Sebastian Lubos

Publications

2026

Machine Learning for Constraint-based Configuration: A Survey

Christian Bähnisch, Alexander Felfernig, Damian Garber, Albert Haag, Denis Helic, Lothar Hotz, Viet-Man Le, Sebastian Lubos

Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR), 2026 [DOI]

Early-Stage Product Line Validation Using LLMs: A Study on Semi-Formal Blueprint Analysis

Viet-Man Le, Thi Ngoc Trang Tran, Sebastian Lubos, Alexander Felfernig, Damian Garber

ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC), 2026 [DOI]

Exploring Persuasive Explanations to Motivate the Adoption of SOLID Principles

Ingo Pribik, Sebastian Lubos, Alexander Felfernig

Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications (CHIRA), 2026 [DOI]

Sustainability-Aware Evaluation Metrics for Recommender Systems

Alexander Felfernig, Damian Garber, Denis Helic, Viet-Man Le, Sebastian Lubos, Thi Ngoc Trang Tran

Journal of Intelligent Information Systems (JIIS), 2026 [DOI]

Recommending Usability Improvements with Multimodal Large Language Models

Sebastian Lubos, Alexander Felfernig, Damian Garber, Viet-Man Le, Manuel Henrich

ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), 2026 [DOI]

Usability Analysis of Configurator User Interfaces with Multimodal Large Language Models

Sebastian Lubos, Alexander Felfernig, Damian Garber, A. Kraljić, T. Kraljić, Viet-Man Le, Thi Ngoc Trang Tran, Gerhard Leitner, Johannes Schwazer, D. Suppan, Reinhard Willfort, Ivan Dukic, Jeremias Fuchs, Manuel Henrich

International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse, Product Lines, and Configuration (VARIABILITY), 2026 [DOI]

2025

Assessing LLMs for Prioritization in Meeting-Based Group Recommendations

Sebastian Lubos, Alexander Felfernig, Damian Garber, Viet-Man Le

IEEE 37th International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI), 2025 [DOI]

Causality-based Explanations for Feature Model Configuration

Alexander Felfernig, Damian Garber, Viet-Man Le, Sebastian Lubos

International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2025 [DOI]

Enhanced Optimization Space Learning: Towards Real-Time Compiler Optimization

Damian Garber, Sebastian Lubos, Viet-Man Le, Alexander Felfernig

International Conference on Industrial, Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems (IEA/AIE), 2025 [DOI]

Evaluating Large Language Models for the Automated Generation of Software Requirements

Thomas Puchleitner, Sebastian Lubos, Alexander Felfernig, Damian Garber

International Conference on Industrial, Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems (IEA/AIE), 2025 [DOI]

Leveraging LLMs to Explain the Consequences of Recommendations

Sebastian Lubos, Michael Gartner, Alexander Felfernig, Reinhard Willfort

33rd ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP), 2025 [DOI]

Towards Group Decision Support with LLM-based Meeting Analysis

Sebastian Lubos, Alexander Felfernig, Damian Garber, Viet-Man Le, Manuel Henrich, Reinhard Willfort, Jeremias Fuchs

33rd ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP), 2025 [DOI]

InteractiveReq: Enhancing Software Requirement Specification with Critiquing-based Recommender Systems

Sebastian Lubos, Alexander Felfernig, Damian Garber, Viet-Man Le, Manuel Henrich, Reinhard Willfort, Ivan Dukic

33rd ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP), 2025 [DOI]

Sustainability Evaluation Metrics for Recommender Systems

Alexander Felfernig, Damian Garber, Viet-Man Le, Sebastian Lubos, Thi Ngoc Trang Tran

Recommender Systems for Sustainability and Social Good (RecSoGood), 2025 [DOI]

Sustainability Evaluation Metrics for Recommender Systems

Alexander Felfernig, Damian Garber, Viet-Man Le, Sebastian Lubos, Thi Ngoc Trang Tran

Recommender Systems for Sustainability and Social Good (RecSoGood), 2025

Towards Recommending Usability Improvements with Multimodal Large Language Models

Sebastian Lubos, Alexander Felfernig, Gerhard Leitner, Johannes Schwazer

arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.16165, 2025 [PDF]

2024

Exploiting Large Language Models for the Automated Generation of Constraint Satisfaction Problems

Lothar Hotz, Christian Bähnisch, Sebastian Lubos, Alexander Felfernig, Albert Haag, Jens Twiefel

26th International Workshop on Configuration (ConfWS), 2024 [PDF]

Improving Recommender Systems with Large Language Models

Sebastian Lubos

32nd ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP), 2024 [DOI]

