Main Publications

Journal and Conference Papers

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Journal Articles

  1. Inf. Syst. J.
    Back to the Order: Partial orders in streaming conformance checking
    Kristo Raun, Riccardo Tommasini, and Ahmed Awad
    Inf. Syst., 2025
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  2. PVLDB
    Evaluating Continuous Queries with Inconsistency Annotations
    Samuele Langhi, Angela Bonifati, and Riccardo Tommasini
    Proc. VLDB Endow., 2025
  3. VLDB J.
    Languages and systems for RDF stream processing, a survey
    Pieter Bonte, Christophe Callé, Olivier Curé, and 2 more authors
    VLDB J., 2025
    DOI
  4. EDBT
    Towards a Multimodal Stream Processing System
    Uélison Jean Lopes Santos, Alessandro Ferri, Szilard Nistor, and 3 more authors
    To Appear in EDBT 2026, 2025
    DOI
  5. Semantic Web J.
    A holistic view over ontologies for Streaming Linked Data
    Pieter Bonte, Femke Ongenae, and Riccardo Tommasini
    Semantic Web, 2024
    DOI
  6. TGDK
    Grounding Stream Reasoning Research
    Pieter Bonte, Jean-Paul Calbimonte, Daniel Leng, and 12 more authors
    TGDK, 2024
    DOI
  7. TGDK
    How Does Knowledge Evolve in Open Knowledge Graphs?
    Axel Polleres, Romana Pernisch, Angela Bonifati, and 11 more authors
    TGDK, 2023
    DOI
  8. JWS
    Streaming linked data: A survey on life cycle compliance
    Pieter Bonte and Riccardo Tommasini
    Journal of Web Semantics, 2023
    DOI
  9. Inf. Sys. J.
    D2IA: User-defined interval analytics on distributed streams
    Ahmed Awad, Riccardo Tommasini, Samuele Langhi, and 3 more authors
    Information Systems Journal, 2022
    DOI
  10. Semantic Web J.
    PAPAYA: A library for performance analysis of SQL-based RDF processing systems
    Mohamed Ragab, Adam Satria Adidarma, and Riccardo Tommasini
    Semantic Web, 2025
    DOI
  11. CACM
    The future is big graphs: a community view on graph processing systems
    Sherif Sakr, Angela Bonifati, Hannes Voigt, and 38 more authors
    Commun. ACM, 2021
    DOI
  12. Streaming MASSIF: Cascading Reasoning for Efficient Processing of IoT Data Streams
    Pieter Bonte, Riccardo Tommasini, Emanuele Della Valle, and 2 more authors
    Sensors, 2018
    DOI
  13. Defining the execution semantics of stream processing engines
    Lorenzo Affetti, Riccardo Tommasini, Alessandro Margara, and 2 more authors
    J. Big Data, 2017
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Conference Articles

