The WEB³ team aims to work on the issues, scientific and technological obstacles underlying the Web. It works more particularly on the architectural issues of the web, to exploit and extend the protocols of representation and exchange of data and knowledge; to allow better understanding and better processing of information and data.
- Web architectures
- Semantic Web
- Web of Data
Axis I: Web Architecture
The objective is to take interest in architectural issues and the changes underlying the Web:
- Challenges: those are related to modeling and data processing in the Web (graph-oriented knowledge representation & treatments), scalability, resilience, distributed processing, interoperability and the emergence of new architectures and paradigms.
- Keywords: Web Oriented Architecture, Property Graphs, Scalability, Data Mesh, Databases & Fuzziness, D-APP/Blockchain
- Key areas: Finance, Security, Digital forensic science, Health
Axis II: Semantic Web
The objective is to address the protocols and methods of representation and exchange of data and knowledge.
- Challenges: those are linked to data binding, to the alignment of data and ontologies of different types (work on the entire cycle), to the extraction of knowledge (for example, in clinical data), to the challenges related to semantic annotation (relationship detection, disambiguation, use of learning methods)
- Keywords: ontologies, knowledge graphs, ontology alignment, ontology-based services, text and graph embeddings
- Key areas: social sciences (fact-checking, points of view, journalism), environment, agronomy, health, social networks, digital forensic science
Axis III: Web of Data
The objective of this axis is to allow a better understanding and better processing of data and information.
- Challenges: those are related to the exploitation of web of data; approaching data lakes (data storage pending their use); the conservation of potentially relevant data, alone or in combination; interdisciplinary work (cognitive sciences, anthropology, history, law, evolution, etc.); data governance.
- Keywords: Linked Open Data, Data Science, Data Lakes, Databases & Fuzziness, Property Graphs, NoSQL, FAIR Data, Blockchain, Applied machine learning
- Key areas: Environment, Health, SHS, Finance, Digital forensic science
Staff
Anne Laurent, University professor, UM
Alexandre Bazin, Senior Lecturer, UM
Associates and Students
Marwa Alali, Predimya
Deperias Kerre, CF
Regular Co-workers
Gwenaelle Donadieu, CDD Chercheur, CNRS
Bill Gates Happi Happi, Doctorant externe, IRD
Michel Sala, Invité longue durée Eméritat, UM
Regular collaboratorsÂ
Clément Jonquet (Mistea)
Pierre Larmande (IRD)
Title: Approches neurosymboliques pour une intégration de graphes de connaissances généralisable, explicable et scalable
PhD defendant: Ensiyeh Raoufi
Defense date: 2025-10-14
Thesis directors:
Pierre Larmande,
Konstantin Todorov
Title: Changement de paradigme dans les architectures de lacs de données : utilisation de graphes de propriétés et d’architecture data mesh.
PhD defendant: Anton Dolhopolov
Defense date: 2024-11-12
Thesis directors:
Anne Laurent,
Arnaud Castelltort
Title: Vers une hybridation des méthodes sémantiques et d’apprentissage pour l’optimisation et la planification de cultures maraîchères en agroécologie
PhD defendant: Baptiste Darnala
Defense date: 2024-10-08
Thesis directors:
Clement Jonquet,
Konstantin Todorov
Title: Analyse comportementale sur terminaux mobiles appliquée à la détection d’anomalies sécurité en utilisant l’intelligence artificielle
PhD defendant: Maman Sani Aboubacar Djibo
Defense date: 2022-07-19
Thesis director:
Anne Laurent
Title: Gestion et optimisation de l’architecture logistique de lacs de données
PhD defendant: Marzieh Derakhshannia
Defense date: 2022-06-01
Thesis director:
Anne Laurent
Title: capturer les contraintes temporelles des modèles graduels
PhD defendant: Dickson Odhiambo Owuor
Defense date: 2020-10-23
Thesis director:
Anne Laurent
Title: Conception d’un systeme decisionnel pour la reduction des hospitalisations potentiellement evitables
PhD defendant: Huu Tu Ngo
Defense date: 2020-07-21
Thesis director:
Anne Laurent
Title: l’extraction de motifs graduels à partir de graphes de propriétés
PhD defendant: Faaiz Shah
Defense date: 2019-07-16
Thesis directors:
Arnaud Castelltort,
Anne Laurent
Title: LÂ’ ́evolution des architectures dÂ’information sous lÂ’influence des données massives : les lacs de données
PhD defendant: Cédrine Madera
Defense date: 2018-11-22
Thesis directors:
Thérèse Libourel,
André Miralles,
Anne Laurent
Title: Utilisation des ressources de connaissances externes pour améliorer l’alignement d’ontologies biomédicales
PhD defendant: Amina Annane
Defense date: 2018-10-29
Thesis director:
Zohra Bellahsene
Title: Interventions non médicamenteuses : acquisition et visualisation de terminologie
PhD defendant: The-Loc Nguyen
Defense date: 2018-06-12
Thesis director:
Anne Laurent
Title: Liage de Données Ouvertes et Hetérogènes – Application au Domaine Musical –
PhD defendant: Manel Achichi
Defense date: 2018-02-15
Thesis director:
Zohra Bellahsene
Title: Représentation et traitement des connaissances en logique multivalente : Cas d’une répartition non uniforme des degrés de vérité
PhD defendant: Nouha Chaoued
Defense date: 2017-11-30
Thesis director:
Anne Laurent