Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Sven Groppe
- außerplanmäßiger Professor -
Head of the Research Group "Quantum and Intelligent Computing (QIC)"
Ratzeburger Allee 160
23562 Lübeck
| Email: | sven.groppe(at)uni-luebeck.de |
| Phone: |
Curriculum Vitae
| Since February 2007: | Member of the Institute of Information Systems (IFIS) |
| Since 17.06.2019: | Außerplanmäßiger Professor |
Research Interests
My research interests include the following areas and their combinations (none-exclusive list)
- Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Data Science
- LLMs, Agentic Workflows, Mathematical Optimizations, Graph Neural Networks, Chatbots, Reasoning, Quantum Machine Learning
- Data Management
- Query Processing and Optimization, Indexing, Mapping, Compression, Replication, Caching, Transaction Handling
- Data Models
- Knowledge Graphs, Semantic Web, Property Graphs, Relational Data, XML
- Types of Data
- Big Data, Data Streams
- Emergent Hardware Technologies
- Many-Core CPU, GPU, FPGA, Quantum Computer
- Platforms
- Internet, Internet of Things, Cloud, Post-Cloud (Fog/Edge/Dew Computing), P2P, Mobile, Parallel and Main Memory Servers
- Advanced AI/ML Applications
- Citizen Science, Customer Communications, Pandemics like Covid-19, Software Vulnerability Prediction
- Sustainability
- Sustainable Computing/AI, Applications for Sustainability
Projects
Prof. Groppe receives grants for the following projects and serves as principle investigator or project coordinator:
Running Projects
- QC4DB (BMBF)
- QualityOnt (DFG)
Completed Projects
- BigSIoT (DFG)
- Hybrid2 (DFG)
- SW-FPGA-DB (DFG)
- FPGA-Cluster DB (BMWi)
- LUPOSDATE (DFG)
Open Thesis
A list of my open thesis is available here.
Please see also my slides of the last bachelor/master forum (PDF).
Completed PhDs supervised by Prof. Dr. Sven Groppe
More Information
More information is available on my homepage.
Recent talks are listed on my keynote page.
Links to my pages at common literature search engines: DBLP, Google Scholar
Publications
2025
A scientometric analysis of reviews on the Internet of Things, The Journal of Supercomputing , vol. 81, no. 6, Apr. 2025. Springer Science and Business Media LLC.
| Datei: | s11227-025-07230-w |
Impact of Chatbots on User Experience and Data Quality on Citizen Science Platforms, Computers , vol. 14, no. 1, Jan. 2025.
| Datei: | computers14010021 |
Ai-supported analysis and classification of digitized botanical collections, in 11th International Conference on Machine Learning, Optimization, and Data Science (LOD), Tuscany, Italy , 2025.
Automated Archival Descriptions with Federated Intelligence of LLMs, in The 36th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA), Bangkok, Thailand , 2025.
| Datei: | 978-3-032-02049-9_4 |
EcoRAG: A Multi-hop Economic QA Benchmark for Retrieval Augmented Generation Using Knowledge Graphs, in Natural Language Processing and Information Systems (NLDB), Kanazawa, Japan , 2025. pp. 163–173.
| Datei: | 978-3-031-97144-0_15 |
GraphTrace: A Modular Retrieval Framework Combining Knowledge Graphs and Large Language Models for Multi-Hop Question Answering, Computers , vol. 14, no. 9, 2025. MDPI AG.
| Datei: | computers14090382 |
Opportunities and Challenges for Data Quality in the Era of Quantum Computing, arXiv , vol. 2512.00870, 2025.
| Datei: | arxiv.2512.00870 |
OptiMA: A Transaction-Based Framework with Throughput Optimization for Very Complex Multi-Agent Systems, arXiv , vol. 2511.03761, 2025.
| Datei: | arxiv.2511.03761 |
Proceedings of the International Health Informatics Conference: IHIC 2023., .... Springer Nature Singapore, 2025.
