Alfonso Emilio Gerevini
Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione, Università degli Studi di Brescia, Via Branze 38, I-25123 Brescia, Italia
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Download of CV (focusing on activities in AI)
Youtube talk "On Modeling and Leanind Domain Knowledge in AI Planning", January 31 2023, Spotlight Seminar of AIxIA (Italian Association for artificial Intelligence)
Alfonso Emilio Gerevini is full professor ("professore ordinario") of Information Processing Systems at the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Brescia, Italy. His scientific research is in the field of Artificial Intelligence, that is also his primary teaching area. He is Fellow of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence (EurAI) and is currenlty involved in a number of research projects in AI, two of which funded by EU.
From 1989 to 1995 he worked as a research scientist at Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica - IRST (currently Fondazione Bruno Kessler), Trento, Italy. In 1995, he joined the University of Brescia, where from 1995 to 1998 he was assistant professor, from 1998 to 2004 he was associate professor, and since 2004 he is full professor. During these periods he has also been a visiting researcher at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Rochester (USA) for about two years, and at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Freiburg (Germany) for about six months.
Alfonso E. Gerevini has been editorial board member and associate editor of Artificial Intelligence journal (Elsevier) for several years, as well as editorial board member of JAIR (the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research) and Intelligenza Artificiale (IOS Press). He has also served as a program committee member of the most prestigious AI conferences (such as IJCAI, AAAI, ECAI, ICAPS, AIPS, KR, and others) for many years.
In 2002, he participated in the 3rd International Planning Competition (IPC-3) as leader of the research group developing LPG, the automated planner awarded best fully-automated planner of IPC-3. In 2004, he developed with his research group an extended version of LPG that was awarded at the 4th International Planning Competition (IPC-4). In 2008 and 2011, he developed with his group PbP and PbP2, the planners that won the learning track of the 6th and 7th International Planning Competitions (IPC-6 and IPC-7).
In 2000 he was co-chair of the First International Summer School on AI Planning (2000); in 2006 co-chair of the 5th International Planning Competition (IPC-5) and co-chair of the Workshop on Preferences and Soft Constraint in Planning (ICAPS 2006); in 2009 program co-chair of ICAPS-09 (the 19th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, 2009); in 2010 chair of AI*IA-10 (the 10th Symposium on AI of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, 2010) and co-chair of PlanSIG-10 (the 28th UK PlanSIG workshop on Planning & Scheduling joined with the 4th Italian Workshop on Planning & Scheduling, 2010).
Youtube talk "On Modeling and Leanind Domain Knowledge in AI Planning", January 31 2023, Spotlight Seminar of AIxIA (Italian Association for artificial Intelligence)
Alfonso Emilio Gerevini is full professor ("professore ordinario") of Information Processing Systems at the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Brescia, Italy. His scientific research is in the field of Artificial Intelligence, that is also his primary teaching area. He is Fellow of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence (EurAI) and is currenlty involved in a number of research projects in AI, two of which funded by EU.
From 1989 to 1995 he worked as a research scientist at Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica - IRST (currently Fondazione Bruno Kessler), Trento, Italy. In 1995, he joined the University of Brescia, where from 1995 to 1998 he was assistant professor, from 1998 to 2004 he was associate professor, and since 2004 he is full professor. During these periods he has also been a visiting researcher at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Rochester (USA) for about two years, and at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Freiburg (Germany) for about six months.
Alfonso E. Gerevini has been editorial board member and associate editor of Artificial Intelligence journal (Elsevier) for several years, as well as editorial board member of JAIR (the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research) and Intelligenza Artificiale (IOS Press). He has also served as a program committee member of the most prestigious AI conferences (such as IJCAI, AAAI, ECAI, ICAPS, AIPS, KR, and others) for many years.
In 2002, he participated in the 3rd International Planning Competition (IPC-3) as leader of the research group developing LPG, the automated planner awarded best fully-automated planner of IPC-3. In 2004, he developed with his research group an extended version of LPG that was awarded at the 4th International Planning Competition (IPC-4). In 2008 and 2011, he developed with his group PbP and PbP2, the planners that won the learning track of the 6th and 7th International Planning Competitions (IPC-6 and IPC-7).
In 2000 he was co-chair of the First International Summer School on AI Planning (2000); in 2006 co-chair of the 5th International Planning Competition (IPC-5) and co-chair of the Workshop on Preferences and Soft Constraint in Planning (ICAPS 2006); in 2009 program co-chair of ICAPS-09 (the 19th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, 2009); in 2010 chair of AI*IA-10 (the 10th Symposium on AI of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, 2010) and co-chair of PlanSIG-10 (the 28th UK PlanSIG workshop on Planning & Scheduling joined with the 4th Italian Workshop on Planning & Scheduling, 2010).
Alfonso Gerevini is author or co-author of more than 140 published papers on various aspects of Artificial Intelligence. His research interests focus on fundamental and applied issues of automated planning, knowledge representation and reasoning, machine learning and data mining.
Selected publications (From DBLP - this is an incomplete list)
Teaching: Since 1996 he has been teaching at the University of Brescia courses in artificial intelligence (1998-present), machine learning and data mining (2015-present), and introduction to computer science and computer programming (1996-2013).
Main software developed:
- LPG (1999-2011), a fast planner based on local search techniques and planning graphs (with Ivan Serina and Alessandro Saetti); Awarded at 3rd and 4th International Planning Competitions (2002 and 2004)
- ParLPG (2011-2012), a parameterized variant of LPG that can automatically tune its parameters to derive an efficient doman-optimized version of the planner (with Mauro Vallati, Chris Fawcett, Holger Hoos and Alessandro Saetti).
- LPG-adapt (1999 and 2006-07), a variant of LPG for fast adaptation/revision of a given plan (with Ivan Serina).
- ADJ (2000 and 2008-09), another planning system for fast plan adaptation based on planning graphs, replanning windows and heuristic goals (with Ivan Serina);
- DISCOPLAN (1998-2008), an efficient system for the automatic inference of state invariants in planning (with Len Schubert);
- Duet (2008-10), an automatic planning system combining domain-independent planning and HTN plannning (with Ugur Kuter, Dana Nau, Alessandro Saetti, and Nathaniel Waisbrot);
- PbP (2008-12), a planning system based on an automatically configurable portfolio of planners (with Alessandro Saetti and Mauro Vallati); Winner of the learning track of the 6th and 7th International Planning Competitions (2008/2011)
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- Find-Parameter-Domains (1996), a method for precomputing the domains of operator parameters in planning (with Len Schubert);
- TimeGraph-II (1992-94), a fast temporal reasoning system (with Len Schubert);
- Timegraph-III (2003-07), a C reimplementation of Timegraph-II with some extensions (with Alessandro Saetti and two undergraduate students);
- MAgentA (2004-05), a semi-automatic Multi-Agent Agenda for planning and managing meetings (with Pietro Baroni and Paolo Toninelli);