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Distributed Subgraph Finding: Progress and Challenges (Invited Talk)

Author Keren Censor-Hillel

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  • Networks → Network algorithms
  • Theory of computation → Distributed algorithms
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  • distributed algorithms
  • subgraph finding
  • limited bandwidth

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Abstract

This is a survey of the exciting recent progress made in understanding the complexity of distributed subgraph finding problems. It overviews the results and techniques for assorted variants of subgraph finding problems in various models of distributed computing, and states intriguing open questions.

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Keren Censor-Hillel. Distributed Subgraph Finding: Progress and Challenges (Invited Talk). In 48th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2021). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 198, pp. 3:1-3:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2021) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2021.3

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Keren Censor-Hillel
  • Department of Computer Science, Technion, Haifa, Israel

Funding

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement no. 755839.

Acknowledgements

The author thanks Francois Le Gall for clarifications and Dean Leitersdorf for useful feedback on a preliminary version of this survey.

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