====================================================================== Early ECAI Registration Deadline: September 3, 2025 ======================================================================
We invite interested researchers to participate in the 16th Multidisciplinary Workshop on Advances in Preference Handling (M-PREF 2025), which is part of the workshop program of ECAI 2025. Participants need to register for the weekend program of ECAI (Tutorials, Workshops and Doctoral consortium). The workshop will be held on October 25, 2025 at the Engineering School of University of Bologna, Viale del Risorgimento, 2, Bologna (Italy).
TOPICS
The workshop on Advances in Preference Handling addresses all computational aspects of preference handling. This includes methods for the elicitation, learning, modeling, representation, aggregation, and management of preferences and for reasoning about preferences. The workshop studies the usage of preferences in computational tasks from decision making, database querying, web search, personalized human- computer interaction, personalized recommender systems, e-commerce, multi-agent systems, game theory, social choice, combinatorial optimization, planning and robotics, automated problem solving, perception and natural language understanding and other computational tasks involving choices. The workshop seeks to improve the overall understanding of and best methodologies for preferences in order to realize their benefits in the multiplicity of tasks for which they are used. Another important goal is to provide cross-fertilization between the numerous sub-fields that work with preferences.
- Preference handling in artificial intelligence - Preference handling in database systems - Preference handling in multi-agent systems - Applications of preferences - Preference elicitation and learning - Preference representation and modeling - Properties and semantics of preferences - Practical preferences
INVITED TALK
Ulle Endriss on “On the Nature of Axioms in Social Choice Theory”
ACCEPTED PAPERS
“Temporal Team Formation Games with Dynamic Preferences” by Cameron Egbert, Aaron Lin, Judy Goldsmith, Pearson Garner, and Ruby Harris
“Minimax Preferences for Tiered Coalition Formation Games” by Nicholas Fluty, Judy Goldsmith, and Brent Harrison
“Method of Equal Shares with dynamic affordability” by Matthieu Hervouin
“Equitability Through Repeated Committee Selection: Algorithms, Complexity, and Visualization” by Paula Böhm, Robert Bredereck, and Till Fluschnik
“Axiomatic Characterization of the Hamming and Jaccard Distances” by Stanisław Szufa and Tomasz Wąs
“Delivering Fairly in the Gig Economy” by Hadi Hosseini and Šimon Schierreich
“Avoiding Overrepresentation: Upper Quota Axioms for Committee Voting” by Martin Lackner and Oliviero Nardi
“Approximate Clones in Ordinal Preferences” by Théo Delemazure
“An Enriched Model of Strategic Voting under Uncertainty” by Henri Surugue and Sébastien Destercke
“Enforcing Stability in Capacitated Facility Location Problems with Ordinal Customer Preferences” by Adam Dunajski, Sergio García, and Akshay Gupte
“Finding Personalized Good-Enough Solutions to Unsatisfiable Stable Roommates Problems” by Müge Fidan and Esra Erdem (to be published in TPLP 2025)
“Envy-free Allocations with Individual Payments” by Eva Michelle, Pranjal Pandey, Robert Bredereck, Tanmay Inamdar, and Pallavi Jain
ATTENDANCE
Participants need to register for the weekend program of ECAI 2025 (Tutorials, Workshops and Doctoral consortium):