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WEB-CUBE Team: Fuzziness, Alignments, Data & Ontologies

Anne LAURENT
Anne LAURENT
Head

Alexandre BAZIN
Alexandre BAZIN
Deputy

WEB3 Team

WEB Architecture X WEB Semantic X WEB of Data = WEB-CUBE

team WEB3

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.

logo of LIRMM team named WEB3
The team’s work revolves around three major axes:
  • Web architectures
  • Semantic Web
  • Web of Data
The team is interested in fundamental topics (e.g., knowledge extraction, recommendation of datasets, alignment of ontologies, linking and merging of data, knowledge graphs, ontologies) but also in applications to many fields, in particular cultural heritage, health, finance, agronomy-environment and sociology. The specificity of the team is to address these three dimensions of the Web simultaneously.

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

Nadine Jacquet, Assistant engineer, CNRS
Anne Laurent, University professor, UM
Alexandre Bazin, Senior Lecturer, UM
Arthur Michalland, engineer, CNRS
 

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 collaborators 

Clément Jonquet (Mistea)
Pierre Larmande (IRD)

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: Anne Laurent, Arnaud Castelltort

Title: L’ ́evolution des architectures d’information sous l’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 directors: Zohra Bellahsene, Faiçal Azouaou

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

WEB³'s publications