Fig. 1

An example of extracting a particular temporal motif from a temporal graph. (a) is an example of \(\delta\)-temporal motif M with a given \(\delta =10\); (b) is a temporal graph with edges appearing at the times shown on each edge; (c) shows an instance of \(\delta\)-temporal motifs in the temporal graph; (d) is not a \(\delta\)-temporal motif because the difference between the timestamp of the first temporal edge and the timestamp of the last temporal edge exceeds the given \(\delta\).