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Germany
2025

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Computer Science

D-Index
66
Citations
12842
World Ranking
2368
National Ranking
99

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Germany Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Computer Science in Germany Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Germany Leader Award

Overview

Carsten Lutz is affiliated with Leipzig University in Germany and specializes in the field of Computer Science, with a strong focus on Artificial Intelligence among other subfields. Their research covers numerous aspects within the domain, including Semantic Web and Ontologies, Advanced Database Systems and Queries, and Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge. Additional areas of focus include Natural Language Processing Techniques, Machine Learning and Algorithms, Algorithms and Data Compression, as well as Data Management and Algorithms.

Among the significant recent publications by Carsten Lutz are:

  • Query Expressibility and Verification in Ontology-Based Data Access, 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • First Order-Rewritability and Containment of Conjunctive Queries in Horn Description Logics, 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)

Lutz has a history of collaborating frequently with several other researchers. Notable coauthors include Jean Christoph Jung, Frank Wolter, Maurice Funk, Balder ten Cate, and Marcin Przybyłko.

Their work has primarily been published in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), ACM SIGMOD Record, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence journal, and ACM Transactions on Computational Logic.

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • ACM SIGMOD Record
  • Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • ACM Transactions on Computational Logic

Their expertise spans several subfields with publication counts as follows:

  • Artificial Intelligence (76 publications)
  • Computer Networks and Communications (26 publications)
  • Signal Processing (7 publications)
  • Information Systems (5 publications)
  • Computational Theory and Mathematics (3 publications)

Carsten Lutz's research topics represent a wide range of advanced computational and logical areas, with the main topics including:

  • Semantic Web and Ontologies
  • Advanced Database Systems and Queries
  • Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge
  • Natural Language Processing Techniques
  • Machine Learning and Algorithms
  • Algorithms and Data Compression
  • Data Management and Algorithms

Best Publications

  • Pushing the EL envelope

    Franz Baader;Sebastian Brandt;Carsten Lutz

  • An Introduction to Description Logic by Franz Baader

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  • CEL: a polynomial-time reasoner for life science ontologies

    Franz Baader;Carsten Lutz;Boontawee Suntisrivaraporn

  • Pushing the EL Envelope Further.

    Franz Baader;Carsten Lutz;Sebastian Brandt

  • ε-connections of abstract description systems

    Oliver Kutz;Carsten Lutz;Frank Wolter;Michael Zakharyaschev

  • Conjunctive query answering for the description logic SHIQ

    Birte Glimm;Ian Horrocks;Carsten Lutz;Ulrike Sattler

  • Temporal Description Logics: A Survey

    C. Lutz;F. Wolter;M. Zakharyashev

  • Did I damage my ontology? A case for conservative extensions in description logic

    Silvio Ghilardi;Carsten Lutz;Frank Wolter

  • Conjunctive query answering in the description logic EL using a relational database system

    Carsten Lutz;David Toman;Frank Wolter

  • Conservative extensions in expressive description logics

    Carsten Lutz;Dirk Walther;Frank Wolter

  • Description Logics with Concrete Domains-A Survey.

    Carsten Lutz

  • Ontology-Based Data Access: A Study through Disjunctive Datalog, CSP, and MMSNP

    Meghyn Bienvenu;Balder Ten Cate;Carsten Lutz;Frank Wolter

  • Integrating description logics and action formalisms: first results

    Franz Baader;Carsten Lutz;Maja Miličic;Ulrike Sattler

  • The combined approach to query answering in DL-Lite

    R. Kontchakov;C. Lutz;D. Toman;F. Wolter

  • LTL over description logic axioms

    Franz Baader;Silvio Ghilardi;Carsten Lutz

  • The Complexity of Conjunctive Query Answering in Expressive Description Logics

    Carsten Lutz

  • Deciding inseparability and conservative extensions in the description logic EL

    Carsten Lutz;Frank Wolter

  • The combined approach to ontology-based data access

    R. Kontchakov;C. Lutz;D. Toman;F. Wolter

  • Complexity and succinctness of public announcement logic

    Carsten Lutz

  • The complexity of circumscription in DLs

    Piero A. Bonatti;Carsten Lutz;Frank Wolter

  • Updating description logic ABoxes

    Hongkai Liu;Carsten Lutz;Maja Miličić;Frank Wolter

  • Foundations for uniform interpolation and forgetting in expressive description logics

    Carsten Lutz;Frank Wolter

Frequent Co-Authors

Frank Wolter
Frank Wolter University of Liverpool
Franz Baader
Franz Baader TU Dresden
Michael Zakharyaschev
Michael Zakharyaschev Birkbeck, University of London
Ulrike Sattler
Ulrike Sattler University of Manchester
Ian Horrocks
Ian Horrocks University of Oxford
Piero A. Bonatti
Piero A. Bonatti University of Naples Federico II
Ralf Möller
Ralf Möller University of Lübeck
Moshe Y. Vardi
Moshe Y. Vardi Rice University
Roman Kontchakov
Roman Kontchakov Birkbeck, University of London

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