Assistant Professor
Department of
Information Engineering
University of Padova (Italy)
Via Gradenigo, 6/B
35131 - Padova Italy
piniATdei.unipd.it
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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
2013
N. Mattei, M. S. Pini, F. Rossi, K.
B. Venable.
Bribery in Voting with CP-net.
In Annals of
Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence - Special Issue for ISAIM 2012,
Springer, 2013.
M. S. Pini, F. Rossi, K. B. Venable.
Bribery in voting with soft constraints.
Proceedings of AAAI 2013, full
paper, Bellevue, Washington, USA.
A. Maran, N. Maudet, M. S. Pini, F. Rossi, K. B. Venable.
A Framework for Aggregating Influenced CP-nets and its Resistance to Bribery
Proceedings of AAAI 2013, full
paper, Bellevue, Washington, USA.
T. Perek, P. Faliszewski, M. S. Pini, F. Rossi.
The complexity of losing voters.
Proceedings of AAMAS 2013, full paper, Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA.
M. S. Pini, F. Rossi, K. B. Venable.
Resistance to bribery when aggregating soft constraints: complexity resuts.
Proceedings of AAMAS 2013, Extended abstract,
Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA.
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, pp. 1407-1408, 2012
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, pp. 1313-1314, 2012
A.Maran, M. S. Pini, F. Rossi, K. B. Venable.
Resistance to bribery when aggregating soft constraints, and exploitation of bribery cost schemes
in preference compilation and optimization.
Proceedings of Multidisciplinary Workshop on Advances in Preference Handling (M-PREF 2012),
Montpellier, France, August 2012.
D. Navarro, M. S. Pini, F. Rossi, K. B. Venable.
Magenda: Doodle with Preferences.
Proceedings of Multidisciplinary Workshop on Advances in Preference Handling (M-PREF 2012),
Montpellier, France, August 2012.
A. Maran, M. S. Pini, F. Rossi, K. B. Venable.
Resistance to Bribery when Aggregating Soft Constraints.
Proceedings of 4th International Workshop on Computational Social Choice (COMSOC 2012),
Krakow, Poland, September 2012.
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.