Francesca Rossi

Awards:

• AAAI fellowship, 2012
• First ACP distinguished service award, 2010
• ECCAI fellowship, 2008

On-going/recent organizational/editing/etc. activities:

• Editor in Chief of JAIR, January 2015 - December 2018
• President of IJCAI, August 2013 - August 2015
• IJCAI trustee, 2009-2016
• Senior PC member for AAMAS 2015
• Invited speaker at STAIRS 2014, Prague, August 2014
• Keynote speaker at PRICAI 2012, September 3 - 7, 2012, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia
• Program chair of IJCAI 2013, Bejin, China
• Associate editor of AMAI
• Senior program committee member of AAMAS 2012
• Area chair for KR 2012 and ECAI 2012
• Area chair of IJCAI 2011, Barcelona, July 16-22, 2011.
• Program committee member of
  • Turing-100: the Turing Centenary Conference, June 22-25, 2012, Manchester, UK.
  • RCRA 2012, June 14-16 2012, Rome, Italy.
  • COPLAS 2012, June 24-25, 2012, Atibaia, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
  • JELIA 2012, 13th European Conference on Logics in Artificial Intelligence, Dept. 26-28, 2012, Toulouse, France
  • AIMSA 2012, 14th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, Application
  • LPAR-18 (18th International Conference on Logic for Programming Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning), March 2012, Venezuela.
  • ISAIM 2012, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, January 2012.
  • AAAI 2011 NECTAR track
  • ADT 2011
  • AAAI 2010 NECTAR track, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, July 11-15, 2010.
  • JELIA 2010, Helsinki, Finland, 13-15 September 2010.
  • COPLAS 2010, Toronto, May 12-13, 2010 (colocated with ICAPS 2010).
  • CP 2010.
  • AAAI 2010, Atlanta, Georgia, July 11-15, 2010.
  • COMSOC 2010, Dusseldorf, Germany.
  • AAMAS 2010, Toronto, Canada, May 10-14, 2010.
  • KR 2010, Toronto, Canada, May 9-13, 2010.
• Area chair for ECAI 2010, Lisbon, Portugal, August 16-20, 2010.
• Lecturer at ACAI 2009, the ECCAI advanced course on artificial intelligence, Belfast, August 23-29, 2009.
• Program committee member of IJCAI 2009, Pasadena, USA, July 11-17, 2009.
• Organizing chair of ADT 2009, the first international conference on Algorithmic Decision Theory, Venice, October 21-23, 2009.
• Associate editor of KAIS (Journal of Knowledge and Information Systems), Springer.
• Associate editor of the AI Journal, Elsevier, 2009-2012.
• Member of the editorial and advisory board of Constraints, Kluwer.
• Member of the advisory board of JAIR (Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research) until June 2013 (associate editor in 2005-2007).
• Member of the European Editorial Board of the European dissertation series of IOS Press.
• Member of the executive committe of GULP - Gruppo Ricercatori e Utenti Logic Programming
• Member of the International Advisory Committee of the BISC Special Interest Group on Fuzzy Logic and the Internet.
• Editorial advisor for TPLP
• Member of the editorial board of Intelligenza Artificiale, IOS Press.

Some past activities

:

