Publications

2026

1. L. Vollmer, R. Loubet, D. Neider, H. Hasse, and H. Leitte. Combining Formal Reasoning and LLMs for Scenario-Based Educational STEM Exercises. Human-Centric Intelligent Systems, Sep. 2026. 10.1007/s44230-026-00174-1

   @article{Vollmer_2026,
     title = {Combining Formal Reasoning and LLMs for Scenario-Based Educational STEM Exercises},
     issn = {2667-1336},
     url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s44230-026-00174-1},
     doi = {10.1007/s44230-026-00174-1},
     journal = {Human-Centric Intelligent Systems},
     publisher = {Springer Science and Business Media LLC},
     author = {Vollmer, Luisa and Loubet, Rébecca and Neider, Daniel and Hasse, Hans and Leitte, Heike},
     year = {2026},
     month = sep
   }
   

2. R. Loubet, P. Zittlau, M. Hoffmann, L. Vollmer, S. Fellenz, H. Leitte, F. Jirasek, J. Lenhard, and H. Hasse. Superstudent intelligence in thermodynamics. Physics Education, vol. 61, no. 2, p. 025004, Jan. 2026. 10.1088/1361-6552/ae35bf

   @article{Loubet_2026,
     title = {Superstudent intelligence in thermodynamics},
     volume = {61},
     issn = {1361-6552},
     url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1361-6552/ae35bf},
     doi = {10.1088/1361-6552/ae35bf},
     number = {2},
     journal = {Physics Education},
     publisher = {IOP Publishing},
     author = {Loubet, Rébecca and Zittlau, Pascal and Hoffmann, Marco and Vollmer, Luisa and Fellenz, Sophie and Leitte, Heike and Jirasek, Fabian and Lenhard, Johannes and Hasse, Hans},
     year = {2026},
     month = jan,
     pages = {025004}
   }
   

3. R. Loubet, P. Zittlau, L. Vollmer, M. Hoffmann, S. Fellenz, F. Jirasek, H. Leitte, and H. Hasse. Using large language models for solving textbook-style thermodynamic problems. Computers & Chemical Engineering, vol. 204, p. 109333, Jan. 2026. 10.1016/j.compchemeng.2025.109333

   @article{Loubet_2026a,
     title = {Using large language models for solving textbook-style thermodynamic problems},
     volume = {204},
     issn = {0098-1354},
     url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compchemeng.2025.109333},
     doi = {10.1016/j.compchemeng.2025.109333},
     journal = {Computers & Chemical Engineering},
     publisher = {Elsevier BV},
     author = {Loubet, Rébecca and Zittlau, Pascal and Vollmer, Luisa and Hoffmann, Marco and Fellenz, Sophie and Jirasek, Fabian and Leitte, Heike and Hasse, Hans},
     year = {2026},
     month = jan,
     pages = {109333}
   }
   

4. L. Vollmer, R. Loubet, H. Hasse, and H. Leitte. KnowTD Interface: An Interactive Neuro-Symbolic Workflow for Thermodynamics Problem Solving. In 2nd International Workshop on Symbolic and Generative AI for Science (SymGenAI4Sci), co-located with SEMANTiCS 2026: 22nd International Conference on Semantic Systems, September 15, 2026, Ghent, Belgium, 2026, vol. 4292. https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-4292/SymGenAI4Sci-paper7-short.pdf

   @inproceedings{Luisa_2026,
     author = {Vollmer, Luisa and Loubet, Rébecca and Hasse, Hans and Leitte, Heike},
     title = {KnowTD Interface: An Interactive Neuro-Symbolic Workflow for Thermodynamics Problem Solving},
     booktitle = {2nd International Workshop on Symbolic and Generative AI for Science (SymGenAI4Sci), co-located with SEMANTiCS 2026: 22nd
     International Conference on Semantic Systems, September 15, 2026, Ghent, Belgium},
     year = {2026},
     volume = {4292},
     publisher = {CEUR-WS.org},
     url = {https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-4292/SymGenAI4Sci-paper7-short.pdf},
     orcidwork = {0009-0007-6698-9578:230929352}
   }
   

2025

1. L. Vollmer, R. Loubet, F. Jirasek, S. Fellenz, H. Hasse, and H. Leitte. Enabling Transparent Problem Solving in Thermodynamics with Ontologies and Knowledge Graphs. In Joint Proceedings of the ESWC 2025 Workshops and Tutorials co-located with 22nd Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2025), Portorož, Slovenia, June 1-2, 2025, 2025, vol. 3977. https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3977/XAIKG-3.pdf

   @inproceedings{Leitte_2025,
     author = {Vollmer, Luisa and Loubet, Rébecca and Jirasek, Fabian and Fellenz, Sophie and Hasse, Hans and Leitte, Heike},
     title = {Enabling Transparent Problem Solving in Thermodynamics with Ontologies
                       and Knowledge Graphs},
     booktitle = {Joint Proceedings of the ESWC 2025 Workshops and Tutorials co-located
                       with 22nd Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2025), Portorož,
                       Slovenia, June 1-2, 2025},
     year = {2025},
     editor = {Sabou, Marta and Harth, Andreas and Lisena, Pasquale and Curry, Edward and Zhang, Bohui and Alharbi, Reham and He, Yuan and Rehm, Georg and Schimmler, Sonja and Dietze, Stefan and Manola, Natalia and Fornara, Nicoletta and Rodr{\'{\i}}guez{-}Doncel, V{\'{\i}}ctor and Domingue, John and Rettinger, Achim and Trilling, Damian and Grobelnik, Marko and d'Amato, Claudia and Fionda, Valeria and Tiddi, Ilaria and Tolomei, Gabriele},
     volume = {3977},
     publisher = {CEUR-WS.org},
     url = {https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3977/XAIKG-3.pdf},
     orcidwork = {0009-0007-6698-9578:230928958}
   }
   

2024

1. L. Vollmer, S. Fellenz, F. Jirasek, H. Leitte, and H. Hasse. KnowTD─An Actionable Knowledge Representation System for Thermodynamics. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, vol. 64, no. 15, pp. 5878–5887, Jul. 2024. 10.1021/acs.jcim.4c00647

   @article{Vollmer_2024,
     title = {KnowTD─An Actionable Knowledge Representation System for Thermodynamics},
     volume = {64},
     issn = {1549-960X},
     url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.jcim.4c00647},
     doi = {10.1021/acs.jcim.4c00647},
     number = {15},
     journal = {Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling},
     publisher = {American Chemical Society (ACS)},
     author = {Vollmer, Luisa and Fellenz, Sophie and Jirasek, Fabian and Leitte, Heike and Hasse, Hans},
     year = {2024},
     month = jul,
     pages = {5878–5887}
   }
   

2021

1. A. Lohfink, F. Gartzky, F. Wetzels, L. Vollmer, and C. Garth. Time-Varying Fuzzy Contour Trees. 2021 IEEE Visualization Conference (VIS), pp. 86–90, Oct. 2021. 10.1109/VIS49827.2021.9623286

   @article{lgw+21,
     author = {Lohfink, A. and Gartzky, F. and Wetzels, F. and Vollmer, L. and Garth, C.},
     booktitle = {2021 IEEE Visualization Conference (VIS)},
     title = {Time-Varying Fuzzy Contour Trees},
     year = {2021},
     volume = {},
     issn = {},
     pages = {86-90},
     keywords = {navigation;design methodology;conferences;time series analysis;data visualization;spatial databases;topology},
     doi = {10.1109/VIS49827.2021.9623286},
     url = {https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/VIS49827.2021.9623286},
     publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
     address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
     month = oct
   }