Stefano Bistarelli

Stefano Bistarelli is Full Professor of Computer Science at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Perugia

His research interests range from Artificial Intelligence to Programming Languages, with particular attention to constraint programming, constraint solution algorithms, and soft constraints. He also works on Computer Security and recently on Economics. Currently active research topics are Computational Argumentation, Blockchain, Distributed Ledgers, Cryptocurrencies and Cybersecurity.
Member of the Editorial Board of Intelligenza Artificiale, The international journal of the AIxIA, Associate editor of Frontiers in Blockachain, Smart Contracts and Frontiers in Blockachain, Non-Financial Blockchain


Stefano Bistarelli Microsoft Academic Research Follow Stefano Bistarelli on F6S

Full Professor in Computer Science

Via Vanvitelli, 1 - 06123 Perugia, Italy
stefano.bistarelli@unipg.it
+39 075 585.5045
+39 075 585.5024
www.linkedin.com/pub/stefano-bistarelli/4/95b/370

IEEE Senior member

Research supported by:

Semirings for soft constraint solving and programming

Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science , Vol. 2962
Bistarelli, Stefano - 2004, XII, 279 p., Softcover
http://www.springer.com/computer/programming/book/978-3-540-21181-5

Constraint satisfaction and constraint programming have shown to be very simple but powerful ideas, with applications in various areas. Still, in the last ten years, the simple notion of constraints has shown some deficiencies concerning both theory and practice, typically in the way over-constrained problems and preferences are treated. For this reason, the notion of soft constraints has been introduced with semiring-based soft constraints and valued constraints being the two main general frameworks.