  1. DEBS
    EPL: The Event Processing Language for Streaming Data
    Samuele Langhi, Riccardo Tommasini, Angela Bonifati, and 1 more author
    In Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Conference on Distributed and Event-based Systems, DEBS 2025, Gothenburg, Sweden, June 10-13, 2025, 2025
    DOI
  2. EDBT
    Towards Hybrid Graphs: Unifying Property Graphs and Time Series
    Mouna Ammar, Christopher Rost, Riccardo Tommasini, and 5 more authors
    In Proceedings 28th International Conference on Extending Database Technology, EDBT 2025, Barcelona, Spain, March 25-28, 2025, 2025
    DOI
  3. ICDE
    No Rule is Forever: Datalog Reasoning with Rule Amendments
    Weiqin Xu, Riccardo Tommasini, and Olivier Curé
    In 41st IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, ICDE 2025, Hong Kong, May 19-23, 2025, 2025
    DOI
  4. EDBT
    Seraph: Continuous Queries on Property Graph Streams
    Christopher Rost, Riccardo Tommasini, Angela Bonifati, and 6 more authors
    In Proceedings 27th International Conference on Extending Database Technology, EDBT 2024, Paestum, Italy, March 25 - March 28, 2024
    DOI
  5. ER
    GenACT: An Ontology-Based Temporal Web Data Generator
    Gunjan Singh, Udit Arora, Shashikant Kumar, and 4 more authors
    In Conceptual Modeling - 43rd International Conference, ER 2024, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, October 28-31, 2024, Proceedings, 2024
    DOI
  6. DEBS
    I Will Survive: An Event-driven Conformance Checking Approach Over Process Streams
    Kristo Raun, Riccardo Tommasini, and Ahmed Awad
    In Proceedings of the 17th ACM International Conference on Distributed and Event-based Systems, DEBS 2023, Neuchatel, Switzerland, June 27-30, 2023, 2023
    Awarded DOI
  7. ESWC
    IMKG: The Internet Meme Knowledge Graph
    Riccardo Tommasini, Filip Ilievski, and Thilini Wijesiriwardene
    In The Semantic Web - 20th International Conference, ESWC 2023, Hersonissos, Crete, Greece, May 28 - June 1, 2023, Proceedings, 2023
    DOI
  8. Bench-Ranking: A First Step Towards Prescriptive Performance Analyses For Big Data Frameworks
    Mohamed Ragab, Feras M. Awaysheh, and Riccardo Tommasini
    In 2021 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data), Orlando, FL, USA, December 15-18, 2021, 2021
    DOI
  9. ESWC
    RSP4J: An API for RDF Stream Processing
    Riccardo Tommasini, Pieter Bonte, Femke Ongenae, and 1 more author
    In The Semantic Web - 18th International Conference, ESWC 2021, Virtual Event, June 6-10, 2021, Proceedings, 2021
    Awarded DOI
  10. DEBS
    The Kaiju project: enabling event-driven observability
    Mario Scrocca, Riccardo Tommasini, Alessandro Margara, and 2 more authors
    In 14th ACM International Conference on Distributed and Event-based Systems, DEBS 2020, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, July 13-17, 2020, 2020
    DOI
  11. On Teaching Web Stream Processing - Lessons Learned
    Riccardo Tommasini, Emanuele Della Valle, Marco Balduini, and 1 more author
    In Web Engineering - 20th International Conference, ICWE 2020, Helsinki, Finland, June 9-12, 2020, Proceedings, 2020
    DOI
  12. ISWC
    A First Step Towards a Streaming Linked Data Life-Cycle
    Riccardo Tommasini, Mohamed Ragab, Alessandro Falcetta, and 2 more authors
    In The Semantic Web - ISWC 2020 - 19th International Semantic Web Conference, Athens, Greece, November 2-6, 2020, Proceedings, Part II, 2020
    DOI
  13. AAMAS
    Stream Reasoning Agents: Blue Sky Ideas Track
    Riccardo Tommasini, Davide Calvaresi, and Jean-Paul Calbimonte
    In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems, AAMAS ’19, Montreal, QC, Canada, May 13-17, 2019, 2019
  14. CAiSE
    D2IA: Stream Analytics on User-Defined Event Intervals
    Ahmed Awad, Riccardo Tommasini, Mahmoud Kamel, and 2 more authors
    In Advanced Information Systems Engineering - 31st International Conference, CAiSE 2019, Rome, Italy, June 3-7, 2019, Proceedings, 2019
    Awarded DOI
  15. DEBS
    C-Sprite: Efficient Hierarchical Reasoning for Rapid RDF Stream Processing
    Pieter Bonte, Riccardo Tommasini, Filip De Turck, and 2 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 13th ACM International Conference on Distributed and Event-based Systems, DEBS 2019, Darmstadt, Germany, June 24-28, 2019, 2019
    DOI
  16. EKAW
    A Query Model for Ontology-Based Event Processing over RDF Streams
    Riccardo Tommasini, Pieter Bonte, Emanuele Della Valle, and 2 more authors
    In Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management - 21st International Conference, EKAW 2018, Nancy, France, November 12-16, 2018, Proceedings, 2018
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  17. On the Semantics of Tpf-qs towards Publishing and Querying rdf Streams at Web-scale
    Ruben Taelman, Riccardo Tommasini, Joachim Van Herwegen, and 3 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Semantic Systems, SEMANTiCS 2018, Vienna, Austria, September 10-13, 2018, 2018
    DOI
  18. ISWC
    VoCaLS: Vocabulary and Catalog of Linked Streams
    Riccardo Tommasini, Yehia Abo Sedira, Daniele Dell’Aglio, and 5 more authors
    In The Semantic Web - ISWC 2018 - 17th International Semantic Web nce, Monterey, CA, USA, October 8-12, 2018, Proceedings, Part II, 2018
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  19. ISWC
    RSPLab: RDF Stream Processing Benchmarking Made Easy
    Riccardo Tommasini, Emanuele Della Valle, Andrea Mauri, and 1 more author
    In The Semantic Web - ISWC 2017 - 16th International Semantic Web Conference, Vienna, Austria, October 21-25, 2017, Proceedings, Part II, 2017
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  20. ESWC
    Heaven: A Framework for Systematic Comparative Research Approach for RSP Engines
    Riccardo Tommasini, Emanuele Della Valle, Marco Balduini, and 1 more author
    In The Semantic Web. Latest Advances and New Domains - 13th International Conference, ESWC 2016, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, May 29 - June 2, 2016, Proceedings, 2016
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