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2020
Conference Papers
Heuristic Strategies in Uncertain Approval Voting Environments. Jaelle Scheuerman, Jason L. Harman, Nicholas Mattei, K. Brent Venable. In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS’20. IFAAMAS, 1993-1995.
Sequential Voting in Multi-agent Soft Constraint Aggregation. Cristina Cornelio, Maria Silvia Pini, Francesca Rossi, K. Brent Venable. In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS’20. IFAAMAS, 2131-2133.
2019
Edited volume
Algorithmic Decision Theory – 6th International Conference, ADT 2019. Saša Pekeč, Kristen Brent Venable, Editors. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 11834, Springer.
Report
Application-Oriented Computational Social Choice – Dagstuhl Seminar 19381. Umberto Grandi, Stefan Napel, Rolf Niedermeier, Kristen Venable. Dagstuhl Reports 9(9): pages 45-65.
Articles
Multi-agent soft constraint aggregation via sequential voting: theoretical and experimental results. Cristina Cornelio, Maria Silvia Pini, Kristen Brent Venable. Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems.
Conference Papers
Learning Preferences in a Cognitive Decision Model. Taher Rahgooy, K. Brent Venable. In Proceedings of Human Brain and Artificial Intelligence – First International Workshop, HBAI 2019, Held in Conjunction with IJCAI 2019. Communications in Computer and Information Science 1072, Springer, pages 181-194.
Heuristics and Voting Behavior in Multi-Winner Approval Voting. Jaelle Scheuerman, Jason L. Harman, Nicholas Mattei, and K. Brent Venable In Proceedings of the Society for Judgement and Decision Making Annual Conference. Society for Judgement and Decision Making (SJDM) – Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences (FABB).
Workshop papers
Metric Learning for Value Alignment [PDF]. Andrea Loreggia, Nicholas Mattei, Francesca Rossi, K. Brent Venable. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Safety AISafety@IJCAI 2019. CEUR Workshop Proceedings 2419.
Modeling Deliberation Over Combinatorially-Structured Domains: Similarity, Attraction and Compromise Effects. Andrea Martin and K.B. Venable. In Behavioral EC, in conjunction with the 20th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (ACM EC 2019) as part of the 2019 ACM Federated Computing Research Conference (ACM FCRC 2019), ACM.
Heuristics in Multi-Winner Approval Voting. Jaelle Scheuerman, Jason L. Harman, Nicholas Mattei, K. B. Venable. In Behavioral EC, in conjunction with the 20th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (ACM EC 2019) as part of the 2019 ACM Federated Computing Research Conference (ACM FCRC 2019), ACM.
2018
Book Chapter
Value alignment via tractable preference distance. A. Loreggia, N. Mattei, Francesca Rossi and K.B. Venable. Invited chapter to appear in Artificial Intelligence Safety and Security, R.V. Yampolskiy Editor, CRC Press.
Conference Papers
On the Distance Between CP-nets. Andrea Loreggia, Nicholas Mattei, Francesca Rossi and K.B. Venable. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2018). Stockholm, July 10-15.
Preferences and Ethical Principles in Decision Making. Andrea Loreggia, Nicholas Mattei, Francesca Rossi and K.B. Venable. In Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium 2018 on AI and Society. Stanford University, CA, USA, March 26-28.
Decision Making over Combinatorially Structured Domains. Andrea Martin and K. Venable. Doctoral Student Abstract in Proceedings of the Thirtysecond AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2018). New Orleans, LA, USA, February 2-7.
Preferences and Ethical Principles in Decision Making. Andrea Loreggia, Nicholas Mattei, Francesca Rossi and K.B. Venable. In Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics and Society (AIES 2018), New Orleans, LA, USA, February 1-3.
Workshop papers
Modeling Deliberation over Combinatorially Structured Domains: Similarity, Attraction and Compromise effects. Andrea Martin and K.B. Venable. AI and Computational Psychology: Theories, Algorithms and Applications (CompPsy 2018). Co-located with International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization (IJCAI) 2018, Stockholm, Sweden, August.
