Stefan Decker is a

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, Full Professor for Database and Information Systems at

RWTH Aachen University RWTH Aachen University (), in German ''Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen'', is a German public research university located in Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. With more than 47,000 students enrolled in 144 study prog ...

, and managing director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology. He specializes in the

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. As of 25 January 2020, his research reached 21,206 (with

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of 66 and i10-index of 201) Google Scholar Citations, making him one of the most influential

researchers. He was formerly Professor of Digital Enterprise at the National University of Ireland Galway, and executive director of the Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Galway. Prof. Decker studied Computer Science at the

University of Kaiserslautern The University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (German: ''Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau'', also known as RPTU) is a public research university in Kaiserslautern and Landau in der Pfalz, Germany. The university wa ...

. 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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