NetSpot 1.0.1
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This tools finds anomalous regions in dynamic networks. The implemented 
algorithm is described in the following paper:

Misael Mongiovi, Petko Bogdanov, Razvan Ranca, Ambuj K. Singh, Evangelos E. Papalexakis, Christos Faloutsos. NetSpot: Spotting Significant Anomalous Regions on Dynamic Networks. SIAM International Conference on Data Mining. 2013. 

You may also be interested in the following related papers:

Misael Mongiovi, Petko Bogdanov, Ambuj K. Singh. Mining evolving network processes. IEEE International Conference on Data Mining. 2013.

Petko Bogdanov, Misael Mongiovi, Ambuj K. Singh. Mining Heavy Subgraphs in Time-Evolving Networks. IEEE International Conference on Data Mining. 2011.

If you use this software please consider citing the above papers.

[License Agreement]
Please read this agreement carefully before using this software and its
accompanied dataset. By using the software and the dataset enclosed in 
this package (NetSpot), you agree to the terms of this license.
If you do not agree to the terms of this license, please delete this
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software and datasets.
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CONTAINS:
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- SigSpot.jar: executable
- wikipedia990.quadruples: example of input file

USAGE:
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> java -jar SigSpot.jar wikipedia990.quadruples 10 10 out.txt

For a complete list of parameters run:

> java -jar SigSpot.jar

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Misael Mongiovì
mongiovi@dmi.unict.it