Deconfliction of Spacecraft Communication Schedules with Preference Optimization. J. Bresina, M. Dortenzio, P. Morris and K.B. Venable. 11th Multidisciplinary Workshop on Preferences Handling (MPREF 2018) co-located with AAAI 2018. New Orleans, LA, USA, February 3.
A Notion of Distance Between CP-nets [PDF]. Andrea Loreggia, Nicholas Mattei, Francesca Rossi and K.B. Venable. 11th Multidisciplinary Workshop on Preferences Handling (MPREF 2018) co-located with AAAI 2018. New Orleans, LA, USA, February 3.
Decision Making Over Combinatorially-Structured Domains. A. Martin and K.B Venable. 11th Multidisciplinary Workshop on Preferences Handling (MPREF 2018) co-located with AAAI 2018. New Orleans, LA, USA, February 3.
2017
Conference Papers
Compact Preference Representation via Fuzzy Constraints in Stable Matching Problem. Maria Silvia Pini, Francesca Rossi, and K.B. Venable. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference of Algorithmic Decision Theory (ADT 2017). Springer International Publishing, pages 333- 338.
Computational modeling of auditory spatial attention. Edward Golob, K. Brent Venable, Jaelle Scheuerman, Maxwell T. Anderson. In Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (COGSCI 2017). Computational Foundations of Cognition, pages 2114 – 2119.
A Local Search Approach for Incomplete Soft Constraint Problems: Experimental Results on Meeting Scheduling Problems. Mirco Gelain, Maria Silvia Pini, Francesca Rossi, Kristen Brent Venable and Toby Walsh. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference of Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming (CPAIOR 2017). Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science 10335, pages 403-418.
Web-Content Personalization for Resilience and Risk Communication. K.B. Venable, L. Edington, P. Riser, X. Wang, A. Parker, M. Finucane. In Proceedings of the 2017 Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill and Ecosystem Science Conference (GOMOSES 2017).
Workshop Papers
Modeling spatial auditory attention: handling equiprobable attended locations. J. Scheuerman, K. B. Venable, M.T. Anderson, E.J. Golob. IJCAI 2017 Workshop on Cognition and Artificial Intelligence for Human-Centred Design. Melbourne, Australia, August 21.
A notion of distance between CP-nets. A. Loreggia, N. Mattei, Francesca Rossi and K.B. Venable. Fifth International Workshop on Graph Structures for Knowledge Representation and reasoning (GKR 2017), co-located with IJCAI 2017. Melbourne, Australia, August 21.
Modeling Ethical Theories Compactly [PDF]. Andrea Loreggia, Francesca Rossi, K. Brent Venable. AAAI 2017 Third International Workshop on AI, Ethics and Society (AIES 2018). San Francisco, February 7.
2016
Articles
Guest Editorial: Revised Selected Papers from the AMAI 2014 Special Track on Computational Social Choice. Francesca Rossi, K.B. Venable. Annals of Mathematics Artificial Intelligence, volume 77, issue 3-4, pages 157-158.
Editorial for the Special Issue on Temporal Representation and Reasoning (TIME’13). Cesar Sánchez, K.B. Venable, Esteban Zimanyi. In Acta Informatica, volume 53, issue 2, pages 87-88.
Designing Noise-minimal Rotorcraft Approach Trajectories. Robert A. Morris, Matthew Johnson, K.B. Venable and James Lindsey. ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, volume 6, issue 4, pages 1-25.
Conference Papers
Modeling Auditory Spatial Attention with Constraints. E. Golob, K.B. Venable, M. Anderson, J. Benzell and J. Scheuerman. In Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Cognition (AIC 2016), CEUR 1895, pages 59-72.
Embedding Ethical Principles in Collective Decision Support Systems. Joshua Greene, Francesca Rossi, John Tasioulas, Kristen Venable and Brian Williams. In Proceedings of the 13th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI2016), AAAI Press.
2015
Conference Papers
Controlling Elections by Replacing Candidates or Votes. Andrea Loreggia, Nina Narodytska, Francesca Rossi, K. B. Venable, Toby Walsh. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS2015), IFAAMAS.
