Sebastian Rudolph

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Prof. Dr. Sebastian Rudolph

ProfessorTechnische Universität DresdenInternational Center for Computational Logic Computational Logic

Since April 2013, I've been full professor for Computational Logic at the Institute for Artificial Intelligence at the Faculty of Computer Science at the Technische Universität Dresden, since 2021 affiliated member of the Faculty of Mathematics. My research interests comprise Artificial Intelligence, in particular Knowledge Representation and Reasoning using diverse formalisms (such as Description Logics, Existential Rules and Formal Concept Analysis) and their applications in diverse areas, for instance Semantic Technologies. I deal with problems ranging from theoretical foundations (e.g., decidability and complexity of reasoning tasks) to practical deployment (ontology modeling, interactive knowledge acquisition). In 2017, I received an ERC Consolidator Grant for investigating general principles of decidability in logic-based knowledge representation.

Before returning to Dresden, I spend the years 2006 to 2013 as a postdoctoral researcher, project leader and later Privatdozent (similar to associate professor) in Rudi Studer's Knowledge Management group at the Institute AIFB of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, where I obtained my habilitation in 2011. Before I had completed my PhD in Algebra and my studies for highschool teaching in mathematics, physics and computer science at the TU Dresden.

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Thomas Feller, Tim Lyon, Piotr Ostropolski-Nalewaja, Sebastian Rudolph
Finite-Cliquewidth Sets of Existential Rules – Toward a General Criterion for Decidable yet Highly Expressive Querying
In Geerts, Floris and Vandevoort, Brecht, eds., Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2023), volume 255 of Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), 18:1-18:18, March 2023. Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik
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Lucía Gómez Álvarez, Sebastian Rudolph, Hannes Straß
Tractable Diversity: Scalable Multiperspective Ontology Management via Standpoint EL
Proceedings of the 32nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2023, to appear
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Lucía Gómez Álvarez, Sebastian Rudolph, Hannes Straß
Pushing the Boundaries of Tractable Multiperspective Reasoning: A Deduction Calculus for Standpoint EL+
Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, to appear. IJCAI Inc
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Jean-François Baget, Marie-Laure Mugnier, Sebastian Rudolph
Bounded Treewidth and the Infinite Core Chase – Complications and Workarounds toward Decidable Querying
Proceedings of the 42nd Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (PODS'23), to appear
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Faiq Miftakhul Falakh, Sebastian Rudolph
AGM Revision in Description Logics under Fixed-Domain Semantics
In Ofer Arieli, Martin Homola, Jean Christoph Jung, Marie-Laure Mugnier, eds., Proceedings of the 35th International Workshop on Description Logics (DL 2022), August 2022. CEUR Workshop Proceedings
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Lucía Gómez Álvarez, Sebastian Rudolph, Hannes Straß
Modelling Multiple Perspectives by Standpoint-Enhanced Description Logics (Extended Abstract)
In Ofer Arieli, Martin Homola, Jean Christoph Jung, Marie-Laure Mugnier, eds., Proceedings of the 35th International Workshop on Description Logics (DL 2022), volume 3263, August 2022. CEUR Workshop Proceedings
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Jonas Karge, Sebastian Rudolph
The More the Worst-Case-Merrier: A Generalized Condorcet Jury Theorem for Belief Fusion
In Gabriele Kern-Isberner, Gerhard Lakemeyer, Thomas Meyer, eds., Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, 205-–214, 2022
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Faiq Miftakhul Falakh, Sebastian Rudolph, Kai Sauerwald
Semantic Characterizations of AGM Revision for Tarskian Logics
In Guido Governatori, Anni-Yasmin Turhan, eds., Proceedings of the 6th International Joint Conference on Rules and Reasoning (RuleML+RR 2022), volume 13752 of LNCS, 95-110, September 2022. Springer
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Lucía Gómez Álvarez, Sebastian Rudolph, Hannes Straß
How to Agree to Disagree: Managing Ontological Perspectives using Standpoint Logic
In Ulrike Sattler, Aidan Hogan, Maria Keet, Valentina Presutti, João Paulo A. Almeida, Hideaki Takeda, Pierre Monnin, Giuseppe Pirrò, Claudia d'Amato, eds., Proceedings of the 21st International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 22), volume 13489 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, October 2022. Springer
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Piotr Ostropolski-Nalewaja, Jerzy Marcinkowski, David Carral, Sebastian Rudolph
A Journey to the Frontiers of Query Rewritability
In Leonid Libkin, Pablo Barceló, eds., Proceedings of the 41st Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (PODS'22), 359-367, June 2022. ACM
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Completed Theses

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DeciGUT
A Grand Unified Theory of Decidability in Logic-Based Knowledge Representation

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KIMEDS
AI Assisted Certification of Medical Software

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QuantLA
Quantitative Logics and Automata

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SECAI
School of Embedded Composite Artificial Intelligence

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ScaDS.AI
Center for Scalable Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence

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Wolpertinger
Wolpertinger is a fixed-domain reasoner


Computational Logic