Hala Skaf-Molli

Full Professor, Nantes University,(Holder of the scientific excellence distinction),
Head of ALMA master's program in Software architecture
Head of GDD Team, Numeric Science of Nantes Laboratory LS2N
2, rue de la Houssinière, 44322 Nantes cedex 03, France
Tél. : +33 (0) 2 51 12 58 93
mailto:Hala.Skaf@univ-nantes.fr

Research Interests

  • Semantic Web, Knowledge Graphs, and Linked Data
  • Decentralized Semantic Data Management
  • SPARQL Query Processing and Optimization
  • SPARQL Federation engine
  • Scientific Workflow
  • FAIR data and services

Ongoing projects:

Research papers

  • Recent accepted Papers
    • FedUP?: Querying Large-Scale Federations of SPARQL Endpoints. Julien Aimonier-Davat, Brice Nédelec, Minh-Hoang Dang, Pascal Molli, Hala Skaf-Molli accepted as a research paper at TheWebConf 2024
    • Fediscount: Shopping Online at a Federated Store Using FedUP? as SPARQL Federation Engine. Julien Aimonier-Davat, Minh Hoeng Dang, Pascal Molli, Brice Nédelec and Hala Skaf-Molli, accepted as a demo paper at TheWebConf 2024
    • Online Sampling of Summaries from Public SPARQL Endpoints. Thi Hoang Thi Pham, Hala Skaf-Molli, Pascal Molli and Brice Nédelec, accepted as a short paper at TheWebConf 2024
  • All my papers available at Hall

Talks

Awards

Chairs and PC

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

  • PC member of The Web Conference WWW (Semantics and Knowledge Track), ISWC, ESWC, DEXA, BDA, AWD@EGD, QuWeDa?@ESWC

2018

  • Co-chair of recherche track Linked Data of Extended Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2018.
  • PC member of The Web Conference WWW, ISWC, EKAW, ESWC, DEXA, QuWeDa?@ESWC

2017

PhD Sutdents and PostDoc?

Ongoing Thesis:

  • 2023-??? Hoang Thi Pham Thi (ANRK MeKano?)
  • 2020-2023: J. Aimonier-Davat (ANR DeKaloG?)
  • 2021-2024: Minh Hoang DANG (cominLabs MiKroloG?)

Past Thesis

  • 2017-2020 : Thomas Minier (bourse RFI FaBula?).
  • 2017-2020 : A.Grall (cifre, GFI) :
  • 2014-2017: Co-advisor of PhD thesis Pauline Folz, funding by Cifre Bourse of Nantes Métropole. Title: Collaboration dans une fédération de consommateur de données liées. Collaboration in a federation of linked data consumers. Current Situation: R&D Orange Lab Grenoble.
  • 2013-2016: Co-advisor of PhD thesis Gabriela Motoya, funding by CNRS. Title: Answering SPARQL Queries using Views. Current Situation: post-doc at the University of Aalborg, Danemark
  • 2012-2015: Co-advisor Luis Daniel Ibáñez, funding ANR Folflow. Title: Towards a Read/Write Web of Linked Data. Current Situation: Post-Doc at the university fo Southampton, England.
  • 2010-2014: Co-advisor of PhD thesis Diego Torres, co-tutelle with Alicia Diaz. Title: Co-evolution between Social and Semantic Web. Current Situation: Associate Professor, Université de la Plata, Argentina.
  • 2009-2012: Co-advisor of PhD thesis Khaled Mobayed, Title: Divergence Awareness in Distributed Multi-Synchronous Collaborative Systems. Current Situation: R&D Scientist at Criteo
  • 2007-2010: Co-director of PhD thesis of Charbel Rahhal, Title: Wikis sémantiques sur réseaux pair-à-pair. Current Position: associate professor, Liban.