Reasoning with PCP-nets in a Multi-agent Context. Cristina Cornelio, Umberto Grandi, Judy Goldsmith, Nicholas Mattei, Francesca Rossi, K. Brent Venable. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS2015), IFAAMAS, 2015.
Automated Design of Quiet Trajectories Using Land Use Models. Robert A. Morris, Matthew Johnson, K.B. Venable. In Proceedings of the 71st American Helicopter Society Annual Forum & Technology Display, Acoustics Session. AHS International.
Workshop Papers
Companion-Based Ambient Robust Intelligence (CARING). B. Dorr, L. Galescu, E.J. Golob, K.B. Venable, Y. Wilks. AAAI 2015 Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Applied to Assistive Technologies and Smart Environments. Austin, Texas, USA, January.
Optimizing Rotorcraft Approach Trajectories with Acoustic and Land Use Models. Robert Morris, Matthew Johnson, K.B. Venable. AAAI 2015 Workshop on AI for Transportation (WAIT15): Advice, Interactivity and Actor Modelling. Austin, Texas, USA, January.
Flexibility meets Variability: A multi-agent constraint based approach for incorporating renewables into the power grid [PDF]. X. Jiang, R. Mettu, G. Parker and K.B. Venable. AAAI 2015 Workshop on Computational Sustainability. Austin, Texas, USA, January.
2014
Book
An introduction to constraint-based temporal reasoning. R. Bartak, R.A. Morris, K.B. Venable, Morgan & Claypool Publishers, Synthesis Lectures on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.
Conference Papers
Stable Matching problems with Soft Constraints. Maria Silvia Pini, Francesca Rossi, K.B. Venable. Short Paper in Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2014), IFAAMAS.
2013
Articles
Stability, Optimality and Manipulation in Matching Problems with Weighted Preferences. Maria Silvia Pini, Francesca Rossi, K.B. Venable, Toby Walsh. In Algorithms volume 6, issue 4, pages 782-804.
Local Search Approaches in Stable Matching Problems. Mirco Gelain, Maria Silvia Pini, Francesca Rossi, K. Brent Venable, Toby Walsh. In Algorithms volume 6, issue 4, pages 591-617.
Bribery in Voting with CP-nets. Nicholas Mattei, Maria Silvia Pini, Francesca Rossi, K. Brent Venable. In Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, volume 68, Issue 1-3, pages 135-160.
Conference Papers
Updates and Uncertainty in CP-Nets. Cristina Cornelio, Judy Goldsmith, Nicholas Mattei, Francesca Rossi, K. Brent Venable. In Proceedings of the 26th Australasian Conference on Advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI 2013), Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science 8272, pages 301-312.
Restricted Manipulation in Iterative Voting: Condorcet Efficiency and Borda Score. Umberto Grandi, Andrea Loreggia, Francesca Rossi, Kristen Brent Venable, Toby Walsh. In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Algorithmic Decision Theory (ADT 2013). Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 8176, pages 181-192.
Bribery in Voting With Soft Constraints [PDF]. Maria Silvia Pini, Francesca Rossi, K.B. Venable. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2013). AAAI Press.
A Framework for Aggregating Influenced CP-Nets and its Resistance to Bribery. Alberto Maran, Nicolas Maudet, Maria Silvia Pini, Francesca Rossi, Kristen Brent Venable. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2013). AAAI Press.
Resistance to bribery when aggregating soft constraints: complexity results. Maria Silvia Pini, Francesca Rossi, K. Venable. Short Paper in Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2013), IFAAMAS.
2012
Conference Papers
Local Search for Designing Noise-Minimal Rotorcraft Approach Trajectories. Robert A. Morris, K. Brent Venable, Marco Pegoraro, James Lindsay. In The Twenty-Fourth Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI 2012), AAAI Press.
Influence and aggregation of preferences over combinatorial domains. Nicolas Maudet, Maria Silvia Pini, Francesca Rossi, K.B. Venable. Short Paper in Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2012) IFAAMAS. (Acceptance Rate: 22.9%.)
Bribery in voting over combinatorial domains is easy [PDF]. Nicholas Mattei, Maria Silvia Pini, Francesca Rossi, K.B. Venable. Short Paper in Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2012). IFAAMAS.
