun Chang
    Leveraging set relations in exact and dynamic set similarity join
    VLDB Journal, 28(2), 2019

  14. Bingqing Lyu, Lu Qin, Xuemin Lin, Lijun Chang and Jeffrey Xu Yu
    Supergraph Search in Graph Databases via Hierarchical Feature-Tree
    IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. (TKDE’19), 31(2), 2019

  15. Xing Feng, Lijun Chang, Xuemin Lin, Lu Qin, Wenjie Zhang, Long Yuan
    Distributed Computing Connected Components with Linear Communication Cost
    Distributed and Parallel Databases, 36(3), 2018

  16. Long Yuan, Lu Qin, Wenjie Zhang, Lijun Chang, and Jianye Yang
    Index-based Densest Clique Percolation Community Search In Networks
    IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. (TKDE’18), 30(5), 2018

  17. Lijun Chang, Wei Li, Lu Qin, Wenjie Zhang, and Shiyu Yang
    pSCAN: Fast and Exact Structural Graph Clustering
    IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. (TKDE’17), 29(2), 2017

  18. Long Yuan, Lu Qin, Xuemin Lin, Lijun Chang, and Wenjie Zhang
    I/O efficient ECC graph decomposition via graph reduction
    VLDB Journal, 26(2), 2017

  19. Longbin Lai, Lu Qin, Xuemin Lin, and Lijun Chang
    Scalable subgraph enumeration in MapReduce: a cost-oriented approach
    VLDB Journal, 26(3), 2017

  20. Long Yuan, Lu Qin, Xuemin Lin, Lijun Chang, and Wenjie Zhang
    Diversified Top-k Clique Search
    VLDB Journal, 25(2), 2016

  21. Zhiwei Zhang, Jeffrey Xu Yu, Lu Qin, Lijun Chang, and Xuemin Lin
    I/O Efficient: Computing SCCs in Massive Graphs
    VLDB Journal, 24(2), 2015

  22. Miao Qiao, Hong Cheng, Lijun Chang, and Jeffrey Xu Yu
    Approximate Shortest Distance Computing: A Query-Dependent Local Landmark Scheme
    IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. (TKDE’14), 26(1), 2014

  23. Miao Qiao, Hong Cheng, Lu Qin, Jeffrey Xu Yu, Philip S. Yu, and Lijun Chang
    Computing Weight Constraint Reachability in Large Networks
    VLDB Journal, 22(3), 2013

  24. Lijun Chang, Jeffrey Xu Yu, and Lu Qin
    Fast Maximal Cliques Enumeration in Sparse Graphs
    Algorithmica, 66(1)), 2013

  25. Lu Qin, Jeffrey Xu Yu, and Lijun Chang
    Computing Structural Statistics by Keywords in Databases
    IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. (TKDE’12), 24(10), 2012. Special Issue on the Best Papers of ICDE 2011

  26. Lijun Chang, Jeffrey Xu Yu, Lu Qin, Hong Cheng, and Miao Qiao
    The Exact Distance to Destination in Undirected World
    VLDB Journal, 21(6), 2012

  27. Lu Qin, Jeffrey Xu Yu and Lijun Chang
    Scalable Keyword Search on Large Data Streams
    VLDB Journal, 20(1), 2011

Other Publications

  1. Maram Alsahafy and Lijun Chang
    Fast Algorithm for Distance Dynamics-Based Community Detection
    WISE’20, 2020

  2. Mingshen Cai and Lijun Chang
    Efficient Closest Community Search over Large Graphs
    DASFAA’20, 2020

  3. Maram Alsahafy and Lijun Chang
    Computing Maximum Independent Sets over Large Sparse Graphs
    WISE’19, 2019

  4. Xuefei Li, Lijun Chang, Kai Zheng, Zi Huang, Xiaofang Zhou
    Ranking Weighted Clustering Coefficient in Large Dynamic Graphs
    World Wide Web Journal, 2016

  5. Wenjie Zhang, Aiping Li, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Ying Zhang, and Lijun Chang
    Probabilistic n-of-N Skyline Computation over Uncertain Data Streams
    World Wide Web Journal, 2015

  6. Fei Bi, Lijun Chang, Wenjie Zhang, Xuemin Lin
    Efficient String Similarity Search: A Cross Pivotal Based Approach
    DASFAA’15, 2015

  7. Yuxing Han, Lijun Chang, Wenjie Zhang, Xuemin Lin, and Liping Wang
    Efficiently Retrieving Top-K Trajectories by Locations via Traveling Time
    ADC’14, 2014

  8. Jeffrey Xu Yu, Lu Qin and Lijun Chang
    Keyword Search in Relational Databases: A Survey
    Bullentin of the IEEE Technical Committee on Data Engineering, 33(1), 2010

  9. Lijun Chang, Jeffrey Xu Yu and Lu Qin
    Context-Sensitive Document Ranking
    Journal of Computer Science and Technology, 25(3), 2010

  10. Lijun Chang, Jeffrey Xu Yu and Lu Qin
    Fast Probabilistic Ranking under x-Relation Model
    arxiv, 2009