Prof. Dr. Stefan Decker

Conference Papers

List of conference papers published since joining DERI Galway:

Owen Sacco, Alexandre Passant, Stefan Decker
An Access Control Framework for the Web of Data.
In IEEE 10th International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom-11)
2011.

Laura Dragan, Renaud Delbru, Tudor Groza, Siegfried Handschuh, Stefan Decker
Linking Semantic Desktop Data to the Web of Data.
In Proceedings of the 10th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2011)
2011.

Nuno Lopes, Stefan Bischof, Stefan Decker, Axel Polleres
On the Semantics of Heterogeneous Querying of Relational, XML and RDF Data with XSPARQL.
In Proceedings of the 15th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA) 2011, Computational Logic with Applications Track, to appear
2011.

Vit Novacek, Siegfried Handschuh, Stefan Decker
Getting the Meaning Right: A Complementary Distributional Layer for the Web Semantics.
In Proceedings of ISWC'11 (Part I), LNCS(7031): 504-519, Springer-Verlag
Berlin Heidelberg, 2011.

Laura Dragan, Siegfried Handschuh, Stefan Decker
The Semantic Desktop at Work: Interlinking Notes.
In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Semantic Systems (I-SEMANTICS 2011), ACM ICP
2011.

Julie Letierce, Alexandre Passant, Stefan Decker
Using Social Media to Spread Science and to Engage Readers in Conversation.
In 11th International Conference on Public Communication of Science & Technology (PCST 2010)
2010.

Aidan Hogan, Jeff Z. Pan, Axel Polleres, Stefan Decker
SAOR: Template Rule Optimisations for Distributed Reasoning over 1 Billion Linked Data Triples.
In Proceedings of the 9th International Semantic Web Conference, Springer
2010.

Peyman Nasirifard, Sheila Kinsella, Krystian Samp, Stefan Decker
Social People-Tagging vs. Social Bookmark-Tagging.
In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW'10), Springer
Lisbon, Portugal, 2010.

Alexandre Passant, John Breslin, Stefan Decker
Rethinking Microblogging: Open, Distributed, Semantic.
In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE2010), LNCS, Springer
2010.

Renaud Delbru, Nickolai Toupikov, Michele Catasta, Giovanni Tummarello, Stefan Decker
A Node Indexing Scheme for Web Entity Retrieval.
In Proceedings of the 7th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2010)
2010.

Renaud Delbru, Nickolai Toupikov, Michele Catasta, Giovanni Tummarello, Stefan Decker
Hierarchical Link Analysis for Ranking Web Data.
In Proceedings of the 7th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2010)
2010.

Krystian Samp, Stefan Decker
Supporting menu design with radial layouts.
In Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI 2010)
2010.

Julie Letierce, Alexandre Passant, John Breslin, Stefan Decker
Understanding how Twitter is used to spread scientific messages.
In Web Science Conference (WebSci10)
Raleigh, NC, USA, 2010.

Jacek Jankowski, Krystian Samp, Izabela Irzynska, Marek Jozwowicz, Stefan Decker
Integrating Text with Video and 3D Graphics: The Effects of Text Drawing Styles on Text Readability.
In Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2010 (CHI'10)
Atlanta, USA, 2010.

Giovanni Tummarello, Stefan Decker
Sig.ma: to see the Web of data, to foresee its future.
In European Semantic technology conference
2009.

Alexandre Passant, Philippe Laublet, John Breslin, Stefan Decker
SemSLATES: Improving Enterprise 2.0 Information Systems thanks to Semantic Web Technologies.
In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing, IEEE
2009.

Aidan Hogan, Stefan Decker
On the Ostensibly Silent 'W' in OWL 2 RL.
In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR 2009), Springer
2009.

Andreas Harth, Sheila Kinsella, Stefan Decker
Using Naming Authority to Rank Data and Ontologies for Web Search.
In Proceedings of the 8th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2009), Springer
Chantilly, Virginia, USA, 2009.

Peyman Nasirifard, Vassilios Peristeras, Conor Hayes, Stefan Decker
Extracting and Utilizing Social Networks from Log Files of Shared Workspaces.
In Proceedings of the 10th IFIP Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises, Springer
2009.

Stéphane Corlosquet, Renaud Delbru, Tim Clark, Axel Polleres, Stefan Decker
Produce and Consume Linked Data with Drupal!.
In Proceedings of the 8th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2009), Springer
2009.

Tudor Groza, Laura Dragan, Siegfried Handschuh, Stefan Decker
Bridging the Gap Between Linked Data and the Semantic Desktop.
In Proceedings of the 8th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2009)
Chantilly, Virginia, USA, 2009.

