Dieter Landes holds a diploma in informatics and a PhD in artificial intelligence. After several years in industry as a software engineer and software manager, he became a professor of software engineering at University of Applied Sciences Coburg in 1999. Currently, he is a research professor for artificial intelligence and data stream mining at University of Applied Sciences Coburg. He (co-)authored more than 120 research articles in the areas of artificial Intelligence / knowledge-based systems, machine learning, requirements engineering and software engineering education.