DIAMOND
DIAMOND
Data Integration and Access by Merging Ontologies and Databases
- Contact Markus Krötzsch
- 2013 – 2021
- funded by DFG
Modern information systems increasingly empower users to decide about the nature and organisation of data, traditionally the domain of application developers. At the same time, applications open up to broader user groups, emphasising collaboration and information exchange. These trends are exemplified by Wikidata, a new sister project of Wikipedia that will provide a central, multilingual database site where users manage all of Wikipedia’s factual information. Wikidata is the mainstream breakthrough for a new type of information system that brings the flexibility and dynamicity of Wikipedia to structured data management.
Wikidata is very different from classical database applications and is facing completely new problems. Without a fixed format for storing data, information is more difficult to find, errors are harder to detect, and overlapping information grows. The quality and utility of the data suffer. At the same time, the data and its format are highly dynamic, and not formally documented. To tackle this problem, the DIAMOND project aims to extend the recent approach of Ontology-Based Data Access (OBDA) to dynamic, large-scale data management platforms. OBDA uses a conceptual model, called an ontology, which describes relationships between heterogeneous information models in a way that allows computers to align and integrate data automatically. However, OBDA so far only works well for relatively small, static, and well-designed ontologies, whereas applications like Wikidata require large, dynamic, user-created ontologies.
The main goals of DIAMOND are (1) to develop the foundations of ontology languages for this new type of information system, (2) to design an integrated prototype system to show that this solution can work, and (3) to advance the methodologies for evaluating OBDA formalisms and systems. To achieve this, the project closely combines theoretical and practical research. Foundational questions from mathematical logic, database theory, and knowledge representation will be studied in close connexion to practical questions of algorithm design, automated deduction, and system architecture. Accordingly, the methods of scientific investigation involve mathematical proof as well as experimental evaluations. The motivating use case of Wikidata serves as a source of realistic requirements and as a guide to ensure the relevance of the research.
If successful, the project will push the theoretical and practical boundaries of knowledge-based systems, which might otherwise soon become major obstacles in modern information management. Wikidata provides a first major example for general trends that will affect many communities, organisations, and businesses, but the potential of this project goes far beyond this prominent use case.
Journal Articles
Partially Ordered Automata and Piecewise Testability
Logical Methods in Computer Science, 17(2), 2021
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Complexity of Infimal Observable Superlanguages
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 63(1):249-254, 2018
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Complexity of Verifying Nonblockingness in Modular Supervisory Control
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 63(2):602-607, 2018
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Efficient Skew Handling for Outer Joins in a Cloud Computing Environment
IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, 6(2):558 - 571, 2018
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Next directions in experimental data for seismic hazard mitigation
Engineering Structures, 136:535-546, 2017
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Design and Evaluation of Small-Large Outer Joins in Cloud Computing Environments
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, 110:2-15, 2017
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Computation of Controllable and Coobservable Sublanguages in Decentralized Supervisory Control via Communication
Discrete Event Dynamic Systems, 27(4):585-608, December 2017
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On boolean combinations forming piecewise testable languages
Theoretical Computer Science, 682:165-179, June 2017
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Complexity of Universality and Related Problems for Partially Ordered NFAs
Information and Computation, 255(1):177-192, August 2017
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Is Your Database System a Semantic Web Reasoner?
