Roberto Confalonieri HoMe PaGe

Roberto Confalonieri

Nitimur in vetitum semper, cupimusque negata (Ovidio)

"Ci sforziamo sempre di ottenere ciò che è vietato e desideriamo le cose che ci vengono negate"

Postdoc Researcher at ADRIA. Universitè Paul Sabatier Institute de Recherche Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT) 118 Route de Narbonne 31062 Toulouse Cedex 9, France roberto.confalonieri (AT) irit.fr	Senior Member of KEMLg. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Dpt. Llenguatges i Sistemes Informàtics Edifici K2M - 201 C/ Jordi Girona Salgado 1-3 E - 08034 Barcelona confalonieri (AT) lsi.upc.edu
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Research Interests

Knowledge Representation and Nonmonotonic Reasoning
Preference Representation and Reasoning
Reasoning under Uncertainty, Decision Making
Computational Logic, Answer Set Programming, Possibilistic Logic
Semantic Web and Distributed Intelligent Systems
Reputation-based Governance

Publications (DBLP)

Under Evaluation:

An Answer Set Programming-based Approach for Computing Decision under Uncertainty
R.Confalonieri, H.Prade
International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, ISSN 0888-613X.

Journal Papers:

Dealing with Explicit Preferences and Uncertainty in Answer Set Programming
R.Confalonieri, J.C.Nieves, M. Osorio, J. Vázquez-Salceda
Accepted in Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, DOI: 10.1007/s10472-012-9311-0, 2012 ISSN 1012-2443.
Nested Preferences in Answer Set Programming
R.Confalonieri, J.C.Nieves
Fundamenta Informaticae 113(1), pp. 19-39, 2011
A Possibilitic Argumentation Decision Making Framework with Default Reasoning
J.C.Nieves, R.Confalonieri
Fundamenta Informaticae 113(1), pp. 41-61, 2011

Conference Papers:

Towards Community Browsing for Shared Experiences: The WeBrowse System
M. Yee-King, R. Confalonieri, D. de Jonge, N. Osman, K. Hazelden, L. Amgoud, H. Prade, C. Sierra, M d'Inverno
Accepted in 1st International Conference on Agreement TechnologiesDubrovnik, Croatia, October 2012.
WeCurate: Designing for synchronised browsing and social negotiation
K.Hazelden, M.Yee-King, L.Amgoud, M.d'Inverno, C.Sierra, N.Osman, R.Confalonieri, D. de Jonge
Accepted in 1st International Conference on Agreement TechnologiesDubrovnik, Croatia, October 2012.
Sharing online cultural experiences: An argument-based approach
Amgoud, L., Confalonieri, R., de Jonge, D., d'Inverno, M., Hazelden, K., Osman, N., Prade, H., Sierra, C., Yee-King, M.
Accepted in 9th International Conference on Modeling Decisions for Artificial Intelligence, Girona, November 2012.
Encoding Preference Queries to an Uncertain Database in Possibilistic Answer Set Programming
R.Confalonieri, H.Prade
In In: S. Greco, B. Bouchon-Meunier, G. Coletti, M. Fedrizzi,B. Matarazzo, R.R. Yager (eds), Advances in Computational Intelligence: Proceedings of 14th International Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-based Systems, (IPMU 2012), Part I Communications in Computer and Information Science, volume 297, pages 511-520, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Catania - Italy, 9-13 July 2012
Handling Uncertain User Preferences in a Context-aware System
R.Confalonieri, H.Inan, M.Palau
In In: S. Greco, B. Bouchon-Meunier, G. Coletti, M. Fedrizzi,B. Matarazzo, R.R. Yager (eds), Advances in Computational Intelligence: Proceedings of 14th International Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-based Systems, (IPMU 2012), Part II Communications in Computer and Information Science, volume 298, pages 88-97, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Catania - Italy, 9-13 July 2012
Answer Set Programming for Computing Decisions Under Uncertainty
R.Confalonieri, H.Prade
In: W. Liu (eds), Proceedings of The 11th European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty (ECSQARU 2011),volume 6717 of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, pages 485-496, Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer-Verlag, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 2011
Handling Exceptions in Logic Programming without Negation as Failure
R.Confalonieri, H.Prade, J. C. Nieves
In: W. Liu (eds), Proceedings of The 11th European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty (ECSQARU 2011),volume 6717 of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, pages 509--520, Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer-Verlag, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 2011
Nested Logic Programs with Ordered Disjunction
R.Confalonieri, J. C. Nieves
In Proceedings of the 6th Latin American Workshop on Non-Monotonic Reasoning 2010 (LANMR 2010) Puebla, México, November 4-5, 2010. Proceeding
Possibilistic Semantics for Logic Programs with Ordered Disjunction
R.Confalonieri, J. C. Nieves, M. Osorio, J. Vázquez-Salceda,
In: Link, S., Prade, H. (eds), Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems (FoIKS 2010),volume 5956 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 133--152, Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer-Verlag, 2010.
Pstable Semantics for Logic Programs with Possibilistic Ordered Disjunction.
R.Confalonieri, J. C. Nieves, J. Vázquez-Salceda,
In: Serra, R., Cucchiara, R. (eds.), AI*IA 2009: Emergent Perspectives in Artificial Intelligence. LNAI vol. 5883, pp. 52–61, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, (2009) Reggio Emilia, Italy, December 2009 .
A Preference Meta-Model for Logic Programs with Possibilistic Ordered Disjunction
R.Confalonieri, J. C. Nieves, J. Vázquez-Salceda,
In Proceedings of the Workshop on Software Engineering for Answer Set Programming (SEA'09),Postdam, Germany, 14 September 2009. Proceeding
Modelling Contractually-Bounded Interactions in the Car Insurance Domain
J. Vázquez-Salceda, R.Confalonieri, I. Gomez, P. Storms, N. Kuijpers, S. Panagiotidi and S. Alvarez.
In Proceedings of the First International ICST Conference on Digital Business -DIGIBIZ 2009-, London, June 2009. ISBN: 978-963-9799-56-1.
A Middleware for building Contract-Aware Agent-Based Services
R. Confalonieri, S. Álvarez-Napagao, S. Panagiotidi, J. Vázquez Salceda and S. Willmott.
In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Service-Oriented Computing: Agents, Semantics, and Engineering -SOCASE'08-, Estoril, Portugal, May 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science vol. 5006, pp. 1-14. Springer, 2008. ISBN 978-3-540-79967-2
Intelligent Contracting Agents Language
S. Panagiotidi, J. Vázquez-Salceda, S.Álvarez-Napagao, S. Ortega-Martorell, S. Willmott, R. Confalonieri and P. Storms.
Proceedings of the Symposium on Behaviour Regulation in Multi-Agent Systems -BRMAS'08-,Aberdeen, UK, April 2008.

