In International Events

This section collects papers published in proceedings of international events, in chronological order.

2020

Eftychia Roumelioti, Rosella Gennari, Maristella Matera, Alessandra Melonio, Mehdi Rizvi. Towards Making Children Independent in Design. In Companion Proc. of DIS 2020, ACM, work in progress.

Rosella Gennari, Maristella Matera, Alessandra Melonio, Mehdi Rivi, Eftychia Roumelioti. Engaging Preteens in Ideating and Programming Smart Objects Through Play. In Proc. of mis4TEL 2020, Springer, work in progress.

Alessandra Melonio, Mehdi Rivi, Eftychia Roumelioti, Antonella de Angeli, Rosella Gennari, Maristella Matera. Children's Beliefs and Understanding of Smart Objects: an Exploratory Study. In Proc. of AVI 2020, ACM.

2019

Rosella Gennari, Maristella Matera, Alessandra Melonio, Eftychia Roumelioti. SNaP 2: the Evolution of a Board Game for Smart Nature Environments. In Proc. of CHI PLAY 2019.

Rosella Gennari, Alessandra Melonio. Designing the Internet of Tangible Things for Outdoors Environments with University Students. In Proc. of CHItaly 2019, forthcoming.

Rosella Gennari, Maristella Matera, Alessandra Melonio, Eftychia Roumelioti. A board-game for co-designing smart nature environments in workshops with children. In Proc. of International Symposium on End User Development, 132-148, London, UK, 2019.

Rosella Gennari, Maristella Matera, Alessandra Melonio, Eftychia Roumelioti. Research on Making Nature Smart with Children. In Proc. of International Symposium on End User Development, 249-253, London, UK, 2019.

Rosella Gennari, Maristella Matera, Alessandra Melonio, Eftychia Roumelioti. A Board Game and a Workshop for Co-Creating Smart Nature Ecosystems. In Proc. of 9th mis4TEL Conference, Avila, Spain, 2019.

2018

Saikishore Kalloori, Francesco Ricci and Rosella Gennari. Eliciting Pairwise Preferences in Recommender Systems. In 12th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, Vancouver, Canada, 2nd-7th October 2018. Acceptance rate < 17%.

Mehdi Elahi, Rosella Gennari, Alessandra Melonio, Francesco Ricci. It Takes Two, Baby: Style and Tangibles for Recommending and Interacting with Videos. In Proc. of IIR 2018, Rome, Italy.

Rosella Gennari, Alessandra Melonio, Secil Ugur Yavuz. Prototyping for Investigating Affective Objects with and for Children. In Proc. of Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Cultures of Participation in the Digital Age: Design Trade-offs for an Inclusive Society, co-located with the International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI 2018), Castiglione della Pescaia (GR), Italy, May 29, 2018.

Rosella Gennari, Alessandra Melonio, Mehdi Rizvi. Investigating Class Conversations with ClassTalk: A Study with Tangible Object Prototypes in a Primary School. In Proc. of International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI 2018), Castiglione della Pescaia, Italy.

Rosella Gennari, Alessandra Melonio, Mehdi Rizvi. Evolving Tangibles for Children's Social Learning through Conversations: Beyond TurnTalk. In Twelfth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction (TEI 2018), Full Paper, March 18 – 21, Stockholm, Sweden, ACM, 2018. DOI = 10.1145/3173225.3173248

Andrea Bonani, Vincenzo Del Fatto, Rosella Gennari. The Evolving Design of Tangibles for Graph Algorithmic Thinking. In Twelfth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction (TEI 2018), Work-in-Progress Paper, March 18 – 21, Stockholm, Sweden, ACM, 2018. DOI = 10.1145/3173225.3173270

Andrea Bonani, Vincenzo Del Fatto, Gabriella Dodero, Rosella Gennari and Guerriero Raimato. 2017. Participatory Design of Tangibles for Graphs: a Small-Scale Field Study with Children. In 2nd International Conference on Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development (SLERD 2017), Portugal, June 20–21 2017. In Proc. of LNCS, Springer, 2018.

