Prof. Dr. Andreas Harth

Chair of Technical Information
Systems

Curriculum vitae

Andreas Harth studied computer science after completing a structured comprehensive training program to qualify as a fully-trained bank clerk. He was awarded a Ph.D. from the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) at the National University of Ireland, Galway, after which he successfully concluded the habilitation process at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). He held visiting teaching or research positions at the University of Heidelberg, University of Innsbruck, Stanford University and the University of Southern California. Since 2018 Prof. Harth holds the Chair of Technical Information Systems at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in combination with a department leadership position at the Fraunhofer IIS-SCS in Nuremberg.

The research interests of Prof. Harth include the development of methods and technologies for decentralised information systems, such as in the World Wide Web or Blockchain environments, as well as their deployment in enterprise settings. In numerous research projects with industry he studied the integration of data, e.g., using technologies of the Semantic Web and Linked Data, as well as the interplay between components, e.g., using process modelling languages. Applications of these methods and technologies can be found in the internet of things and the web of things as well as in industrial settings related to industry 4.0.

2024

Both A., Kastner T., Yeboah D., Braun C., Schraudner D., Schmid SJ., Käfer T., Harth A.:
AuthApp – Portable, Reusable Solid App for GDPR-Compliant Access Granting
24th International Conference, ICWE 2024 (Tampere, 17. June 2024 - 20. June 2024)
In: Kostas Stefanidis, Kari Systä, Maristella Matera, Sebastian Heil, Haridimos Kondylakis, Elisa Quintarelli (ed.): Web Engineering. 24th International Conference, ICWE 2024, Tampere, Finland, June 17–20, 2024, Proceedings, Cham: 2024
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-62362-2_14
Freund M., Rott J., Dorsch R., Harth A.:
FAIR Internet of Things Data: Enabling Process Optimization at Munich Airport
21st Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2024) (Hersonissos, Crete, 26. May 2024 - 30. May 2024)
URL: https://2024.eswc-conferences.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/ESWC_2024_paper_313.pdf
Freund M., Schmid SJ., Dorsch R., Harth A.:
FlexRML: A Flexible and Memory Efficient Knowledge Graph Materializer
21st Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2024) (Heraklion, Crete, 26. May 2024 - 30. May 2024)
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-60635-9_3
URL: https://2024.eswc-conferences.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/146640373.pdf
Freund M., Schmid SJ., Dorsch R., Harth A.:
Performance Results of FlexRML in the KGCW Challenge 2024
Fifth International Workshop on Knowledge Graph Construction@ ESWC2024 (Hersonissos)
URL: https://openreview.net/pdf?id=VlD3fWYo2c
Freund M., Schraudner D., Schmid SJ., Stade C., Wehr T., Harth A.:
The SPA Ontology: Towards a Web of Things Ready for Robotic Agents
AKR³: 1st International Workshop on Actionable Knowledge Representation and Reasoning for Robots (Hersonissos, 27. May 2024 - 27. May 2024)
URL: https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3749/akr3-02.pdf
Fries J., Freund M., Harth A.:
SaVeWoT: Scripting and Verifying Web of Things Systems and Their Effects on the Physical World
47th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Würzburg, 25. September 2024 - 27. September 2024)
In: Springer Nature Switzerland (ed.): KI 2024: Advances in Artificial Intelligence 2024
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-70893-0_8
URL: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-70893-0_8
Gui Z., Freund M., Harth A.:
A Context-aware Conversational Interface for Controlling Internet-of-Things Devices
IoT 2024: 14th International Conference on the Internet of Things (Oulu, Finland, 19. November 2024 - 22. November 2024)
In: IoT '24: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on the Internet of Things 2024
DOI: 10.1145/3703790.3703811
Gui Z., Freund M., Harth A.:
A Natural Language Interface for IoT Systems Using the Web of Things Abstraction
IoT 2023: The International Conference on the Internet of Things (Nagoya Japan, 7. November 2023 - 10. November 2023)
In: IoT '23: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on the Internet of Things 2024
DOI: 10.1145/3627050.3630732
Gui Z., Kuty L., Harth A.:
Design and Implementation of a Natural Language Interface for Controlling the Web of Things Devices
The 29th International Conference on Natural Language & Information Systems (Turin, Italy., 25. June 2024 - 27. June 2024)
In: Amon Rapp, Luigi Di Caro, Farid Meziane, Vijayan Sugumaran (ed.): Natural Language Processing and Information Systems 2024
Henselmann D., Harth A.:
Towards Modeling the Structure of Product Dependencies in Supply Networks to Identify Bottlenecks Among Suppliers
D2R2’24: Third International Workshop on Linked Data-driven Resilience Research 2024 (Heraklion, 27. May 2024 - 27. May 2024)
In: Julia Holze, Sebastian Tramp, Michael Martin, Sören Auer, Ricardo Usbeck, Nenad Krdzavac (ed.): Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Linked Data-driven Resilience Research (D2R2’24) co-located with European Semantic Web Conference 2024 (ESWC 2024) 2024
Open Access: https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3707/D2R224_paper_8.pdf
URL: https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3707/D2R224_paper_8.pdf
Schmid SJ., Harth A.:
Enabling Adaptation in Dynamic Manufacturing Environments with Decentralized Agent-Based Systems and Local Perception
SAC '24: 39th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (Ávila, 8. April 2024 - 12. April 2024)
In: SAC '24: Proceedings of the 39th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing, New York, NY: 2024
DOI: 10.1145/3605098.3635967
Schmid SJ., Schraudner D., Harth A.:
The Rights Delegation Proxy: An Approach for Delegations in the Solid Dataspace
Second International Workshop on Semantics in Dataspaces (Hersonissos, 26. May 2024)
In: Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Semantics in Dataspaces (SDS 2024) co-located with the 21st Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2024) 2024
URL: https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3705/paper02.pdf
Strobel T., Pychynski T., Harth A.:
Finding Root Causes for Outliers in Semantically Annotated Sensor Data
Extended Semantic Web Conference (, 26. May 2024 - 30. May 2024)
Open Access: https://2024.eswc-conferences.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/ESWC_2024_paper_339.pdf
URL: https://2024.eswc-conferences.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/ESWC_2024_paper_339.pdf
Wehr T., Freund M., Harth A.:
Taking Control of Your Health Data: A Solid-based Mobile App for Wearable Data Collection and RDF Visualization
21st Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2024) (Heraklion, Crete, Greece, 26. May 2024 - 30. April 2024)
Open Access: https://2024.eswc-conferences.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/ESWC_2024_paper_347.pdf

