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Computer Science
Germany
2025

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Computer Science

D-Index
102
Citations
45226
World Ranking
337
National Ranking
18

Research.com Recognitions

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

Overview

Steffen Staab is affiliated with the University of Stuttgart in Germany. Their research primarily spans the field of Computer Science, with a focus on Artificial Intelligence among other subfields such as Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Signal Processing, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, and Computer Networks and Communications.

Their work concentrates on several specialized topics including Semantic Web and Ontologies, Topic Modeling, Advanced Graph Neural Networks, Natural Language Processing Techniques, Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI), Data Management and Algorithms, and Data Quality and Management.

Steffen Staab's publication record includes contributions to various conferences and journals, with frequent appearances in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, Software & Systems Modeling, and ePrints Soton (University of Southampton).

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Staab include:

  • Knowledge Graphs, 2021, ACM Computing Surveys
  • Bias in data-driven artificial intelligence systems-An introductory survey, 2020, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
  • Knowledge Graphs, 2021, Synthesis Lectures on Data, Semantics and Knowledge
  • Community-based k-shell decomposition for identifying influential spreaders, 2021, Pattern Recognition
  • SCENE: Reasoning About Traffic Scenes Using Heterogeneous Graph Neural Networks, 2023, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

The scientist has collaborated regularly with a group of frequent co-authors, including Mojtaba Nayyeri, Michael Cochez, Lukas Schmelzeisen, Eva Blomqvist, and Claudia d'Amato.

In addition to journal and conference papers, Steffen Staab has published books with notable publishers. These include:

  • "Knowledge Graphs" published by Morgan & Claypool Publishers in 2022
  • "Firm-Sponsored Developers in Open Source Software Projects: A Social Capital Perspective" published by University of Southampton in 2020

Best Publications

  • Ontology Learning for the Semantic Web

    A. Maedche;S. Staab

  • Handbook on Ontologies

    Steffen Staab;Rudi Studer

  • What Is an Ontology

    Nicola Guarino;Daniel Oberle;Steffen Staab

  • Knowledge processes and ontologies

    S. Staab;R. Studer;H.-P. Schnurr;Y. Sure

  • Web Ontology Language: OWL

    Grigoris Antoniou;Frank van Harmelen;Steffen Staab;Rudi Struder

  • Knowledge Graphs

    Aidan Hogan;Eva Blomqvist;Michael Cochez;Claudia d'Amato

  • Measuring Similarity between Ontologies

    Alexander Maedche;Steffen Staab

  • Bias in data-driven artificial intelligence systems—An introductory survey

    Eirini Ntoutsi;Pavlos Fafalios;Ujwal Gadiraju;Vasileios Iosifidis

  • Ontologies improve text document clustering

    A. Hotho;S. Staab;G. Stumme

  • Learning concept hierarchies from text corpora using formal concept analysis

    Philipp Cimiano;Andreas Hotho;Steffen Staab

  • OntoEdit: Collaborative Ontology Development for the Semantic Web

    York Sure;Michael Erdmann;Jürgen Angele;Steffen Staab;Steffen Staab

  • QOM: quick ontology mapping

    Marc Ehrig;Steffen Staab

  • Discovering conceptual relations from text

    Alexander Maedche;Steffen Staab

  • Towards the self-annotating web

    Philipp Cimiano;Siegfried Handschuh;Steffen Staab

  • S-CREAM - Semi-automatic CREAtion of Metadata

    Siegfried Handschuh;Steffen Staab;Fabio Ciravegna

  • eLearning based on the semantic web

    Ljiljana Stojanovic;Steffen Staab;Rudi Studer

  • CREAM: creating relational metadata with a component-based, ontology-driven annotation framework

    Siegfried Handschuh;Steffen Staab;Alexander Maedche

  • The Semantic Web - ISWC 2008

    Amit P. Sheth;Steffen Staab;Michael Dean;Massimo Paolucci

  • On-To-Knowledge Methodology (OTKM)

    York Sure;Steffen Staab;Steffen Staab;Rudi Studer

  • Handbook on Ontologies (International Handbooks on Information Systems)

    Steffen Staab;Rudi Studer

  • Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on World Wide Web

    Alain Mille;Fabien Gandon;Jacques Misselis;Michael Rabinovich

Frequent Co-Authors

Rudi Studer
Rudi Studer Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Alexander Maedche
Alexander Maedche Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Siegfried Handschuh
Siegfried Handschuh University of St. Gallen
York Sure
York Sure Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Andreas Hotho
Andreas Hotho University of Würzburg
Philipp Cimiano
Philipp Cimiano Bielefeld University
Raphael Volz
Raphael Volz Pforzheim University of Applied Sciences
Gerd Stumme
Gerd Stumme University of Kassel
Stefan Decker
Stefan Decker RWTH Aachen University
Yannis Avrithis
Yannis Avrithis Institute of Advanced Research on Artificial Intelligence (IARAI)

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