Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Short biography
I'm an associate professor at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Institute for Complex Networks and a member of the WU Competence Center for Applied AI and Scientific Computing and the WU Research Institute for Cryptoeconomics.
My research interests include legal information extraction and knowledge representation; machine actionable policies, automated compliance checking, and governance; information disorder detection; algorithmic transparency, explainability, and bias detection; and intelligent software agents.
Expertise
- Privacy
- Policy Languages
- legal informatics
- Semantic Web
- Decentralised and Distributed Systems
- Knowledge Graphs
- Data Science
- Artificial Intelligence
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Publications
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A Knowledge Graph of Information Disorder Actors, Agendas, and Events
Grünsteidl, M. N. & Kirrane, S., May 2026, (Accepted/In press) The Semantic Web: ESWC 2026 Satellite Events, Dubrovnik, Croatia, May 10 - 14, 2026, Proceedings. 5 p.Publication: Chapter in book/Conference proceeding › Contribution to conference proceedings
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An Evaluation of XAI Methods applied to Information Disorder Detection Models
Grünsteidl, M. N. & Kirrane, S., 15 Mar 2026, In: Knowledge-Based Systems. 336, 115305.Publication: Scientific journal › Journal article › peer-review
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Usage Control for Process Discovery Through a Trusted Execution Environment
Goretti, V., Kirrane, S. & Di Ciccio, C., Jan 2026, Service-Oriented Computing: 23rd International Conference, ICSOC 2025, Shenzhen, China, December 1–4, 2025, Proceedings, Part II. Aiello, M., Deng, S., Murillo, J.-M., Georgievski, I., Benatallah, B. & Wang, Z. (eds.). Singapur: Springer, (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Vol. 16321).Publication: Chapter in book/Conference proceeding › Contribution to conference proceedings
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A Comparison and Critical Reflection of Information Disorder Detection Techniques: Performing a Cross-Data and Cross-Model Evaluation
Grünsteidl, M. N. & Kirrane, S., 4 Oct 2025, In: Information Fusion. 127, Part B, 103806.Publication: Scientific journal › Journal article › peer-review
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A Comprehensive Review of Usage Control Frameworks
Akaichi, I. & Kirrane, S., May 2025, In: Computer Science Review. 56, 100698.Publication: Scientific journal › Journal article › peer-review
Open Access
Activities
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The 22nd International Semantic Web Conference
Kirrane, S. (Member of programme committee)
6 Nov 2023 → 10 Nov 2023Activity: Event participation/organisation › Organisation of conference/workshop/congress
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The 20th Extended Semantic Web Conference, PhD Symposium
Kirrane, S. (Chair)
May 2023Activity: Event participation/organisation › Organisation of conference/workshop/congress
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Trusting Decentralised Knowledge Graphs and Web Data Workshop (TrusDeKW)
Kirrane, S. (Organiser)
May 2023Activity: Event participation/organisation › Organisation of conference/workshop/congress
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Knowgraphs Winter School
Kirrane, S. (Organiser)
Mar 2023Activity: Event participation/organisation › Organisation of conference/workshop/congress
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Trusting Decentralised Knowledge Graphs and Web Data Workshop (TrusDeKW)
Kirrane, S. (Organiser)
Mar 2023Activity: Event participation/organisation › Organisation of conference/workshop/congress
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Knowledge Representation Learning for Large Language Models
Vakulenko, S. (PI - Project head), Polleres, A. (researchers ), Sabou, M. (researchers ), Kirrane, S. (researchers ), Disselbacher-Kollmann, K. (Contact person for administrative matters), Wyk, D. (Contact person for administrative matters), Bracher, A. (researchers ) & Sadiri Javadi, V. (researchers )
1/06/25 → 31/05/33
Project: Internal projects
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Vienna Doctoral College on Digital Humanism
Sabou, M. (PI - Project head), Disselbacher-Kollmann, K. (Contact person for administrative matters), Dorner, V. (researchers ), Fellner-Röhling, G. (researchers ), Kirrane, S. (researchers ), Reutterer, T. (researchers ), Schamp, C. (researchers ), Schwabenbauer, A. (researchers ), Maly, J. (researchers ) & Schuller, J. (researchers )
1/10/24 → 30/09/29
Project: Research funding
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BILAI: Bilateral AI Clusters of Excellence (COE)
Polleres, A. (PI - Project head), Disselbacher-Kollmann, K. (Contact person for administrative matters), Kirrane, S. (researchers ), Ekaputra, F. J. (researchers ), Sabou, M. (researchers ), Wlömert, N. (researchers ), Hornik, K. (researchers ), Akaichi, I. (researchers ), Dobriy, D. (researchers ), Ekaputra, F. J. (researchers ), Ferranti, N. (researchers ), Grünsteidl, M. N. (researchers ), Maly, J. (researchers ), Prock, A. (researchers ), Vazquez, M. (researchers ), Wyk, D. (Contact person for administrative matters), Nair, V. (researchers ), Kook, L. (researchers ), Kiesling, E. (researchers ), Rincon-Yanez, D. (researchers ), Bauer, F. (researchers ), Mudugamuwa Hewage, M. H. (researchers ) & Vakulenko, S. (researchers )
1/10/24 → 30/09/29
Project: Research funding
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COST Action CA19134 - Distributed Knowledge Graphs
Kirrane, S. (PI - Project head), Polleres, A. (PI - Project head), Azzam, A. (researchers ), Kiesling, E. (researchers ) & Neumaier, S. (researchers )
24/03/20 → 23/03/24
Project: Research funding
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PENNI - Policy Enabled Next geNeration Internet
Kirrane, S. (PI - Project head)
1/03/20 → 31/08/23
Project: Research funding
Prizes
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Best Poster Award
Akaichi, I. (Recipient), Kirrane, S. (Recipient), Flouris, G. (Recipient) & Fundulaki, I. (Recipient), 2024
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Nomination for the Hedy Lamarr-Preis für innovative Frauen in der IT
Kirrane, S. (Recipient), 2020
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Supervisor of a paper nominated for IFIPSEC Best Student Paper (Olha Drozd)
Kirrane, S. (Recipient), 2020
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