Service

Memberships

• Since 2023, ICAPS executive council member

• Since 2022, ACM Senior Member

• Since 2021, UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship Peer Review College member

• Since 2020, SoCS council member

• From 2016 to 2021, Member of the steering committee of the International Competition on Computational Models of Argumentation (ICCMA)

Tutorials and Invited Talks

• Invited Talk: The Power of Good Old-Fashioned AI for Urban Traffic Control, The International Conference on ICT in Education Research and Industrial Applications (ICTERI) 2023 

• Tutorial: Process Mining for Healthcare: from theory to practice with pMineR and pMinShiny. Roberto Gatta, Arianna Dagliati, Erica Tavazzi, Lucia Sacchi, Mauro Vallati, AIME 2024. 

• Tutorial: Process Mining for Healthcare: from theory to practice with pMineR and pMinShiny. Roberto Gatta, Arianna Dagliati, Erica Tavazzi, Lucia Sacchi, Mauro Vallati, AIME 2023. 

• Tutorial: Defining and Contextualising the Concept of the Deceitful Connected Autonomous Vehicle: Risks, Dimensions, and Mitigation. Mauro Vallati, Simon Parkinson, Alexandros Nikitas, ITSC 2022.

• Tutorial: Planning and Scheduling Approaches for Urban Traffic Control. Scott Sanner, Mauro Vallati and Stephen Smith, ICAPS 2019. (video: here)

• Tutorial: Planning and Scheduling Approaches for Urban Traffic Control. Scott Sanner, Mauro Vallati and Stephen Smith, AAAI 2019.

• Tutorial: Knowledge Engineering in Planning: Representation Matters. Lukas Chrpa and Mauro Vallati, ICAPS 2017 (video).

• Tutorial: Argumentation in Artificial Intelligence: From Theory to Practice. Federico Cerutti and Mauro Vallati, IJCAI 2017 (Video: part 1 -- part 2). 

Editing of Scientific Journals

• Since 2023, Associate Editor (Member of the editorial board) for IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles (T-IV)

• Since 2023, Associate Editor (Member of the editorial board) for Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS)

• Since 2022, Associate Editor (Member of the editorial board) for Computer Science Review.

• Since 2022, Member of the Editorial Board of the Polytechnica Journal

• Since 2019, Member of the Editorial Board of the Artificial Intelligence in Medicine journal

• Editor of the Fundamenta Informaticae Special Issue on Algorithms for Solving Problems with Combinatorial Explosion (RCRA-18)

• Since 2015, Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Creative Music Systems (JCMS) 

Proposals Evaluator

• Reviewer for the SyMeCo programme (COFUND Marie Curie), 2023.

• Reviewer for The Royal Society, Newton International Fellowships, 2023.

• Reviewer for Israeli Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology for the Transportation Infrastructure programme, 2023.

• Since 2022, Member of EPSRC Peer Review College.

• Reviewer for the European MSCA4Ukraine Programme, 2022.

• Reviewer for the Alexander von Humboldt Professorship Programme, Germany, 2022.

• Reviewer for the University of Florence internal projects for RTDb, 2023.

• Reviewer for the Dutch Research Council (NWO) for Round Open Competition Domain Science package 21-2 (2021).

• Reviewer for the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) 2021.

• Reviewer of the joint Italian-Israeli committee for scientific cooperation in the subject of Health Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Call 2021.

• Referee for the Italian PRIN: Research Projects of Relevant National Interest, Call 2020.

• Reviewer of the Vienna Science and Technology Fund WWTF for the ICT Research Projects Call 2019.

• External referee in the periodical Italian research assessment exercise (VQR) for the 2015-2019 period.

Events Organisation

• Co-organiser of the Special Edition of the International Competition on Knowledge Engineering for Planning and Scheduling (ICKEPS 2024), to be held as part of the 2024 ICAPS Summer School.

• Co-chair of the ICAPS 2024 Workshop on Knowledge Engineering for Planning and Scheduling (KEPS). 

• Co-organiser of the FLAIRS 37 Special Track on AI for Urban Traffic Control and Mobility, 2024.

• Program Co-chair of the 2023 International Conference on Planning and Scheduling, ICAPS 2023

• Co-organiser of the CIBB 2023 Special Track on Process Mining in Healthcare, 2023.

• Co-organiser of the FLAIRS 36 Special Track on AI for Urban Traffic Control and Mobility, 2023.

• Co-chair of the ECAI-23 workshop on Trustworthy Ai for safe and seCure TrafFic control in connected and aUtonomous vehicLes (TACTFUL).

• Co-chair of the ICAPS 2023 Workshop on Knowledge Engineering for Planning and Scheduling (KEPS). 

• Co-organiser of the ICAPS 2022 Workshop on Deception Against Planning Systems and Planning in Adversarial Conditions (DAPSPAC), 2022.

• Co-organiser of the 29th RCRA International Workshop on Experimental Evaluation of Algorithms for Solving Problems with Combinatorial Explosion, 2022.

• Co-chair of the ICAPS 2022 Workshop on Knowledge Engineering for Planning and Scheduling (KEPS).

• Co-organiser of the 2021 UK Planning and Scheduling Special Interest Group workshop (PlanSIG-21).

• Co-organiser of the 28th RCRA International Workshop on Experimental Evaluation of Algorithms for Solving Problems with Combinatorial Explosion, 2021.

• 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 Workshop on Systems and Algorithms for Formal Argumentation (SAFA).

• 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 Workshop on Systems and Algorithms for Formal Argumentation (SAFA).

• 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

Journal reviewer

• ACM Computing Surveys

• AI Communications 

• Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence (AMAI) 

• Argument & Computation

• Artificial Intelligence (AIJ) 

• Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (ArtMed) 

• Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (CCPE) 

• Electronics 

• Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (EAAI) 

• Frontiers in Oncology

• IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

• IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles

• IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

• IET Intelligent Transport Systems

• International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools (IJAIT) 

• International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (IJHCS) 

• International Journal of Medical Informatics (IJMI) 

• Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR) 

• Journal of Business Research (JBR) 

• Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence (JETAI) 

• Journal of King Saud University - Computer and Information Sciences (JKSUCIS) 

• Journal of Urban Management 

• Knowledge-Based Systems 

• Knowledge Engineering Review (KER) 

• Künstliche Intelligenz (KUIN)

• Machines

• Neurocomputing

• Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications  

• Research in Transportation Business and Management

• Robotics and Autonomous Systems

• Sensors

• Technology in Cancer Research & Treatment

Programme Committee Memberships

I am routinely SPC/PC for top AI/ITS conferences, including: AAAI, IJCAI, ECAI, AAMAS, ICAPS, SoCS, KR, K-CAP, ITSC, etc.

I routinely review for workshops in the fields of AI planning, combinatorial search, knowledge engineering, AI for traffic management and control.