Ghent University Academic Bibliography

The claims network : collecting research, education, impact, and leadership claims on the decentralized web

Patrick Hochstenbach (UGent) , Herbert Van de Sompel (UGent) and Ruben Verborgh (UGent)

(2026) LINKING THEORY AND PRACTICE OF DIGITAL LIBRARIES, TPDL 2025. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science 16097. p.163-180

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Semantic framework for legally-aligned health data exchanges

Beatriz Gonçalves Crisóstomo Esteves (UGent) , Ruben Dedecker (UGent) , Wout Slabbinck (UGent) , Filip Pattyn (UGent) and Ruben Verborgh (UGent)

(2025) ESWC-JP 2025 : ESWC 2025 workshops and tutorials : joint proceedings. In CEUR workshop proceedings 3977.

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Observations on bloom filters for traversal-based query execution over solid pods

Jonni Hanski (UGent) , Ruben Taelman (UGent) and Ruben Verborgh (UGent)

(2025) SEMANTIC WEB : ESWC 2024 SATELLITE EVENTS, PT I. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science 15344. p.228-233

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Capturing requests and context for ODRL-based access and usage control

Beatriz Gonçalves Crisóstomo Esteves (UGent) , Wout Slabbinck (UGent) , Y. Sellami, A. Cimmino, V. Rodriguez-Doncel and Ruben Verborgh (UGent)

(2025) 16th Workshop on Ontology Design and Patterns (WOP 2025). In CEUR workshop proceedings 4093. p.71-84

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Incentivizing sustainable data exchanges through unique contextualization of history and destiny

Wout Slabbinck (UGent) , Beatriz Gonçalves Crisóstomo Esteves (UGent) , Maarten de Mildt (UGent) , Ruben Dedecker (UGent) , Julian Andres Rojas Melendez (UGent) , Sofie Verbrugge (UGent) , Didier Colle (UGent) , Pieter Colpaert (UGent) and Ruben Verborgh (UGent)

(2025) 16th Workshop on Ontology Design and Patterns (WOP 2025). In CEUR workshop proceedings 4093. p.85-96

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LOAMA : low-code ODRL access management application

Wout Slabbinck (UGent) , Lennert De Rouck (UGent) , Joachim Van Herwegen (UGent) , Wouter Termont (UGent) , Beatriz Gonçalves Crisóstomo Esteves (UGent) and Ruben Verborgh (UGent)

(2025) ISWC-C 2025 : Industry, Doctoral Consortium, Posters and Demos at ISWC 2025. In CEUR workshop proceedings 4085. p.502-510

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A vision on algebraic flows for declarative resource descriptions

Jitse De Smet (UGent) , Ruben Verborgh (UGent) and Ruben Taelman (UGent)

(2025) HyperAgents 2025 : Hypermedia Multi-Agent Systems 2025. In CEUR workshop proceedings 4084. p.95-102

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Libertas : privacy-preserving collaborative computation for decentralised personal data stores

Rui Zhao, Naman Goel, Nitin Agrawal, Jun Zhao, Jake Stein, Wael S. Albayaydh, Ruben Verborgh (UGent) , Reuben Binns, Tim Berners-Lee and Nigel Shadbolt

(2025) PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACM ON HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION. 9(7).

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Revisiting link prioritization for efficient traversal in structured decentralized environments

Ruben Eschauzier (UGent) , Ruben Taelman (UGent) and Ruben Verborgh (UGent)

(2025) SEMANTIC WEB-ISWC 2025, PT I. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science 16140. p.575-593

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Link traversal over decentralised environments using restart-based query planning

Jonni Hanski (UGent) , Simon Van Braeckel, Ruben Taelman (UGent) and Ruben Verborgh (UGent)

(2025) WEB ENGINEERING, ICWE 2025. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science 15749. p.303-311

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Automated policy negotiation : a four-course meal

Patrick Hochstenbach (UGent) , Beatriz Gonçalves Crisóstomo Esteves (UGent) and Ruben Verborgh (UGent)

(2025) Joint Proceedings of the ESWC 2025 Workshops and Tutorials co-located with 22nd Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2025). In CEUR Workshop Proceedings 3977.

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Event notifications and event logs : transparent sharing of artifact life cycle data

Patrick Hochstenbach (UGent) , Ruben Verborgh (UGent) and Herbert Van de Sompel (UGent)

(2025) INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DIGITAL CURATION. 19(1).

