Department of Information
Engineering
University of Padova
(Italy)
Via Gradenigo,
6/B
35131 - Padova Italy
pini‘AT’dei.unipd.it
(please replace ‘AT’ with @)
Biographic Notes
Research Interests
Phd Thesis
Department of Pure and Applied Mathematics. University of Padova, Italy, March
2007.
My supervisor:
Prof. Francesca Rossi.
Teaching
Publications
2012
J. Lang, M. S. Pini, F.
Rossi, D. Salvagnin, K. B. Venable, and T. Walsh.
Winner
Determination in Voting Trees with Incomplete Preferences and Weighted Votes.
In Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems,
25(1): 130-157, Springer, 2012.
M. S. Pini, F. Rossi, K. B.
Venable, and T. Walsh.
Stability
and optimality in matching problems with weighted preferences.
Agents and Artificial Intelligence 2011, Revised Selected Papers,
Communications in Computer and Information Science, CCIS 271, Springer,
2012.
N. Mattei, M. S. Pini, F. Rossi, K. B. Venable.
Bribery in Voting Over Combinatorial Domains Is Easy.
Proceedings of International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics (ISAIM 2012),
Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA, January 2012.
N. Mattei, M. S. Pini, F. Rossi, K. B. Venable.
Bribery in Voting Over Combinatorial Domains Is Easy.
Proceedings of the 11th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2012),
short paper, to appear.
N. Maudet, M. S. Pini, F. Rossi, K. B. Venable.
Influence and aggregation of preferences over combinatorial domains.
Proceedings of the 11th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2012),
short paper, to appear.
2011
M. S. Pini, F. Rossi, K. B.
Venable, and T. Walsh.
Incompleteness
and Incomparability in Preference Aggregation: Complexity Results.
In Artificial Intelligence - Special Issue on
Representing, Processing, and Learning Preferences: Theoretical and Practical
Challenges,
175(7-8): 1272-1289, Elsevier, 2011
(Impact Factor: 3.036)
G. Dalla Pozza,
M. S. Pini, F. Rossi, K. B. Venable.
Multi-agent soft constraint
aggregation via sequential voting.
Proceedings of the 22th
International Joint Conference of Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2011),
full paper, Barcelona, Spain,
2011.
M. S. Pini, F. Rossi, K. B.
Venable, T. Walsh.
Weights in stable marriage
problems increase manipulation opportunities.
Proceedings of the 13th
Conference on Theoretical Aspects of Rationality and Knowledge (TARK 2011),
ACM digital library,
Groningen, Netherlands, 2011, Best
Poster Award
S. Bistarelli, M. S. Pini, F. Rossi, and K. B. Venable.
Uncertainty in bipolar preference
problems.
In Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial
Intelligence, Taylor & Francis, 23(4), 2011.
M. S. Pini, F. Rossi, K. B.
Venable, and T. Walsh.
Manipulation complexity and
gender neutrality in stable marriage procedures.
In Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 22(1):
183-199, Springer 2011.
M. S. Pini, F. Rossi, K. B.
Venable, and T. Walsh.
Stability in matching
problems with weighted preferences.
In Proceedings of
the 3rd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART
2011),
SciTePress, regular paper,
2011.
M. Gelain, M. S. Pini, F. Rossi, K. B. Venable, and T. Walsh.
A local search approach to
solve incomplete fuzzy CSPs.
In Proceedings of
the 3rd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART
2011),
SciTePress, poster, 2011.
M. Gelain, M. S. Pini, F. Rossi, K. B. Venable, and T. Walsh.
Male optimal and unique
stable marriages with partially ordered preferences.
In Proceedings of
the International Workshop on Collaborative Agents - REsearch
and development (CARE 2009/2010),
Springer LNAI 6066,
2011.
M. S. Pini, F. Rossi, K. B.
Venable, and T. Walsh.
Possible and necessary
winners in voting trees: majority graphs vs. profiles.
In Proceedings of
the 10th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent
Systems (AAMAS 2011),
full paper, IFAAMAS
Press, Taipei, Taiwan.
