M-PREF 2025 - Final Call for Participation

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M-PREF 2025: FINAL CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
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16th Multidisciplinary Workshop on Advances in Preference Handling

October 25, 2025, Bologna, Italy
in conjunction with ECAI 2025

https://mpref2025.mpref.org

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Invited Speakers: Edith Elkind and Ulle Endriss
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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

PROGRAM

The following schedule is tentative. Please check the following web
page for last minute changes:

https://mpref2025.mpref.org/m-pref-2025-program-of-preference-handling-workshop.html

9:00 - 10:30  Voting

Welcome by Organizers 
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Regular Paper

“Method of Equal Shares with dynamic affordability” by Matthieu
Hervouin

Regular Paper

“Equitability Through Repeated Committee Selection: Algorithms,
Complexity, and Visualization” by Paula Böhm, Robert Bredereck, and
Till Fluschnik

Regular Paper

“Avoiding Overrepresentation: Upper Quota Axioms for Committee Voting”
by Martin Lackner and Oliviero Nardi

Regular Paper

“An Enriched Model of Strategic Voting under Uncertainty” by Henri
Surugue and Sébastien Destercke

10:30 - 11:00  Coffee Break

11:00 - 11:50  Invited Talk: Ulle Endriss

Title: “On the Nature of Axioms in Social Choice Theory”

11:50 - 12:30  Measures

Regular Paper

“Axiomatic Characterization of the Hamming and Jaccard Distances” by
Stanisław Szufa and Tomasz Wąs

Regular Paper

“Approximate Clones in Ordinal Preferences” by Théo Delemazure

12:30 – 14:00  Lunch Break

14:00 - 14:50  Invited Talk: Edith Elkind

Title: Selecting Interlacing Committees

14:50 - 15:30  Team Formation

Regular Paper

“Temporal Team Formation Games with Dynamic Preferences” by Cameron
Egbert, Aaron Lin, Judy Goldsmith, Pearson Garner, and Ruby Harris

Regular Paper

“Minimax Preferences for Tiered Coalition Formation Games” by Nicholas
Fluty, Judy Goldsmith, and Brent Harrison

15:30 – 16:00  Coffee Break

16:00 – 17:30  Fair Division & Matching

Regular Paper

“Delivering Fairly in the Gig Economy” by Hadi Hosseini and Šimon
Schierreich

Published Paper

“Finding Personalized Good-Enough Solutions to Unsatisfiable Stable
Roommates Problems” by Müge Fidan and Esra Erdem (to be published in
TPLP 2025)

Regular Paper

“Envy-free Allocations with Individual Payments” by Eva Deltl,
Pranjal Pandey, Robert Bredereck, Tanmay Inamdar, and Pallavi Jain

Open Discussion: Future topics for preference handling

Closing Remarks

ATTENDANCE

Participants need to register for the weekend program of ECAI 2025
(Tutorials, Workshops and Doctoral consortium): 

https://ecai2025.org/registration/

WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS

Ulrich Junker, France
Khaled Belahcène, Université Paris-Saclay, France
Nimrod Talmon, Ben-Gurion University, Israel

CONTACT EMAIL

[email protected]

WORKSHOP URL

https://mpref2025.mpref.org








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