Master Thesis Introduction

Topics of students present

1. Robin De Baets: Caching and replication in decentralized Linked Data environments
2. Sammy Delanghe: Analysis of Property Graphs in SPARQL engines
3. Lynn Penasse: Performance evaluation of the variety of Linked Data Interfaces
4. Laurens Debackere: Efficient and secure querying of Linked Data federations
5. Jasper Vrints, Jonas Bovyn: Query Optimization using WebAssembly

Overlapping themes within topics

• Solid / Decentralization

  Querying over huge amount of personal data pods

• RDF* / SPARQL*

  Extending the RDF data model with property graph functionality

• Comunica

  Research tool to experiment with performance of (client-side) Linked Data query execution

• Linked Data Fragments

  Different Linked Data APIs for exposing datasets, to enable querying

• WebAssembly

  High-performance browser applications (such as query engines)

Solid / Decentralization

1. Re-decentralizing the Web, for good this time
2. Towards Querying in Decentralized Environments with Privacy-Preserving Aggregation
3. Guided Link-Traversal-Based Query Processing
4. An Overview on Execution Strategies for Linked Data Queries
5. Link Traversal with Distributed Subweb Specifications

RDF* / SPARQL*

1. The RDF* and SPARQL* Approach to Annotate Statements in RDF
2. RDF-star and SPARQL-star

Comunica

1. Comunica: a Modular SPARQL Query Engine for the Web
2. Comunica Documentation

Linked Data Fragments

1. Triple Pattern Fragments
2. Bindings-Restricted Triple Pattern Fragments
3. SaGe
4. SmartKG
5. WiseKG
6. Towards Cost-model-based Query Execution over Hybrid Linked Data Fragments Interfaces

WebAssembly

1. WASM Website
2. WasmTree: Web Assembly for the Semantic Web

Next steps

• ASAP: Schedule a meeting with me

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  Make sure you are familiar with the basics around your topic

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• Every Friday: send a status mail

  Briefly tell me what you did for your thesis in the last week

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