Vincenzo Del Fatto, Gabriella Dodero, Guerriero Raimato, Rosella Gennari, Sven Helmer and Benjamin Gruber. 2017. Automating assessment of exercises as means to decrease MOOC teachers' efforts. In 2nd International Conference on Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development (SLERD 2017), Portugal, June 20–21 2017. Forthcoming in Proc. of LNCS, Springer.

2017

Rosella Gennari, Alessandra Melonio, Mehdi Rizvi, Andrea Bonani: Design of IoT Tangibles for Primary Schools: A Case Study. Proc. of CHItaly 2017, ACM, 26:1-26:6.

Vincenzo Del Fatto, Rosella Gennari, Alessandra Melonio and Guerriero Raimato. 2017. The Design of a Smart Tray with its Canteen Users: a Field Study. In 7th International Conference in Methodologies and Intelligent System for Technology Enhanced Learning (mis4TEL 2017), Porto, Portugal, June 21–23 2017. Forthcoming in Proc. of LNAI, Springer.

Andrea Bonani, Vincenzo Del Fatto, Gabriella Dodero, Rosella Gennari, and Guerriero Raimato. 2017. Toward Interactive Tangible Objects for Algorithmic Thinking. In 7th International Conference in Methodologies and Intelligent System for Technology Enhanced Learning (mis4TEL 2017), Porto, Portugal, June 21–23 2017. Forthcoming in Proc. of LNAI, Springer.

Rosella Gennari, Alessandra Melonio and Mehdi Rizvi. 2017. The Participatory Design Process of Tangibles for Children's Socio-Emotional Learning. In 6th International Symposium on End-User Development (IS-EUD 2017), Eindhoven, NL, June 13–15 2017. Forthcoming in Proc. of LNCS, Springer.
Acceptance rate = 34%.

Rosella Gennari and Pierpaolo Vittorini. 2017. Time Out of Joint in Temporal Annotations of Texts: Challenges for Artificial Intelligence and Human Computer Interaction . In CEUR-Proceedings of the AI*IA Workshop on Deep Understanding and Reasoning: A Challenge for Next-generation Intelligent Agents 2016, co-located with AIxIA 2016, Genova, Italy, November 28th, 2016. Vol-1802.
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Rosella Gennari, Francesco Pavani, Mehdi Rizvi. 2017. Tangible Design for Inclusive Conversations with Deaf or Hard-of-Hearing Children. In: Wu TT., Gennari R., Huang YM., Xie H., Cao Y. (eds) Emerging Technologies for Education. SETE 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 10108. Springer, Cham. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-52836-6_29.
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2016

Rosella Gennari and Alessandra Melonio. 2016. A Three-Year Long Journey Across the Fields of Participatory Game Design. In CEUR-Proceedings of the Fourth edition of the International Workshop on Cultures of Participation in the Digital Age: From "Have to" to "Want to" Participate, co-located with the 9th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (NordiCHI 2016) Gothenburg, Sweden, October 23, 2016. Vol-1776.
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Rosella Gennari, Vincenzo Del Fatto, Edona Gashi, Julian Sanin, Angelo Ventura. 2016. Gamified Technology Probes for Scaffolding Computational Thinking. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems (COOP 2016). LNCS, Springer. DOI = 10.1007/978-3-319-33464-6_19
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2015

Gabriella Dodero, Rosella Gennari, Alessandra Melonio, and Santina Torello. 2015. "There Is No Rose Without A Thorn": An Assessment of a Game Design Experience for Children. In Proceedings of the 11th Biannual Conference on Italian SIGCHI Chapter (CHItaly 2015). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 10-17. DOI=10.1145/2808435.2808436 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2808435.2808436
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Luis Corral, Ilenia Fronza, Rosella Gennari, and Alessandra Melonio. 2015. From Game Design with Children to Game Development with University Students: What Issues Come Up?. In Proceedings of the 11th Biannual Conference on Italian SIGCHI Chapter (CHItaly 2015). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 30-33. DOI=10.1145/2808435.2808441 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2808435.2808441
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G. Dodero, M. Brondino, R. Gennari, A. Melonio, M. Pasini, D. Raccanello, and S. Torello. Emotions and Inclusion in Co-Design at School: Let's Measure Them!. In Proc. of the MIS4TEL 2015, LNAI, Springer, Salamanca, Spain, June 2015.
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2014