• Program committee member of
  • COPLAS 2008
  • AIMSA 2008 (13th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, Applications), Varna, Bulgaria, September 4-6, 2008.
  • JELIA 2008, Dresden, September 28 - October 1, 2008.
  • COMSOC 2008, Liverpool, 3-5 September 2008.
  • AAAI 2008 Nectar track
  • KR 2008, Sydney, Australia, September 14-18, 2008.
  • CP 2008, Sydney, Australia, September 16-19, 2008.
  • AAAI 2008 (senior PC member), Chicago, Illinois, July 13-17, 2008.
  • AAMAS 2008, Estoril, Portugal, May 12-16, 2008.
  • ECAI 2008, Patras, Greece, July 21-25, 2008.
• President of the Executive Committee of the Association for Constraint Programming (2003-2007). Member of the Executive Committee from 1998 to 2008.
• Co-organizer of the Dagstuhl seminar on "Computational Issues in Social Choice", U. Endriss (Univ. of Amsterdam, NL), J. Lang (Univ. of Toulouse, FR), F. Rossi (Univ. of Padova, IT), T. Sandholm (CMU Pittsburgh, US), 21-26 October 2007.
• Co-organizer of the 1st CP summer school, Acquafredda di Maratea, Italy, September 11-15, 2005
• Invited talk at JELIA 2004, Lisbon, September 2004.
• Program committee member of
  • AI 2007 (20th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence), Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, December 2007.
  • CP 2007, Providence, Rhode Island, September 2007.
  • ICAPS 2007 Workshop on Constraint Satisfaction for Planning and Scheduling Problems, Providence, Rhode Island, September 2007.
  • AAAI 2007
  • AAAI 2007 nectar track
  • ICLP 2007, Porto, Portugal, September 8-13, 2007
  • IJCAI 2007 (senior PC member)
  • COMSOC 2006 (1st International Workshop on Computational Social Choice), Amsterdam, 6-8 December 2006
  • AAAI 2006
  • ECAI 2006 (constraint area chair)
  • CP 2006
  • JELIA 2006
  • CP 2005
  • IJCAI 2005 workshop on preferences
  • FLAIRS 2005 (special track on constraint solving and programming).
  • PADL 2005
  • AAAI 2005
  • IJCAI 2005
  • Soft 2006 (8th International Workshop on Preferences and Soft Constraints), September 25th 2006, Nantes, France
  • PPDP 2004, Verona, Italy, August 23-28, 2004
  • AAAI 2004, July 25-29, 2004, San Jose, California.
  • ICAPS 2004, June 3-7, Whistler (Vancouver), Canada.
• Co-organizer of the joint workshop of the ERCIM Working Group on Constraints and the CologNet area on Constraint and Logic Programming on ''Constraint solving and constraint logic programming'', Budapest, June 2003. Selected papers published in "Recent Advances in Constraints: Joint ERCIM/CoLogNET International Workshop on Constraint Solving and Constraint Logic Programming", CSCLP 2003, Budapest, Hungary, June 30 - July 2, 2003. Available as LNAI 3010, Springer Verlag.
• Area coordinator for Compulog Net : a European Network of Excellence with a research area on constraint logic programming.
• Program committee member of
  • ICLP 2003, Bombay, India, December 9-13, 2003.
  • special track on constraint solving and programming at FLAIRS 2003, St. Augustine, Florida, May 12-14, 2003.
  • IJCAI 2003, Acapulco, Mexico, August 9-15, 2003.
• Program chair of CP 2003, Kinsale, Cork, Ireland, September 2003.
• Co-organizer of the joint workshop of the ERCIM Working Group on Constraints and the CologNet area on Constraint and Logic Programming on ''Constraint solving and constraint logic programming'', Cork Constraint Computation Centre, Cork, Ireland, June 19th-21st, 2002.
• Program committee member of
  • CP 2002, the 8th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, September 7-13, 2002.
  • PPDP 2002, the International Conference on Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming, Pittsburgh, October 6-8, 2002.
  • AAAI 2002, the 14th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, July 28 - August 1, 2002, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
  • of ECAI 2002, the 2002 European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, July 22-26, 2002, Lyon.
  • ICLP 2002, the 2002 International Conference on Logic Programming, Copenhagen, July 29th--August 2nd, 2002.
  • FSKD 2002, the 2002 International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery, Singapore, November 18-22, 2002.
• Chair of the CP 2002 doctoral programme , an event part of CP 2002, the 8th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, September 7-13, 2002.
• Co-organizer of the AAAI 2 002 workshop on preferences in AI and CP, July 2001, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Deadline: March 15, 2002.
• Special issue of the Constraints Journal (Kluwer) on soft constraints. Call for papers: text, postscript. Deadline: Dec.15, 2000.
• Chair of the CP 2001 doctoral programme, an event part of CP 2001, the International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programmi ng, Cyprus, November 2001.
• Program committee member of
  • IJCAI 2001, the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Seattle, August 4-10, 2001.
  • KI 2001, the International Joint German/Austrian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Vienna, September 19-21, 2001.
• CP2000 workshop on modelling and solving with soft constraints, Singapore, September 22, 2000.
• ERCIM/CompulogNet workshop on constraints, Padova, June 19-21, 2000.
• Program committee member of
  • CP 2000, the 6th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming, Singapore, September 2000.
  • ECAI 2000, the 14th European Conference on AI, Berlin, August 20-25, 2000.
  • the constraint stream of CL 2000, the 1st International Conference on Computational Logic, London, July 24-28, 2000.
• ECAI 2000 tutorial on soft constraints , Berlin, August 2000.
• CP99 workshop on modelling and solving with soft constraints, Alexandra, Virginia, October 16, 1999.
• ERCIM/CompulogNet workshop on constraints, Cyprus, October 25-27, 1999.
• Conference chair of the Fourth International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming, Pisa, Italy, October 26-30, 1998.