Automated Design of Noise-Minimal, Safe Rotorcraft Trajectories. James Lindsay, Robert A. Morris, K. Brent Venable. In Proceedings of the 68th American Helicopter Society Annual Forum & Technology Display, Acoustics Session. AHS International.
Simulation to Support Local Search in Trajectory Optimization Planning. James Lindsay, Robert A. Morris, K. Brent Venable. In Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE Aerospace Conference. Big Sky, Montana (USA). IEEE.
2011
Book
A short introduction to preferences: between artificial intelligence and social choice. Francesca Rossi, K.B. Venable, Toby Walsh, Morgan & Claypool Publishers.
Articles
Winner Determination in Voting Trees with Incomplete Preferences and Weighted Votes. Jérôme Lang, Maria Silvia Pini, Francesca Rossi, Domenico Salvagnin, Kristen Brent Venable, Toby Walsh. In Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, volume 25, issue 1, pages 130-157.
Uncertainty in bipolar preference problems. Stefano Bistarelli, Maria Silvia Pini, Francesca Rossi, K. Brent Venable. In Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, Taylor & Francis, volume 23, issue 4, pages 545-575.
Incompleteness and Incomparability in Preference Aggregation: Complexity Results. Maria Silvia Pini, Francesca Rossi, K.B. Venable, Toby Walsh. In Artificial Intelligence – Special Issue on Representing, Processing, and Learning Preferences: Theoretical and Practical Challenges, C. Domshlak, E. H¨ullermeier, S. Kaci, H. Prade Editors, volume 175, issue 7-8, pages 1272-1289.
Manipulation complexity and gender neutrality in stable marriage procedures. Maria Silvia Pini, Francesca Rossi, K.B. Venable, Toby Walsh, In Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, volume 22, issue 1, pages 183-199.
Conference Papers
Temporal preferences. K.B. Venable. Invited contribution in Proceedings of the 18th International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning (TIME 2011), CPS.
Weights in stable marriage problems increase manipulation opportunities. Maria Silvia Pini, Francesca Rossi, K.B. Venable, Toby Walsh. Proceedings of the Thirteenth conference on Theoretical Aspects of Rationality and Knowledge (TARK XIII), recipient of the “best poster award”, pages 200-204, ACM.
The next best solution. R. Brafman, E. Pilotto, Francesca Rossi, D. Salvagnin, K.B. Venable, Toby Walsh. In Proceedings of the Nectar Program (new scientific and technical advances in research) at the Twenty-Fifth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-11), pages 1537-1540, AAAI Press, 2011.
Multi-agent soft constraint aggregation via sequential voting. G. Dalla Pozza, Maria Silvia Pini, Francesca Rossi, K.B. Venable. In Proceedings of the Twentysecond International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2011), pages 172-177, IJCAI/AAAI, 2011.
Stability and Optimality in matching problems with weighted preferences. Maria Silvia Pini, Francesca Rossi, K.B. Venable, Toby Walsh. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART 2011), Volume 2 – Agents, pages 45-53, SciTePress.
Procedural fairness in stable marriage problems. M. Gelain, Maria Silvia Pini, Francesca Rossi, K.B. Venable, Toby Walsh. In Proceedings of the Tenth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems (AAMAS-11), pages 1209-1210, IFAAMAS, 2011.
Possible and necessary winners in voting trees: majority graphs vs. profiles. Maria Silvia Pini, Francesca Rossi, K.B. Venable, Toby Walsh. In Proceedings of the Tenth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems (AAMAS-11), pages 311-318, IFAAMAS.
Multi-agent Soft Constraint Aggregation – A Sequential Approach. Maria Silvia Pini, Francesca Rossi, K.B. Venable, Toby Walsh. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART 2011), Volume 1 – Artificial Intelligence, pages 277-282, SciTePress.
A local search approach to solve incomplete fuzzy and weighted CSPs [PDF]. Mirco Gelain, Maria Silvia Pini, Francesca Rossi, K.B. Venable, Toby Walsh. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART 2011), Volume 1 – Artificial Intelligence, pages 582-585, SciTePress.
