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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) For significant contributions to constraint and preference reasoning, and for distinguished leadership and service.

Overview

Francesca Rossi is affiliated with IBM in the United States, focusing primarily on computer science with a strong specialization in artificial intelligence. Their research spans multiple subfields including Artificial Intelligence, Safety Research, Oncology, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Management Science and Operations Research.

Their work covers a variety of topics, among which are:

  • AI-based Problem Solving and Planning
  • Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
  • Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)
  • Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference
  • Topic Modeling
  • Perovskite Materials and Applications
  • Luminescence Properties of Advanced Materials

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Francesca Rossi include the following:

  • Thinking Fast and Slow in AI, 2021, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • Personalized Chatbot Trustworthiness Ratings, 2020, IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society
  • On the Prospects of Incorporating Large Language Models (LLMs) in Automated Planning and Scheduling (APS), 2024, Proceedings of the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling
  • Voting with random classifiers (VORACE): theoretical and experimental analysis, 2021, Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
  • From fear to action: AI governance and opportunities for all, 2023, Frontiers in Computer Science

Francesca Rossi frequently collaborates with a core group of co-authors, which includes Andrea Loreggia, Biplav Srivastava, Nicholas Mattei, Francesco Fabiano, and Lior Horesh.

The scientist has published regularly in venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Computer
  • Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
  • Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research

In addition to journal and conference articles, Francesca Rossi has contributed to book publications, including titles released by Springer Science+Business Media and the Association for Computing Machinery. Notable books include Prolog: The Next 50 Years (2023) and ACM TechBrief: Generative Artificial Intelligence (2023).

Francesca Rossi was recognized as a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) in 2012, awarded for significant contributions to constraint and preference reasoning as well as leadership and service in the field.

Best Publications

  • AI4People—An Ethical Framework for a Good AI Society: Opportunities, Risks, Principles, and Recommendations

    Luciano Floridi;Luciano Floridi;Josh Cowls;Josh Cowls;Monica Beltrametti;Raja Chatila

  • Handbook of Constraint Programming

    Francesca Rossi;Peter van Beek;Toby Walsh

  • Semiring-based constraint satisfaction and optimization

    Stefano Bistarelli;Ugo Montanari;Francesca Rossi

  • Algebraic approaches to graph transformation. Part I: basic concepts and double pushout approach

    A. Corradini;U. Montanari;F. Rossi;H. Ehrig

  • Semiring-Based CSPs and Valued CSPs: Frameworks, Properties,and Comparison

    S. Bistarelli;U. Montanari;F. Rossi;T. Schiex

  • Semiring-based constraint solving and optimization

    Stefano Bistarelli;Ugo Montanari;Francesca Rossi

  • Graph processes

    A. Corradini;U. Montanari;F. Rossi

  • Contextual nets

    Ugo Montanari;Francesca Rossi

  • On the equivalence of constraint satisfaction problems

    Francesca Rossi;Charles J. Petrie;Vasant Dhar

  • Constraint solving over semirings

    Stefano Bistarelli;Ugo Montanari;Francesca Rossi

  • Temporal constraint reasoning with preferences

    Lina Khatib;Paul Morris;Robert Morris;Francesca Rossi

  • mCP nets: representing and reasoning with preferences of multiple agents

    F. Rossi;K. B. Venable;T. Walsh

  • Constraint satisfaction techniques in planning and scheduling

    Roman Barták;Miguel A. Salido;Francesca Rossi

  • Constraint relaxation may be perfect

    Ugo Montanari;Francesca Rossi

  • Incompleteness and incomparability in preference aggregation: Complexity results

    M. S. Pini;F. Rossi;K. B. Venable;T. Walsh

  • Strict and nonstrict independent and-parallelism in logic programs: Correctness, efficiency, and compile-time conditions

    Manuel V. Hermenegildo;Francesca Rossi

  • Semiring-Based CSPs and Valued CSPs: Basic Properties and Comparison

    Stefano Bistarelli;Hélène Fargier;Ugo Montanari;Francesca Rossi

  • Semiring-based constraint logic programming: syntax and semantics

    Stefano Bistarelli;Ugo Montanari;Francesca Rossi

  • Soft concurrent constraint programming

    Stefano Bistarelli;Ugo Montanari;Francesca Rossi

  • Winner determination in sequential majority voting

    J. Lang;M. S. Pini;F. Rossi;K. B. Venable

  • Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming — CP '95

    Ugo Montanari;Francesca Rossi

Frequent Co-Authors

Toby Walsh
Toby Walsh University of New South Wales
Ugo Montanari
Ugo Montanari University of Pisa
Krzysztof R. Apt
Krzysztof R. Apt Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica
Andrea Corradini
Andrea Corradini University of Pisa
Alessandro Sperduti
Alessandro Sperduti University of Padua
Jérôme Lang
Jérôme Lang Paris Dauphine University
Manuel V. Hermenegildo
Manuel V. Hermenegildo Madrid Institute for Advanced Studies
Vijay Saraswat
Vijay Saraswat Goldman Sachs Research
Ulle Endriss
Ulle Endriss University of Amsterdam
Antonis C. Kakas
Antonis C. Kakas University of Cyprus

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