Vit Novacek, Stefan Decker
Towards Lightweight and Robust Large Scale Emergent Knowledge Processing.
In Proceedings of ISWC 2009, Springer
2009.

Alexandre Passant, Matthias Samwald, John Breslin, Stefan Decker
Federating Distributed Social Data to Build an Interlinked Online Information Society.
In Proceedings of the WebSci'09: Society On-Line, 18-20 March 2009, Athens, Greece.
2009.

Hak Lae Kim, Simon Scerri, John G. Breslin, Stefan Decker, Hong Gee Kim
Analysis and Representation of Tagging Practices in Online Communities.
In Proceedings of the AAAI 2009 Spring Symposium on Social Semantic Web: Where Web 2.0 meets Web 3.0
2009.

Jacek Jankowski, Izabela Irzynska, Bill McDaniel, Stefan Decker
2LIPGarden: 3D Hypermedia for Everyone.
In Proceedings of the 20th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia 2009 (HT'09)
Torino, Italy, 2009.

Jacek Jankowski, Stefan Decker
2LIP: Filling the Gap between the Current and the Three-Dimensional Web.
In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on 3D Web Technology 2009 (Web3D'09)
Darmstadt, Germany, 2009.

Jacek Jankowski, Yolanda Cobos, Michael Hausenblas, Stefan Decker
Accessing Cultural Heritage using the Web of Data.
In 10th International Symposium on Virtual Reality, Archaeology and Cultural Heritage 2009 (VAST'09)
St.Julians, Malta, 2009.

Hak Lae Kim, Simon Scerri, John Breslin, Stefan Decker, Hong Gee Kim
The State of the Art in Tag Ontologies: A Semantic Model for Tagging and Folksonomies.
In Proceedings of the Dublin Core Conference 2008
2008.

Peyman Nasirifard, Vassilios Peristeras, Stefan Decker
An Annotation-based Access Control Model and Tools for Collaborative Information Spaces.
In Proceedings of the 1st World Summit on the Knowledge Society (WSKS'08)
Athens, Greece, 2008.

Hak Lae Kim, Alexandre Passant, John Breslin, Simon Scerri, Stefan Decker
Review and Alignmnet of Tag Ontologies for Semantically-Linked Data in Collaborative Tagging Spaces.
In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Semantic Computing
2008.

Jürgen Umbrich, Andreas Harth, Aidan Hogan, Stefan Decker
Four Heuristics to Guide Structured Content Crawling.
In 8th International Conference on Web Engineering (Short Paper)
New York, USA, 2008.

Sheila Kinsella, Uldis Bojars, Andreas Harth, John Breslin, Stefan Decker
An Interactive Map of Semantic Web Ontology Usage.
In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Information Visualisation (IV08), IEEE Computer Society
London, UK, 2008.

VinhTuan Thai, Siegfried Handschuh, Stefan Decker
Tight Coupling of Personal Interests with Multi-dimensional Visualization for Exploration and Analysis of Text Collections.
In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Information Visualisation (IV08), IEEE Computer Society
London, UK, 2008.

Richard Cyganiak, Holger Stenzhorn, Renaud Delbru, Stefan Decker, Giovanni Tummarello
Semantic Sitemaps: Efficient and Flexible Access to Datasets on the Semantic Web.
In Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 5th European Semantic Web Conference
2008.

Simon Scerri, Siegfried Handschuh, Stefan Decker
Semantic Email as a Communication Medium for the Social Semantic Desktop.
In Proceedings of the 5th European Semantic Web Conference
Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, 2008.

Tudor Groza, Siegfried Handschuh, Knud Möller, Stefan Decker
KonneXSALT: First Steps Towards a Semantic Claim Federation Infrastructure.
In Proceedings of the 5th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2008)
2008.

VinhTuan Thai, Siegfried Handschuh, Stefan Decker
IVEA: An Information Visualization Tool for Personalized Exploratory Document Collection Analysis.
In Proceedings of the 5th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2008)
Tenerife, Spain, 2008.

Andreas Harth, Aidan Hogan, Jürgen Umbrich, Stefan Decker
Building a Semantic Web Search Engine: Challenges and Solutions.
In Proceedings of the 3rd XTech Conference, 2008
Dublin, Ireland, 2008.

Andreas Harth, Jürgen Umbrich, Aidan Hogan, Stefan Decker
YARS2: A Federated Repository for Querying Graph Structured Data from the Web.
In Proceedings of the 6th International Semantic Web Conference
Busan, South Korea, 2007.

Tudor Groza, Knud Möller, Siegfried Handschuh, Diana Trif, Stefan Decker
SALT: Weaving the claim web.
In Proceedings of the 6th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2007), Springer
Busan, South Korea, 2007.

