I have authored and co-authored more than 50 peer-reviewed papers, including 3 publications at AAAI (CORE A*) and contributions at ICSE-NIER, SAC, PAIS/ECAI, SPLC, VaMoS, JIIS, and Software Impacts. According to Google Scholar (as of May 2026), my work has received 775 citations, with an h-index of 13 and i10-index of 17. My most cited paper has accumulated 105 citations.
Below is a selection of my peer-reviewed publications, listed in reverse chronological order. The complete publication record is available on the external profiles below.
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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
Proceedings of the 41st ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2026), pp. 16201627. CORE B (2026)
Robust Lazy Conflict Detection via Multi-Conflict Extraction and Genetic Diversity Control
Viet-Man Le, Lukas A. Feldgrill, Alexander Felfernig
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, vol. 40, no. 23, pp. 19208–19215. CORE A* (2026)
QuickXPlain Explanations for Feature Model Configuration
Alexander Felfernig, Damian Garber, Viet-Man Le, Sebastian Lubos, Thi Ngoc Trang Tran
Proceedings of the 27th International Workshop on Configuration (ConfWS 2025) co-located with ECAI 2025. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, vol. 4149, pp. 8–17 (2026)
Towards LLM-Enhanced Product Line Scoping
Alexander Felfernig, Damian Garber, Viet-Man Le, Sebastian Lubos, Thi Ngoc Trang Tran
Proceedings of the 27th International Workshop on Configuration (ConfWS 2025) co-located with ECAI 2025. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, vol. 4149, pp. 128–134 (2026)
Learning Constraint Orderings for Direct Diagnosis
Mathias Uta, Viet-Man Le, Alexander Felfernig, Denis Helic
Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, vol. 63, no. 5, pp. 1753–1777. SCIMAGO Q2 (2025)
Causality-based Explanations for Feature Model Configuration
Alexander Felfernig, Damian Garber, Viet-Man Le, Sebastian Lubos
Proceedings of the 19th International Working Conference on Variability Modelling of Software-Intensive Systems (VaMoS 2025). ACM, pp. 86–90 (2025)
Semantics-Preserving Merging of Feature Models
Mathias Uta, Viet-Man Le, Alexander Felfernig, Damian Garber, Gottfried Schenner, Thi Ngoc Trang Tran
Proceedings of the 26th International Workshop on Configuration (ConfWS 2024) co-located with CP 2024. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, vol. 3812, pp. 74–80 (2024)
InformedQX: Informed Conflict Detection for Over-Constrained Problems
Viet-Man Le, Alexander Felfernig, Thi Ngoc Trang Tran, Mathias Uta
Proceedings of the 38th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, vol. 38, no. 9, pp. 10616–10623. CORE A* (2024)
FMTesting: A FeatureIDE Plug-in for Automated Feature Model Analysis and Diagnosis
Tamim Burgstaller, Viet-Man Le, Thi Ngoc Trang Tran, Alexander Felfernig
ECAI 2023 — 26th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, including PAIS 2023. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, vol. 372. IOS Press, pp. 3190–3195. CORE A (2023)
Conjunctive Query Based Constraint Solving for Feature Model Configuration
Alexander Felfernig, Viet-Man Le, Sebastian Lubos
The 12th Conference on Information Technology and Its Applications (CITA 2023). Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol. 734. Springer, pp. 357–367 (2023)
FastDiagP: An Algorithm for Parallelized Direct Diagnosis
Viet-Man Le, Cristian Vidal Silva, Alexander Felfernig, David Benavides, José Galindo, Thi Ngoc Trang Tran
Proceedings of the 37th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, vol. 37, no. 5, pp. 6442–6449. CORE A* (2023)
Table-based Knowledge Representations for Industrial Feature Models
Alexander Felfernig, Bernhard Ortner, Viet-Man Le
26th ACM International Systems and Software Product Line Conference (SPLC 2022), vol. B, pp. 245–248. CORE A (2022)
Test Case Aggregation for Efficient Feature Model Testing
Viet-Man Le, Alexander Felfernig, Thi Ngoc Trang Tran
26th ACM International Systems and Software Product Line Conference (SPLC 2022), vol. B, pp. 174–177. CORE A (2022)
WipeOutR: Automated Redundancy Detection for Feature Models
Viet-Man Le, Alexander Felfernig, Mathias Uta, Thi Ngoc Trang Tran, Cristian Vidal Silva
26th ACM International Systems and Software Product Line Conference (SPLC 2022), vol. A, pp. 164–169. CORE A (2022)
DirectDebug: A Software Package for the Automated Testing and Debugging of Feature Models
Viet-Man Le, Alexander Felfernig, Thi Ngoc Trang Tran, Müslüm Atas, Mathias Uta, David Benavides, José Galindo
Software Impacts, vol. 9, p. 100085 (2021)
DirectDebug: Automated Testing and Debugging of Feature Models
Viet-Man Le, Alexander Felfernig, Mathias Uta, David Benavides, José Galindo, Thi Ngoc Trang Tran
Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE 43rd International Conference on Software Engineering: New Ideas and Emerging Results (ICSE-NIER 2021), pp. 81–85. CORE A* (2021)
A Conversion of Feature Models into an Executable Representation in Microsoft Excel
Viet-Man Le, Thi Ngoc Trang Tran, Alexander Felfernig
Intelligent Systems in Industrial Applications: International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems (ISMIS 2020). Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol. 949. Springer, Cham, pp. 153–168 (2021)
Supporting Feature Model-Based Configuration in Microsoft Excel
Alexander Felfernig, Viet-Man Le, Thi Ngoc Trang Tran
22nd International Configuration Workshop (ConfWS 2020), pp. 35–38 (2020)
All theses listed below were formally defended before an academic committee: a 3-member committee for the Bachelor’s thesis and the Master 1 TPE, and a 5-member committee for the Master’s thesis.
Navigation System in Image Databases
Master’s Thesis (2011, in French — Système de navigation dans des bases de données d’images)
Supervisor: Professor Michel Verleysen, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium.
Score: 15.4/20 (Très bien, French grading).
Presents an image browser based on Self-Organizing Maps (SOM) that arranges images on a 2D grid where visually similar images are placed close together.
Graph Visualization for Interactive Image Search
Master 1 TPE (Travail Personnel Encadré, 2010, in French — Visualisation de graphes pour la recherche interactive d’images)
Supervisor: Professor Alain Boucher, Institute for Informatics in French-speaking areas, Vietnam.
Score: 15/20 (ranked 1st in class).
Designs a graph visualization combining radial and spiral layouts to represent and exploit linkages between bags of words in image databases for interactive search.
Check Spelling Based on Analyzing the Grammar of Vietnamese Phrases
Bachelor’s Thesis (2004, in Vietnamese)
Supervisor: Professor Nguyen Gia Dinh, University of Sciences, Hue University, Vietnam.
Score: 10/10 (one of three students with the maximum thesis score).
Develops a Vietnamese spell-checking application based on natural language grammar analysis. Published as Some improvements for the Earley parser in natural language processing in Hue University Journal of Science (in Vietnamese).