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Antonio Di Maria
dblp:209/9217
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7ranked-venue papers
2as first author
4since 2021 · last 2026
0009-0008-9300-2297ORCID · corroborated
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Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 3 · 3 since 2021Applied, interdisciplinary, general and emerging computing · 2 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | CMiner: An Algorithm to Discover Frequent Structures in Conceptual Models
Simone Avellino, Emanuele Valore, Giovanni Micale, Antonio Di Maria, Mattia Fumagalli, Tiago Prince Sales, Alfredo Pulvirenti, Diego Calvanese |
EDBT | 4 |
| 2025 | MultiGraphMatch: A Subgraph Matching Algorithm for MultigraphsabstractSubgraph matching is the problem of finding all the occurrences of a small graph, called the query, in a larger graph, called the target. Although the problem has been widely studied in simple graphs, few solutions have been proposed for multigraphs, in which two nodes can be connected by multiple edges, each denoting a possibly different type of relationship. In our new algorithm MultiGraphMatch (MGM), nodes and edges can be associated with labels and multiple properties. MGM introduces a novel data structure called bit matrix to efficiently index both the query and the target and filter the set of target edges that are matchable with each query edge. In addition, the algorithm proposes a new technique for ordering the processing of query edges based on the cardinalities of the sets of matchable edges. Using the CYPHER query definition language, MGM can perform queries with logical conditions on node and edge labels. We compare MGM with SuMGra and graph database systems Memgraph and Neo4J, showing comparable or better performance in all queries on a wide variety of synthetic and real-world graphs. Giovanni Micale, Antonio Di Maria, Roberto Grasso, Vincenzo Bonnici, Alfredo Ferro, Dennis E. Shasha, Rosalba Giugno, Alfredo Pulvirenti |
ACM Trans. Knowl. Discov. Data | 2 |
| 2024 | NetMe 2.0: a web-based platform for extracting and modeling knowledge from biomedical literature as a labeled graphabstractMOTIVATION: The rapid increase of bio-medical literature makes it harder and harder for scientists to keep pace with the discoveries on which they build their studies. Therefore, computational tools have become more widespread, among which network analysis plays a crucial role in several life-science contexts. Nevertheless, building correct and complete networks about some user-defined biomedical topics on top of the available literature is still challenging. RESULTS: We introduce NetMe 2.0, a web-based platform that automatically extracts relevant biomedical entities and their relations from a set of input texts-i.e. in the form of full-text or abstract of PubMed Central's papers, free texts, or PDFs uploaded by users-and models them as a BioMedical Knowledge Graph (BKG). NetMe 2.0 also implements an innovative Retrieval Augmented Generation module (Graph-RAG) that works on top of the relationships modeled by the BKG and allows the distilling of well-formed sentences that explain their content. The experimental results show that NetMe 2.0 can infer comprehensive and reliable biological networks with significant Precision-Recall metrics when compared to state-of-the-art approaches. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: https://netme.click/. Antonio Di Maria, Lorenzo Bellomo, Fabrizio Billeci, Alfio Cardillo, Salvatore Alaimo, Paolo Ferragina, Alfredo Ferro, Alfredo Pulvirenti |
Bioinform. | 1 |
| 2024 | ArcMatch: high-performance subgraph matching for labeled graphs by exploiting edge domainsabstractAbstract Consider a large labeled graph (network), denoted the target. Subgraph matching is the problem of finding all instances of a small subgraph, denoted the query, in the target graph. Unlike the majority of existing methods that are restricted to graphs with labels solely on vertices, our proposed approach, named can effectively handle graphs with labels on both vertices and edges. ntroduces an efficient new vertex/edge domain data structure filtering procedure to speed up subgraph queries. The procedure, called path-based reduction, filters initial domains by scanning them for paths up to a specified length that appear in the query graph. Additionally, ncorporates existing techniques like variable ordering and parent selection, as well as adapting the core search process, to take advantage of the information within edge domains. Experiments in real scenarios such as protein–protein interaction graphs, co-authorship networks, and email networks, show that s faster than state-of-the-art systems varying the number of distinct vertex labels over the whole target graph and query sizes. Vincenzo Bonnici, Roberto Grasso, Giovanni Micale, Antonio Di Maria, Dennis E. Shasha, Alfredo Pulvirenti, Rosalba Giugno |
Data Min. Knowl. Discov. | 4 |
| 2019 | TACITuS: transcriptomic data collector, integrator, and selector on big data platformabstractBACKGROUND: Several large public repositories of microarray datasets and RNA-seq data are available. Two prominent examples include ArrayExpress and NCBI GEO. Unfortunately, there is no easy way to import and manipulate data from such resources, because the data is stored in large files, requiring large bandwidth to download and special purpose data manipulation tools to extract subsets relevant for the specific analysis. RESULTS: TACITuS is a web-based system that supports rapid query access to high-throughput microarray and NGS repositories. The system is equipped with modules capable of managing large files, storing them in a cloud environment and extracting subsets of data in an easy and efficient way. The system also supports the ability to import data into Galaxy for further analysis. CONCLUSIONS: TACITuS automates most of the pre-processing needed to analyze high-throughput microarray and NGS data from large publicly-available repositories. The system implements several modules to manage large files in an easy and efficient way. Furthermore, it is capable deal with Galaxy environment allowing users to analyze data through a user-friendly interface. Salvatore Alaimo, Antonio Di Maria, Dennis E. Shasha, Alfredo Ferro, Alfredo Pulvirenti |
BMC Bioinform. | 2 |
| 2017 | A radio resource management scheme in future ultra-dense phantom networksabstractThe Phantom cell concept is a solution for high-traffic outdoor environments that can also support good mobility and connectivity in ultra-dense network. In a phantom cells network, a centralized Macrocell controls all phantom cells within its coverage area and the C-Plane and U-Plane are split. Many issues need to be addressed for this architecture including radio resources allocation and cross/co tier interference mitigation. One of effective techniques used to mitigate interference is to group the cells in community (clusters). In this line, we propose a review of the max-min distance algorithm to establish the optimal cluster number, which affects significantly the system performance. Also, to assign the spectral resources to cells of the cluster, a new allocation algorithm based on traffic demand is proposed. Antonio Di Maria, Daniela Panno |
WiMob | 1 |
| 2017 | A new centralized access control for mmWave D2D communicationsabstractWith the increment in users' data demand and the emergence of applications with stringent Quality of Service requirements, important improvements in cellular network architecture need to be made. In this paper we explore the symbiosis of three key communication technologies in 5G: Device-to-Device communications, 60 GHz unlicensed band transmissions and adaptive beamforming techniques. It provides notable energy saving, improvement in the system spectral efficiency, high achievable data rate and strong interference reduction. Despite these benefits, there are some issues to be analyzed: a limited communication range due to the high path loss, and the interferences among D2D communications, especially if users' density is high. To manage these problems, on the basis of a mmWave network architecture for high TIE density indoor environments, we propose a new centralized control for radio access and an efficient multi-criteria scheduling algorithm using greedy graph vertex-coloring techniques. We aim to enhance transmission efficiency, exploiting concurrent transmissions, maximize throughput and minimize end-to-end delay, while taking into account to keep the computational load low. Salvatore Riolo, Daniela Panno, Antonio Di Maria |
WiMob | 3 |