2023

Freund M., Fries J., Dorsch R., Schiller P., Harth A.:
WoT2Pod: An Architecture enabling an Edge-to-Cloud Continuum
The International Conference on the Internet of Things (Nagoya, 7. November 2023 - 10. November 2023)
DOI: 10.1145/3627050.3627063
URL: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3627050.3627063
Freund M., Fries J., Wehr T., Harth A.:
Generating Visual Programming Blocks based on Semantics in W3C Thing Descriptions
1st International Workshop on Semantic Web on Constrained Things, SWoCoT 2023 (Hersonissos, GRC, 28. May 2023 - 28. May 2023)
In: Ghislain Auguste Atemezing, Lionel Medini, Frederique Laforest (ed.): CEUR Workshop Proceedings 2023
URL: https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3412/paper1.pdf
Fries J., Freund M., Harth A.:
A Solid Architecture for Machine Data Exchange with Access Control
SWoCoT’23: 1st International Workshop on Semantic Web on Constrained Things (Hersonissos, 28. May 2023 - 28. May 2023)
URL: https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3412/paper6.pdf
Meckler S., Dorsch R., Henselmann D., Harth A.:
The Web and Linked Data as a Solid Foundation for Dataspaces
2023 World Wide Web Conference, WWW 2023 (Austin, TX, 30. April 2023 - 4. May 2023)
In: ACM Web Conference 2023 - Companion of the World Wide Web Conference, WWW 2023 2023
DOI: 10.1145/3543873.3587616
Schmid SJ., Harth A.:
Distributed Fault Detection For Multi-Agent Systems Based On Vertebrate Foraging
Adaptive and Learning Agents Workshop (London, 29. May 2023 - 30. May 2023)
In: Cruz, Hayes, Wang, Yates (ed.): Proceedings of the Adaptive and Learning Agents Workshop (ALA 2023) 2023
URL: https://alaworkshop2023.github.io/papers/ALA2023_paper_13.pdf
Schmid SJ., Schraudner D., Harth A.:
MOSAIK: An Agent-Based Decentralized Control System with Stigmergy for a Transportation Scenario
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-33455-9_41