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Preface for the Proceedings of the 2nd NeXt-generation Data Governance Workshop 2025 (NXDG 2025)

Beatriz Gonçalves Crisóstomo Esteves (UGent) , Harshvardhan J. Pandit and Ruben Verborgh (UGent)

(2025) SEMANTICS-PDWT 2025. In CEUR Workshop Proceedings-Series 4064.

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May the FORCE be with you? A framework for ODRL rule compliance through evaluation

Wout Slabbinck (UGent) , Julian Andres Rojas Melendez (UGent) , Beatriz Gonçalves Crisóstomo Esteves (UGent) , Ruben Verborgh (UGent) and Pieter Colpaert (UGent)

(2025) SEMANTICS-PDWT 2025. In CEUR Workshop Proceedings-Series 4064.

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Interoperable interpretation and evaluation of ODRL policies

Wout Slabbinck (UGent) , Julian Andres Rojas Melendez (UGent) , Beatriz Gonçalves Crisóstomo Esteves (UGent) , Pieter Colpaert (UGent) and Ruben Verborgh (UGent)

(2025) SEMANTIC WEB, ESWC 2025, PT II. In Lecture notes in computer science 15719. p.192-209

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Transparent and trustworthy artifact life cycle data

Patrick Hochstenbach (UGent) , Martin Klein, Herbert Van de Sompel (UGent) and Ruben Verborgh (UGent)

(2024) iPRES 2024, Abstracts.

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Personalized medicine through personal data pods

Elias David Crum (UGent) , Ruben Taelman (UGent) , Bart Buelens, Gokhan Ertaylan and Ruben Verborgh (UGent)

(2024) SWAT4HCLS 2024 : Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Health Care and Life Sciences 2024. In CEUR workshop proceedings p.167-168

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Distributed subweb specifications for traversing the web

Bart Bogaerts, Bas Ketsman, Younes Zeboudj, Heba Aamer, Ruben Taelman (UGent) and Ruben Verborgh (UGent)

(2024) THEORY AND PRACTICE OF LOGIC PROGRAMMING. 24(2). p.394-420

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RDF surfaces : enabling classical negation on the semantic web

Patrick Hochstenbach (UGent) , Mathijs van Noort (UGent) , Dörthe Arndt (UGent) , Rebekka Martens, Jos De Roo (UGent) , Ruben Verborgh (UGent) , Pieter Bonte (UGent) and Femke Ongenae (UGent)

(2024) SEMANTIC WEB.

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Optimized continuous homecare provisioning through distributed data-driven semantic services and cross-organizational workflows

Mathias De Brouwer (UGent) , Pieter Bonte (UGent) , Doerthe Arndt, Miel Vander Sande (UGent) , Anastasia Dimou (UGent) , Ruben Verborgh (UGent) , Filip De Turck (UGent) and Femke Ongenae (UGent)

(2024) JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL SEMANTICS. 15(1).

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Interoperable and continuous usage control enforcement in dataspaces

Inès Akaichi, Wout Slabbinck (UGent) , Julian Andres Rojas Melendez (UGent) , Casper Van Gheluwe (UGent) , Gabriele Bozzi, Pieter Colpaert (UGent) , Ruben Verborgh (UGent) and Sabrina Kirrane

(2024) SDS 2024 : Semantics in Dataspaces 2024 : Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Semantics in Dataspaces (SDS 2024) co-located with the 21st Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2024). In CEUR Workshop Proceedings 3705.

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Using an event notification network for transparent sharing of artifact life cycle data

Patrick Hochstenbach (UGent) , Ruben Verborgh (UGent) and Herbert Van de Sompel (UGent)

(2024) Open Repositories 2024, Abstracts.

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Inter-pod credential exchange protocol via linked data notifications

Jonas Steinbach, Gertjan De Mulder (UGent) , Ben De Meester (UGent) , Beatriz Gonçalves Crisóstomo Esteves (UGent) and Ruben Verborgh (UGent)

(2024) SDS 2024 : Semantics in Dataspaces 2024 : Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Semantics in Dataspaces (SDS 2024) co-located with the 21st Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2024). In CEUR Workshop Proceedings 3705.

