Dagstuhl-Seminar — Holistic Graph-Processing Systems: Enabling Real-World Scale and Societal Impact

In today’s digital landscape, complexity grows with increasing data volume and degree of interconnection. A suitable data abstraction is crucial for comprehending and navigating this dense network of connections. Starting from Euler’s pioneering work on The Bridges of Konigsberg in 1735, graphs have steadily evolved as a robust and adaptable conceptual framework. Graphs are universal representations of concepts, where nodes are markers for distinct entities and edges delineate their interrelations, further enriched with detailed annotations when necessary. Graphs are successful in various domains, like bioinformatics, e-commerce, logistics and transportation networks, urban planning, and even pandemic analysis or vaccine development (e.g., during COVID-19).