V. Del Fatto, G. Dodero, R. Gennari, A. Melonio, M. Montali, S. Torello, X. Wang and F. Zini. Gamified Children Universities: a Qualitative Study. Work-in-progress paper in Proc. of the CHI-Play Conference, ACM SIGCHI, Toronto, Canada, October 2014.
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G. Dodero, R. Gennari, A. Melonio and S. Torello. Towards Tangible Gamified Co-Design at School: Two Studies in Primary Schools. Full paper in Proc. of the CHI-Play Conference, ACM SIGCHI, Toronto, Canada, October 2014.
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Acceptance rate: 29%.

G. Dodero, R. Gennari, A. Melonio and S. Torello. A Lean Experience of Game Fabrication: From School to University and Back. In Technical Proc. of the FabLabs in Educational Context Workshop, part of Fablearn Europe 2014, co-located with IDC 2014.
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Acceptance rate: NA.

V. Del Fatto, G. Dodero, R. Gennari. "I Did Not Expect to Learn So Much": Assessing Student Perception of Extreme Apprenticeship for Operating Systems. Short paper in Proc. of the 14th IEEE ICALT Conference, IEEE, Athens, Greece, July 2014.
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Acceptance rate: 27%.

V. Del Fatto, G. Dodero, R. Gennari, N. Mastachi. Extreme Apprenticeship Meets Playful Design at Operating Systems Labs: A Case Study. Full paper in Proc. of the 1st MIS4TEL Conference, Springer, Salamanca, Spain, June 3–5 2014.
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G. Dodero, R. Gennari, A. Melonio and S. Torello. GAmified CO-design with COoperative Learning. In Proc. of the alt chapter of CHI 2014, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, April 26–May 1 2014.
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Acceptance rate: 37.5%.

2013

R. Gennari, S. Tonelli, and P. Vittorini. An AI-based Process for Generating Games from Flat Stories. In Proc. of the 33rd SGAI International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI-2013), Cambdrige, UK, December 2013.
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T. Di Mascio, R. Gennari, and P. Vittorini. Blending Evidence and Users for TEL: an Overture (demo paper). In Proc. of the 8th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2013), Cyprus, September 2013.
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A. Melonio and R. Gennari. How to Design Games for Deaf Children: Evidence-based Guidelines. In Proc. of eb-TEL 2013, LNCS, Springer, 2013.
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V. Cofini, R. Gennari and P. Vittorini. The Manual Revision of the TERENCE Italian Smart Games. In Proc. of eb-TEL 2013, LNCS, Springer, 2013.
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V. Cofini, T. Di Mascio, R. Gennari and P. Vittorini. The TERENCE Smart Game Revision Guidelines and Software Tool. In Proc. of eb-TEL 2013, LNCS, Springer, 2013.
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2012