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The community solid server : supporting research & development in an evolving ecosystem

Joachim Van Herwegen (UGent) and Ruben Verborgh (UGent)

(2024) SEMANTIC WEB. 15(6). p.2597-2611

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Demonstration of link traversal SPARQL query processing over the decentralized solid environment

Ruben Taelman (UGent) and Ruben Verborgh (UGent)

(2024) Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT). In Advances in database technology p.786-789

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Opportunities for shape-based optimization of link traversal queries

Bryan-Elliott Tam (UGent) , Ruben Taelman (UGent) , Pieter Colpaert (UGent) and Ruben Verborgh (UGent)

(2024) AMW 2024 : Alberto Mendelzon International Workshop on Foundations of Data Management 2024 : proceedings of the 16th Alberto Mendelzon International Workshop on Foundations of Data Management (AMW 2024).

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The R³ metric : measuring performance of link prioritization during traversal-based query processing

Ruben Eschauzier (UGent) , Ruben Taelman (UGent) and Ruben Verborgh (UGent)

(2024) AMW 2024 : Alberto Mendelzon International Workshop on Foundations of Data Management 2024 : proceedings of the 16th Alberto Mendelzon International Workshop on Foundations of Data Management (AMW 2024). In CEUR workshop proceedings 3964.

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Granular access to policy-governed linked data via partial server-side query

Joachim Van Herwegen (UGent) and Ruben Verborgh (UGent)

(2024) SEMANTIC WEB : ESWC 2024 SATELLITE EVENTS, PT I. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science 15344. p.331-335

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Enforcing usage control policies in solid using rule-based web agents

Wout Slabbinck (UGent) , Julian Andres Rojas Melendez (UGent) , Beatriz Gonçalves Crisóstomo Esteves (UGent) , Ruben Verborgh (UGent) and Pieter Colpaert (UGent)

(2024) SoSy 2024 : Solid Symposium Posters and Privacy Session 2024 : Proceedings of the Posters and Privacy Session of the Solid Symposium 2024. In CEUR workshop proceedings 3947. p.109-117

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DFDP : a declarative form description pipeline for decentralizing web forms

Ieben Smessaert (UGent) , Patrick Hochstenbach (UGent) , Ben De Meester (UGent) , Ruben Taelman (UGent) and Ruben Verborgh (UGent)

(2024) SDS 2024 : Semantics in Dataspaces 2024 : Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Semantics in Dataspaces (SDS 2024) co-located with the 21st Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2024). In CEUR workshop proceedings 3705.

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ConSolid : a federated ecosystem for heterogeneous multi-stakeholder projects

Jeroen Werbrouck (UGent) , Pieter Pauwels, Jakob Beetz, Ruben Verborgh (UGent) and Erik Mannens (UGent)

(2024) SEMANTIC WEB. 15(2). p.429-460

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A rule-based software agent on top of personal data stores

Wout Slabbinck (UGent) , Ruben Dedecker (UGent) , Julian Andres Rojas Melendez (UGent) and Ruben Verborgh (UGent)

(2023) Posters, Demos, and Industry Tracks at ISWC 2023 : proceedings of the ISWC 2023 Posters, Demos and Industry Tracks: From Novel Ideas to Industrial Practice (ISWC-Posters-Demos-Industry 2023). In CEUR workshop proceedings 3632.

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Trusting decentralised knowledge graphs and web data at the web conference

John Domingue, Aisling Third, Maria-Esther Vidal, Philipp D. Rohde, Juan Cano, Andrea Cimmino and Ruben Verborgh (UGent)

(2023) COMPANION OF THE WORLD WIDE WEB CONFERENCE, WWW 2023. p.1422-1423

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How does the link queue evolve during traversal-based query processing?

Ruben Eschauzier (UGent) , Ruben Taelman (UGent) and Ruben Verborgh (UGent)

(2023) Joint Proceedings of the QuWeDa and MEPDaW 2023 : 7th Workshop on Storing, Querying and Benchmarking Knowledge Graphs and 9th Workshop on Managing the Evolution and Preservation of the Data Web. In CEUR Workshop Proceedings 3565. p.26-33

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In-memory dictionary-based indexing of quoted RDF triples

Ruben Taelman (UGent) and Ruben Verborgh (UGent)

(2023) Joint Proceedings of the QuWeDa and MEPDaW 2023 : 7th Workshop on Storing, Querying and Benchmarking Knowledge Graphs and 9th Workshop on Managing the Evolution and Preservation of the Data Web. In CEUR Workshop Proceedings 3565. p.7-21

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Linked data event streams in solid LDP containers

Wout Slabbinck (UGent) , Ruben Dedecker (UGent) , Sindhu Vasireddy, Ruben Verborgh (UGent) and Pieter Colpaert (UGent)

(2023) Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Managing the Evolution and Preservation of the Data Web (MEPDaW 2022) co-located with the 21st International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2022). In CEUR workshop proceedings 3339. p.28-35

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Using event notifications, solid and orchestration for decentralizing and decoupling scholarly communication

Patrick Hochstenbach (UGent) , Ruben Verborgh (UGent) and Herbert Van de Sompel (UGent)

(2023) CODE4LIB JOURNAL.