Reputation-based Governance of Public Works
R. Confalonieri, C. Leoni, and L. Picci
In IST-Africa 2007 Conference Proceedings, Paul Cunningham and Miriam Cunningham (Eds), IIMC International Information Management Corporation, 2007, ISBN: 1-905824-04-1.Online

Orchestration of Semantic Web Services in IRS-III
R. Confalonieri, J. Domingue, and E. Motta
In Proceeding of first AKT Workshop on Semantic Web Services, Knowledge Media Institute, UK, December 2004. Online

Research Reports:

Towards the Implementation of a Preference- and Uncertain-Aware Solver Using Answer Set Programming
R. Confalonieri, J.C. Nieves, J. Vázquez-Salceda.
Research Report LSI-10-16-R, Barcelona, June 2010. Online
USE: a Multi-Agent User-Driven Recommendation System for Semantic Knowledge Extraction
J. S. Lopes, S. Alvarez, R. Confalonieri, J. Vázquez-Salceda.
Research Report LSI-09-20-R, Barcelona, June 2009. Online
Logic Programs with Possibilistic Ordered Disjunction
R.Confalonieri, J. C. Nieves, J. Vázquez-Salceda.
Research Report LSI-09-19-R, Barcelona, May 2009. Online

(Research) Software

posPsmodels An ASP-based solver for computing the LPPODs semantics

the LPPOD solver has been used to handle uncertain user preferences in a context-aware system (see DEMO)

Curriculum Vitae ac studiorum

Curricula Vitae (PDF)
Ph.D thesis: "The Role of Preferences in Logic Programming: Nonmonotonic Reasoning, User Preferences, Decision under Uncertainty"(Thesis,Extended Abstract)

Research Projects

2011-20xx: Autonomic Software Engineering for online cultural experiences, (ACE)
2008-2010: Coordination, Organisation and Model Driven Approaches for Dynamic, Flexible, Robust Software and Services Engineering, (ICT-ALIVE)
2007-2009: Contract based e-Business System Engineering for robust, verifiable Cross-Organisational Business Applications, (IST-CONTRACT)
2006:Reputation-based Governance of Public Works, (Rebag-Ware)