Dr. Anelia Kurteva

RESEARCH

Semantic Web, FAIR Data and Sustainability

• Chirvasuta, T., Kurteva, A., Hofman, W., Rukanova, B., Tan, Y. H. (2025). Aligning the FEDeRATED Upper Ontology with Battery and Electronics Ontologies to Aid Circular Economy Monitoring in Practice, In Future of Information and Communication Conference (FICC), Berlin, Germany. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-85363-0_4

• Kurteva, A., van der Valk, C., McMahon, K., Bozzon, A., Balkenende, R. (2025). RePlanIT Ontology for FAIR Digital Product Passports of ICT: Laptops and Data Servers. Semantic Web journal (Accepted, In Press).https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/22104968251361274

Cited by ITU Publications, Recommendation ITU-T L. 1071(11/2024) and CIRPASS-2 project

• Kurteva, A. , McMahon, K., Bozzon, A., Balkenende, R. (2024). Semantic Web and its Role in Facilitating ICT Data Sharing for the Circular Economy: An Ontology Survey. Semantic Web journal. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3233/SW-243586

• Chhetri, T. R., Kurteva, A., Adigun, J. G., & Fensel, A. (2022). Knowledge Graph Based Hard Drive Failure Prediction. Sensors, 22(3), 985.  https://doi.org/10.3390/s22030985.

Semantic Web, Data Governance and Responsible AI

• Deeb, BA, Wählisch, M, Zaraket, F & Kurteva, A. (2026), Conflict-sensitive large language models: Preparing AI for mediation in armed conflicts, The 8th International and Interdisciplinary Conference on the Quantitative and Computational Analysis of Text, Image, Audio, and Video.

• Al Ahmad, N., Zhang, Y., Kurteva, A. (2026), A Multimodal Knowledge Graph Infrastructure for Digital Twins of Financial Operational Risks: Mortgages and FX stocks, European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) 2026, Posters and Demos (In Press).

• Zhang, Y,, Kurteva, A., Meroño-Peñuela, A., Simperl, E. (2026) OntoChat Assistant for User Story Generation in Ontology Engineering, ACM Transaction on Intelligent Systems and Technology, https://doi.org/10.1145/3810943

• Meroño-Peñuela, A., Simperl, E., Kurteva, A., Reklos, I. (2025), KG. GOV: Knowledge graphs as the backbone of data governance in AI, Journal of Web Semantics, 85, p.100847. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.websem.2024.100847

• Kurteva, A. Domingue, J. (2024), Towards Cultivating Decentralised Data Privacy, Interoperability and Trust with Semantic PETs and Visualisations, NXDG: NeXt-Generation Data Governance Workshop, SEMANTiCs 2024 conference. https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3891/paper1.pdf

• Kurteva, A., Chhetri ,T.R., Tauqeer, A., Hilscher, R., Fensel, A., Nagorny, K., Correia, A., Zilverberg, A., Schestakov, S., Funke, T., Demidova, E. (2023). The smashHitCore Ontology for GDPR-Compliant Sensor Data Sharing in Smart Cities. Sensors; 23(13):6188. https://doi.org/10.3390/s23136188.

• Bushati, G., Rasmusen, S., Kurteva, A., Nako, P., Vats, A., Fensel, A. (2023). What is in Your Cookie Box? Explaining Ingredients of Web Cookies with Knowledge Graphs. Semantic Web journal. Available at https://www.semantic-web-journal.net/content/what-your-cookie-box-explaining-ingredients-web-cookies-knowledge-graphs-0.

• Kurteva, A. and Pandit, H.J. Relevant Research Questions for Decentralised (Personal) Data Governance, In Trusting Decentralised Knowledge Graphs Workshop (TrustDeKW) at ESWC (2023). Available at https://doras.dcu.ie/28331/1/paper.pdf .

• Kurteva, A. (2022). Making Sense of Consent with Knowledge Graphs. (PhD Thesis). Available at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/367052478_Making_Sense_of_Consent_with_Knowledge_Graphs.

• Tauqeer, A., Kurteva, A., Chhetri, T. R., Ahmeti, A., & Fensel, A. (2022). Automated GDPR Contract Compliance Verification Using Knowledge Graphs. Information, 13(10), 447. https://doi.org/10.3390/info13100447.

Cited by Alibaba Group in https://www.preprints.org/frontend/manuscript/7b307440818befad81ceab2a770a0435/download_pub

• Chhetri, T. R., Kurteva, A., DeLong, R. J., Hilscher, R., Korte, K., & Fensel, A. (2022). Data Protection by Design Tool for Automated GDPR Compliance Verification Based on Semantically Modeled Informed Consent. Sensors, 22(7), 2763.  https://doi.org/10.3390/s22072763.

Cited by OECD Digital Economy Policy Division and the German Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs

in their report on Advancing Accountable AI.

• Rasmusen, S. C., Penz, M., Widauer, S., Nako, P., Kurteva, A., Roa-Valverde, A., & Fensel, A. (2022). Raising Consent Awareness With Gamification and Knowledge Graphs: An Automotive Use Case. International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS), 18(1), 1-21. https://www.igi-global.com/gateway/article/300820.

• Bless, C., Dötlinger, L., Kaltschmid, M., Reiter, M., Kurteva, A., Roa-Valverde, A. J., & Fensel, A. (2021). Raising Awareness of Data Sharing Consent Through Knowledge Graph Visualisation. In SEMANTiCS, Further with Knowledge Graphs (pp. 44-57). IOS Press. https://ebooks.iospress.nl/volumearticle/57405.

• Kurteva, A., Chhetri, T. R., Pandit, H. J., & Fensel, A. (2021). Consent through the Lens of the Semantics: State of the Art Survey and Best Practices. Semantic Web, (pp. 1-27). IOS Press. https://content.iospress.com/articles/semantic-web/sw210438 .

• Kurteva, A. (2021). Implementing Informed Consent with Knowledge Graphs. In European Semantic Web Conference(pp. 155-164). Springer, Cham. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-80418-3_28.

Semantic Web and Decision Making (Recommender Systems)

• Breitfuss, A., Errou, K., Kurteva, A., & Fensel, A. (2021). Representing Emotions with Knowledge Graphs for Movie Recommendations. Future Generation Computer Systems, 125, 715-725. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0167739X21001953.

Semantic Web and Linked Data Visualisation

• Kurteva, A., & Ribaupierre, H. D. (2021). Interface to query and visualise Definitions from a Knowledge Base. In International Conference on Web Engineering (pp. 3-10). Springer, Cham. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-74296-6_1.