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M-PREF 2025: 1st CALL FOR PAPERS
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16th Multidisciplinary Workshop on Advances in Preference Handling

October 25 or 26, 2025, Bologna, Italy
in conjunction with ECAI 2025

https://mpref2025.mpref.org

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Submission deadline: June 1, 2025
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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

FORMAT

The program will consist of presentations of peer-reviewed papers,
panel discussions about future challenges, and an invited talk.

SUBMISSION

We invite interested researchers to submit papers on any computational
aspect of preference handling.

The purpose of workshop presentations is to get early feedback on new
ideas and to stimulate discussions between researchers interested in
preference handling. As such, there will be no formal proceedings, but
we may post accepted papers on the workshop website for the benefit of
the workshop participants if the authors agree to this and the paper
has not already been published.

**Original submissions**: Submissions about unpublished ideas will be
reviewed by a double-blind process (so, should be anonymous). Papers
should be formatted according to the ECAI formatting instructions and
not exceed 7 pages (plus 1 extra page for references). Supplementary
material such as a technical appendix or code and data is not
required, but can be provided.

**Multiple submissions**: Authors who are seeking a broader forum for
already published work and who are interested in giving a presentation
to the workshop’s audience may submit their work non-anonymously while
indicating where this work has been published. We will only accept
work which has been published in the last calendar year (e.g., AAAI
2025, IJCAI 2025, and any conference held after June 2024).

FORMATTING INSTRUCTIONS

https://ecai2024.eu/download/ecai-template.zip

SUBMISSION WEBSITE

https://chairingtool.com/conferences/MPREFH25/main-track

IMPORTANT DATES

- Submission deadline: June 1, 2025.
- Author notification: July 1, 2025.
- Camera-ready: July 15, 2025.
- M-PREF Workshop: October 25 or 26, 2025.

WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS

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

CONTACT EMAIL

inquiries@mpref2025.mpref.org

WORKSHOP URL

https://mpref2025.mpref.org