Male optimal and unique stable marriages with partially ordered preferences [PDF]. Mirco. Gelain, Maria Silvia Pini, Francesca Rossi, K.B. Venable, Toby Walsh. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Collaborative Agents – Research and development (CARE 2009/2010), Springer LNAI 6066.
2010
Articles
Interval-valued soft constraint problems. M. Gelain, Maria Silvia Pini, Francesca Rossi, K.B. Venable, N. Wilson. In Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, volume 58, issues 3-4, pages 261-298.
Elicitation strategies for soft constraint problems with missing preferences: Properties, algorithms and experimental studies. M. Gelain, Maria Silvia Pini, Francesca Rossi, K.B. Venable, Toby Walsh. In Artificial Intelligence, volume 174, issues 3-4,pages 270-294.
From soft constraints to bipolar preferences: modeling framework and solving issues. Stefano Bistarelli, Maria Silvia Pini, Francesca Rossi, K. Brent Venable. In Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, volume 22, issue 2, pages 135-158.
Soft constraint problems with uncontrollable variables. Maria Silvia Pini, Francesca Rossi, K.B. Venable. In Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, volume 22, issue 4, pages 269-310.
Dynamic Consistency of Fuzzy Conditional Temporal Problems. Marco Falda, Francesca Rossi, K. Brent Venable. In Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, volume 21, issue 1, pages 74-88.
Conference Papers
Male optimality and uniqueness in stable marriage problems with partial orders [PDF]. M. Gelain, Maria Silvia Pini, Francesca Rossi, K.B. Venable, Toby Walsh. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems (AAMAS-10), pages 1387-1388. IFAAMAS.
Local search algorithms on the Stable Marriage Problem: Experimental Studies [PDF]. M. Gelain, Maria Silvia Pini, Francesca Rossi, K.B. Venable, Toby Walsh, In Proceedings the Nineteenth European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2010), pages 1085-1086, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications vol.215, IOS Press.
Finding the Next Solution in Constraint- and Preference-Based Knowledge Representation Formalisms [PDF]. R.I. Brafman, Francesca Rossi, D. Salvagnin, K.B. Venable, Toby Walsh. In Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on the Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR2010), AAAI Press.
Local Search for Stable Marriage Problems with Ties and Incomplete Lists. M. Gelain, Maria Silvia Pini, Francesca Rossi, K.B. Venable, Toby Walsh. In Proceedings of the Eleventh Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI 2010), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6230, pages 64-75, Springer.
2009
Articles
Aggregating Partially Ordered Preferences. Maria Silvia Pini, Francesca Rossi, Kristen Brent Venable, Toby Walsh. In Journal of Logic and Computation, volume 19, issue 3, pages 475-502.
Conference Papers
Manipulation and gender neutrality in stable marriage procedures. Maria Silvia Pini, Francesca Rossi, K.B. Venable, Toby Walsh. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems (AAMAS-09), pages 665-672. IFAAMAS.
Compact Preference Representation in Stable Marriage Problems [PDF]. Enrico Pilotto, Francesca Rossi, Kristen Brent Venable, Toby Walsh. In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Algorithmic Decision Theory (ADT 2009), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5783, pages 390-401, Springer.
Preference Aggregation over Restricted Ballot Languages: Sincerity and Strategy-Proofness [PDF]. Ulle Endriss, Maria Silvia Pini, Francesca Rossi, K.B. Venable. In Proceedings of the Twentyfirst International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2009), pages 122-127, IJCAI, 2009.
2008
Articles
Preferences in Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization. Francesca Rossi, Kristen Brent Venable, Toby Walsh. In AI Magazine, volume 29, issue 4, pages 58-68.
Comparing the notions of optimality in CP-nets, strategic games and soft constraints [PDF]. K.Z. Apt, Francesca Rossi, K.B. Venable. In Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, volume 52, issue 1, pages 25-54.
Fuzzy conditional temporal problems: Strong and weak consistency [PDF]. M. Falda, Francesca Rossi, K.B. Venable. In Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, volume 21, issue 5, pages 710-722.
