María Vanina Martinez – Home Page

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Follow this link to the Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland College Park Home Page for UMIACS Conference links: 24th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2010 19th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI) 2010 Fourth International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM 2010) Third International Conference on Computational Models of Argument (COMMA) 2010 12th Ibero-American Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IBERAMIA) 2010

Maria Vanina Martinez e-mail: mvm@cs.umd.edu, martinez@umiacs.umd.edu Department of Computer Science & UMIACS University of Maryland College Park College Park - USA

Click here to download my Curriculum Vitae (in English, updated January 2010)

Research

· Ph.D. student in Computer Science, University of Maryland College Park, under the supervision of Dr. VS. Subrahmanian

· Master of Science, University of Maryland College Park (2008)

· Licenciada in Computer Science, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina (2005)

Member of the Laboratory for Computational Cultural Dynamics, University of Maryland College Park

Research Interests

· Reasoning under uncertainty

· Inconsistency Management

· Opponent Modeling

· Cultural Modeling

· Defeasible Reasoning

· Argumentation

Publications

· Focused Most Probable World Computations in Probabilistic Logic Programs

Gerardo I. Simari, Maria Vanina Martinez, Amy Sliva, and VS Subrahmanian

Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, To Appear, 2010.

· A General Framework for Reasoning about Inconsistency

Maria Vanina Martinez, Cristian Molinaro, VS Subrahmanian, and Leila Amgoud.

Artificial Intelligence Journal, Under Review.

· Multimedia Presentation Databases

V.S. Subrahmanian, V. Martinez, and D. Reforgiato.

In Encyclopedia of Database Systems (eds. T. Ozsu and L. Liu), Springer Verlag, pp. 1829-1831, 2009.

· Incorporating Classical Logic Argumentation into Policy-based Inconsistency Management in Relational Databases.

Maria Vanina Martinez and Anthony Hunter.

The Uses of Computational Argumentation, 2009 AAAI Fall Symposium. Technical Report FS-09-06.

Published by The AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California.

· Aggregate Query Answering under Uncertain Schema Matching

Avigdor Gal, Maria Vanina Martinez, Gerardo I. Simari, and VS Subrahmanian

Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2009),

Shanghai, China, March 2009.

· CAPE: Automatically Predicting Changes in Group Behavior.

Amy L. Sliva, VS Subrahmanian, Maria Vanina Martinez, and Gerardo Simari.

In Mathematical Methods in Counterterrorism, N. Memon, J. D. Farley, D. L. Hicks, and T. Rosenorn.

Eds. Springer-Verlag, 2009, pp. 247—263.

· Scaling Most Probable World Computations in Probabilistic Logic Programs

Gerardo I. Simari, Maria Vanina Martinez, Amy Sliva, and VS Subrahmanian

Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management

(SUM 2008), pp. 372-385, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, vol. 5291, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg. October, 2008.

· CIG: Cultural Islands and Games

John Dickerson, Maria Vanina Martinez, Diego Reforgiato, and VS Subrahmanian

In proceedings of Second International Conference on Computational Cultural Dynamics. September, 2008.

· CONVEX: Context Vectors as a Similarity-based Paradigm for Forecasting Group Behaviors

Maria Vanina Martinez, Gerardo I. Simari, Amy Sliva, and VS Subrahmanian

IEEE Intelligent Systems, vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 51-57, Jul/Aug 2008.

· Inconsistency Management Policies

Maria Vanina Martinez, Francesco Parisi, Andrea Pugliese, Gerardo I. Simari, and V.S. Subrahmanian.

In Proceedings of 11^th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning,

Sydney, Australia. September 2008.

· The SOMA Terror Organization Portal (STOP): Social Network and Analytic Tools

for the Real-Time Analysis of Terror Groups

V. Martinez, G. Simari, A. Sliva and V.S. Subrahmanian.

Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Social Computing,

Behavioral Modeling, and Prediction, pp 9-18 Phoenix, AZ, USA, April 1-2, 2008.

