A query language for analyzing networks

With more and more large networks becoming available, mining and querying such networks are increasingly impor- tant tasks which are not being supported by database models and querying languages. This paper wants to alleviate this situation by proposing a data model and a query language for facilitating the analysis of networks. Key features in- clude support for executing external tools on the networks, flexible contexts on the network each resulting in a different graph, primitives for querying subgraphs (including paths) and transforming graphs. The data model provides for a closure property, in which the output of every query can be stored in the database and used for further querying. Acceptance rate: 14,5% ispartof: pages:485-494 ispartof: Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management pages:485-494 ispartof: ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management location:Hong Kong, China date:2 Nov - 6 Nov 2009 status: published