Sebastian Rudolph

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Prof. Dr. Sebastian Rudolph

ProfessorTechnische Universität DresdenInternational Center for Computational Logic Computational Logic

Since April 2013, I have been full professor for Computational Logic at the Institute for Artificial Intelligence at the Faculty of Computer Science of 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 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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Luisa Herrmann, Vincent Peth, Sebastian Rudolph
Decidable (Ac)counting with Parikh and Muller: Adding Presburger Arithmetic to Monadic Second-Order Logic over Tree-Interpretable Structures
In Aniello Murano, Alexandra Silva, eds., CSL '24: Proceedings of the 32nd EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic 2024, volume 288 of LIPIcs, 33:1-33:19, 2024. Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik
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Jonas Karge, Juliette-Michelle Burkhardt, Sebastian Rudolph, Dominik Rusovac
To Lead or to be Led: A Generalized Condorcet Jury Theorem under Dependence
AAMAS '24: Proceedings of the 2024 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, to appear
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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, 3258-3267, 2023. ijcai.org
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Lucía Gómez Álvarez, Sebastian Rudolph, Hannes Straß
Pushing the Boundaries of Tractable Multiperspective Reasoning: A Deduction Calculus for Standpoint EL+
In Pierre Marquis, Tran Cao Son, Gabriele Kern-Isberner, eds., Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, 333-343, 2023. IJCAI Inc
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Bartosz Bednarczyk, Sebastian Rudolph
How to Tell Easy from Hard: Complexities of Conjunctive Query Entailment in Extensions of ALC
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 78:385–458, November 2023
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Tim Lyon, Sebastian Rudolph
Derivation-Graph-Based Characterizations of Decidable Existential Rule Sets
In Sarah Alice Gaggl, Maria Vanina Martinez, Magdalena Ortiz, eds., Proceedings of the 18th European Conference on Logics in Artificial Intelligence (JELIA 2023), volume 14281 of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 369-384, 2023. Springer
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Shima Asaadi, Eugenie Giesbrecht, Sebastian Rudolph
Compositional matrix-space models of language: Definitions, properties, and learning methods
Natural Language Engineering, 29(1):1-49, January 2023
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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
In Floris Geerts, Hung Q. Ngo, Stavros Sintos, eds., Proceedings of the 42nd Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (PODS'23), 291-302, 2023. ACM
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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
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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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
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Computational Logic