DWS Area: Data Science | Universität Mannheim

Jan Portisch Receives SWSA Distinguished Dissertation Award

Jan Portisch, a former PhD student at the Data and Web Science Group and now a Lead Software Architect at SAP Signavio, has received the SWSA Distinguished Dissertation Award.

New Project on Early Stage Diabetes Detection

The BMBF funds a new project in the field of medical AI and systems medicine. The goal of the KI-DiabetesDetektion project is to integrate indication data from various sources in a knowledge graph and apply machine learning methods to improve the early stage detection of Diabetes.

Book on RDF2vec Published

The book “Embedding Knowledge Graphs with RDF2vec”, co-authored by Heiko Paulheim together with DWS alumni Petar Ristoski and Jan Portisch, has been published at Springer. The book explains the ideas behind one of the most well-known methods for knowledge graph embedding of transformations to ...

New Project Funded by German Foundation for Peace Research

The German Foundation for Peace Research funds a new project on hate speech analysis on Twitter.

Paper accepted at AKBC

Our paper “Gollum: A Gold Standard for Large Scale Multi Source Knowledge Graph Matching” has been accepted at the 4th Conference on Automated Knowledge Graph Construction.

Best Paper Award at Semantics

Our paper “On a Generalized Framework for Time-Aware Knowledge Graphs”, co-authored by Franz Krause, Tobias Weller, and Heiko Paulheim, has been awarded the best paper award at this year's Semantics conference.

Jan Portisch has defended his PhD thesis

Jan Portisch has successfully defended his PhD thesis titled “Exploiting General-Purpose Background Knowledge for Automated Schema Matching” on August 25th.

Best Poster Award at ESWC 2022

The paper “Walk this Way! Entity Walks and Property Walks for RDF2vec” by Jan Portisch and Heiko Paulheim has won the best poster award at ESWC 2022.

Paper accepted at ISWC 2021

Our paper “Background Knowledge in Schema Matching: Strategy vs. Data” has been accepted at the 20th International Semantic Web Conference. The paper has been co-authored by Jan Portisch, Michael Hladik, and Heiko Paulheim. In the paper, we have conducted a number of controlled experiments with ...

Paper accepted at PAAMS

The paper “Winning at Any Cost – Infringing the Cartel Prohibition With Reinforcement Learning” was accepted at the 19th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems.