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Myriad problems can be described in hypergraph terms. However, the theory and tools are not sufficiently developed to allow most problems to be tackled directly within this context. The main purpose of this paper is to increase the awareness of this important gap and to encourage the development of this formal theory, in conjunction with the consideration of concrete applications. As a starting point, we concentrate on the problem of finding (small) subhypergraphs in a (large) hypergraph. Many existing algorithms reduce this problem to the known territory of graph theory by considering the 2-section graph. We argue that this is not the right approach, neither from a theoretical point of view (by considering a generalization of the classic model of binomial random graphs to hypergraphs) nor from a practical one (by performing experiments on two datasets).
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Dewar, M. et al. (2016). Subgraphs in Non-uniform Random Hypergraphs. In: Bonato, A., Graham, F., Prałat, P. (eds) Algorithms and Models for the Web Graph. WAW 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10088. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49787-7_12
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