Ghent University Academic Bibliography

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Improving linked data development experience with LDkit

Karel Klima, Ruben Taelman (UGent) and Martin Necasky

(2026) SEMANTIC WEB. 17(1).

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Genomic sequence data sharing for clinical practice : a scoping review

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

(2026) COMPUTERS IN BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE. 200.

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Expressive querying and scalable management of large RDF archives

Olivier Pelgrin, Ruben Taelman (UGent) , Luis Galarraga and Katja Hose

(2026) SEMANTIC WEB. 17(3).

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Traqula : providing a foundation for the evolving SPARQL ecosystem through modular query parsing, transformation, and generation

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

(2026) The Semantic Web : 23rd European Semantic Web Conference, Proceedings, Part II. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science 16550. p.232-252

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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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Algebraic mapping operators for knowledge graph generation

Sitt Min Oo (UGent) , Ben De Meester (UGent) , Ruben Taelman (UGent) and Pieter Colpaert (UGent)

(2025) SEMANTIC WEB. 16(5).

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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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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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SGF : SPARQL updates over decentralized knowledge graphs without access path dependencies

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

(2025) SEMANTIC WEB : ESWC 2025 SATELLITE EVENTS. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science 15832. p.13-17

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Towards tackling SPARQL heterogeneity through modular parsing

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

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

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Incremunica : web-based incremental view maintenance for SPARQL

Maarten Vandenbrande (UGent) , Ruben Taelman (UGent) , Pieter Bonte (UGent) and Femke Ongenae (UGent)

(2025) The Semantic Web : 22nd European Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2025, Proceedings, Part II. In Lecture notes in computer science 15719. p.297-315

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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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Optimizing traversal queries of sensor data using a rule-based reachability approach

Bryan-Elliott Tam (UGent) , Ruben Taelman (UGent) , Julian Andres Rojas Melendez (UGent) and Pieter Colpaert (UGent)

(2024) ISWC-Posters-Demos-Industry 2024 : Posters, Demos, and Industry Tracks at ISWC 2024 : Proceedings of the ISWC 2024 Posters, Demos and Industry Tracks : From Novel Ideas to Industrial Practice co-located with 23nd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2024). In CEUR workshop proceedings 3828.

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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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Decentralized search over personal online datastores : architecture and performance evaluation

Mohamed Ragab, Yury Savateev, Helen Oliver, Thanassis Tiropanis, Alexandra Poulovassilis, Adriane Chapman, Ruben Taelman (UGent) and George Roussos

(2024) WEB ENGINEERING, ICWE 2024. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science 14629. p.49-64

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Towards applications on the decentralized web using hypermedia-driven query engines

Ruben Taelman (UGent)

(2024) SIGWEB NEWSLETTER. 2024(Summer).

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Requirements and challenges for query execution across decentralized environments

Ruben Taelman (UGent)

(2024) WWW '24 : Companion Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2024. p.1709-1711

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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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Towards algebraic mapping operators for knowledge graph construction

Sitt Min Oo (UGent) , Ben De Meester (UGent) , Ruben Taelman (UGent) and Pieter Colpaert (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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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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The need for better RDF archiving benchmarks

O Pelgrin, Ruben Taelman (UGent) , L. Galarraga and K Hose

(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.50-54

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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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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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Scaling large RDF archives to very long histories

Olivier Pelgrin, Ruben Taelman (UGent) , Luis Galárraga and Katja Hose

(2023) 2023 IEEE 17th International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC). p.41-48

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LDkit : linked data object graph mapping toolkit for web applications

Karel Klíma, Ruben Taelman (UGent) and Martin Nečaský

(2023) SEMANTIC WEB, ISWC 2023, PT 2. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science 14266. p.194-210

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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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GLENDA : querying RDF archives with full SPARQL

Olivier Pelgrin, Ruben Taelman (UGent) , Luis Galárraga and Katja Hose

(2023) SEMANTIC WEB: ESWC 2023 SATELLITE EVENTS. In Lecture notes in computer science 13998. p.75-80

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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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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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Data storage in solid data vaults

Vidyashree Tarikere and Ruben Taelman (UGent)

(2022) Faculty of Engineering and Architecture Research Symposium 2022 (FEARS 2022), Abstracts.

