Olaf Hartig
Senior Associate Professor (Biträdande professor)
Division for Database and Information Techniques
Department of Computer and Information Science (IDA)
Linköping University
Amazon Scholar
Neptune team at Amazon Web Services
I am interested in problems related to the management of databases and knowledge. My focus in this broad context is on data on the Web (Semantic Web and Linked Data, in particular) and on graph data, as well as on problems in which the data is distributed over multiple, autonomous and/or heterogeneous sources (keywords: federated data management, federated knowledge graphs). Other keywords that appear in some of my work are data provenance and data quality. Regarding all of these topics, my interests range from theoretical foundations (e.g., complexity and expressive power of query languages) all the way to systems-building related research (e.g., efficient storage of datasets and databases, query processing, and query optimization).
August 12, 2024: New paper: With my PhD student Shahrzad Khayatbashi and colleague Amin Jalali (Stockholm University) we have a paper titled "Transforming Object-Centric Event Logs to Temporal Event Knowledge Graphs" at the OBJECTS workshop at BPM 2024. We have made available the camera-ready version of this paper.
May 30, 2024: We received the best poster award at the 21st Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) for our work on "Datatypes for Lists and Maps in RDF Literals." The camera-ready version of the poster paper is available for download.
May 23, 2024: My first PhD student, Sijin Cheng, successfully defended her thesis!
April 22, 2024: Poster paper: With several of my colleagues of the Amazon Neptune team we have been working on a proposal to capture composite values (list and maps, in particular) as literals in RDF data. A poster paper about this proposal has been accepted for the 21st Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) in May 2024. We have made available the camera-ready version of this paper, which has the title: "Datatypes for Lists and Maps in RDF Literals."
December 13, 2023: Our proposal to run the GRADES-NDA workshop at the ACM SIGMOD conference next year has been accepted, and so has our proposal to organize the 2nd International Workshop on Data Management for Knowledge Graphs (DMKG) at the 21st ESWC Conference in May 2024.
November 29, 2023: I have been selected for the prestigious Wallenberg Academy Fellows program of the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation!!! There is a press release of the Foundation and a brief presentation of all the fellows selected in 2023, including the one about me. Linköping University also has a news item about the fellowship.
November 23, 2023: New journal article: With our earlier PhD student Huanyu Li and colleagues Rickard Armiento and Patrick Lambrix we have received the notification that our article titled "Ontology-Based GraphQL Server Generation for Data Access and Data" has finally been accepted for publication in the Semantic Web Journal (by IOS Press). While the publisher's version is being prepared, we have already made available the camera-ready version of the manuscript. Additionally, you may look at the Github repo of OBG-gen, including the material of the evaluation.
November 1, 2023: Best paper award!! The paper "Considering Vocabulary Mappings in Query Plans for Federations of RDF Data Sources" that I co-authored with my PhD student Sijin Cheng and earlier postdoc Sebastian Ferrada was honored with the best paper award at the 29th International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS). We have made available the camera-ready version of this paper.
October 16, 2023: I have been invited to give a keynote in the 7th Workshop on Storing, Querying and Benchmarking Knowledge Graphs (QuWeDa) at ISWC 2023.
Here is my academic CV:
This following list contains selected publications. There is also a complete list of all my publications.
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Postal address: Dept. of Computer and Information Science (IDA), Linköpings universitet, SE-581 83 Linköping, SWEDEN