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-981-97-7190-5 |
| ISBN: | 9789819771905 |
| Datei: | 978-981-97-7190-5 |
"QC4DB: Beschleunigung von relationalen Datenbankmanagementsystemen durch Quantenrechner Teilvorhaben: Datenbank Optimierungen (DBOpt)" Hannover : Technische Informationsbibliothek, 2025.
| Datei: | 24530 |
QCardEst/QCardCorr: Quantum Cardinality Estimation and Correction, arXiv , vol. 2509.08817, 2025.
| Datei: | ARXIV.2509.08817 |
Quantum-Enhanced Transaction Scheduling with Reduced Complexity via Solving QUBO Iteratively using a Locking Mechanism, in 2nd International Workshop on Quantum Computing and Quantum-Inspired Technology for Data-Intensive Systems and Applications (Q-Data), Berlin, Germany , 2025.
| Datei: | 3736393.3736701 |
Utilizing Quantum Computing to Improve the Quality of Data, in The 29th European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS), Tampere, Finland , 2025.
| Datei: | 978-3-032-05281-0_19 |
Weather forecasting using quantum-based LSTM: A comparative analysis, Results in Engineering , vol. 28, 2025. Elsevier BV.
| Datei: | j.rineng.2025.107995 |
2024
On the Potential of Sustainable Software Solutions in Smart Manufacturing Environments, in Semantic Intelligence , Springer Nature Singapore, Dez.2024, pp. 25–32.
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-981-97-7356-5_3 |
| Datei: | 978-981-97-7356-5_3 |
Applied Machine Learning and Data Analytics: 6th International Conference, AMLDA 2023, Lübeck, Germany, November 9–10, 2023, Revised Selected Papers., .... Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024.
| ISBN: | 9783031554865 |
| Datei: | 978-3-031-55486-5 |
Are Large Language Models the New Interface for Data Pipelines?, in Proceedings of the International Workshop on Big Data in Emergent Distributed Environments, Santiago, Chile , Association for Computing Machinery, 2024.
| Datei: | 3663741.3664785 |
Assessing the Impact of Government Policies on Covid-19 Spread: A Machine Learning Approach, in 10th International Conference on Machine Learning, Optimization, and Data Science (LOD), Tuscany, Italy , 2024.
Construction and Canonicalization of Economic Knowledge Graphs with LLMs, in International Knowledge Graph and Semantic Web Conference (KGSWC) , Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024. pp. 334–343.
| ISBN: | 9783031812217 |
| Datei: | 978-3-031-81221-7_23 |
Developers’ Perspective on Trustworthiness of Code Generated by ChatGPT: Insights from Interviews, in Applied Machine Learning and Data Analytics (AMLDA 2023), Lübeck, Germany , Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024. pp. 215–229.
| Datei: | 978-3-031-55486-5_16 |
Exploring the Determinants of Semantic Internet of Things in Healthcare, in Roles and Challenges of Semantic Intelligence in Healthcare Cognitive Computing , IOS Press, 2024.
| ISBN: | 9781643684611 |
| Datei: | SSW230026 |
Hype or Heuristic? Quantum Reinforcement Learning for Join Order Optimisation, in 2024 IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE) , 2024. pp. 409-420.
| Datei: | QCE60285.2024.00055 |
moduli: A Disaggregated Data Management Architecture for Data-Intensive Workflows, SIGWEB Newsl. , vol. 2024, no. Winter, 2024. Association for Computing Machinery.
| Datei: | 3643603.3643607 |
QCE'24 Tutorial: Quantum Annealing - Emerging Exploration for Database Optimization, arXiv , vol. arXiv:2411.04638, 2024.
| Datei: | 2411.04638 |
Quantum Annealing: Emerging Exploration for Database Optimization, in IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE), Montréal, Québec, Canada , 2024.
