Simon Schenk
Institute for Computer Science
Working Group Information Systems and Semantic Web
University of Koblenz
Simon Schenk works towards his PhD degree under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Steffen Staab.
Before, he has worked as a consultant at Capgemini Germany. He has studied at NORDAKADEMIE University of Applied Sciences, Germany and Karlstads Universitet, Sweden and has received his diploma in Computer Science and Business Management from NORDAKADEMIE in 2004. His diploma thesis about Peer-to-Peer Applications for Knowledge Management was awarded the Innovation Award 2005 by CeBit, Steria Mummert Consulting and Handelsblatt.
Simon works in the EU funded project NeOn – Lifecycle Suport for Networked Ontologies. He was leader of the Semantic Multimedia Workpackage of the K-Space Network of Excellence. His research interests include distributed views and rules for the Semantic Web [1], Semantic Web query languages [2, 3], trust inference [4] and large scale management and retrieval of multimedia metadata [5].
Standardization Activities
Awards
- Winner of the Billion Triples Challenge 2008 with Semaplorer
- Innovation Award 2005 für zukunftsweisende Business Ideen for Diploma Thesis about Knowledge Manegement with Peer-to-Peer Technology
Reviewing Activities
- Journal of Web Semantics (JWS), Special Issue on Semantic and Data Web.
- International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS), Special Issue about Linked Data.
Program Committee Memberships
- Workshop Linked Data on the Web Workshop (LDOW2009) at WWW2009
- Workshop Trust and Privacy on the Social and Semantic Web (SPOT200) at ESWC2009
- ESWC2009 Poster & Demo Session
- K-Space PhD Symposium 2007
Selected Publications
- Simon Schenk and Steffen Staab: Networked Graphs: A Declarative Mechanism for SPARQL Rules, SPARQL Views and RDF Data Integration on the Web. In: Proceedings of the 17th International World Wide Web Conference, WWW2008, Bejing, China. ACM. 2008.
- Simon Schenk: A SPARQL Semantics Based on Datalog. In: Proceedings of KI2007, 30th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Springer. 2007.
- Alexander Kubias, Simon Schenk, Steffen Staab and Jeff Z. Pan: OWL SAIQL – An OWL DL Query Language for Ontology Extraction. In: Proceedings of the 2007 International Workshop on OWL: Experiences and directions (OWLED-07). 2007.
- Simon Schenk: On the Semantics of Trust and Caching in the Semantic Web. In: Proceedings of the 7th International semantic Web Conference ISWC2008, Karlsruhe, Germany. Springer. 2008.
- Simon Schenk, Carsten Saathoff, Anton Baumesberger, Frederik Jochum, Alexander Kleinen, Steffen Staab and Ansgar Scherp: SemaPlorer – Interactive Semantic Exploration of Data and Media based on a Federated Cloud Infrastructure. In: Billion Triples Challenge at the 7th International Semantic Web Conference 2007, Karlsruhe, Germany. 2008.