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Austria
2025

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Computer Science

D-Index
87
Citations
41690
World Ranking
704
National Ranking
6

Research.com Recognitions

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

Overview

Dieter Fensel was affiliated with the University of Innsbruck in Austria. Their main field of study was Computer Science, with a particular focus on several subfields including Artificial Intelligence, Information Systems, Management Science and Operations Research, Computer Networks and Communications, and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.

The scientist's research centered on multiple key topics such as Semantic Web and Ontologies, Advanced Graph Neural Networks, Data Quality and Management, Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data, Privacy, Security, and Data Protection, Blockchain Technology Applications and Security, and Topic Modeling.

Frequent publication venues featured contributions in arXiv (Cornell University), Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Sensors, Future Generation Computer Systems, and Energies.

Notable recent papers include:

  • Data Protection by Design Tool for Automated GDPR Compliance Verification Based on Semantically Modeled Informed Consent, 2022, Sensors
  • Representing emotions with knowledge graphs for movie recommendations, 2021, Future Generation Computer Systems
  • Towards improving prediction accuracy and user-level explainability using deep learning and knowledge graphs: A study on cassava disease, 2023, Expert Systems with Applications
  • Knowledge Graph Based Hard Drive Failure Prediction, 2022, Sensors
  • Raising Consent Awareness With Gamification and Knowledge Graphs, 2022, International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Dieter Fensel comprised Tek Raj Chhetri, Anelia Kurteva, Umutcan Şimşek, Elias Kärle, and Kevin Angele.

In addition to journal publications, Dieter Fensel contributed to academic books published by Springer Science+Business Media and Studies on the Semantic Web. The book publications included:

  • Database and Expert Systems Applications - DEXA 2021 Workshops, 2021
  • Database and Expert Systems Applications, 2020
  • Rules and Reasoning, 2023
  • Further with Knowledge Graphs, 2021

Best Publications

  • Knowledge engineering: principles and methods

    Rudi Studer;V. Richard Benjamins;V. Richard Benjamins;Dieter Fensel

  • The Semantic Web: Research and Applications

    Christoph J. Bussler;John Davies;Dieter Fensel;Rudi Studer

  • Ontologies: A Silver Bullet for Knowledge Management and Electronic Commerce

    Dieter Andreas Fensel

  • Web Service Modeling Ontology

    Dumitru Roman;Uwe Keller;Holger Lausen;Jos de Bruijn

  • The Web Service Modeling Framework WSMF

    Dieter Fensel;Christoph Bussler

  • The Semantic Web: the roles of XML and RDF

    S. Decker;S. Melnik;F. van Harmelen;D. Fensel

  • OIL: an ontology infrastructure for the Semantic Web

    D. Fensel;F. van Harmelen;I. Horrocks;D.L. McGuinness

  • Towards the Semantic Web: Ontology-driven Knowledge Management

    John Davies;Dieter Fensel;Frank van Harmelen

  • Towards the Semantic Web

    John Davies;Dieter Fensel;Frank Van Harmelen

  • The Semantic Web - ISWC 2003

    Dieter Fensel;Katia Sycara;John Mylopoulos

  • Spinning the Semantic Web: Bringing the World Wide Web to Its Full Potential

    Dieter Fensel;James A. Hendler;Henry Lieberman;Wolfgang Wahlster

  • Ontobroker: Ontology Based Access to Distributed and Semi-Structured Information

    Stefan Decker;Michael Erdmann;Dieter Fensel;Rudi Studer

  • The Web Service Modeling Language WSML : An Overview

    Jos De Bruijn;Holger Lausen;Axel Polleres;Dieter Fensel

  • OIL in a Nutshell

    Dieter Fensel;Ian Horrocks;Frank van Harmelen;Stefan Decker

  • Enabling Semantic Web Services: The Web Service Modeling Ontology

    Dieter Fensel;Holger Lausen;Axel Polleres;Jos de Bruijn

  • Semantic business process management: a vision towards using semantic Web services for business process management

    M. Hepp;F. Leymann;J. Domingue;A. Wahler

  • Ontology versioning on the semantic web

    Michel Klein;Dieter Fensel

  • Ontology Versioning and Change Detection on the Web

    Michel C. A. Klein;Dieter Fensel;Atanas Kiryakov;Damyan Ognyanov

  • It's a Streaming World! Reasoning upon Rapidly Changing Information

    E. Della Valle;S. Ceri;F. van Harmelen;D. Fensel

  • Handbook of Semantic Web Technologies

    John Domingue;Dieter Fensel;James A. Hendler

  • OIL in a nutshell.

    D.A. Fensel;I. Horrocks;F.A.H. van Harmelen;S. Decker

Frequent Co-Authors

Rudi Studer
Rudi Studer Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Stefan Decker
Stefan Decker RWTH Aachen University
Michel C. A. Klein
Michel C. A. Klein Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Ying Ding
Ying Ding The University of Texas at Austin
John Domingue
John Domingue The Open University
James A. Hendler
James A. Hendler Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Axel Polleres
Axel Polleres Vienna University of Economics and Business
Ian Horrocks
Ian Horrocks University of Oxford
Frank van Harmelen
Frank van Harmelen Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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