Part I: Foundations and Applications of Graph Edit Distance.- Introduction and Basic Concepts.- Graph Edit Distance.- Bipartite Graph Edit Distance.- Part II: Recent Developments and Research on Graph Edit Distance.- Improving the Distance Accuracy of Bipartite Graph Edit Distance.- Learning Exact Graph Edit Distance.- Speeding Up Bipartite Graph Edit Distance.- Conclusions and Future Work.- Appendix A: Experimental Evaluation of Sorted Beam Search.- Appendix B: Data Sets.