[Retracted] Personalized Influential Community Search in Large Networks: A K-ECC-Based Model

Algorithm 2

Dichotomy-based algorithm

	Input:: a graph, : query vertices, : a positive integer
	Output: PIKE for the query
(1)	Compute KECCs
(2)	the -ECC in containing
(3)	Ifthen return error
(4)	vertices of with weight smaller than and sort vertices in the ascending order according to the weights
(5)	whiledo
(6)	the first half of vertices in
(7)	the second half of vertices in
(8)	remove from
(9)	Compute KECCs
(10)	the -ECC in containing
(11)	ifthen
(12)	ifthen break;
(13)
(14)	else
(15)	;
(16)	return