F. De la Prieta Pintado, T. Di Mascio, R. Gennari, I. Marenzi, P. Vittorini. The TERENCE Smart Games: Automatic Generation and Supporting Architecture. In Proc. of 1st Workshop on Pedagogically-driven Serious Games (PDSG 2012), CEUR-WS, co-located with EC-TEL 2012.
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F. De la Prieta Pintado, T. Di Mascio, R. Gennari, I. Marenzi, P. Vittorini. Playing for Improving the Reading Comprehension Skills of Primary School Poor Comprehenders. In Proc. of 1st Workshop on Pedagogically-driven Serious Games (PDSG 2012), CEUR-WS, co-located with EC-TEL 2012.
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M. Alrifai, F. De la Prieta Pintado, T. Di Mascio, R. Gennari, A. Melonio, P. Vittorini. The Learners' User Classes in the TERENCE Adaptive Learning System. In Proc. of International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, ICALT 2012, IEEE, 2012.
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M. Alrifai, R. Gennari, O. Tifrea, P. Vittorini. The Domain and User Models of the TERENCE Adaptive Learning System. In Proc. of eb-TEL 2012, LNCS, Springer, 2012.
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M. Alrifai, R. Gennari, P. Vittorini. Adapting with Evidence: the Adaptive Model and the Stimulation Plan of TERENCE. In Proc. of eb-TEL 2012, LNCS, Springer, 2012.
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T. Di Mascio, R. Gennari, A. Melonio, P. Vittorini. Visual Representations of Narratives for Poor Comprehenders. In Proc. of eb-TEL 2012, LNCS, Springer, 2012.
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T. Di Mascio, R. Gennari, A. Melonio, P. Vittorini. The User Classes Building Process in a TEL project. In Proc. of eb-TEL 2012, LNCS, Springer, 2012.
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R. Gennari, G. Dodero, A. Janes. Junior University Workshops for Children. In Proc. of the 3rd International Workshop Teaching Robotics, Teaching with Robotics (TRTWR 2012), Riva del Garda, 2012.
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2011

R. Gennari, A. Roubickova, M. Roveri. A Critical Overview and Open Questions for Temporal Planning with Uncertainty. Short position paper in the
VVPS workshop at ICAPS 2011, Freiburg.

T. Di Mascio, R. Gennari, P. Vittorini. Involving Learners and Domain Experts in the Analysis of the Context of Use for the TERENCE Games. Full paper in the DEG 2011 workshop at IS-EUD 2011, Bari. Preprint.

T. Di Mascio, R. Gennari, P. Vittorini. The Design of the TERENCE Adaptive Learning System. Full paper in Proc. of ED-MEDIA 2011, Lisboa.
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M. Carlini, T. Di Mascio, R. Gennari. Reading and Playing: a Multimedia Tutoring Tool for Children with Text Comprehension Problems. Full paper in Proc. of HCI 2010, Iadis, Rome.
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2010

T. Di Mascio, R. Gennari, P. Vittorini. The Design of An Intelligent Adaptive Learning System for Poor Comprehenders. In Proc. of MCES 2010, 6 pages, AAAI 2010 Fall Symposium, USA.
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B. Arfé, T. Di Mascio, , R. Gennari. Representations of Contemporaneous Events of a Story for Novice Readers. In Post-proc. of the MBR 2009 conference, Springer, 2010.
The related long abstract in the conference proceedings was Spatial Representations of Temporal Relations for Primary-School Teachers, MBR 2009, Brasil.
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2009

B. Arfé, R. Gennari, O. Mich. Evaluations of the LODE Temporal Reasoning Tool with Hearing and Deaf Children. In Techn. Proc. of MCES 2009, AAAI 2009 Fall Symposium, USA.
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R. Gennari, T. Di Mascio, G. De Gasperis. Time Representation, Reasoning and Visualisation for Primary Classes. In Proc. of ICCE 2009, Honk Kong, APSCE.
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T. di Mascio and R. Gennari, User-centred Design and Literacy Tools for the Deaf, in Proc. of HCI International 2009, LNCS, Springer.
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2008

R. Gennari and O. Mich, Evaluation of an Intelligent E-Tool for Deaf Children, short paper at the Tenth International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS08), Halifax, Canada, 13th–15th October 2008. ACM.
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R. Gennari and O. Mich, Designing and Assessing an Intelligent E-Tool for Deaf Children, short paper at the 2008 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2008), Spain, 13–16 January, 2008, ACM Digital Library.