· Action Probabilistic Logic Programs: Scalable Estimation for 10^30,000 worlds

Samir Khuller, Maria Vanina Martinez, Dana Nau, Gerardo Simari, Amy Sliva, and VS Subrahmanian

Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence pp. 295-331, Vol. 51, Issue 2-4 (December 2007).

· How Dirty is Your Relational Database? An Axiomatic Approach

Maria Vanina Martinez, Andrea Pugliese, Gerardo Simari, VS Subrahmanian, and Henri Prade

Proceedings of the Ninth European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with

Uncertainty (ECSQARU 2007), pp. 103-114, October-November, 2007. Lecture Notes in Artificial

Intelligence, vol. 4724, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, ISBN: 978-3-540-75255-4.

· Finding Most Probable Worlds of Probabilistic Logic Programs

Samir Khuller, Maria Vanina Martinez, Dana Nau, Gerardo Simari, Amy Sliva, and VS Subrahmanian

Proceedings of the First International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM 2007),

pp. 45-59, October 2007. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, vol. 4772, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg,

ISBN: 978-3-540-75407-7.

· SOMA Models of the Behaviors of Stakeholders in the Afghan Drug Economy: A Preliminary Report

Amy Sliva, Maria Vanina Martinez, Gerardo I. Simari, and VS Subrahmanian

Proceedings of the First International Conference on Computational Cultural Dynamics (ICCCD 2007),

pp. 78-86, August 27-28, 2007, AAAI Press, ISBN: 978-1-57735-342-3.

· CARA: A Cultural Adversarial Reasoning Architecture

V.S. Subrahmanian, Massimiliano Albanese, María Vanina Martinez, Dana Nau,

Diego Reforgiato, Gerardo I. Simari, Amy Sliva, Octavian Udrea, Jonathan Wilkenfeld,

"CARA: A Cultural-Reasoning Architecture," IEEE Intelligent Systems, vol. 22,  no. 2, 

pp. 12-16,  Mar/Apr,  2007.

· A Framework for Deliberation and Negotiation among BDI Agents

Sonia V. Rueda and María Vanina Martinez

Department of Computer Science and Engineering,

Universidad Nacional del Sur

Journal of Computer Science and Technology, vol.5 , No. 4, December 2005, pag 334-341

Other Publications in Local Conferences and Workshops

· Interaction among BDI Argumentative Agents:  A Dialogue Games Approach

Sonia V. Rueda and María Vanina Martinez

Department of Computer Science and Engineering,

Universidad Nacional del Sur

Proceedings of the IX Argentine Conference on Computer Science (CACIC 2005), pp. 955-966.

Concordia, Entre Rios, Argentina.

· An Interaction Language for Argumentation-based Negotiation

Sonia V. Rueda and María Vanina Martinez

Department of Computer Science and Engineering,

Universidad Nacional del Sur

VII Workshop of Researchers in Computer Science (WICC 2005)

Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto, Río Cuarto, Provincia de Córdoba, Argentina

· Specifying Agent Interaction Protocols

Sonia V. Rueda, María Vanina Martinez and Guillermo R. Simari

Department of Computer Science and Engineering,

Universidad Nacional del Sur

VII Workshop of Researchers in Computer Science (WICC 2005)

Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto, Río Cuarto, Provincia de Córdoba, Argentina.

Interesting Links

· Academia.edu

· Gerardo Ignacio Simari’s Home Page

· Guillermo R. Simari’s Home Page

· Patricio Darío Simari’s Home Page

· John Dickerson’s Home Page

· Universidad Nacional del Sur, Department of Computer Science and Engenieering

· The L.I.D.I.A. Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

· My home town in Argentina (in Spanish)

· My high school’s Web Page (in Spanish)

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Contact Information

Address:
Department of Computer Science

1103 AV. Williams Building

University of Maryland College Park

College Park, MD 20742

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Phone:  ++1 301 405 1765

Fax: ++ 1 301 405 6707

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