EDBT 2026 Demo / reviewers in the wild / expert
Andreas Nufer
dblp:185/1134
· DBLP profile ↗
1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
0since 2021 · last 2018
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 1
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Theoretical computer science
1 paper |
Graph algorithms and graph theory · 100% | |
| Databases, data mining, and information retrieval
1 paper |
Data mining · 100% |
Topics — the 3 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Graph algorithms and graph theory › network analysis
network reliability |
0.3 | 1 | 2018 | Conditional Reliability in Uncertain Graphs · IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. 2018 |
Graph algorithms and graph theory › random graphs
uncertain graph |
0.3 | 1 | 2018 | Conditional Reliability in Uncertain Graphs · IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. 2018 |
Data mining › network analysis
social influence maximization |
0.1 | 1 | 2018 | Conditional Reliability in Uncertain Graphs · IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. 2018 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
non-submodular optimization · 0.7PTAS · 0.7NP-hardness · 0.7
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Conditional Reliability in Uncertain GraphsabstractNetwork reliability is a well-studied problem that requires to measure the probability that a target node is reachable from a source node in a probabilistic (or uncertain) graph, i.e., a graph where every edge is assigned a probability of existence. Many approaches and problem variants have been considered in the literature, with the majority of them assuming that edge-existence probabilities are fixed. Nevertheless, in real-world graphs, edge probabilities typically depend on external conditions. In metabolic networks, a protein can be converted into another protein with some probability depending on the presence of certain enzymes. In social influence networks, the probability that a tweet of some user will be re-tweeted by her followers depends on whether the tweet contains specific hashtags. In transportation networks, the probability that a network segment will work properly or not, might depend on external conditions such as weather or time of the day. In this paper, we overcome this limitation and focus onconditional reliability, that is, assessing reliability when edge-existence probabilities depend on a set of conditions. In particular, we study the problem of determining the top-$k$conditions that maximize the reliability between two nodes. We deeply characterize our problem and show that, even employing polynomial-time reliability-estimation methods, it is$\mathbf {NP}$-hard, does not admit any$\mathbf {PTAS}$, and the underlying objective function is non-submodular. We then devise a practical method that targets both accuracy and efficiency. We also study natural generalizations of the problem with multiple source and target nodes. An extensive empirical evaluation on several large, real-life graphs demonstrates effectiveness and scalability of our methods. Arijit Khan 0001, Francesco Bonchi, Francesco Gullo, Andreas Nufer |
IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. | 4 |