M. Felice, T. di Mascio and R. Gennari, Visually Querying the e-LIS Ontology: A Proposal, at CHI'08 Work-in-Progress, in CHI'08 6-page Extended Abstracts. ACM.
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2007

M. Felice, T. di Mascio and R. Gennari, A Visual Ontology-Driven Interface for a Web Sign Language Dictionary, at the 1st International Workshop on Web Usability and Accessibility (IWWUA 07) of WISE 2007, Nancy, France, 3–7 December, 2007, in LNAI/LNCS Springer.
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R. Gennari and O. Mich, Constraint-based Reasoning for E-learning with LODE, to be published in Proc. of the the 13th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming, Sept. 23–27, 2007, Providence, USA, LNCS 4741 Springer.
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R. Gennari and O. Mich, LODE: Global Reasoning on e-Stories for Deaf Children, to be published in Proc. of the Engineered Applications of Semantic Web, SWEA, invited session of the 11th International Conference on Knowledge-Based & Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems, KES 2007, Vietri sul Mare, Italy, 12–14 September, 2007, part III of LNAI 4694 Springer.
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R. Gennari and O. Mich, E-learning and Deaf Children: A Logic-based Web Tool, in Proc. of the 6th International Conference on Web-based Learning, ICWL 2007, Edinburgh, Scotland, 15–17 August, 2007. In post-proceedings, LNAI/LNCS Springer.
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R. Gennari and T. di Mascio, An Ontology for a Web Dictionary of Italian Sign Language in Proc. of the 3rd International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies, WEBIST 2007, Barcelona, 3–6 March, 2007.
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A. Lazovik, M. Aiello, and R. Gennari. Web Service Orchestration as Constraint Programming. In the Learning and Intelligent OptimizatioN workshop, LION 2007, 12-18 February 2007, Andalo (Trento), Italy.
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2006

A. Lazovik, M. Aiello, and R. Gennari, Choreographies: using Constraints to Satisfy Service Requests, in Proc. of Advanced International Conference on Telecommunications and International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services (AICT/ICIW 2006), IEEE Computer Society, 2006.
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2005

A. Lazovik, M. Aiello, and R. Gennari, Encoding Requests to Web Service Compositions as Constraints. In Proc. of Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming 2005 (CP2005), Lectures Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Springer, 2005.
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A longer version is available as technical report, Encoding Requests to Web Service Compositions as Constraints. (2005) DIT-05-40, Univ. Trento, Trento.
An updated version is presented as short talk, Web Service Orchestration as Constraints Programming, in the Learning and Intelligent OptimizatioN workshop, LION 2007, 12-18 February 2007, Andalo (Trento), Italy.

2004

S. Brand, R. Gennari, and M. de Rijke. Constraint Methods for Modal Satisfiability. In Book Recent Advances in Constraints, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI 3010), Springer, ed. K.R. Apt, F. Fages, F. Rossi, P. Szerei, J. Vancza, 2004. Preprint. Presented as S. Brand, R. Gennari, and M. de Rijke. Modelling Modal Satisfiability in Constraint Programming, in the Colognet/ERCIM 2003 joint Workshop, Budapest, 2003.
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2003

S. Brand, R. Gennari, and M. de Rijke. Constraint Programming for Modelling and Solving Modal Satisfiability. In Proc. of Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming 2003 (CP 2003), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), ed. F.Rossi, Springer, 2003.
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S. Brand, R. Gennari, and M. de Rijke. Finite CSP Solvers for Modal Satisfiability. In workshop Methods for Modalithies 2003 (M4M 2003), Nancy, 2003.
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Until 2002

R. Gennari. A Method for Abstracting Soft Frameworks. In Proc. of the 7th International Conference of Principle and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP 2001), Doctoral Programme, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Springer, Cyprus, 2001.

(Also published in Proc. of the Belgian-Dutch Conference on Artificial Intelligence (BNAIC 2001)).

C. Areces, R. Gennari, J. Heguiabehere, and M. de Rijke. Tree-Based Heuristics in Modal Theorem Proving. In W. Horn, editor, ECAI 2000. In Proc. of the 14th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2000), IOS Press, Amsterdam, 2000. Please, refer to my Ph.D. thesis below.
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S. Bistarelli, R. Gennari and F. Rossi. Constraint Propagation for Soft Constraint Satisfaction Problems: Generalization and Termination Conditions, in Proc. of the 6th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP2000), Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2000.
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R. Gennari. Arc Consistency Algorithms via Subsumed Functions. in Proc. of the conference Computational Logic 2000 (CL00), Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2000. Please, refer to my Ph.D. thesis.

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