M. Gelain,M. S. Pini, F. Rossi, K. B. Venable, and T.
Walsh.
Procedural fairness in
stable marriage problems.
In Proceedings of
the 10th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent
Systems (AAMAS 2011),
extended abstract,
IFAAMAS Press, Taipei, Taiwan.
M. S. Pini, F. Rossi, K. B.
Venable, and T. Walsh.
Weights in Stable
Marriage Problems Increase Manipulation Opportunities.
In Proceedings of
the IJCAI Workshop on Social Choice and Artificial Intelligence (WSCAI 2011),
Barcelona, Spain,
July 2011.
N. Maudet, M. S. Pini, F. Rossi, K. B. Venable.
Influencing and
aggregating agents' preferences over combinatorial domains.
In Proceedings of
the IJCAI Workshop on Social Choice and Artificial Intelligence (WSCAI 2011),
Barcelona, Spain,
July 2011.
2010
M. Gelain, M. S. Pini, F. Rossi, K. B. Venable, and T. Walsh.
In Artificial
Intelligence, 174(3-4), pp. 270-294, Elsevier, 2010. (Impact Factor: 3.036)
M. Gelain, M. S. Pini, F. Rossi, K. B. Venable, and N. Wilson.
Interval-valued Soft Constraint
Problems.
In Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence -
Special Issue for ISAIM 2008, Springer, 2010.
M. S. Pini, F. Rossi, and K.
B. Venable.
Soft Constraint Problems
With Uncontrollable Variables.
In Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial
Intelligence,
Taylor &
Francis, 22(4): 269-310 2010.
S. Bistarelli, M. S. Pini, F. Rossi, and K. B. Venable.
From soft constraints to
bipolar preferences: modelling framework and solving
issues.
In Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial
Intelligence, 22(2), pp. 135-158, Taylor & Francis, 2010.
M. Gelain, M. S. Pini, F. Rossi, K. B. Venable, T. Walsh.
Male optimality
and uniqueness in stable marriage problems with partial orders,
Technical Report,
2010.
M. Gelain, M. S. Pini, F. Rossi, K. B. Venable, and T. Walsh.
Male optimality and uniqueness
in stable matching problems with partial orders (Extended Abstract).
In Proceedings of
the 9th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent
Systems (AAMAS 2010),
IFAAMAS Press, pp.
1387-1388, Toronto, Canada, 2010.
M. Gelain, M. S. Pini, F. Rossi, K. B. Venable, and T. Walsh.
Local search algorithms on the
stable marriage problem: experimental studies.
Accepted at the
19th European Conference of Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2010), short paper,
IOS Press, Lisbon, Portugal, 2010.
M. Gelain, M. S. Pini, F. Rossi, K. B. Venable, and T. Walsh.
Local search for stable marriage
problems with ties and incomplete lists.
Accepted at the
11th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI
2010),
regular paper,
Springer LNCS, Daegu, Korea, 2010.
M. Gelain, M. S. Pini, F. Rossi, K. B. Venable, and T. Walsh.
Local search for
stable marriage problems with ties and incomplete lists.
In Proceedings of
the ECAI'10 Multidisciplinary Workshop on Advances in Preference Handling
(MPREF 2010),
Lisbon, Portugal,
August 2010.
M. Gelain, M. S. Pini, F. Rossi, K. B. Venable, and T. Walsh.
Local search for
stable marriage problems.
In Proceedings of
the Third International Workshop on Computational Social Choice (COMSOC 2010),
Dusseldorf,
Germany, September 2010.
M. S. Pini, F. Rossi, K. B.
Venable, and T. Walsh.
Stable marriage
problems with quantitative preferences.
In Proceedings of
the Third International Workshop on Computational Social Choice (COMSOC 2010),
Dusseldorf,
Germany, September 2010.
M. Gelain, M. S. Pini, F. Rossi, K. B. Venable, and T. Walsh.
A local search
approach to solve incomplete fuzzy and weighted CSPs.
