Home Page of Dr.  Ivan Serina

Free University of Bozen-Bolzano Faculty of Education viale Ratisbona, 16 39042 Bressanone Italy

+39 0472 014776  +39 0472 014009  ivan.serina_AT_unibz.it

Ivan Serina is  is assistant professor (ricercatore) in Information Processing Systems at Faculty of Education of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy. In 1995 he received his degree in Computer Science at the University of Milan with full marks and honours. Since 1997 he has been a member of the Artificial Intelligence Research Group at the University of Brescia, headed by Professor Alfonso Gerevini, working on various topics such as Plan Generation and Adaptation through Local and Systematic Search Techniques. In 2000 he  received his PhD degree in Computer Science Engineering at the University of Brescia and in 2003 he has received a Marie Curie Fellowship in the field of Planning and Scheduling at the Department of Computer and Information Sciences of the University of Strathclyde (Glasgow).
He participated in the 3rd International Planning Competition (2002) with LPG, a planner developed with Professor Alfonso Gerevini that was awarded for "Distinguished performance of the first order"; he participated in the 4th International Planning Competition (2004) with LPG-td, a planner developed with Professor Alfonso Gerevini and Ing. Alessandro Saetti that was awarded for its performance in temporal and numeric domains.  He was Senior Member of the Program Committee of IJCAI-11 (International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence) and Co-chair with  Neil Yorke-Smith (American University of Beirut, Lebanon and SRI International, USA) of the ICAPS-2010 Exhibits and Demonstrations Session.  Currently, he is Member of the Program Committees of ICAPS 2012 and AAAI12. Ivan Serina is author or co-author of  more than 40  published reviewed papers in various fields of Artificial Intelligence.

Research interests: Planning, E-Learning, Learning Objects, Artificial Intelligence, Case-Based Planning, Autonomous Agents, Neural Networks, Knowledge Representation, Knowledge-based systems, Operating Systems.

Academic curriculum (in Italian)

Main software developed:

• INNE: an Interactive Neural Network Environment (University of Milano- Italy).

• LPG: a fast planner based on local search techniques and planning graphs (University of Brescia - Italy).
  
  
• LPG-adapt (1999 and 2006-07), a variant of LPG for fast adaptation/revision of a given plan (University of Brescia - Italy).
  
  
• ADJ (2000 and 2008-09), another planning system for fast plan adaptation based on planning graphs, replanning windows and heuristic goals (University of Brescia - Italy);
  
  
• LPG-diff (2006-11), a variant of LPG for producing diverse set of plans satisfying the same goals (University of Brescia - Italy).
  
  

• OAKplan: Objects Assignment Kernel case-based planner (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano - Italy).
  

• myPtutor: joint work to take advantage of Artificial Intelligence planning techniques in the adaptation of sequences of Learning Objects to pedagogical and students' requirements (Universitat Politècnica de València).

  Selected papers (2003-2011):

• New: L. Morales, A. Garrido, I. Serina. “Planning and Execution in a Personalized E-learning Setting”. CAEPIA 2011.
  
  
• New: Antonio Garrido, Lluvia Morales, Ivan Serina."On the Necessity of Time and Resource Issues to Support Collaboration in E-learning Standards". IEEE Learning Technology Newsletter, IEEE, Technical Committee on Learning Technology, In Press, (2011)
  
  
• New: Alfonso E. Gerevini, Alessandro saetti, Ivan Serina, "Planning in domains with derived predicates through rule-action graphs and local search", in Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence (AMAI),  Springer (2011).
  
  
• Alfonso Gerevini, Alessandro Saetti, Ivan Serina.“ An Empirical Analysis of Some Heuristic Features for Planning through Local Search and Action Graphs". Fundamenta Informaticae, IOSPress, Vol. 107, pp. 167--197, 2011.

• Ivan Serina. “Kernel Functions for Case-Based Planning”.  Artificial Intelligence Journal, vol 174: 1369 – 1406, 2010.Also published online by Elsevied ScienceDirect at the following "DOI link".

• Alfonso Gerevini,  Ivan Serina.“Efficient Plan Adaptation through Replanning Windows and Heuristic Goals". Fundamenta Informaticae, IOSPress. Vol. 102, num. 3. 2010.
  
  
• Alfonso Gerevini, Alessandro Saetti, Ivan Serina.“Temporal Planning with Problems Requiring Concurrency through Action Graphs and Local Search”, International Conference on Automated Planning & Scheduling (ICAPS10). Toronto Canada. May 2010.
  

• Alfonso Gerevini, Alessandro Saetti, Ivan Serina, "An Approach to Efficient Planning with Numerical Fluents and Multi-Criteria Plan Quality", Artificial Intelligence Journal. 2008 Vol 172/8-9: pag.  899-944. Also published online by Elsevied ScienceDirect at the following "DOI link".

• Biplav Srivastava, Tuan A. Nguyen, Alfonso Gerevini, Subbarao Kambhampati, Minh Binh Do, Ivan Serina "Domain Independent Approaches for Finding Diverse Plans", Proceedings of the 20th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-07), 2007.

• Maria Fox, Alfonso Gerevini, Derek Long. and Ivan Serina, "Plan Stability: Replanning versus Plan Repair", Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS'06), pp. 193-202, 2006.

• Alfonso Gerevini, Alessandro Saetti, Ivan Serina, "An Approach to Temporal Planning and Scheduling in Domains with Predicatable Exogenous Events", in Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR) vol 25, pp. 187-231, 2006.

• Alfonso Gerevini, Alessandro Saetti, Ivan Serina, Paolo Toninelli, " Fast Planning in Domains with Derived Predicates: An Approach Based on Rule-Action Graphs and Local Search ", in Proceedings of the Twentieth American National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-05), Pittsburgh, USA, 2005. 

• Alfonso Gerevini, Alessandro Saetti, Ivan Serina, " Integrating Planning and Temporal Reasoning for Domains with Durations and Time Windows Planning with Numerical Expressions in LPG ",  in Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-05), Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, 2005.

• Alfonso Gerevini, Alessandro Saetti, Ivan Serina, "Planning with Numerical Expressions in LPG",  in Proceedings of the 16th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (2004), Valencia, Spain, 2004.

• Alfonso Gerevini, Alessandro Saetti, Ivan Serina, "An Empirical Analysis of Some Heuristic Features for Local Search in LPG", in Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS-04),  AAAI Press,  2004.

• Alfonso Gerevini, Alessandro Saetti, Ivan Serina, "Planning in PDDL2.2 Domains with LPG-TD" (short paper), in International Planning Competition, 14th Int. Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS-04), abstract booklet of the competing planners, 2004. 

• Alfonso Gerevini, Alessandro Saetti, Ivan Serina "Planning through Stochastic Local Search and Temporal Action Graphs", in Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR), vol 20, pp. 239-290.

• Alfonso Gerevini and Ivan Serina, "Planning as Propositional CSP: from Walksat to Local Search for Action Graphs",in CONSTRAINTS Journal, vol 8, pp. 389-413, 2003.

• Alfonso Gerevini , Ivan Serina, Alessandro Saetti, Sergio Spinoni "Local Search Techniques for Temporal Planning in LPG", in Proceedings of the 1st International Conf. on Automated Planning & Scheduling (ICAPS-03), 2003, AAAI Press.

Ivan Serina.  Novermber 2011