Quantum Join Ordering by Splitting the Search Space of QUBO Problems, Datenbank-Spektrum , vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 21-32, 2024.
| Datei: | s13222-024-00468-3 |
ReJOOSp: Reinforcement Learning for Join Order Optimization in SPARQL, Big Data and Cognitive Computing (BDCC) , vol. 8, no. 7, 2024.
| Datei: | bdcc8070071 |
Research Trends for the Interplay between Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs, in VLDB 2024 Workshop: The International Workshop on Data Management Opportunities in Unifying Large Language Models + Knowledge Graphs (LLM+KG), Guangzhou, China , 2024.
| Datei: |
Semantic Intelligence, Sarika Jain and Sven Groppe and Bharat K. Bhargava, Eds. Springer Nature Singapore, 2024, pp. 25–32.
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-981-97-7356-5_3 |
| ISBN: | 9789819773565 |
| Datei: | 978-981-97-7356-5_3 |
| Bibtex: | @book{SemanticIntelligence2023,
title = {Semantic Intelligence},
editor = {Sarika Jain and Sven Groppe and Bharat K. Bhargava},
year = {2023},
publisher = {Springer Nature Singapore},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-7126-6}
} |
Supervised Learning on Relational Databases with Quantum Graph Neural Networks, in VLDB 2024 Workshop: The Second International Workshop on Quantum Data Science and Management (QDSM’24), Guangzhou, China , 2024.
| Datei: |
The Way Forward with AI-Complete Problems, New Generation Computing , 2024.
| Datei: | s00354-024-00251-8 |
There Are Infinite Ways to Formulate Code: How to Mitigate the Resulting Problems for Better Software Vulnerability Detection, Information , vol. 15, no. 4, 2024.
| Datei: | info15040216 |
Towards Generating High-Quality Knowledge Graphs by Leveraging Large Language Models, in The 29th Annual International Conference on Natural Language \& Information Systems (NLDB 2024), Turin, Italy , 2024.
| Datei: | 978-3-031-70239-6_31 |
Video Shot-boundary detection: Issues, challenges and solutions, Artificial Intelligence Review , vol. 57, no. 4, 2024.
| Datei: | s10462-024-10742-1 |
Workshop Summary of the Second International Workshop on Quantum Data Science and Management (QDSM), in VLDB 2024 Workshop: The Second International Workshop on Quantum Data Science and Management (QDSM’24) , 2024.
| Datei: |
2023
A Finite State Automaton for Green Data Validation in a Real-World Smart Manufacturing Environment with Special Regard to Time-Outs and Overtaking, Future Internet , vol. 15, no. 11, 2023.
| Datei: | fi15110349 |
| Bibtex: | @article{Paasche2023StateAutomaton,
author = {Simon Paasche and Sven Groppe},
title = {A Finite State Automaton for Green Data Validation in a Real-World Smart Manufacturing Environment with Special Regard to Time-Outs and Overtaking},
journal = {Future Internet},
volume = {15},
year = {2023},
number = {11},
url = {https://doi.org/10.3390/fi15110349}
} |
Constructing Optimal Bushy Join Trees by Solving QUBO Problems on Quantum Hardware and Simulators, in Proceedings of the International Workshop on Big Data in Emergent Distributed Environments (BiDEDE), Seattle, WA, USA , 2023.
| Datei: | 3579142.3594298 |
| Bibtex: | @inproceedings{Nayak2023QUBO_JOO,
title = {Constructing Optimal Bushy Join Trees by Solving QUBO Problems on Quantum Hardware and Simulators},
author = {Nitin Nayak and Jan Rehfeld and Tobias Winker and Benjamin Warnke and Umut Çalıkyılmaz and Sven Groppe},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Workshop on Big Data in Emergent Distributed Environments (BiDEDE), Seattle, WA, USA},
year = {2023},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3579142.3594298}
} |
Distributed SPARQL Queries in Collaboration with the Routing Protocol, in Proceedings of the 27th International Database Engineered Applications Symposium (IDEAS), Heraklion, Crete, Greece , 2023.