In Proceedings of
the CP'10 Workshop on Preferences and Soft Constraints (SOFT 2010),
St Andrews,
Scotland, September 2010.
2009
U. Endriss, M. S. Pini, F. Rossi, K. B. Venable.
Preference
Aggregation over Restricted Ballot Languages: Sincerity and Strategy-Proofness.
In Proceedings of
the 21th International Joint Conference of Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI
2009),
Pasadena (USA),
AAAI Press, 2009.
M. S. Pini, F.
Rossi, K. B. Venable, R. Dechter.
Robust solutions in unstable
optimization problems.
In Recent Advances
in Constraints, Springer LNAI, Springer Verlag Berlin
Heidelbergh, 2009.
M. S. Pini, F. Rossi, K. B.
Venable and T. Walsh.
Manipulation and
gender neutrality in stable marriage procedures.
In Proceedings of
the 8th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent
Systems (AAMAS 2009),
ACM Press,
Budapest, Hungary, May 2009.
M. Gelain, M. S. Pini, F. Rossi, K. B. Venable, and T. Walsh.
Male optimal and
unique stable marriages with partially ordered preferences.
In Proceedings of
the International Workshop on Collaborative Agents -- REsearch
and Development (CARE 2009),
Melbourne,
Australia, December 2009.
2008
Mirco Gelain, M. S. Pini, F. Rossi, K.
B. Venable and T. Walsh.
In Proceedings of
the 14th International Conference on
Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP 2008),
Springer, Sydney, Australia, September 2008.
M. S. Pini, F. Rossi, K. B. Venable and T. Walsh.
In Proceedings of
the 11th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and
Reasoning,
AAAI Press, Sydney,
Australia, September 2008.
M. S. Pini, F. Rossi, K. B.
Venable and T. Walsh.
Aggregating partially
ordered preferences.
In Journal of Logic and Computation, Oxford University
Press, April 2008.
M. Gelain, M. S. Pini, F.
Rossi, K. Brent Venable, N. Wilson.
Imprecise Soft
Constraint Problems.
In Proc. AAAI-08 Multidisciplinary Workshop on Advances in
Preference Handling,
Chicago, Illinois,
July 13-14, 2008.
M. Gelain, M. S. Pini, F.
Rossi, K. Brent Venable, T. Walsh.
In Proc. AAAI-08 Multidisciplinary Workshop on Advances in
Preference Handling,
Chicago, Illinois,
July 13-14, 2008.
M. S. Pini, F.
Rossi, K. Brent Venable, R. Dechter.
Robust solutions in
unstable optimization problems.
In Proc. CSCLP-08, Annual ERCIM Workshop on Constraint
Solving and Constraint Logic Programming,
Rome, Italy, June,
18 - 20, 2008.
M. Gavanelli, M. S. Pini.
FCP-Nets: extending
constrained CP-nets with objective functions.
In Proc. CSCLP-08, Annual ERCIM Workshop on Constraint
Solving and Constraint Logic Programming,
Rome, Italy, June,
18 - 20, 2008.
2007
M. Gelain, M. S. Pini, F. Rossi and K. B. Venable.
Dealing with
incomplete preferences in soft constraint problems.
In Proceedings of
the 13th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint
Programming (CP 2007),
pp. 286-300,
Springer LNCS 4741, Springer Verlag Berlin Heidelbergh, 2007.
M. S. Pini, F. Rossi, K. B.
Venable and T. Walsh.
Determining winners
in weighted and unweighted sequential majority
voting.
In Proceedings of
the Dagstuhl Seminar on Computational Issues in Social
Choice, Dagstuhl, Germany, 2007.
M. S. Pini, F. Rossi, K. B.
Venable and T. Walsh.
Determining
winners in weighted sequential majority voting: incomplete profiles vs.
majority graphs.
In Proceedings of
the CLIMA-VIII 2007 Workshop on Computational Logic and Multi-agent Systems,
Porto, Portugal, 2007.
S. Bistarelli, M. S. Pini, F. Rossi and K. B. Venable.
Uncertainty in
bipolar preference problems.
