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 generic toolchain specification for interoperable semantic data pipelines across vendor frameworks
Promoted by Julián Andrés Rojas Meléndez
Abstracting Data Updates Through Provenance Trails
Promoted by Ruben Taelman
GraphRAG, Information Retrieval, Knowledge Graphs, LLMs, Large Language Model, RAG, Retrieval Augmented Generation, python
Promoted by Femke Ongenae
Advancing Web Standardization for Knowledge Graphs by Building a Reference Implementation for RML
Promoted by Ben De Meester
Alignment van Heterogene Geospatiale Datasets via Knowledge Graph Reasoning
Promoted by Pieter Colpaert
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
ARCANE: Optimized information retrieval from media archives through knowledge-driven agentic AI
GraphRAG, Information Retrieval, Knowledge Graphs, LLMs, Large Language Model, Media, RAG, Retrieval Augmented Generation, python
Promoted by Femke Ongenae
Promoted by Ben De Meester
BOCEMON - Hybrid AI for onboarding a new building
AI, Algorithm, Artificial Intelligence, Building Management, Hybrid AI, Knowledge Graphs, Machine Learning, Python
Promoted by Femke Ongenae
BOCEMON - Interface for construction of Knowledge Graphs for buildings
Promoted by Ben De Meester, Femke Ongenae
Building a dataspace on accessibility for cross-border tourism to ground LLM output in facts
Promoted by Pieter Colpaert
Building a W3C specification for bringing Linked Data into the event streaming era
Promoted by Pieter Colpaert
Building a W3C specification for querying time series on Web-scale
Promoted by Pieter Colpaert
Can Query Engines Collaborate in Handling Distributed Linked Data Social Networks?
Promoted by Ruben Taelman
Declarative Knowledge Graph Generation through LLM Orchestration and MCP Invocation
Promoted by Ben De Meester
Digital Product Passport for circular textile value chains
Promoted by Beatriz Esteves, Raf Buyle
Efficient Traversal of Paths within Heterogeneous Knowledge Graphs
Promoted by Ruben Taelman
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
European Business Wallet for trusted textile supply chains
Promoted by Beatriz Esteves, Raf Buyle
Explainable Policy Reasoning for Web Agents
Promoted by Beatriz Esteves
Extending FnO-Steps with Control-Flow Primitives for Data-Driven Workflow Planning
Promoted by Ben De Meester
Extending OID4VC with SPARQL Support for Queryable Verifiable Presentations
Promoted by Ben De Meester
Promoted by Julián Andrés Rojas Meléndez
Granularizing Genomics and Health Data Policies with Solid Pods & ODRL
Promoted by Beatriz Esteves
Heterogeneous Data Models in Distributed Linked Data Social Network Benchmarks
Promoted by Ruben Taelman
Improving the accuracy of answers by AI agents through SPARQL MCP servers over Knowledge Graphs
Promoted by Ruben Taelman
Increasing Knowledge Graph Adoption through Excel-Driven Generation of Standardized Artifacts
Promoted by Ben De Meester
Local First RDF and Knowledge Graphs
Promoted by Ruben Taelman
Optimisation of joins in federated SPARQL queries via result ordering
Promoted by Ruben Taelman
Optimization of Daisy-Chained SPARQL Queries
Promoted by Ruben Taelman
Parallelizing Multi-View Knowledge Graph Generation over Heterogeneous Data Sources
Promoted by Ben De Meester
Performance evaluation of the variety of Linked Data Interfaces
Promoted by Ruben Taelman
Promoted by Ruben Taelman
Query Hints in a Knowledge Graph Query Engine for Decentralized Data
Promoted by Ruben Taelman
Query Optimization using WebAssembly
Promoted by Ruben Taelman
Promoted by Pieter Colpaert
Promoted by Ruben Taelman
Rethinking trusted data sharing with Trustflows
Promoted by Pieter Colpaert
Self-optimizing SPARQL Query Engines through Agentic AI
AI, Agentic, Query, SPARQL, Self-optimizing
Promoted by Ruben Taelman
APIs, Knowledge Graphs, Query, SPARQL, Web
Promoted by Ruben Taelman
SHACL-driven dataset and service discovery for resilient data products
Promoted by Julián Andrés Rojas Meléndez
Simulated Decentralized Social Media Playground
Promoted by Ruben Taelman
SPARQL Update Propagation Through Views
Promoted by Ruben Taelman
Towards GDPR-Compliant Usage Control in Web-based Data Sharing Systems
Promoted by Beatriz Esteves
Trust Envelopes for Context-Aware Data Authorisation
Promoted by Beatriz Esteves
Update YARRRML to achieve KG-Construct RML compliance
Promoted by Ben De Meester
Usage Control Monitoring on the Web
Promoted by Beatriz Esteves
Web-Scale SPARQL Query Processing: Performance Evaluation of TypeScript and Rust-Based Engines
Promoted by Ruben Taelman
Data Provenance, Data Transparency, Data Visualization, Docker, GDPR, IDLab, Javascript, KNoWS, Machine Learning, Python, Semantic Web, Semantics, Solid
Promoted by Ben De Meester, Femke Ongenae