2022

Charpenay V., Käfer T., Harth A.:
A Unifying Framework for Agency in Hypermedia Environments
9th International Workshop on Engineering Multi-Agent Systems, EMAS 2021 (London, GBR, 3. May 2021 - 4. May 2021)
In: Natasha Alechina, Matteo Baldoni, Brian Logan (ed.): Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) 2022
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-97457-2_3
Freund M., Dorsch R., Harth A.:
Applying the Web of Things Abstraction to Bluetooth Low Energy Communication
Connected World & Semantic Interoperability Workshop (Delft, 7. November 2022 - 7. November 2022)
URL: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2211.12934.pdf
Freund M., Wehr T., Harth A.:
BLAST: Block Applications for Things
19th European Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2022 (Hersonissos, 29. May 2022 - 2. June 2022)
In: Paul Groth, Anisa Rula, Jodi Schneider, Ilaria Tiddi, Elena Simperl, Panos Alexopoulos, Rinke Hoekstra, Mehwish Alam, Anastasia Dimou, Minna Tamper, Minna Tamper (ed.): Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) 2022
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-11609-4_13
Henselmann D., Kolinsky K., Schmid SJ., Schraudner D., Both A., Harth A.:
Solid Proof of Concept in an Enterprise Loan Request Use Case
Semantics (Vienna, 13. September 2022 - 15. September 2022)
In: Proceedings of Poster and Demo Track and Workshop Track of the 18th International Conference on Semantic Systems co-located with 18th International Conference on Semantic Systems (SEMANTiCS 2022) 2022
Open Access: https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3235/paper3.pdf
URL: https://www.scopus.com/record/display.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85139753384∨igin=inward
Klose C., Gui Z., Harth A.:
Open Information Extraction on German Wikipedia Texts
Text2KG 2022: International Workshop on Knowledge Graph Generation from Text, Co-located with the ESWC 2022 (Crete, Hersonissos, Greece, 30. May 2022 - 30. May 2022)
In: Sanju Tiwari, Nandana Mihindukulasooriya, Francesco Osborne, Dimitris Kontokostas, Jennifer D’Souza, Mayank Kejriwal, Loris Bozzato, Valentina Anita Carriero, Torsten Hahmann, Antoine Zimmermann (ed.): CEUR Workshop Proceedings (CEUR-WS) 2022
URL: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3184/
Schmid SJ., Harth A.:
Decentralized Self-Adaption With Epidemic Algorithms for Agent-Based Transportation
42nd IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops, ICDCSW 2022 (Bologna, 10. July 2022 - 13. July 2022)
In: Proceedings - 2022 IEEE 42nd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops, ICDCSW 2022 2022
DOI: 10.1109/ICDCSW56584.2022.00028
Schraudner D., Harth A.:
A RESTful Interaction Model for Semantic Digital Twins
Third International Workshop on Semantic Digital Twins (Hersonissos, 29. May 2022 - 29. May 2022)
In: Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Semantic Digital Twins co-located with the 19th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2022) 2022
Open Access: https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3291/paper4.pdf

