Alexander Felfernig is a full professor at the Graz University of Technology (Austria) since March 2009 and received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Klagenfurt. He directs the Applied Software Engineering & Artificial Intelligence (ASE) research group at the Institute for Software Technology. His research interests include configuration systems, recommender systems, sustainability aspects, model-based diagnosis, software requirements engineering, different aspects of human decision making, and knowledge acquisition methods. Alexander Felfernig has published numerous papers in renowned international conferences and journals (e.g., AAAI, IJCAI, ICSE, AI Magazine, Artificial Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, IEEE Intelligent Systems, Journal of Electronic Commerce) and is a co-author of the books on “Recommender Systems” published by Cambridge University Press, “Knowledge-based Configuration” published by Morgan Kaufmann, “Group Recommender Systems” and “Feature Models: AI-Driven Design, Analysis and Applications” published by Springer. He also acted as a co-organizer of international conferences such as the ACM International Conference on Recommender Systems, the International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems, and the  ACM International Systems and Software Product Line Conference. Currently, he is a member of the Editorial Board of Applied Intelligence and the Journal of Intelligent Information Systems.

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