EDBT 2026 Demo / reviewers in the wild / expert
Valentin Iovene
dblp:280/0633
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1ranked-venue papers
1as first author
1since 2021 · last 2021
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021
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.
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Knowledge representation and reasoning · 100% | |
| Interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and emerging computing
1 paper |
Bioinformatics and computational biology · 100% |
Topics — the 3 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Knowledge, reasoning and agents › Knowledge representation and reasoning › logic programming
datalog |
0.5 | 1 | 2021 | Complex Coordinate-Based Meta-Analysis with Probabilistic Programming · AAAI 2021 |
Knowledge, reasoning and agents › Knowledge representation and reasoning › logic programming
probabilistic logic programming |
0.5 | 1 | 2021 | Complex Coordinate-Based Meta-Analysis with Probabilistic Programming · AAAI 2021 |
Bioinformatics and computational biology › neuroscience
neuroinformatics |
0.5 | 1 | 2021 | Complex Coordinate-Based Meta-Analysis with Probabilistic Programming · AAAI 2021 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
probabilistic programming · 1.0lifted query processing · 1.0knowledge compilation · 1.0
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Complex Coordinate-Based Meta-Analysis with Probabilistic ProgrammingabstractWith the growing number of published functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies, meta-analysis databases and models have become an integral part of brain mapping research. Coordinate-based meta-analysis (CBMA) databases are built by extracting both coordinates of reported peak activations and term associations using natural language processing techniques from neuroimaging studies. Solving term-based queries on these databases makes it possible to obtain statistical maps of the brain related to specific cognitive processes. However, existing tools for analysing CBMA data are limited in their expressivity to propositional logic, restricting the variety of their queries. Moreover, with tools like Neurosynth, term-based queries on multiple terms often lead to power failure, because too few studies from the database contribute to the statistical estimations. We design a probabilistic domain-specific language (DSL) standing on Datalog and one of its probabilistic extensions, CP-Logic, for expressing and solving complex logic-based queries. We show how CBMA databases can be encoded as probabilistic programs. Using the joint distribution of their Bayesian network translation, we show that solutions of queries on these programs compute the right probability distributions of voxel activations. We explain how recent lifted query processing algorithms make it possible to scale to the size of large neuroimaging data, where knowledge compilation techniques fail to solve queries fast enough for practical applications. Finally, we introduce a method for relating studies to terms probabilistically, leading to better solutions for two-term conjunctive queries (CQs) on smaller databases. We demonstrate results for two-term CQs, both on simulated meta-analysis databases and on the widely used Neurosynth database. Valentin Iovene, Gaston E. Zanitti, Demian Wassermann |
AAAI | 1 |