| Datei: | 3589462.3589497 |
| Bibtex: | @inproceedings{Warnke2023_1,
title = {Distributed SPARQL Queries in Collaboration with the Routing Protocol},
author = {Benjamin Warnke and Stefan Fischer and Sven Groppe},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 27th International Database Engineered Applications Symposium (IDEAS), Heraklion, Crete, Greece},
year = {2023},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3589462.3589497}
} |
Exploring In-Context Learning Capabilities of Foundation Models for Generating Knowledge Graphs from Text, CoRR , vol. abs/2305.08804, 2023.
| Datei: | arXiv.2305.08804 |
| Bibtex: | @inproceedings{Khorashadizadeh2023Text2KGInContextLearning,
title = {Exploring In-Context Learning Capabilities of Foundation Models for Generating Knowledge Graphs from Text},
author = {Hanieh Khorashadizadeh and Nandana Mihindukulasooriya and Sanju Tiwari and Jinghua Groppe and Sven Groppe},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Knowledge Graph Generation From Text (Text2KG) in conjunction with the Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2023), Hersonissos, Greece},
year = {2023},
url = {https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3447/Text2KG_Paper_9.pdf}
} |
GreenCC: A Hybrid Approach to Sustainably Validate Manufacturing Data in Industry 4.0 Environments, in Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Data Science, Technology and Applications (DATA), Rome, Italy , 2023.
| Datei: | 0012147900003541 |
| Bibtex: | @inproceedings{Paasche2023GreenCC,
title = {GreenCC: A Hybrid Approach to Sustainably Validate Manufacturing Data in Industry 4.0 Environments},
author = {Simon Paasche and Sven Groppe},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Data Science, Technology and Applications ({DATA}), Rome, Italy},
year = {2023},
url = {https://doi.org/10.5220/0012147900003541}
} |
Hybrid CPU/GPU/APU accelerated query, insert, update and erase operations in hash tables with string keys, Knowledge and Information Systems , vol. 65, no. 10, pp. 4359--4377, 2023. Springer Science and Business Media {LLC}.
| Datei: | s10115-023-01891-w |
| Bibtex: | @article{groth2023hybrid,
title={Hybrid CPU/GPU/APU accelerated query, insert, update and erase operations in hash tables with string keys},
author={Groth, Tobias and Groppe, Sven and Pionteck, Thilo and Valdiek, Franz and Koppehel, Martin},
journal={Knowledge and Information Systems},
pages={4359--4377},
year={2023},
publisher={Springer}
}
|
Index Tuning with Machine Learning on Quantum Computers for Large-Scale Database Applications, in Joint Proceedings of Workshops at the 49th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2023) - International Workshop on Quantum Data Science and Management (QDSM'23), Vancouver, Canada , CEUR-WS.org, 2023.
| Datei: | |
| Bibtex: | @inproceedings{Gruenwald2023IndexTuning,
title = {Index Tuning with Machine Learning on Quantum Computers for Large-Scale Database Applications},
author = {Le Gruenwald and Tobias Winker and Umut Çalıkyılmaz and Jinghua Groppe and Sven Groppe},
booktitle = {Joint Proceedings of Workshops at the 49th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases ({VLDB} 2023) - International Workshop on Quantum Data Science and Management (QDSM'23), Vancouver, Canada},
year = {2023},
url = {https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3462/QDSM5.pdf}
} |
Joint Proceedings of Workshops at the 49th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases {(VLDB} 2023), Vancouver, Canada., .... CEUR-WS.org, 2023.
