Approximate Subgraph Matching Algorithm

The subgraph matching problem (subgraph isomorphism) is NP-complete. Previously, we designed
an exact subgraph matching (ESM) algorithm for dependency graphs using a backtracking approach
(http://esmalgorithm.sourceforge.net). We further designed an approximate subgraph matching (ASM)
algorithm that is capable of detecting approximate subgraph matching based on a subgraph
distance. Assume that the graph G and the subgraph Gs have m and n vertices, and km and kn edges
respectively, the total worst-case algorithm complexity is O(m^n * n(n-1)/2 * km * log m).

This Java implementation implements our ASM algorithm. See README file: https://sourceforge.net/projects/asmalgorithm/files/

If you use our ASM implementation to support academic research, please cite the following paper:

Haibin Liu, Lawrence Hunter, Vlado Keselj, and Karin Verspoor. Approximate Subgraph Matching-based Literature Mining for Biomedical Events and Relations. PLOS ONE, 8:4 e60954, 2013.