KI, 30(2):169-176, 2016
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Fast Compression of Large Semantic Web Data using X10
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 27(9):2603-2617, September 2016
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Scale-Out Processing of Large RDF Datasets
IEEE Transactions on Big Data, 1(4):138-150, December 2015
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Description Logics
IEEE Intelligent Systems, 29(1):12-19, 2014
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The Complexity of Answering Conjunctive and Navigational Queries over OWL 2 EL Knowledge Bases
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 51:645-705, December 2014
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Wikidata: a free collaborative knowledgebase
Commun. ACM, 57(10):78-85, 2014
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Proceedings Articles
Materializing Knowledge Bases via Trigger Graphs
Proceedings of the 47th International Conference on Very Large Databases, VLDB 2021, volume 14, 943-956, 2021
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Computing Cores for Existential Rules with the Standard Chase and ASP
In Diego Calvanese, Esra Erdem, Michael Thielscher, eds., Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR 2020), 603-613, 2020. IJCAI
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Rewriting the Description Logic ALCHIQ to Disjunctive Existential Rules
In Christian Bessiere, eds., Proceedings of the 29th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2020, 1777-1783, 2020. ijcai.org
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From Horn-SRIQ to Datalog: A Data-Independent Transformation that Preserves Assertion Entailment
In Mantas Simkus, Grant E. Weddell, eds., Proceedings of the 32st International Workshop on Description Logics (DL 2019), volume 2373 of CEUR Workshop Proceedings, June 2019. CEUR-WS.org
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From Horn-SRIQ to Datalog: A Data-Independent Transformation that Preserves Assertion Entailment
Proceedings of the 33rd Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2019), January 2019
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Chasing Sets: How to Use Existential Rules for Expressive Reasoning (Extended Abstract)
In Mantas Simkus, Grant E. Weddell, eds., Proceedings of the 32nd International Workshop on Description Logics, volume 2373 of CEUR Workshop Proceedings, June 2019. CEUR-WS.org
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Discovering Implicational Knowledge in Wikidata
In Diana Cristea, Florence Le Ber, Baris Sertkaya, eds., Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Formal Concept Analysis (ICFCA'19), volume 11511 of LNCS, 315--323, June 2019. Springer
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Too Much Information: Can AI Cope With Modern Knowledge Graphs?
In Diana Cristea, Florence Le Ber, Baris Sertkaya, eds., Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Formal Concept Analysis (ICFCA 2019), volume 11511 of LNCS, 17--31, 2019. Springer
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The Power of the Terminating Chase
In Pablo Barceló, Marco Calautti, eds., Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2019), volume 127 of LIPIcs, 3:1--3:17, 2019. Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik
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VLog: A Rule Engine for Knowledge Graphs
In Chiara Ghidini, Olaf Hartig, Maria Maleshkova, Vojtěch Svátek, Isabel F. Cruz, Aidan Hogan, Jie Song, Maxime Lefrançois, Fabien Gandon, eds., Proceedings of the 18th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC'19) Part II, volume 11779 of LNCS, 2019. Springer
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Chasing Sets: How to Use Existential Rules for Expressive Reasoning
Proceedings of the 28th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'19), August 2019. International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence
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The Combined Approach to Query Answering in Horn-ALCHOIQ (Extended Abstract)
In Mantas Simkus, Grant E. Weddell, eds., Proceedings of the 32nd International Workshop on Description Logics, volume 2373 of CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2019. CEUR-WS.org
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Preserving Constraints with the Stable Chase
In Benny Kimelfeld and Yael Amsterdamer, eds., Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2018), volume 98 of Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), 12:1--12:19, March 2018. Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik
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Modelling Dynamics in Semantic Web Knowledge Graphs with Formal Concept Analysis
Proceedings of the 2018 World Wide Web Conference on World Wide Web, WWW 2018, Lyon, France, April 23-27, 2018. ACM 2018, April 2018
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Practical Linked Data Access via SPARQL: The Case of Wikidata
In Tim Berners-Lee, Sarven Capadisli, Stefan Dietze, Aidan Hogan, Krzysztof Janowicz, Jens Lehmann, eds., Proceedings of the WWW2018 Workshop on Linked Data on the Web (LDOW-18), volume 2073 of CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2018. CEUR-WS.org