Ke Ning, Ruinan Gong, Stefan Decker, Yuliu Chen, David O'Sullivan
A Context-Aware Resource Recommendation System for Business Collaboration.
In Proceedings of the 9th IEEE Conference on E-Commerce Technology (CEC' 07) and the 4th IEEE Conference on Enterprise Computing, E-Commerce and E-Services (EEE ' 07) , IEEE Computer Society Press
Tokyo, Japan, 2007.

Eyal Oren, Sebastian Gerke, Stefan Decker
Simple algorithms for predicate suggestions using similarity and co-occurrence.
In Proceedings of the European Semantic Web Conference
Innsbruck, Austria, 2007.

Tudor Groza, Siegfried Handschuh, Knud Möller, Stefan Decker
SALT - Semantically Annotated LaTeX for scientific publications.
In Proceedings of the 4th European Semantic Web Conference
Innsbruck, Austria, 2007.

Eyal Oren, Renaud Delbru, Sebastian Gerke, Armin Haller, Stefan Decker
ActiveRDF: Object-oriented semantic web programming.
In Proceedings of the International World-Wide Web Conference
Banff, Canada, 2007.

Slawomir Grzonkowski, Brian Ensor, Sebastian Ryszard Kruk, Adam Gzella, Stefan Decker, Bill McDaniel
A DRM Solution Based on Social Networks and Enabling the Idea of Fair Use.
In Media in Transition: creativity, ownership and collaboration in the digital age
Cambridge, Boston, MA, 2007.

Andreas Harth, Jürgen Umbrich, Stefan Decker
MultiCrawler: A Pipelined Architecture for Crawling and Indexing Semantic Web Data.
In Proceedings of the 5th International Semantic Web Conference
Athens, GA, USA, 2006.

Eyal Oren, Renaud Delbru, Stefan Decker
Extending faceted navigation for RDF data.
In Proceedings of the 5th International Semantic Web Conference
Athens, Georgia, USA, 2006.

Sebastian Ryszard Kruk, Mariusz Cygan, Piotr Piotrowski, Krystian Samp, Adam Westerski, Stefan Decker
Building a Heterogeneous Network of Digital Libraries on the Semantic Web.
In Proceedings of the Semantics2006
Vienna, Austria, 2006.

Eyal Oren, Max Völkel, John Breslin, Stefan Decker
Semantic Wikis for Personal Knowledge Management.
In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications
Krakow, Poland, 2006.

Hak Lae Kim, Hong Gee Kim, Stefan Decker
Semantic Documentation using Semantic Web Technologies and Social Web.
In Proceedings of the International Conference on Next Generation Web Services Practices: 27-32, IEEE Computer Society
Washington, DC, USA, 2006.

Kashif Iqbal, Stefan Decker, Mark Baker
The Semantic Grid: Requirements, Infrastructure and Methodology.
In Proceedings of the International Conference on Grid and Pervasive Computing, LNCS, 3947: 415-426, Springer
Taiwan, China, 2006.

Ioan Toma, Dumitru Roman, Kashif Iqbal, Juergen Hofer, Dieter Fensel, Stefan Decker
Towards Semantic Web Services in Grid Environments.
In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Semantics, Knowledge and Grid (SKG2005)
2005.

Andreas Harth, Stefan Decker
Optimized Index Structures for Querying RDF from the Web.
In Proceedings of the 3rd Latin American Web Congress
Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2005.

Andreas Harth, Hannes Gassert, Ina O'Murchu, John Breslin, Stefan Decker
WikiOnt: An Ontology for Describing and Exchanging Wikipedia Articles.
In Proceedings of the 1st International Wikimedia Conference
Frankfurt a. M., Germany, 2005.

Knud Möller, John Breslin, Stefan Decker
semiBlog - Semantic Publishing of Desktop Data.
In Proceedings of the 14th Conference on Information Systems Development (ISD2005)
Karlstad, Sweden, 2005.

Sebastian Ryszard Kruk, Stefan Decker, Lech Zieborak
JeromeDL - Adding Semantic Web Technologies to Digital Libraries.
In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications
2005.

Prasenjit Mitra, Gio Wiederhold, Stefan Decker
Dealing with Semantic Interoperation of Data.
In Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Symposium on Data Interoperability
Sardinia, Italy, 2005.

John Breslin, Andreas Harth, Uldis Bojars, Stefan Decker
Towards Semantically Interlinked Online Communities.
In Proceedings of the 2nd European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2005)
Heraklion, Greece, 2005.

John Breslin, Stefan Decker, Andreas Harth
An Approach to Connect Web-Based Communities.
In Proceedings of the 2nd IADIS International Conference on Web Based Communities (WBC 2005): 272–275
Carvoeiro, Portugal, 2005.

