Biography
Education
Alexander Denzler is lecturer for Blockchain Technology and Data Science. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Freiburg (CH) and wrote a thesis titled: “A Finder and Representation System for Knowledge Carriers Based on Granular Computing”. Alexander holds a DAS in Hochschuldidaktik from the University of Fribourg.
Research Focus: Blockchain, Natural Language Processing and Data Science.
Active Roles:
- Founder & Director of Crypto Valley Conference on Blockchain Technology (IEEE)
- Head of Blockchain Lab @ Hochschule Luzern
- Chair Technology Workgroup Crypto Valley Association
- Advisor at EU Blockchain Observatory & Forum
- Chair Blockchain-Track World Web Forum
- Jedi (work in progress)
Externally Funded Research Projects:
- Blockchain
- Profila: P2P Legal Consulting System (InnoSuisse - 2019)
- Blockchain Workbench - eLearning Platform (2019)
- Blockchain-based eVoting with City of Zug (2018)
- European Blockchain Observatory and Forum - Setting-up and running a European Expertise Hub on Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies (EU - 2018)
- Blockchain-basierte Plattform für Transparenz im Antiquitäten und Luxusgüterhandel (KTI - 2017)
- Immobilienbewirtschaftung mit SmartContracts (KTI - 2017)
- Quartierstrom: Peer-to-Peer/Community Energienetzwerke (BFE - 2017)
- Data Science
- Tourisemo - Semantische KI-Technologien zur Integration und Abfrage heterogener Informationsquellen im Tourismus (Hasler - 2019)
- Automatisierte Antwort- und Matchingassistentin für implizite und explizite, wissensbaierte Fragen (KTI - 2018)
- Automatisierte Empfehlungen für Aus- und Weiterbildungen mittels Bildungsgraphen (KTI - 2017)
- X-Mas: Plattformübergreifende Assoziations- und Suchmaschine (KTI - 2017)
- Matching von Suchanfragen auf Experten-Profile (KTI - 2017)
- Proof of Concept Social Media Analyse (ZugEstates - 2017)
- Outbound-Reisemarkt China (SECO - 2017)
Publications
Journal Articles (Peer Reviewed)
Denzler, A., Wehrle, M., Meier, A., (2015): Building a Granular Knowledge Cube, International Journal of Mathematical, Computational and Computer Engineering, Vol. 9, No. 6, 2015.
Teran, L., Drobnjak, A., (2012): An Evaluation Framework for eParticipation: The VAA’s Case Study, Journal of World Academy Science, Engineering and Technology Issue 73, Januar 2013.
Publisher of Books (Peer Reviewed)
Denzler, A., (2019): Building a Granular Knowledge Cube, Springer 2019, ISBN 978-3-030-22977-1.
Meier A., Denzler A. (2017): Springer HMD - Online Participation, 2017.
Conference Papers (Peer Reviewed)
Dubovitskaya, A., Mazzola, L. and Denzler, A. (2019): Towards a trusted support platform for the job placement task, Euro-Par 2019 - Towards a trusted support platform for the job placement task, Göttingen.
Mazzola, L., Siegfried, P., Waldis, A., Kaufmann, M., Denzler, A., (2018): A Domain Specific ESA Inspired Approach for Document Semantic Description, 2018 International Conference on Intelligent Systems (IS).
Denzler, A., Kaufmann, M. (2017): Toward Granular Knowledge Analytics for Data Intelligence, IEEE Big Data 2017, 2017.
Denzler, A., Wehrle, M., (2016): Application Domains for the Knowledge Carrier Finder System, 3rd International Conference on eDemocracy & eGovernment, IEEE, 2016.
Denzler, A., Wehrle, M., Meier, A., (2016): Building a Granular Knowledge Monitor, 8th International Conference on Knowledge and Smart Technology (KST), IEEE, 2016.
Osswald, M., Wehrle, M., Portmann, E., Denzler, A. (2016): Transforming Fuzzy Graphs into Linguistic Variables. NAFIPS'2016 conference. El Paso, Texas.
Denzler, A., Wehrle, M., Meier, A., (2015): A Granular Approach for Identifying User Knowledge, IEEE Big Data 2015, 2015.
Wehrle, M., Portmann, E., Denzler, A., Meier, A., (2015): Developing Initial State Fuzzy Cognitive Maps with Self-Organizing Maps, Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Cognition, 2015.
Zumstein, D., Drobnjak, A., Meier, A., (2011): Data Privacy in Web Analytics – An Empirical Study and Declaration Model of Data Collection, 7th International Conference, WEBIST 2011, Vol. 101, May 2011.
Drobnjak, A., Kaufmann, M., Hugi, P., Meier, A., Schütze, R., Wehrle, M., (2011) Führungsinformationssystem unter Nutzung der unscharfen Logik – Fallbeispiel coop@home (Bericht). Information Systems Research Group, Department of Informatics, University of Fribourg.
Drobnjak, A., Meier, A., Zumstein, D., (2010) Web Analytics – Analysis, Measurement and Fuzzy Classification of Web Metrics, 6th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies (WEBIST 2010), pp. 282-290.
Book Chapters (Peer Reviewed)
Denzler, A., Wehrle, M., (2016): Granular Computing – Fallbeispiel Knowledge Carrier Finder System, Springer - Big Data, 2016, ISBN 978-3-658-11589-0.
Denzler, A.: (2017): Online Partizipation und virtuelle Gemeinschaften, HMD Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik, 54(4), 459-460, ISSN 1436-3011.
Dissertation
Denzler A.: (2017): A Finder and Representation System for Knowledge Carriers Based on Granular Computing, ReroDoc
Other Articles (Peer Reviewed)
Drobnjak, A., Meier, A., Teran, L., (2013): Ein Reifegradmodel für Voting Advice Applications, Zeitschrift eGovernment Review, Ausgabe Nr. 12, Juli 2013.
Zumstein, D., Drobnjak, A., Meier, A., (2011): Transparenz im Internet – Offene Deklaration von Web Analytics, Zeitschrift für Datenrecht & Informationssicherheit (digma), 11. Jahrgang, Heft 2, Juni 2011.