Conference Papers
Elicitation Strategies for Fuzzy Constraint Problems with Missing Preferences: Algorithms and Experimental Studies. M. Gelain, Maria Silvia Pini, Francesca Rossi, K.B. Venable, Toby Walsh. In Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP 2008), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5202, pages 402-417, Springer.
Robust Solutions in Unstable Optimization Problems [PDF]. Maria Silvia Pini, Francesca Rossi, K.B. Venable, Rina Dechter. In Post-Proceedings of the Annual ERCIM Workshop on Constraint Solving and Constraint Logic Programming (CSCLP 2008), pages 116-131, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5655, Springer.
Dealing with Incomplete Agents’ Preferences and an Uncertain Agenda in Group Decision Making via Sequential Majority Voting [PDF]. Maria Silvia Pini, Francesca Rossi, K.B. Venable, Toby Walsh. In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on the Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR2008), pages 571-578, AAAI Press.
2007
Articles
Solving and learning a tractable class of soft temporal constraints: Theoretical and experimental results. L. Khatib, P.H. Morris, R. Morris, Francesca Rossi, A. Sperduti, K.B. Venable. In AI Communications, volume 20, issue 3, pages 181-209.
Conference Papers
Dealing with Incomplete Preferences in Soft Constraint Problems [PDF]. Mirco Gelain, Maria Silvia Pini, Francesca Rossi, K.B. Venable. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP 2007), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4741, pages 286-300, Springer.
Uncertainty in Bipolar Preference Problems. Stefano Bistarelli, Maria Silvia Pini, Francesca Rossi, K. Brent Venable. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP 2007), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4741, pages 782-789, Springer.
Strong Controllability of Disjunctive Temporal Problems with Uncertainty [PDF]. Bart Peintner, K.B. Venable, Neil Yorke-Smith. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP 2007), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4741, pages 856-863, Springer.
A comparison of notions of optimality in Soft Constraints and Graphical Games. Krzysztof R. Apt, Francesca Rossi, K.B. Venable. In Post-Proceedings of the Annual ERCIM International Workshop on Constraint Solving and Constraint Logic Programming (CSCLP 2007), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5129, pages 1-16, Springer.
Winner Determination in Sequential Majority Voting. J. Lang, Maria Silvia Pini, Francesca Rossi, K.B. Venable, Toby Walsh. In Proceedings of the 20th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2007), pages 1372-1377, Morgan Kaufmann.
Incompleteness and Incomparability in Preference Aggregation [PDF]. Maria Silvia Pini, Francesca Rossi, K.B. Venable, Toby Walsh. In Proceedings of the 20th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2007), pages 1464-1469, Morgan Kaufmann.
2006
Articles
Uncertainty in Soft Temporal Constraint Problems: A General Framework and Controllability Algorithms for the Fuzzy case [PDF]. Francesca Rossi, K.B. Venable, Neil Yorke-Smith. In Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, volume 27, pages 617-674.
Hard and soft constraints for reasoning about qualitative conditional preferences. C. Domshlak, S. Prestwich, Francesca Rossi, K.B. Venable, Toby Walsh. In Journal of Heuristics special issue on preferences, S. Bistarelli and Francesca Rossi Editors, volume 12, pages 263-285.
Aggregating preferences cannot be fair [PDF]. Francesca Rossi, K.B. Venable, Toby Walsh. Intelligenza Artificiale, volume 2, issue 1, pages 30-38.
Conference Papers
Bipolar Preference Problems: Framework, Properties and Solving techniques. Stefano Bistarelli, Maria Silvia Pini, Francesca Rossi, K.B. Venable. In Post-Proceedings of Annual ERCIM Workshop on Constraint Solving and Constraint Logic Programming (CSCLP 2006), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4651, pag. 78-92, Springer.
Computing possible and necessary winners from incomplete partially-ordered preferences [PDF]. Maria Silvia Pini, Francesca Rossi, K.B. Venable, Toby Walsh. In Proceedings the Fifteenth European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2006), Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications vol.215, pages 767-768, IOS Press.