HDR/Thesis Jurys:

  • HDR Reporter:
    • 2021 Antoine Zimmermann. "Interoperability for the Semantic Web : A Loosely Coupled Mediation Approach.” HDR, École Nationale Supérieure
    • 2019 Fatiha SAIS. Knowledge Graph Refinement. Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches, Université Paris Sud.
  • Thesis Reporter:
    • 2021 Mahamadou TOURE. ” Local Peer-to-Peer Mobile Access to Linked Data in Resource constrained Networks”. Université Gaston Berger et Université Côte d’Azur.
    • 2019 Rémy DELANAUX. "Intégration de données liées respectueuse de la confidentialité". Université Claude Bernard Lyon1.
    • 2018: Mohammad Noorani BAKERALLY: Génération de plateforme de données liées dans un écosystème d’informations fortement décentralisé. l’École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne.
    • 2018: Abdoul MACINA: SPARQL Distributed Query Processing over Linked Data. l’Université Côte d’Azur.
    • 2018: Jérémy Lhez: Gestion de flux RDF et raisonnement : sémantisation, sérialisation et profilage. l’Université Paris-Est Marne la Vallée.
  • Thesis Examiner
    • 2017: Roland Kotto Kombi. Distributed query processing over fluctuating data streams. INSA Lyon, Université de Lyon.
    • 2016: Sébastien Dufromentel. qTor : une approche communautaire pour l’évaluation de requêtes continues. INSA Lyon, Université de Lyon.
    • 2016: Alexandre Garnier. Langage dédié au traitement des événements complexes et modélisation des usages pour les réseaux de capteurs. Université de Nantes.
    • 2013: Igor Epimakhov. Allocation des ressources pour l’optimisation de requêtes dans les systèmes de grille de données. Université Toulouse 3 Paul Sabatier.
    • 2009: Segio Fernando Mera. Logique modales et mémorielles. Université Henri Poincaré, Nancy1 et Université de Buneos Aires.
    • 2009: Daniel Alejadro Gorin. Technique de raisonnement automatique pour les logiques hybrides. Université Henri Poincaré, Nancy1 et Université de Buneos Aires.

Previous Projects

  • 2018-2021: ANR Obrowser : Applications décentralisées sur les navigateurs.
  • 2017-2019: Seleda: Self Data for Enhancing lifelong Learning Autonomy. Funding CominLabs?, ICT for Education.
  • 2013-2017 ANR SocioPlug?
  • 2011-2014 ANR Kolflow
  • 2013: LodPaddle is selected by the call PUBLINK of the european projet lod2
  • CyWiki? : vers une forge de la connaissance, projet associant les laboratoires LORIA, ATILF, LISEC et le Service Nutice. Project financé par l'appel à projets 2009 lancé par le CCOSL
  • Projet exploratoire ISCC 2009,CNRS, P2CeL? – Collaborative Knowledge Construction and E-Learning: An Approach Based on Semantic Wikis." http://www.thermoptim.org/sections/enseignement/communaute-p2cel (in french)
  • Project TALC du CPER MISN :"Vers un wiki sémantique pour la gestion des connaissances d’un système de raisonnement à partir de cas." http://wikitalc.loria.fr/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=operations:wikisem (in french)
  • Pré-opération MSH 2009
  • Project Seyct (2008-2010), with La Plata University, Argentina.
  • Responsable of Projet Rorax (2006-2008), French/Libanese program CEDRE
  • Member of ARC INRIA Recall (2005), http://recall.loria.fr. Recall is funding the development of Wooki.
  • Member of Gdr-PRC I3 (2003-2004)
  • Member of action VXP (2001-2003), CPER QSL. VXP has funded the development of SAMS.
  • Member of action Mobi5 (2004,2006), CPER QSL. Mobi5 has funded the development of So6.
  • Member of Project Corvette with Hitachi, Japon http://www.loria.fr/equipes/ecoo/corvette/. The objective is to build a Collaborative Workflow Systems.
  • Australian Research Council IREX Grant with University of New South Wales, Sydney

Scientific Collaboration

  • Maria Esther-Vidal, Professor at the University Simón Bolívar, Caracas, Venezuela. Working on SPARQL Federation.
  • Olivera Marjovic, University of Sydney, Australia. Working on Collaborative Learning.
  • Hala Naja-Jazzar, University Libanese, Liban. Working on Collaborative Editing of XML Documents.
  • Nishadi di-Silva, University of Southampton, England. Working on Narrative-based collaborative Writing and Semantic Consistency.
  • Alicia Diaz, University of La plata, Argentina. Working on personal knowledge in P2P? semantic wikis.

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