Toby Walsh Author & Editor

Francesca Rossi is a full professor of Computer Science at the University of Padova, Italy. She works on constraint programming, preference reasoning, and multi-agent preference aggregation. She has published over 150 papers on these topics, and she has edited 16 volumes between collections of articles and special issues. She has been conference chair of CP 1998, program chair of CP 2003, and conference organizer of ADT 2009. She will be program chair of IJCAI 2013. She is a co-editor of the Handbook of Constraint Programming, with Peter Van Beek and Toby Walsh, published by Elsevier in 2006. She has been the president of the Association for Constraint Programming from 2003 to 2007.She is a member of the advisory board of JAIR (where she has been associate editor in 2005-2007) and of the editorial board of Constraints and of the AI Journal,an associate editor of AMAI,and a column editor for the Journal of Logic and Computation. She is an ECCAI fellow.