I am a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow, Reader at the School of Computing and Engineering of the University of Huddersfield. I am a member of the PARK (Planning, Autonomy and Representation of Knowledge) research centre, led by Lee McCluskey and Grigoris Antoniou.I received my PhD in March 2012 from the University of Brescia. My supervisor was Alfonso Gerevini, co-supervisor Alessandro Saetti.
I worked at the planning group of the University of Brescia, as a postdoctoral research fellow, till September 2012. In October 2012 I moved to the University of Huddersfield, where I served as a Research Fellow till April 2016, and as a Senior Lecturer till July 2020.
My main research interests are in Artificial Intelligence Planning and Argumentation. In particular I work on domain-independent planning, knowledge engineering, SATisfiability, machine learning, abstract argumentation, portfolio approaches, heuristic search, genetic algorithms, and automatic algorithm configuration. I am also active in the field of AI for Urban Traffic Control, and interested in the fields of innovative applications of AI in Medicine.
News!
- I have been awarded a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship!
- Our take on the future of Process Mining in dealing with recurrent clinical guideline issues
- Lessons learnt by organising an online conference.
- Check out the program on the first online SoCS: it's free to watch.
- It's finally out!! Our book on Knowledge Engineering Tools and Techniques for AI Planning
- I am an ACM Distinguished Speaker for the UK!
- Thoughts on driverless vehicles
- Some very personal thoughts on the AI singularity (on The Conversation).
- Let me say: I'm pretty proud of this paper about ArgSemSAT published in AIJ.
Something about...
- AI for Urban Traffic Control and Management
- Are planners' performance affected by HW and SW configuration? Of course!
- From time to time, we do play with robots :)
- What's new in Knowledge Engineering for AI Planning? Here the analysis of the results of ICKEPS 2016.
- Want to describe a Creative Agent? Here our proposal
- What is the state of the art in Planning after the 2014 International Planning Competition? Find it on the AI Magazine paper.
- Curious about Portfolio-based Planning? Here an extensive overview
Grants
- UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship: Artificial Intelligence for Autonomic Urban Traffic Control
- RCUK Catapult Researchers in Residence (Transport) project AI4ME (Principal Investigator)
- FOAK Innovate UK - SBRI project SimplifAI (co-Investigator)
- NERC project SimplifAI (co-Investigator)
Events organisation
- Co-chair of the ICAPS-21 Workshop on Knowledge Engineering for Planning and Scheduling (KEPS).
- Co-chair of the Doctorial Consortium of the 14th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Search (SoCS), 2021.
- Co-organiser of the AAAI Workshop on AI for Urban Mobility, 2021.
- Co-chair of the 2020 UK Planning and Scheduling Special Interest Group workshop (PlanSIG-20).
- Co-organiser of the 27th RCRA International Workshop on Experimental Evaluation of Algorithms for Solving Problems with Combinatorial Explosion, 2020.
- Co-organiser of the COMMA-20 Workshop on Systems and Algorithms for Formal Argumentation (SAFA).
- Co-chair of the 13th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Search (SoCS), 2020.
- Co-chair of the ICAPS 2020 Special track on Knowledge Engineering, Integrated Execution, and System Architectures.
- Co-chair of the ICAPS-20 Workshop on Knowledge Engineering for Planning and Scheduling (KEPS).
- Co-organiser of the 26th RCRA International Workshop on Experimental Evaluation of Algorithms for Solving Problems with Combinatorial Explosion, 2019.
- Co-organiser of the 2019 Sparkle Planning Challenge.
- Co-chair of the ICAPS-19 Workshop on Knowledge Engineering for Planning and Scheduling (KEPS).
- Co-organiser of the 25th RCRA International Workshop on Experimental Evaluation of Algorithms for Solving Problems with Combinatorial Explosion, 2018.
- Co-organiser of the Workshop RiCerCA, 2018.
- Co-organiser of the COMMA-18
- Co-chair of the ICAPS-18 Workshop on Knowledge Engineering for Planning and Scheduling (KEPS).
- Co-chair of the ICAPS-17 Workshop on Knowledge Engineering for Planning and Scheduling (KEPS).
- Co-organiser of the Fifth International Competition on Knowledge Engineering for Planning and Scheduling (ICKEPS-16).
- Co-chair of the 2016 UK Planning and Scheduling Special Interest Group workshop (PlanSIG-16).
- Co-organiser of the COMMA-16
- Co-organiser of the ICAPS-15 Workshop on the International Planning Competition.
- Co-organiser of the deterministic part of the eighth International Planning competition (IPC 2014).
- Steering Committee Member of the International Competition on Computational Models of Argumentation (ICCMA).
- Co-chair of the Study Day on Computer Simulation of Musical Creativity
Tutorials
- Planning and Scheduling Approaches for Urban Traffic Control. Scott Sanner, Mauro Vallati and Stephen Smith, ICAPS 2019.
- Planning and Scheduling Approaches for Urban Traffic Control. Scott Sanner, Mauro Vallati and Stephen Smith, AAAI 2019.
- Knowledge Engineering in Planning: Representation Matters. Lukas Chrpa and Mauro Vallati, ICAPS 2017 (video).
- Argumentation in Artificial Intelligence: From Theory to Practice. Federico Cerutti and Mauro Vallati, IJCAI 2017 (slides: part 1 --part 2. Video: part 1 -- part 2).
(Recent) Programme Committee Memberships
- The 16th IFAC Symposium on Control in Transportation Systems (CTS 2021)
- 2021 Joint Conference on AI Music Creativity (CSMC + MuMe 2021)
- 31st International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS 2021)
- 7th International IEEE Conference on Models and Technologies for Intelligent Transportation Systems (MT-ITS 2021)
- 17th Edition of the European Conference on Logics in Artificial Intelligence (JELIA 2021)
- 14th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Search (SoCS 2021)
- 6th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Engineering (ICITE2021)
- (SPC) 30th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2021)
- 35th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2021)
- 34th International Conference of the Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society (FLAIRS 2021)
- 2020 Joint Conference on AI Music Creativity (CSMC + MuMe 2020)
- 29th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 17th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-PRICAI 2020)
- 19th International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIxIA 2020)
- International Congress in Nursing Informatics (NI 2020)
- IEEE 5th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Engineering (ICITE 2020)
- 19th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2020)
- 24th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2020)
- 34th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2020)
- 33rd International Conference of the Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society (FLAIRS 2020)
- 18th International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIIA 2019)
- 10th ACM International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-CAP 2019)
- IEEE International Conference on Vehicular Electronics and Safety (ICVES 2019)
- IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2019)
- 28th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2019)
- 17th World Congress of Medical and Health Informatics (MedInfo 2019)
- 18th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2019)
- 32nd International Conference of the Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society (FLAIRS-19)
- 29th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS 2019)
- 33rd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2019)
- International Conference on ICT in Education, Research, and Industrial Applications (ICTERI), 2015--2020.
- Workshop on Advances In Argumentation In Artificial Intelligence 2017--2020.
- SPARK 2017, 2018, 2019.