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Publishing public transport data on the Web with the Linked Connections framework

Julian Andres Rojas Melendez (UGent) , Harm Delva, Pieter Colpaert (UGent) and Ruben Verborgh (UGent)

(2023) SEMANTIC WEB. 14(4). p.659-693

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Distributed social benefit allocation using reasoning over personal data in solid

Jonni Hanski (UGent) , Pieter Heyvaert (UGent) , Ben De Meester (UGent) , Ruben Taelman (UGent) and Ruben Verborgh (UGent)

(2023) ESWC-JP 2023 : ESWC 2023 Workshops and Tutorials Joint Proceedings. In CEUR workshop proceedings p.1-7

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RDF surfaces : computer says no

Patrick Hochstenbach (UGent) , Jos De Roo (UGent) and Ruben Verborgh (UGent)

(2023) Joint Proceedings of the ESWC 2023 Workshops and Tutorials co-located with 20th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2023). In CEUR workshop proceedings 3443.

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Link traversal query processing over decentralized environments with structural assumptions

Ruben Taelman (UGent) and Ruben Verborgh (UGent)

(2023) SEMANTIC WEB, ISWC 2023, PART 1. In Lecture notes in computer science 14265. p.3-22

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Re-decentralizing the web, for good this time

Ruben Verborgh (UGent)

(2023) Linking the world’s information : essays on Tim Berners-Lee’s invention of the World Wide Web. p.215-230

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Components.js : semantic dependency injection

Ruben Taelman (UGent) , Joachim Van Herwegen (UGent) , Miel Vander Sande (UGent) and Ruben Verborgh (UGent)

(2023) SEMANTIC WEB. 14(1). p.135-153

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Reinforcement learning-based SPARQL join ordering optimizer

Ruben Eschauzier (UGent) , Ruben Taelman (UGent) , Meike Morren and Ruben Verborgh (UGent)

(2023) SEMANTIC WEB : ESWC 2023 SATELLITE EVENTS. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science 13998. p.43-47

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Visual notations for viewing RDF constraints with UnSHACLed

Sven Lieber, Ben De Meester (UGent) , Pieter Heyvaert (UGent) , Femke Bruckmann, Ruben Wambacq, Erik Mannens (UGent) , Ruben Verborgh (UGent) and Anastasia Dimou (UGent)

(2022) SEMANTIC WEB. 13(5). p.757-792

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A prospective analysis of security vulnerabilities within link traversal-based query processing

Ruben Taelman (UGent) and Ruben Verborgh (UGent)

(2022) QuWeDa 2022 : 6th Workshop on Storing, Querying and Benchmarking Knowledge Graphs. In CEUR workshop proceedings p.33-48

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A policy-oriented architecture for enforcing consent in solid

Laurens Debackere, Pieter Colpaert (UGent) , Ruben Taelman (UGent) and Ruben Verborgh (UGent)

(2022) COMPANION PROCEEDINGS OF THE WEB CONFERENCE 2022, WWW 2022 COMPANION. p.516-524

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Event notifications in value-adding networks

Patrick Hochstenbach (UGent) , Herbert Van de Sompel (UGent) , Miel Vander Sande, Ruben Dedecker (UGent) and Ruben Verborgh (UGent)

(2022) LINKING THEORY AND PRACTICE OF DIGITAL LIBRARIES (TPDL 2022). In Lecture notes in computer science 13541. p.133-146

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What’s in a Pod? A knowledge graph interpretation for the Solid ecosystem

Ruben Dedecker (UGent) , Wout Slabbinck (UGent) , Jesse Wright, Patrick Hochstenbach (UGent) , Pieter Colpaert (UGent) and Ruben Verborgh (UGent)

(2022) Proceedings of the QuWeDa 2022 : 6th Workshop on Storing, Querying and Benchmarking Knowledge Graphs co-located with 21st International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2022). In CEUR workshop proceedings 3279. p.81-96

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Optimizing storage of RDF archives using bidirectional delta chains

Ruben Taelman (UGent) , Thibault Mahieu, Martin Vanbrabant (UGent) and Ruben Verborgh (UGent)

(2022) SEMANTIC WEB. 13(4). p.705-734