In Proceedings of
the 13th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint
Programming (CP 2007),
pp. 782-789,
Springer LNCS 4741, Springer Verlag Berlin Heidelbergh, 2007.
M. S. Pini, F. Rossi, K. B.
Venable and T. Walsh.
Sequential majority
voting with incomplete preferences.
In Proceedings of
the AAAI 2007 Workshop on Preference Handling for Artificial Intelligence (PREF
2007),
held in conjunction
of the 22nd Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI'07, Vancouver, Canada,
July 2007.
M. Gelain, M. S. Pini, F. Rossi and K. B. Venable.
Soft Constraint
Problems with Incompleteness.
Annual ERCIM
Workshop on Constraint Solving and Constraint Logic Programming (CSCLP 2007),
Rocquencourt, Yvelines France, June 2007.
M. S. Pini. Problemi con
preferenze ed incertezza.
Note del SEMINARIO DOTTORATO della Scuola di Dottorato
di Ricerca in Scienze Matematiche dell'Universita' di
Padova.
University of Padova, June 2007.
S. Bistarelli, M. S. Pini, F. Rossi and K. B. Venable.
Bipolar preference
problems: framework, properties and solving techniques.
Recent Advances in
Constraints. Selected papers from 2006 CSCLP Workshop,
Springer LNAI 4651,
pp. 78-92, Springer Verlag Berlin Heidelbergh,
2007.
J. Lang, M. S. Pini, F.
Rossi, K. B. Venable and T. Walsh.
Winner determination in
sequential majority voting.
In Proceedings of
the 20th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI
2007),
AAAI Press, pp.
1372-1377, Hyderabad, India, January 2007.
M. S. Pini, F. Rossi, K. B.
Venable and T. Walsh.
Incompleteness and incomparability
in preference aggregation.
In Proceedings of
the 20th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI
2007),
AAAI Press, pp.
1464-1469, Hyderabad, India, January 2007.
2006
M. S. Pini, F. Rossi, K. B.
Venable and T. Walsh.
Strategic voting when
aggregating partially ordered preferences.
In Proceedings of
the 5th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent
Systems (AAMAS 2006),
ACM Press, pp. 685-687, Hakodate, Japan, May
2006.
S. Bistarelli, M. S. Pini, F. Rossi and K. B. Venable.
In Proceedings of
the 17th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2006),
IOS Press, vol.
141, ISBN 1-58603-642-4, pp. 705-706, Riva del Garda, Italy, August 2006.
M. S. Pini, F. Rossi, K. B.
Venable and T. Walsh.
Computing possible and
necessary winners from incomplete partially-ordered preferences.
In Proceedings of
the 17th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2006), Best
poster Award,
IOS Press, vol.
141, ISBN 1-58603-642-4, pp. 767-768, Riva del Garda, Italy, August 2006.
S. Bistarelli, M. S. Pini, F. Rossi and K. B. Venable.
Modelling and solving bipolar preference problems.
In Proceedings of
11th Annual ERCIM Workshop on Constraint Solving and Constraint Logic
Programming (CSCLP 2006),
Lisbon, Portugal,
June 2006.
M. S. Pini, F. Rossi, K. B.
Venable and T. Walsh.
Incompleteness and
incomparability in preference aggregation.
In Proceedings of
the Multidisciplinary Workshop on Advances in Preference Handling (PREF 2006),
held in conjunction
of the 17th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ECAI'06, Riva del
Garda, Italy, August 2006.
J. Lang, M. S. Pini, F.
Rossi, K. B. Venable and T. Walsh.
Winner
determination in sequential majority voting with incomplete preferences.
In Proceedings of
the Multidisciplinary Workshop on Advances in Preference Handling (PREF 2006),
held in conjunction
of the 17th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ECAI'06, Riva del
Garda, Italy, August 2006.
M. S. Pini and F. Rossi.
Reasoning on
bipolar preference problems.
In Proceedings of
the CP 2006 Doctoral Programme (DOCTCP 2006),
Nantes, France,
September 2006.