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Getting the Most out of Wikidata: Semantic Technology Usage in Wikipedia’s Knowledge Graph
In Denny Vrandečić, Kalina Bontcheva, Mari Carmen Suárez-Figueroa, Valentina Presutti, Irene Celino, Marta Sabou, Lucie-Aimée Kaffee, Elena Simperl, eds., Proceedings of the 17th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC'18), volume 11137 of LNCS, 376-394, 2018. Springer
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Efficient Model Construction for Horn Logic with VLog
In Didier Galmiche, Stephan Schulz, Roberto Sebastiani, eds., Proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning (IJCAR 2018), volume 10900 of LNCS, 680--688, 2018. Springer
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The Combined Approach to Query Answering in Horn-ALCHOIQ
In Michael Thielscher, Francesca Toni, Frank Wolter, eds., Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR 2018), 339-348, October 2018. AAAI Press
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Attributed Description Logics: Reasoning on Knowledge Graphs
In Jérôme Lang, eds., Proceedings of the 27th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'18), 5309--5313, July 2018. International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence
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Tractable Query Answering for Expressive Ontologies and Existential Rules: Extended Abstract
Proceedings of the 31st International Workshop on Description Logics (DL 2018), October 2018
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Happy Ever After: Temporally Attributed Description Logics
In Magdalena Ortiz, Thomas Schneider, eds., Proceedings of the 31st International Workshop on Description Logics (DL 2018), volume 2211 of CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2018. CEUR-WS.org
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Deciding Universality of ptNFAs is PSpace-Complete
In A Min Tjoa, Ladjel Bellatreche, Stefan Biffl, Jan van Leeuwen, Jiri Wiedermann, eds., Proceedings of the 44th International Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science (SOFSEM 2018), volume 10706 of LNCS, 413-427, 2018. Springer
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A Data-Driven Graph Schema
Proceedings of the 12th Alberto Mendelzon International Workshop on Foundations of Data Management, Cali, Colombia, May 21-25, 2018, May 2018
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Efficient Model Construction for Horn Logic with VLog: Extended Abstract
In Magdalena Ortiz, Thomas Schneider, eds., Proceedings of the 31st International Workshop on Description Logics (DL 2018), volume 2211 of CEUR Workshop Proceedings, October 2018. CEUR-WS.org
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Attributed Description Logics: Ontologies for Knowledge Graphs
In Claudia d'Amato, Miriam Fernández, Valentina A. M. Tamma, Freddy Lécué, Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, Juan F. Sequeda, Christoph Lange, Jeff Heflin, eds., Proceedings of the 16th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC'17), volume 10587 of LNCS, 418--435, October 2017. Springer
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Ontologies for Knowledge Graphs?
In Alessandro Artale, Birte Glimm, Roman Kontchakov, eds., Proceedings of the 30th International Workshop on Description Logics (DL 2017), volume 1879 of CEUR Workshop Proceedings, July 2017. CEUR-WS.org
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Tractable Query Answering for Expressive Ontologies and Existential Rules
In Claudia d'Amato, Miriam Fernández, Valentina A. M. Tamma, Freddy Lécué, Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, Juan F. Sequeda, Christoph Lange, Jeff Heflin, eds., Proceedings of the 16th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC'17), volume 10587 of LNCS, 2017. Springer
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Restricted chase (non)termination for existential rules with disjunctions
In Carles Sierra, eds., Proceedings of the 26th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'17), 922-928, 2017. International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence
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SQID: Towards Ontological Reasoning for Wikidata
In Nadeschda Nikitina, Dezhao Song, eds., Proceedings of the ISWC 2017 Posters & Demonstrations Track, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, October 2017. CEUR-WS.org
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Logic on MARS: Ontologies for generalised property graphs
In Carles Sierra, eds., Proceedings of the 26th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'17), 1188-1194, August 2017. International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence
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Reasoning with Attributed Description Logics
In Alessandro Artale, Birte Glimm, Roman Kontchakov, eds., Proceedings of the 30th International Workshop on Description Logics (DL 2017), volume 1879 of CEUR Workshop Proceedings, July 2017. CEUR-WS.org
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Answering Conjunctive Queries for Expressive DLs with the Restricted Chase: Extended Abstract
In Alessandro Artale, Birte Glimm, Roman Kontchakov, eds., Proceedings of the 30st International Workshop on Description Logics (DL 2017), volume 1879 of CEUR Workshop Proceedings, July 2017. CEUR-WS.org