Evaluating Performance and Trends in Interactive Video Retrieval: Insights from the 12th VBS Competition

Lucia Vadicamo, Rahel Arnold, Werner Bailer, Fabio Carrara, Cathal Gurrin, Nico Hezel, Xinghan Li, Jakub Lokoc, Sebastian Lubos, Zhixin Ma

IEEE Access, 2024 [DOI]

Knowledge-based recommender systems: overview and research directions

M Uta, Alexander Felfernig, Viet-Man Le, Thi Ngoc Trang Tran, Damian Garber, Sebastian Lubos, Tamim Burgstaller

Frontiers in Big Data, 2024 [DOI]

Less is More: Towards Sustainability-Aware Persuasive Explanations in Recommender Systems

Thi Ngoc Trang Tran, Seda Polat Erdeniz, Alexander Felfernig, Sebastian Lubos, Merfat El Mansi, Viet-Man Le

18th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys), 2024 [DOI]

LLM-generated Explanations for Recommender Systems

Sebastian Lubos, Thi Ngoc Trang Tran, Alexander Felfernig, Seda Polat Erdeniz, Viet-Man Le

32nd ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP), 2024 [DOI]

Leveraging LLMs for the Quality Assurance of Software Requirements

Sebastian Lubos, Alexander Felfernig, Thi Ngoc Trang Tran, Damian Garber, Merfat El Mansi, Seda Polat Erdeniz, Viet-Man Le

IEEE 32nd International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE), 2024 [DOI]

Responsible Configuration Using LLM-based Sustainability-Aware Explanations

Sebastian Lubos, Alexander Felfernig, Lothar Hotz, Thi Ngoc Trang Tran, Seda Polat Erdeniz, Viet-Man Le, Damian Garber, Merfat El Mansi

26th International Workshop on Configuration (ConfWS), 2024 [PDF]

Sports recommender systems: overview and research directions

Alexander Felfernig, Michael Wundara, Thi Ngoc Trang Tran, Viet-Man Le, Sebastian Lubos, Seda Polat Erdeniz

Journal of Intelligent Information Systems (JIIS), 2024 [DOI]

2023

Analysis Operations for Constraint-based Recommender Systems

Sebastian Lubos, Viet-Man Le, Alexander Felfernig, Thi Ngoc Trang Tran

17th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys), 2023 [DOI]

Collaborative Recommendation of Search Heuristics For Constraint Solvers

Damian Garber, Tamim Burgstaller, Alexander Felfernig, Viet-Man Le, Sebastian Lubos, Thi Ngoc Trang Tran, Seda Polat Erdeniz

25th International Workshop on Configuration (ConfWS), 2023 [PDF]

Specifying Configurable Videos with Feature Models

Sebastian Lubos, Markus Tautschnig, Alexander Felfernig, Viet-Man Le

25th International Workshop on Configuration (ConfWS), 2023

Employing Nudge Theory and Persuasive Principles with Explainable AI in Clinical Decision Support

Seda Polat Erdeniz, Thi Ngoc Trang Tran, Alexander Felfernig, Sebastian Lubos, Michael Schrempf, Diether Kramer, Peter P. Rainer

IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM), 2023 [DOI]

Perfect Match in Video Retrieval

Sebastian Lubos, Massimiliano Rubino, Christian Tautschnig, Markus Tautschnig, Boda Wen, Klaus Schoeffmann, Alexander Felfernig

International Conference on Multimedia Modeling (MMM), 2023 [DOI]

Machine Learning Based Risk Prediction for Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events for ELGA-Authorized Clinics

Seda Polat Erdeniz, Diether Kramer, Michael Schrempf, Peter P. Rainer, Alexander Felfernig, Thi Ngoc Trang Tran, Tamim Burgstaller, Sebastian Lubos

International Conference on Personalized Medicine and Digital Health (dHealth), 2023 [DOI]

Recommender systems for sustainability: overview and research issues

Alexander Felfernig, Michael Wundara, Thi Ngoc Trang Tran, Seda Polat Erdeniz, Sebastian Lubos, Merfat El Mansi, Viet-Man Le

Frontiers in Big Data, 2023 [DOI]

An overview of video recommender systems: state-of-the-art and research issues

Sebastian Lubos, Alexander Felfernig, Markus Tautschnig

Frontiers in Big Data, 2023 [DOI]

2022

Knowledge-based configuration of videos using feature models

Sebastian Lubos, Markus Tautschnig, Alexander Felfernig, Viet-Man Le

26th ACM International Systems and Software Product Line Conference (SPLC), 2022 [DOI]