M. S. Pini, F. Rossi and K.
B. Venable.
Uncertainty in
bipolar preference problems.
In Proceedings of
the 8th International Workshop on Preferences and Soft Constraints (SOFT 2006),
held in conjunction
with the 12th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint
Programming, CP'06,
Nantes, France,
September 2006.
M. S. Pini, F. Rossi, K. B.
Venable and T. Walsh.
Incompleteness and
incomparability in preference aggregation: complexity results.
In Proceedings of
the 8th International Workshop on Preferences and Soft Constraints (SOFT 2006),
held in conjunction
with the 12th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint
Programming, CP'06,
Nantes, France,
September 2006.
M. S. Pini, F. Rossi, K. B.
Venable and T. Walsh.
In Proceedings of
DIMACS/LAMSADE Workshop on Voting Theory and Preference Modelling,
Paris, France,
October 2006.
S. Bistarelli, M. S. Pini, F. Rossi and K. B. Venable.
Modelling and solving bipolar preference problems.
Preprint n.05-2006,
Department of Pure and Applied Mathematics,
University of Padova, Italy, 2006.
2005
M. S. Pini, F. Rossi, K. B.
Venable and T. Walsh.
Aggregating partially
ordered preferences: possibility and impossibility results.
In Proceedings of
10th Conference on Theoretical Aspects of Rationality and Knowledge (TARK X),
ACM Digital
Library, National University of Singapore, pp. 193-206, Singapore, June 2005.
M. S. Pini, F. Rossi and K.
B. Venable.
Possibility
theory for reasoning about uncertain soft constraints.
In Proceedings of
the 8th European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to
Reasoning with Uncertainty (ECSQARU 2005),
Springer-Verlag LNAI 3571, pp. 800-811, Barcelona, Spain, July 2005.
M. S. Pini, F. Rossi and K.
B. Venable.
Uncertainty in soft
constraints problems.
Doctoral Paper in
Proceedings of 11th International Conference of Principles and Practice of
Constraint Programming (CP 2005),
Springer-Verlag LNCS 3709, p. 865, Sitges,
Spain, October 2005.
M. S. Pini, F. Rossi and K.
B. Venable.
Uncertainty
in soft constraints problems.
In Proceedings of
International Conference on Intelligent Agents, Web Technology and Internet
Commerce (IAWTIC 2005),
IEEE Computer Society, ISBN 0-7695-2504-0-01,
pp. 583-589, Wien, Austria, November 2005.
M. S. Pini, F. Rossi and K.
B. Venable.
Uncertainty in
soft constraints problems.
In Proceedings of
the 10th Annual Workshop of ERCIM/CoLogNet on
Constraint Solving and Constraint Logic Programming (CSCLP 2005),
Uppsala, Sweden,
June 2005.
A. Lodi, M. S.
Pini and F. Rossi.
Gomory cuts in a hybrid constraint programming approach.
In Proceedings of
the 10th Annual Workshop of ERCIM/CoLogNet on
Constraint Solving and Constraint Logic Programming (CSCLP 2005),
Uppsala, Sweden,
June 2005.
M. S. Pini, F. Rossi and K.
B. Venable.
Possibilistic and probabilistic uncertainty in soft
constraints problems.
In Proceedings of
the Multidisciplinary Workshop on Advances in Preference Handling (PREF 2005)
held in conjunction
of the 19th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI'05,
Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2005.
S. Bistarelli, M. S. Pini, F. Rossi and K. B. Venable.
Positive and
negative preferences.
In Proceedings of
the 7th International Workshop on Preferences and Soft Constraints (SOFT 2005),
held in conjunction
with the 11th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint
Programming,
CP'05, Sitges, Spain, October 2005.
2004
M. S. Pini, F. Rossi and K.
B. Venable.
Reasoning about
fuzzy preferences and uncertainty.
In Proceedings of
the 6th International Workshop on Soft Constraints and Preferences (SOFT 2004),
held in conjunction
with the 10th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint
Programming, CP'04,
Toronto, Canada,
October 2004.