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On the Complexity of Universality for Partially Ordered NFAs
In Piotr Faliszewski, Anca Muscholl, Rolf Niedermeier, eds., Proceedings of the 41st International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2016), volume 58 of Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, 61:1--61:14, 2016. Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik
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VLog: A Column-Oriented Datalog System for Large Knowledge Graphs
In Takahiro Kawamura, Heiko Paulheim, eds., Proceedings of the 15th International Semantic Web Conf. (ISWC'16), Posters and Demos, volume 1690 of CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2016. CEUR-WS.org
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Piecewise Testable Languages and Nondeterministic Automata
In Piotr Faliszewski, Anca Muscholl, Rolf Niedermeier, eds., Proceedings of the 41st International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2016), volume 58 of Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, 67:1--67:14, 2016. Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik
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Efficient Data Redistribution to Speedup Big Data Analytics in Large Systems
Proc. 23rd IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC'16), 91-100, December 2016. IEEE
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Ontologies for Knowledge Graphs: Breaking the Rules
In Yolanda Gil, Elena Simperl, Paul Groth, Freddy Lecue, Markus Krötzsch, Alasdair Gray, Marta Sabou, Fabian Flöck, Hideaki Takeda, eds., Proceedings of the 15th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2016), volume 9981 of LNCS, 376-392, 2016. Springer
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Column-Oriented Datalog Materialization for Large Knowledge Graphs
In Dale Schuurmans, Michael P. Wellman, eds., Proceedings of the 30th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 258-264, 2016. AAAI Press
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Efficient Large Outer Joins over MapReduce
Proc. 22nd International European Conference on Parallel Processing (Euro-Par'16), 334-346, August 2016. Springer
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Relative Observability in Coordination Control
In B. Lennartson, eds., 2015 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), 75-80, 2015. IEEE
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Schema-Agnostic Query Rewriting for OWL QL
In Diego Calvanese, Boris Konev, eds., Proceedings of the 28th International Workshop on Description Logics, volume 1350 of CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2015. CEUR-WS.org
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High Throughput Indexing for Large-scale Semantic Web Data
Proc. 30th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC'15), 416-422, April 2015. ACM
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Reifying RDF: What Works Well With Wikidata?
In Thorsten Liebig and Achille Fokoue, eds., Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Scalable Semantic Web Knowledge Base Systems, volume 1457 of CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 32-47, 2015. CEUR-WS.org
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Reasonable Highly Expressive Query Languages
In Qiang Yang, Michael Wooldridge, eds., Proc. 24th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'15), 2826-2832, 2015. AAAI Press
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On a Distributed Computation of Supervisors in Modular Supervisory Control
Proc. of International Conference on Complex Systems Engineering (ICCSE), 2015. IEEE
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On the Complexity of k-Piecewise Testability and the Depth of Automata
In I. Potapov, eds., Proc. 19th International Conference on Developments in Language Theory (DLT'15), volume 9168 of LNCS, 364-376, 2015. Springer
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Multilevel Coordination Control of Partially Observed Modular DES
In A. Astolfi, eds., American Control Conference (ACC 2015), 384-389, 2015
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Schema-Agnostic Query Rewriting in SPARQL 1.1
In Peter Mika, Tania Tudorache, Abraham Bernstein, Chris Welty, Craig A. Knoblock, Denny Vrandečić, Paul T. Groth, Natasha F. Noy, Krzysztof Janowicz, Carole A. Goble, eds., Proc. 13th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC'14), volume 8796 of LNCS, 584-600, October 2014. Springer
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Complexities of Nominal Schemas
Proc. 27th International Workshop on Description Logics (DL'14), 270-273, July 2014. CEUR Workshop Proceedings
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A Fully Parallel Framework for Fast Analyzing RDF Data
P&D Track of the 13th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC'14), October 2014. CEUR Workshop Proceedings
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How to Best Nest Regular Path Queries
Proc. 27th International Workshop on Description Logics (DL'14), volume 1193 of CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 404-415, July 2014. CEUR-WS.org
