Stefan Decker is a

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, Full Professor for Database and Information Systems at

RWTH Aachen University RWTH Aachen University (), also known as North Rhine-Westphalia Technical University of Aachen, Rhine-Westphalia Technical University of Aachen, Technical University of Aachen, University of Aachen, or ''Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hoch ...

, and managing director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology. He specializes in the Semantic Web. As of 25 January 2020, his research reached 21,206 (with

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of 66 and

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of 201) Google Scholar Citations, making him one of the most influential Semantic Web researchers. He was formerly Professor of Digital Enterprise at the

National University of Ireland Galway The University of Galway ( ga, Ollscoil na Gaillimhe) is a public research university located in the city of Galway, Ireland. A tertiary education and research institution, the university was awarded the full five QS stars for excellence in 201 ...

, and executive director of the

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, Galway. Prof. Decker studied Computer Science at the

University of Kaiserslautern Technical University of Kaiserslautern (German: ''Technische Universität Kaiserslautern'', also known as TU Kaiserslautern or TUK) is a public university, public research university in Kaiserslautern, Germany. There are numerous institutes arou ...

. He received his doctorate at the Karlsruhe Technical University. He was elected to the

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in 2010.

Selected research

*Bischof, Stefan, et al. "Mapping between RDF and XML with XSPARQL." Journal on Data Semantics 1.3 (2012): 147–185. *Grosof, Benjamin N., et al. "Description logic programs: combining logic programs with description logic." Proceedings of the 12th international conference on World Wide Web. 2003. *Noy, Natalya F., et al. "Creating semantic web contents with protege-2000." IEEE intelligent systems 16.2 (2001): 60–71. *Decker, Stefan, et al. "The semantic web: The roles of XML and RDF." IEEE Internet Computing 4.5 (2000): 63–73.

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