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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

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Solid web monetization

Merlijn Sebrechts (UGent) , Tom Goethals (UGent) , Thomas Dupont (UGent) , Wannes Kerckhove (UGent) , Ruben Taelman (UGent) , Filip De Turck (UGent) and Bruno Volckaert (UGent)

(2022) WEB ENGINEERING (ICWE 2022). In Lecture notes in computer science 13362. p.481-486

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Link traversal with distributed subweb specifications

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

(2021) RULES AND REASONING, RULEML+RR 2021. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science 12851. p.62-79

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Towards a personal data vault society: an interplay between technological and business perspectives

Sofie Verbrugge (UGent) , Frederic Vannieuwenborg (UGent) , Marlies Van der Wee (UGent) , Didier Colle (UGent) , Ruben Taelman (UGent) and Ruben Verborgh (UGent)

(2021) 2021 60th FITCE Communication Days Congress for ICT Professionals: Industrial Data – Cloud, Low Latency and Privacy (FITCE).

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Semantic micro-contributions with decentralized nanopublication services

Tobias Kuhn, Ruben Taelman (UGent) , Vincent Emonet, Haris Antonatos, Stian Soiland-Reyes and Michel Dumontier

(2021) PEERJ COMPUTER SCIENCE. 7.

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PROV4ITDaTa : transparent and direct transfer of personal data to personal stores

Gertjan De Mulder (UGent) , Ben De Meester (UGent) , Pieter Heyvaert (UGent) , Ruben Taelman (UGent) , Ruben Verborgh (UGent) and Anastasia Dimou (UGent)

(2021) Web Conference 2021: Companion of the World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2021), Proceedings. p.695-697

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Pattern-based access control in a decentralised collaboration environment

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

(2020) Proceedings of the 8th Linked Data in Architecture and Construction Workshop, LDAC 2020. In CEUR Workshop Proceedings 2636. p.118-131

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Towards querying in decentralized environments with privacy-preserving aggregation

Ruben Taelman (UGent) , S. Steyskal and S. Kirrane

(2020) Joint Proceedings of Workshops AI4LEGAL2020, NLIWOD, PROFILES 2020, QuWeDa 2020 and SEMIFORM2020 Colocated with the 19th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2020). In CEUR Workshop Proceedings 2722. p.135-148

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Optimizing approximate membership metadata in triple pattern fragments for clients and servers

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

(2020) Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Scalable Semantic Web Knowledge Base Systems co-located with 19th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2020). In CEUR Workshop Proceedings 2757. p.1-16

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Storing and querying evolving knowledge graphs on the web

Ruben Taelman (UGent)

(2020)

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Streamlining governmental processes by putting citizens in control of their personal data

Raf Buyle (UGent) , Ruben Taelman (UGent) , Katrien Mostaert, Geroen Joris, Erik Mannens (UGent) , Ruben Verborgh (UGent) and Tim Berners-Lee

(2020) Electronic Governance and Open Society : Challenges in Eurasia. In Communications in Computer and Information Science 1135. p.346-359

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Towards cost-model-based query execution over hybrid linked data fragments interfaces

Amr Azzam, Ruben Taelman (UGent) and Axel Polleres

(2020) SEMANTIC WEB: ESWC 2020 SATELLITE EVENTS. In Lecture notes in computer science 12124. p.9-12

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LDflex : a read/write linked data abstraction for front-end web developers

Ruben Verborgh (UGent) and Ruben Taelman (UGent)

(2020) SEMANTIC WEB - ISWC 2020, PT II. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science 12507. p.193-211

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Facilitating the analysis of COVID-19 literature through a knowledge graph

Bram Steenwinckel (UGent) , Gilles Vandewiele (UGent) , Ilja Rausch, Pieter Heyvaert (UGent) , Ruben Taelman (UGent) , Pieter Colpaert (UGent) , Pieter Simoens (UGent) , Anastasia Dimou (UGent) , Filip De Turck (UGent) and Femke Ongenae (UGent)

(2020) SEMANTIC WEB - ISWC 2020, PT II. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science 12507. p.344-357