| Datei: | Vol-3462 |
| Bibtex: | @proceedings{Bordawekar2023WorkshopsVLDB,
author = {Rajesh Bordawekar and Cinzia Cappiello and Vasilis Efthymiou and Lisa Ehrlinger and Vijay Gadepally and Sainyam Galhotra and Sandra Geisler and Sven Groppe and Le Gruenwald and Alon Y. Halevy and Hazar Harmouch and Oktie Hassanzadeh and Ihab F. Ilyas and Ernesto Jimenez-Ruiz and Sanjay Krishnan and Tirthankar Lahiri and Guoliang Li and Jiaheng Lu and Wolfgang Mauerer and Umar Farooq Minhas and Felix Naumann and M. Tamer Özsu and El Kindi Rezig and Kavitha Srinivas and Michael Stonebraker and Satyanarayana R. Valluri and Maria-Esther Vidal and Haixun Wang and Jiannan Wang and Yingjun Wu and Xun Xue and Mohamed Zait and Kai Zeng},
title = {Joint Proceedings of Workshops at the 49th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases {(VLDB} 2023), Vancouver, Canada},
publisher = {CEUR-WS.org},
year = {2023},
url = {https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3462}
} |
Opportunities for Quantum Acceleration of Databases: Optimization of Queries and Transaction Schedules, Proc. VLDB Endow. , vol. 16, no. 9, pp. 2344--2353, 2023.
| Datei: | 3598581.3598603 |
| Bibtex: | @article{Calıkyilmaz2023QC_QO_TSO,
title = {Opportunities for Quantum Acceleration of Databases: Optimization of Queries and Transaction Schedules},
author = {Umut Çalıkyılmaz and Sven Groppe and Jinghua Groppe and Tobias Winker and Stefan Prestel and Farida Shagieva and Daanish Arya and Florian Preis and Le Gruenwald},
journal = {Proc. {VLDB} Endow.},
volume = {16},
number = {9},
pages = {2344--2353},
year = {2023},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3598581.3598603}
} |
Personal Knowledge Graphs (PKGs): Methodology, tools and applications, Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2023, pp. 277--293.
| Datei: | pbpc063e_ch12 |
Poster: Handling Inconsistent Data in Industry 4.0, in Proceedings of the 17th ACM International Conference on Distributed and Event-Based Systems (DEBS'23), Neuchatel, Switzerland , New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery, 2023. pp. 180–181.
| ISBN: | 9798400701221 |
| Datei: | 3583678.3603281 |
| Bibtex: | @inproceedings{Paasche2023InconsistentData,
author = {Simon Paasche and Sven Groppe},
title = {Poster: Handling Inconsistent Data in Industry 4.0},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 17th ACM International Conference on Distributed and Event-Based Systems (DEBS '23)},
year = {2023},
isbn = {9798400701221},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3583678.3603281},
pages = {180–181},
location = {Neuchatel, Switzerland}
} |
Preface {QDSM}, in Joint Proceedings of Workshops at the 49th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2023) - International Workshop on Quantum Data Science and Management (QDSM'23), Vancouver, Canada , CEUR-WS.org, 2023.
| Datei: | |
| Bibtex: | @inproceedings{Uotila2023QDSM,
title = {Preface {QDSM}},
author = {Valter Uotila and Sven Groppe and Le Gruenwald and Jiaheng Lu and Wolfgang Mauerer},
booktitle = {Joint Proceedings of Workshops at the 49th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases ({VLDB} 2023) - International Workshop on Quantum Data Science and Management (QDSM'23), Vancouver, Canada},
year = {2023},
url = {https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3462/QDSM1.pdf}
} |
Proceedings of the International Health Informatics Conference (IHIC) 2022., .... Springer Nature Singapore, 2023.
| Datei: | 978-981-19-9090-8 |
Proceedings of the International Workshop on Big Data in Emergent Distributed Environments, BiDEDE 2023, Seattle, WA, USA., .... ACM, 2023.
| Datei: | 3579142 |
Quantum Machine Learning for Join Order Optimization using Variational Quantum Circuits, in Proceedings of the International Workshop on Big Data in Emergent Distributed Environments (BiDEDE), Seattle, WA, USA , 2023.
| Datei: | 3579142.3594299 |
| Bibtex: | @inproceedings{Winker2023QML_JOO,
title = {Quantum Machine Learning for Join Order Optimization using Variational Quantum Circuits},
author = {Tobias Winker and Umut Çalıkyılmaz and Le Gruenwald and Sven Groppe},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Workshop on Big Data in Emergent Distributed Environments (BiDEDE), Seattle, WA, USA},
year = {2023},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3579142.3594299}
} |