2021

Boissier O., Ciortea A., Harth A., Ricci A. (ed.):
Autonomous Agents on the Web (Dagstuhl Seminar 21072)
Dagstuhl, Germany: 2021
DOI: 10.4230/DagRep.11.1.24
URL: https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2021/14349/
Fleiner C., Grümmer J., Zvekan G., Harth A.:
WireGraph - Entwicklung eines Lernspiels mit Prosumentenumgebung zur Förderung der fachlichen und digitalen Kompetenz von Wirtschaftsstudierenden
Hochschule 2031 - digital und nachhaltig?!
In: Gesellschaft für Informatik, Bonn (ed.): INFORMATIK 2021 Computer Science & Sustainability 2021
DOI: 10.18420/informatik2021-147
URL: https://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/37655
Färber M., Svetashova Y., Harth A.:
Theories of Meaning for the Internet of Things
In: Lucas Bechberger, Kai-Uwe Kühnberger and Mingya Liu (ed.): Concepts in Action: Representation, Learning, and Application, Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021 (Language, Cognition, and Mind, Vol.9)
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-69823-2
Färber M., Svetashova Y., Harth A.:
Theories of Meaning for the Internet of Things
In: Lucas Bechberger, Kai-Uwe Kühnberger, Mingya Liu (ed.): Concepts in Action - Representation, Learning, and Application, Springer Cham, 2021, p. 37-61 (Language, Cognition, and Mind)
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-69823-2
Gui Z., Harth A.:
Towards a Data Driven Natural Language Interface for Industrial IoT Use Cases
2021 IEEE International Conference on Human-Machine Systems, ICHMS 2021 (Magdeburg, DEU, 8. September 2021 - 10. September 2021)
In: Andreas Nurnberger, Giancarlo Fortino, Antonio Guerrieri, David Kaber, David Mendonca, Malte Schilling, Zhiwen Yu (ed.): Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE International Conference on Human-Machine Systems, ICHMS 2021 2021
DOI: 10.1109/ICHMS53169.2021.9582450
Henselmann D., Harth A.:
Constructing demand-driven wikidata subsets?
2nd Wikidata Workshop, Wikidata 2021 (Virtual, Online, 24. October 2021)
In: Lucie-Aimee Kaffee, Simon Razniewski, Aidan Hogan (ed.): CEUR Workshop Proceedings 2021
Käfer T., Harth A.:
Spezifikation, Ausführung und Monitoring von Workflows in verteilten Wissensgraphen (Abstract)
INFORMATIK 2020
In: Ralf H Reussner, Anne Koziolek, Robert Heinrich (ed.): INFORMATIK 2020, Bonn: 2021
DOI: 10.18420/inf2020_58
Käfer T., Harth A., Ciortea A., Charpenay V. (ed.):
Proceedings of the All the Agents Challenge (ATAC 2021) co-located with the 20th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2021)
2021
URL: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3111/
Meckler S., Steinmüller H., Harth A.:
Building a Knowledge Graph with Inference for a Production Machine Using the Web of Things Standard
34th International Conference on Industrial, Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems, IEA/AIE 2021 (, 26. July 2021 - 29. July 2021)
In: Hamido Fujita, Ali Selamat, Jerry Chun-Wei Lin, Moonis Ali (ed.): Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) 2021
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-79463-7_20
Schmid SJ., Schraudner D., Harth A.:
Performance Comparison of Simple Reflex Agents Using Stigmergy with Model-Based Agents in Self-Organizing Transportation
2021 IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Self-Organizing Systems Companion (ACSOS-C) (DC, 27. September 2021 - 1. October 2021)
DOI: 10.1109/ACSOS-C52956.2021.00071
Schraudner D., Harth A.:
Stream Containers for Resource-oriented RDF Stream Processing
Stream Reasoning Workshop (Milan, 4. October 2021 - 6. October 2021)
URL: http://streamreasoning.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/SR_2021_paper_13.pdf
Zink M., Naumann V., Harth A., Pflaum A.:
Realizing New Data-Driven Business Models by Launching Containers into the Cloud
In: Digital Business Models in Industrial Ecosystems, Springer, Cham, 2021, p. 155-170
ISBN: 9783030820022
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-82003-9_10

