Research Topics

• Semantic Wikis
• Collaborative semantic annotations
• Personalization in the Semantic Web
• Recommendation Systems

Projects

• Current
• iGreen - Intelligente Wissenstechnologien für das öffentlich-private Wissensmanagement im Agrarbereich
• OpenDFKI - DFKI project platform
• Past
• Förderprogramm THESEUS - Neue Technologien für das Internet der Dienste
• Mymory - Situated Documents in Personal Information Spaces
• NEPOMUK - Social Semantic Desktop
• SmartWeb - Mobile Broadband Multimodal Access to the Semantic Web

Software

• Skipforward - a lightweight ontology-based peer-to-peer recommendation system
• DBTropes - Linked Data wrapper for TV Tropes
• Kaukolu - a Semantic Wiki (research prototype)
• Nabu - a Semantic Message Archive for XMPP Instant Messaging (dormant)
• RDF2Java - providing a Java class-based interface to RDF(S) instances (finished)

Students wanted

In general, if you are interested in my research topics or current projects and look for a job, thesis, or internship, just drop me a mail including examples of your latest work.

Publications

• 2009
• Sebastian Schaffert, François Bry, Joachim Baumeister, Malte Kiesel, Semantische Wikis. In: Social Semantic Web, 2009 (245-258)
• Benjamin Adrian, Heiko Maus, Malte Kiesel, Andreas Dengel, Towards Ontology-based Information Extraction and Annotation of Paper Documents for Personalized Knowledge Acquisition. In: Proceedings of 5th Conference on Professional Knowledge Management (WM2009). Paper. Project page.
• 2008
• Malte Kiesel, Sven Schwarz, Skipforward---a lightweight ontology-based peer-to-peer recommendation system. ISWC 2008 Demonstration. Demo description. Poster. Project page.
• Leo Sauermann, Malte Kiesel, Kinga Schumacher, Ansgar Bernardi, Semantic Desktop. In: Social Semantic Web -- Web 2.0, Springer Verlag, 2008.
• Ludger van Elst, Malte Kiesel, Sven Schwarz, Georg Buscher, Andreas Lauer, Contextualized Knowledge Acquisition in a Personal Semantic Wiki. In: Proceedings of 16th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2008). Paper. Project page.
• Sebastian Schaffert, Francois Bry, Joachim Baumeister, Malte Kiesel, Semantic Wikis. In: IEEE Software, July/August 2008. Paper.
• Sven Schwarz, Malte Kiesel and Ludger van Elst, Adapting the Multi-Desktop Paradigm Towards a Multi-Context Interface. Fifth International Workshop Modeling and Reasoning in Context at Human Centered Processes (HCP-2008).
• Malte Kiesel, Sven Schwarz, Ludger van Elst, Georg Buscher, Using Attention and Context Information for Annotations in a Semantic Wiki, 3rd Semantic Wiki Workshop co-located with the 5th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2008). Paper: Short/long version.
• Malte Kiesel, Sven Schwarz, Ludger van Elst, Georg Buscher, Mymory: Enhancing a Semantic Wiki with Context Annotations, Demonstration, 5th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2008). Demo Paper, Poster, Proceedings.
• 2007
• D. Oberle et al., DOLCE ergo SUMO: On foundational and domain models in SmartWeb Integrated Ontology (SWIntO), Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web 5 (2007), 156-174 (Online)
• 2006
• Michael Sintek, Malte Kiesel, RDFBroker - A Signature-Based, High-Performance RDF Store, ESWC 2006. Project page.
• Malte Kiesel, Kaukolu: Hub of the Semantic Corporate Intranet, SemWiki Workshop, ESWC 2006.
• Paul Buitelaar, Michael Sintek, Malte Kiesel, A Multilingual/Multimedia Lexicon Model for Ontologies, ESWC 2006.
• Vembu et al., Towards Bridging the Semantic Gap in Multimedia Annotation and Retrieval, Workshop on Semantic Web Annotations for Multimedia (SWAMM), WWW 2006.
• A. Ankolekar et al., SmartWeb: Mobile Access to the Semantic Web, ISWC 2006 Posters/Demo Track
• Sauermann et al., Semantic Desktop 2.0: The Gnowsis Experience, ISWC 2006 Semantic Web In-Use track.
• Wahlster et al., Web 3.0: Convergence of Web 2.0 and the Semantic Web, 2006
• 2005
• Malte Kiesel, Leo Sauermann, Towards Semantic Desktop Wikis, UPGRADE special issue on "The Semantic Web", December 2005.
• Frank Osterfeld, Malte Kiesel, and Sven Schwarz, Nabu - A Semantic Message Archive for XMPP Instant Messaging, Semantic Desktop Workshop, ISWC 2005.
• Paul Buitelaar, Michael Sintek, and Malte Kiesel, Integrated Representation of Domain Knowledge and Multilingual, Multimedia Content Features for Cross-Lingual, Cross-Media Semantic Web Applications, SemAnnot Workshop, ISWC 2005.
• 2004
• Ludger van Elst and Malte Kiesel, Generating and Integrating Evidence for Ontology Mappings, In: 14th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, EKAW 2004. Paper.