Bipolar preference problems. S. Bistarelli, Maria Silvia Pini, Francesca Rossi, K.B. Venable. In Proceedings the Fifteenth European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2006), Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, volume 215, pages 705-706, IOS Press.
Strategic voting when aggregating partially ordered preferences [PDF]. Maria Silvia Pini, Francesca Rossi, K.B. Venable, and Toby Walsh. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems (AAMAS-06), pages 685-687. ACM.
2005
Conference Papers
Uncertainty in Soft Constraints Problems [PDF]. Maria Silvia Pini, Francesca Rossi, K.B. Venable. In Proceedings of International Conference on Intelligent Agents, Web Technologies and Internet Commerce (IAWTIC 2005), pages 583-589, IEEE.
CP-nets and Nash equilibria [PDF]. Krzysztof R. Apt, Francesca Rossi, K.B. Venable. In Proceedings of 3rd International Conference, on Computational Intelligence, Robotics and Autonomous Systems (CIRAS 2005), pages 13-19, Elsevier.
Disjunctive temporal planning with uncertainty [PDF]. K.B. Venable, N. Yorke-Smith. In Proceedings of the 19th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2005), pages 1721-1722, Morgan Kaufmann.
Aggregating partially ordered preferences: possibility and impossibility results [PDF]. Maria Silvia Pini, Francesca Rossi, K.B. Venable, Toby Walsh. In Proceedings of the 10th Conference on Theoretical Aspects of Rationality and Knowledge (TARK-2005), pages 193-206, ACM Digital Library.
Constraint-based Preferential Optimization [PDF]. S. Prestwich, Francesca Rossi, K.B. Venable, Toby Walsh. In Proceedings of the 20th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2005), pages 461-466, AAAI Press / MIT Press.
Possibility Theory for Reasoning about Uncertain Soft Constraints. Maria Silvia Pini, Francesca Rossi, K.B. Venable. In Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty, (ECSQARU 2005), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3571, pages 800-811, Springer.
2004
Conference Papers
Softly Constrained CP-nets. S. Prestwich, Francesca Rossi, K.B. Venable, Toby Walsh. In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP 2004), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3258, p. 806, Springer.
2003
Conference Papers
Controllability of Soft Temporal Constraint Problems. Francesca Rossi, K.B. Venable, N. YorkeSmith. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP 2004), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3258, pages 588-603, Springer.
mCP nets: representing and reasoning with preferences of multiple agents. Francesca Rossi, K.B. Venable, Toby Walsh. In Proceedings of the 19th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2004), pages 729-734, AAAI Press / MIT Press.
Alpha-dynamic controllability of Simple Temporal Problems with Preferences and Uncertainty. K.B. Venable. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP 2003), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2833, p. 999, Springer.
Soft Constraints for Handling Temporal Preferences. Francesca Rossi, K.B. Venable. Recontres Francophones sur la Logique Flue et ses Applications Cepadues Editions.
Temporal Reasoning with Preferences and Uncertainty [PDF]. Francesca Rossi, K.B. Venable, N. Yorke-Smith. In Proceedings of the 18th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2003), pages 1385, Morgan Kaufmann.
Tractable Pareto Optimization of Temporal Preferences [PDF]. Lina Khatib, Paul Morris, Robert Morris, K.B. Venable. In Proceedings of the 18th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2003), pages 1289-1294, Morgan Kaufmann.
Reasoning about soft constraints and conditional preferences: complexity results and approximation techniques [PDF]. C. Domshlak, Francesca Rossi, K.B. Venable, Toby Walsh. In Proceedings of the 18th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2003), pp.215-220, Morgan Kaufmann.
2002
Conference Papers
Solving and Learning Soft Temporal Constraints; Ceteris Paribus Statements Represented as Soft Constraints. K.B. Venable. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP 2002), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2470, p. 779, Springer.
Solving and Learning Soft Temporal Constraints: an experimental study [PDF]. Francesca Rossi, K.B. Venable, A. Sperduti, L. Khatib, P. Morris, R. Morris. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP 2002), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2470, pages 249-263, Springer.
K. Brent Venable 