2020

Charpenay V., Schraudner D., Seidelmann T., Spieldenner T., Weise J., Schubotz R., Mostaghim S., Harth A.:
MOSAIK: A Formal Model for Self-Organizing Manufacturing Systems
In: IEEE Pervasive Computing (2020)
ISSN: 1536-1268
DOI: 10.1109/MPRV.2020.3035837
Farnbauer-Schmidt M., Charpenay V., Harth A.:
N3X: Notation3 with SPARQL Expressions
In: Andreas Harth, Valentina Presutti, Raphaël Troncy, Maribel Acosta, Axel Polleres, Javier D. Fernández, Josiane Xavier Parreira, Olaf Hartig, Katja Hose, Michael Cochez (ed.): The Semantic Web: ESWC 2020 Satellite Events, 2020, p. 79-83 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
ISBN: 9783030623265
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-62327-2_14
Käfer T., Harth A.:
Spezifikation, Ausführung und Monitoring von Workflows in verteilten Wissensgraphen
INFORMATIK 2020 (Online, 28. September 2020 - 2. November 2020)
In: Reussner R, Koziolek A, Heinrich R (ed.): INFORMATIK 2020, Bonn: 2020
DOI: 10.18420/inf2020_58
URL: https://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/34768
Käfer T., Harth A.:
Tutorial: Distributed Knowledge Graphs for the Web of Things
10th International Conference on the Internet of Things, IoT 2020 (, 6. October 2020 - 9. October 2020)
In: ACM International Conference Proceeding Series 2020
DOI: 10.1145/3423423.3423461

2019

Thoma S., Thalhammer A., Harth A., Studer R.:
FusE: Entity-Centric Data Fusion on Linked Data
In: Acm Transactions on the Web 13 (2019), Article No.: 8
ISSN: 1559-1131
DOI: 10.1145/3306128
URL: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3313948πcked=prox
van den Brink L., Barnaghi P., Tandy J., Atemezing G., Atkinson R., Cochrane B., Fathy Y., García Castro R., Haller A., Harth A., Janowicz K., Kolozali S., van Leeuwen B., Lefrançois M., Lieberman J., Perego A., Le Phuoc D., Roberts B., Taylor K., Troncy R.:
Best practices for publishing, retrieving and using spatial data on the web
In: Semantic Web 10 (2019), p. 95-114
ISSN: 1570-0844
DOI: 10.3233/SW-180305
URL: https://dblp.org/rec/journals/semweb/BrinkBTAACFCHHJ19

2018

Bischof S., Harth A., Kämpgen B., Polleres A., Schneider P.:
Enriching integrated statistical open city data by combining equational knowledge and missing value imputation
In: Journal of Web Semantics (2018)
ISSN: 1570-8268
Open Access: http://www.websemanticsjournal.org/index.php/ps/article/download/509/525
Färber M., Svetashova Y., Harth A.:
Theories about World Representations for the Internet of Things
Workshop on Concepts in Action: Representation, Learning, and Application (CARLA) (Osnabrück, 11. August 2018 - 12. August 2018)
Open Access: https://www.conceptuccino.uni-osnabrueck.de/fileadmin/documents/public/Documents/CARLA-WS-18/Färber.pdf
Harth A., Kaefer T.:
Tutorial: Linked Data Techniques for the Web of Things
8th International Conference on the Internet of Things (IoT) (Santa Barbara, CA, 15. October 2018 - 18. October 2018)
In: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 8TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT'18), NEW YORK: 2018
DOI: 10.1145/3277593.3277641
Käfer T., Harth A.:
Rule-based Programming of User Agents for Linked Data
WWW2018 Workshop on Linked Data on the Web (LDOW2018) (Lyon, 23. April 2018)
Open Access: http://events.linkeddata.org/ldow2018/papers/LDOW2018_paper_7.pdf
Käfer T., Harth A.:
Specifying, Monitoring, and Executing Workflows in Linked Data Environments
International Semantic Web Conference 2018 (ISWC 2018) (Monterey, California, 8. October 2018 - 12. October 2018)
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-00671-6_25
URL: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-00671-6_25
Svetashova Y., Schmid S., Harth A.:
Towards Semantic Model Extensibility in Interoperable IoT Data Exchange Platforms
Interoperability and Open-Source Solutions for the Internet of Things (InterOSS-IoT 2018) (Bilbao)
Open Access: http://www.inteross.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/InterOss_2018_Svetashova.pdf