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Investigating Distributed Approaches to Efficiently Extract Textual Evidences for Biomedical Ontologies
Proc. 14th IEEE International Conference on BioInformatics and BioEngineering (BIBE'14), 220-225, November 2014. IEEE
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Nominal Schemas in Description Logics: Complexities Clarified
In Chitta Baral, Giuseppe De Giacomo, Thomas Eiter, eds., Proc. 14th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR'14), 308-317, July 2014. AAAI Press
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P ≠ P: Why Some Reasoning Problems Are More Tractable Than Others
Proc. 8th International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR'14), volume 8741 of LNCS, 1-22, September 2014. Springer
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Introducing Wikidata to the Linked Data Web
In Peter Mika, Tania Tudorache, Abraham Bernstein, Chris Welty, Craig A. Knoblock, Denny Vrandečić, Paul T. Groth, Natasha F. Noy, Krzysztof Janowicz, Carole A. Goble, eds., Proceedings of the 13th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2014), volume 8796 of LNCS, 50-65, October 2014. Springer
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On Upper and Lower Bounds on the Length of Alternating Towers
In E. Csuhaj-Varju, M. Dietzfelbinger, Z. Esik, eds., Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS), volume 8634 of LNCS, 315-326, 2014. Springer
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Book Chapters
Temporally Attributed Description Logics
In Carsten Lutz, Uli Sattler, Cesare Tinelli, Anni-Yasmin Turhan, Frank Wolter, eds., Description Logic, Theory Combination, and All That - Essays Dedicated to Franz Baader on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday, volume 11560 of LNCS, 441-474. Springer, 2019
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Edited Proceedings
Joint Proceedings of the 3rd Stream Reasoning (SR 2016) and the 1st Semantic Web Technologies for the Internet of Things (SWIT 2016) workshops
Volume 1783 of CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2017. CEUR-WS.org
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Proceedings of the 15th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2016), Part I
Volume 9981 of LNCS, 2016. Springer
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Proceedings of the 15th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2016), Part II
Volume 9982 of LNCS, 2016. Springer
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Joint Proceedings of the 1st Joint International Workshop on Semantic Sensor Networks and Terra Cognita (SSN-TC 2015) and the 4th International Workshop on Ordering and Reasoning (OrdRing 2015)
Volume 1488 of CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2015. CEUR-WS.org
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KI 2015: Advances in Artificial Intelligence - Proceedings of the 38th Annual German Conference on AI
Volume 9324 of LNAI, 2015. Springer
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Technical Reports
Reasonable Highly Expressive Query Languages: Extended Technical Report
Technical Report, TU Dresden, May 2015
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Query Containment for Highly Expressive Datalog Fragments
Technical Report, arXiv.org, volume CoRR abs/1406.7801, January 2014
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Talks and Miscellaneous
Practical Uses of Existential Rules in Knowledge Representation
Tutorial at the 17th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR 2020)
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Practical Uses of Existential Rules in Knowledge Representation
Tutorial at the 24th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2020)
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Discovering Implicational Knowledge in Wikidata
Presentation at Wikimania 2019, August 2019
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SQID 2.0 — A Data Browser for Wikidata
Poster at Wikimania 2019, August 2019
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The Exploration Game
Poster at Wikimania 2019, August 2019
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Working with Knowledge Graphs
Course at EDBT Summer School 2019, Lyon, France, 2019
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Recent Advances in Reasoning with Existential Rules
Presentation at the 2018 Workshop of the European Master in Computational Logic (EMCL), 2018
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Getting the most out of Wikidata
Invited presentation at Wiki Workshop 2018, 2018
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Ontological Modelling in Wikidata
Invited keynote at the 9th Workshop on Ontology Design and Patterns (WOP'18), 2018
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Reasoning with Horn DL Ontologies and Knowledge Graphs
Invited Talk at VU University Amsterdam, October 2018
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The New SQID: Improving Wikidata Made Easy
Presentation at WikidataCon 2017, 2017
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Wikidata as a Cultural Heritage Information Hub
Invited talk at the Europeana Network Association AGM 2016, November 2016
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