A Repository for Multirelational Dynamic Networks

Abstract

Nowadays, WWW contains a number of social media sites, which are growing rapidly. One of the main features of social media sites is to allow to its users creation and modification of contents of the site utilizing the offered WWW interfaces. Such contents are referred to as user generated contents and their type varies from site to site. Social media sites can be modeled as constantly evolving multirelational directed graphs. In this paper we discuss persistent data structures for such graphs, and present and analyze queries performed against the structures. We also estimate the space requirements of the proposed data structures, and compare them with the naive "store each complete snapshot of the graph separately". We also investigate query performance against our data structure. We present analytical estimation results, simulation results, and discuss its performance when it is used to store entire contents of Livejournal.temporal social network analysis, multirelational social network analysis, temporal databases