Master theses

Here at KNoWS we are always happy to have master thesis students! Please go through our current topics below. If you see something you like contact us via mail!

A relaxing day at the spa: fixing out-of-order data in temporal reasoning systems

Complexity and Computability, Discrete Algorithms, Logic Programming

Promoted by Femke Ongenae, Pieter Bonte

Abstracting Data Updates Through Provenance Trails

Linked Data, Querying, RDF, SPARQL, Webdevelopment, decentralization

Promoted by Ruben Taelman, Ruben Verborgh

Allowing patients to take control of their health journey through patient-centric Solid pods

Data control, Data ownership, Decentralization, Obesity, Privacy, Semantic Web, Solid, Web, eHealth

Promoted by Ben De Meester, Femke Ongenae

Automatic personalized workflows

Linked Data, Personal Data, Reasoning, Semantic Web, Workflows

Promoted by Ben De Meester, Pieter Colpaert

BOCEMON - onboarding a new building with eSave technology

Building Management, Knowledge Graph, User interface

Promoted by Ben De Meester, Femke Ongenae

Connecting the Science Knowledge Graph (Internship at VLIZ)

LDES, LOD

Promoted by Julián Andrés Rojas Meléndez, Pieter Colpaert

Enabling data stream querying and visualising on mobile platforms

Data streams, Linked Data, SPARQL, mobile, query engine, querying, web

Promoted by Femke Ongenae, Pieter Bonte

Enhancing Data Integrity: Leveraging Distributed Ledger Technology for Auditable Data Vaults

Blockchain, Data vault, Distributed Ledger, Semantic Web

Promoted by Ben De Meester, Pieter Colpaert

Enhancing the Elevate Sport App by using Data Spaces and Aggregators for Improved Performance and Privacy

Data spaces, Solid, dataprivacy, decentralized storage, front-end development, semantic data, sport, web technologies

Promoted by Femke Ongenae

Explainable Policy Reasoning for Web Agents

agents, compliance, decentralized Web, policies, reasoning, trust

Promoted by Beatriz Esteves, Ruben Verborgh

Exploring the use of Link Traversal Based Query Processing in Incremental Query Engines

Incremental Query engines, JavaScript, Knowledge Graph, Link Traversal, Linked Data, Query, Solid

Promoted by Femke Ongenae

From Dough to 🥐 Data: Kneading data formats into CroissantML for better interoperability (Internship at VLIZ)

AI, CroissantML, FAIR

Promoted by Julián Andrés Rojas Meléndez, Pieter Colpaert

Granularizing Genomics and Health Data Policies with Solid Pods & ODRL

decentralized web, genomics, health data, policies, privacy, solid

Promoted by Beatriz Esteves, Ruben Verborgh

Integrating data at the speed of light

Data Integration, ETL, Performance, RDF, RML

Promoted by Ben De Meester, Pieter Colpaert

Local First RDF and Knowledge Graphs

Linked Data, Querying, RDF, SPARQL, Webdevelopment, decentralization

Promoted by Ruben Taelman, Ruben Verborgh

Optimization of Daisy-Chained SPARQL Queries

Linked Data, Querying, RDF, SPARQL, Webdevelopment, decentralization

Promoted by Ruben Taelman, Ruben Verborgh

Parallellize data views over the entire Web

Ontology, Performance, RDF, RML, Semantic Web

Promoted by Ben De Meester, Pieter Colpaert

Performance evaluation of the variety of Linked Data Interfaces

Linked Data, Querying, RDF, SPARQL, Webdevelopment, decentralization

Promoted by Ruben Taelman, Ruben Verborgh

Query Hints in a Knowledge Graph Query Engine for Decentralized Data

Javascript, Linked Data, Querying, RDF, SPARQL, Typescript, Webdevelopment, decentralization

Promoted by Ruben Taelman, Ruben Verborgh

Simple Semantic Uplifting - Mixing n-quad awareness into templating (Internship at VLIZ)

templating syntax

Promoted by Julián Andrés Rojas Meléndez, Pieter Colpaert

Simulated Decentralized Social Media Playground

Javascript, Linked Data, Querying, RDF, SPARQL, Typescript, Webdevelopment, decentralization, social media

Promoted by Ruben Taelman, Ruben Verborgh

SPARQL Update Propagation Through Views

Linked Data, Querying, RDF, SPARQL, Webdevelopment, decentralization, update, views

Promoted by Ruben Taelman, Ruben Verborgh

Unifying LLMs and Knowledge Graphs

Chatbots, Knowledge Graphs, LLMs, Large Language Models, Python, Retrieval Augmented Generation

Promoted by Femke Ongenae

Usage Control Enforcement on the Web

access control, authorization, policy enforcement, privacy, solid, usage control, web

Promoted by Beatriz Esteves, Ruben Verborgh

What is happening with my data? Increasing transparency of machine learning pipelines with Semantic Web technologies

Data Provenance, Data Transparency, Data Visualization, Docker, GDPR, Javascript, Machine Learning, Python, Semantic Web, Semantics, Solid

Promoted by Ben De Meester, Femke Ongenae