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Mattia Palmiotto
dblp:395/5598
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
0009-0003-6045-7811ORCID · reported
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 1 · 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.
| Databases, data mining, and information retrieval
1 paper |
Graph data management · 87% Data models and query languages · 13% |
Topics — the 2 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Graph data management
graph data model |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | What If: Causal Analysis with Graph Databases · Proc. VLDB Endow. 2025 |
Graph data management
graph query processing |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | What If: Causal Analysis with Graph Databases · Proc. VLDB Endow. 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
directed acyclic graph · 0.9counterfactual reasoning · 0.9causal inference · 0.9
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | What If: Causal Analysis with Graph DatabasesabstractGraphs are powerful abstractions for modeling relationships and enabling data science tasks. In causal inference, Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) serve as a key formalism, but they are typically handcrafted by experts and rarely treated as first-class data artifacts in graph data management systems. This paper presents a novel vision to align causal analysis with property graphs—the foundation of modern graph databases—by rethinking graph models to incorporate hypernodes, structural equations, and causality-aware query semantics. By unifying graph databases with causal reasoning, our approach enables the declarative expression of DAG manipulation operations along with interventions and counterfactuals, combining expressiveness with computational efficiency. We validate this vision through a proof-of-concept implementation supporting scalable causal queries over DAGs, ultimately aiming to make graph databases causally aware and support data-driven, personalized decision-making across several scientific domains. Amedeo Pachera, Mattia Palmiotto, Angela Bonifati, Andrea Mauri 0001 |
Proc. VLDB Endow. | 2 |