Hongsuda Tangmunarunkit, Stefan Decker, Carl Kesselman
Ontology-based Resource Matching in the Grid---The Grid meets the Semantic Web (extended version).
In Proceedings of the 2nd International Semantic Web Conference
Sanibel-Captiva Islands, Florida, USA, 2003.

Benjamin Grosof, Ian Horrocks, Raphael Volz, Stefan Decker
Description logic programs: combining logic programs with description logic.
In Proceedings of the International Conference on World Wide Web (WWW2003)
Budapest, Hungary, 2003.

Demos in Proceedings

List of demo proceedings published since joining DERI Galway:

Alexandre Passant, John Breslin, Stefan Decker
Open, Distributed and Semantic Microblogging with SMOB .
In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE2010), LNCS, Springer
2010.

Alexandre Passant, Stefan Decker
Hey! Ho! Let’s go! Explanatory music recommendations with dbrec.
In Proceedings of the 7th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2010), LNCS, Springer
2010.

Giovanni Tummarello, Richard Cyganiak, Michelle Catasta, Szymon Danielczyk, Renaud Delbru, Stefan Decker
Sig.ma: Live views on the Web of Data.
In Demonstrations in proceedings of the 19th International World Wide Web Conference
2010.

Jacek Jankowski, Marek Jozwowicz, Izabela Irzynska, Bill McDaniel, Stefan Decker
Creating 3D Museums on the Web.
In Proceedings of Museums and the Web 2010: the international conference for culture and heritage on-line.
Denver, Colorado, USA, 2010.

Tudor Groza, Laura Dragan, Siegfried Handschuh, Stefan Decker
sClippy: Connecting Personal Information and Linked Open Data.
In Proceedings of the 8th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2009)
Chantilly, Virginia, USA, 2009.

Jacek Jankowski, Marek Jozwowicz, Yolanda Cobos, Bill McDaniel, Stefan Decker
3DWiki: The 3D Wiki Engine.
In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration (WikiSym) 2009
Orlando, Florida, 2009.

Knud Möller, Siegfried Handschuh, Sebastian Trüg, Laura Josan, Stefan Decker
Demo: Visual Programming for the Semantic Desktop with Konduit.
In Proceedings of the 5th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2008)
2008.

Aidan Hogan, Andreas Harth, Jürgen Umbrich, Stefan Decker
Towards a Scalable Search and Query Engine for the Web.
In Demo Proceedings of 16th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2007)
Banff, Alberta, Canada, 2007.

Sebastian Ryszard Kruk, Stefan Decker
JeromeDL and FOAFRealm - Taking Advantage of Semantic Social Collaborative Filtering in Digital Libraries.
In Proceedings of the Demo and Poster session at ECDL 2005
2005.

Posters in Proceedings

List of poster proceedings published since joining DERI Galway:

Julie Letierce, Alexandre Passant, John Breslin, Stefan Decker
Using Twitter During an Academic Conference: the #iswc2009 Use-case.
In 4th Int'l AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM)
George Washington University, Washington, DC, 2010.

Jacek Jankowski, Stefan Decker
The 2LIP Model and Its Implementations.
In Proceedings of the 20th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia 2009
Torino, Italy, 2009.

Adam Westerski, Aftab Iqbal, Giovanni Tummarello, Stefan Decker
Sindice Widgets: Lightweight embedding of Semantic Web capabilities into existing user applications.
In Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Semantic Web Enabled Software Engineering
2008.

Krystian Samp, Cosmin Basca, Jedrzej Gontarczyk, Stefan Decker
Atom Interface, Walking Exploration of Structured Data.
In Semantic Technology Conference 2008
2008.

Tudor Groza, Siegfried Handschuh, Stefan Decker
enVision: An integrated approach towards Semantic Authoring.
In Poster Proceedings of the 5th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2006)
Athens, Georgia, USA, 2006.

Eyal Oren, John Breslin, Stefan Decker
How Semantics Make Better Wikis.
In Proceedings of the 15th international conference on World Wide Web (WWW2006) - Special interest tracks and posters
2006.

Andreas Harth, Sebastian Ryszard Kruk, Stefan Decker
Graphical Representation of RDF Queries.
In Proceedings of the 15th International World Wide Web Conference, special interest track and posters
Edinburgh, Scotland, 2006.

Marco Neumann, Ciaran MacDonaill, John Breslin, Ina O'Murchu, Stefan Decker, Eamonn McQuade
Sneachta and the PUII - The Semantic Social Network Portal.
In Poster Proceedings of the 3rd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2004)
Hiroshima, Japan, 2004.