DWS Area: Web Data Mining, Research

Job Opening: One Year PostDoc on Reliable AI Evaluation

Postdoctoral Researcher (m/f/d) in Reliable Evaluation of Generative AI University of Mannheim, Data and Web Science Group (DWS)Fixed-term position (1 year, full-time)Starting date: As soon as possible About the Project The Data and Web Science Group at the University of Mannheim is seeking a ...

New Project on Reliable Evaluation of Generative AI

The Vector Foundation funds the project ZEGeKI (Zuverlässige Evaluation Generativer KI, English: Reliable Evaluation of Generative AI). The motivation of this project lies in the observation that, following open science principles, benchmarks for evaluating AI systems (not limited to, but ...

Franz Krause Defended his PhD

Today, Franz Krause has defended his PhD thesis on Process-Driven RDF Knowledge Graphs as Semantic Digital Twins for Industry 5.0

CCVisions 2026 in Mannheim

We are hosting 4th annual CCVision Network Meeting June 23, 2026 Organized by: Katharina Prasse, Anastasia Kanat , Prof. Dr.-Ing. Margret Keuper

2 Papers Accepted for BPM 2026

We are happy to announce that the following papers have been accepted for BPM 2026 in Toronto, Canada Lukas Kirchdorfer, Artemis Doumeni, Han van der Aa and Hugo A. López: From Global Policies to Local Strategies: Multi-Objective Optimization of Resource-Specific Handover PoliciesKeyvan Amiri ...

Andreea Iana Defended her PhD

Today, Andreea Iana has defended her PhD on “Multifaceted Neural News Recommendation: Common Componentes, Bias Mitigation, and Multilinguality”.

Two Papers Accepted at ESWC 2026

Two papers have been accepted at the European Semantic Web Conference 2026.

Two Papers accepted at ICLR 2026

We have two papers accepted at ICLR 2026!

Paper on Agent Interfaces to the Web accepted at the Web Conference 2026

We are happy to announce that the paper “MCP vs RAG vs NLWeb vs HTML: A Comparison of the Effectiveness and Efficiency of Different Agent Interfaces to the Web” by Aaron Steiner, Ralph Peeters, and Christian Bizer been accepted for the the ACM Web Conference 2026 as a short paper. The Web conference ...

Paper on Multi-Task Learning Accepted for the International Journal of Computer Vision

We are happy to announce that the paper “Investigating Uncertainty Weighting for Multi-Task Learning: Insights and Analytical Alternatives” by Lukas Kirchdorfer, Tobias Sesterhenn, Christian Bartelt, Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Lukas Schott and Jan M. Köhlerhas been accepted for the International Journal ...