Alfonso Gerevini

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Alfonso Emilio Gerevini is full professor ("professore ordinario") of Information Processing Systems at the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Brescia, Italy. From 1988 to 1995 he worked as a research scientist at Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica (IRST), 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.
Currently, he is a member of the Editorial Board of the Artificial Intelligence journal, chair of AI*IA-10 (the 10th Symposium on AI of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, Dec 1-3, 2010), co-chair of PlanSIG-10 (the 28th UK PlanSIG workshop on Planning & Scheduling joined with the 4th Italian Workshop on Planning & Scheduling, Dec 1-3, 2010) and member of the program committees of ICAPS-10 (the 20th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, 2010) and AAAI-10 ( the 24th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2010).
In 2002, he participated in the 3rd International Planning Competition (IPC-3) as leader of the LPG team, the 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, he was the leading member of the team that developed PbP, the planner that won two awards at the learning track of the 6th International Planning Competition (IPC-6).
He served as a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR) and of the program committees of many international conferences and workshops. In 2000 he was co-chair of the First International Summer School on AI Planning (2000); in 2006 he was 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); and in 2009 he was program co-chair of ICAPS-09 (the 19th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, 2009). In 2007 he was an invited speaker at TIME-07 (the 14th International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning, 2007).
Alfonso E. Gerevini is author or co-author of more than 80 published reviewed papers in various fields of Artificial Intelligence. His main research interests focus on fundamental and applied issues of knowledge representation and automated reasoning (especially planning, temporal and spatial reasoning, constraint-based reasoning and knowledge-based systems).

Publications (this list might not be completely updated; for the most recent papers, please send me email)

Teaching: Since 1996 he has been teaching at the University of Brescia courses in artificial intelligence (1998-2010), introduction to computer science and computer programming (1996-2010).

Main software developed:

LPG (1999-2010), 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)
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 (2008-09), 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 International Planning Competition (2008)
ZLIFO (1996), a flaw selection strategy for causal-link PO-planning (with Len Schubert);
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);