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        <article-title>Preface to the Proceedings of the Doctoral Consortium AIxIA 2024</article-title>
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          <string-name>Davide Bacciu</string-name>
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          <string-name>Ivan Donadello</string-name>
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          <institution>Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Faculty of Engineering</institution>
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          <addr-line>Bolzano</addr-line>
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          <country country="IT">Italy</country>
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          <institution>University of Pisa, Department of Computer Science</institution>
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          <addr-line>Pisa</addr-line>
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          <country country="IT">Italy</country>
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        <p>The AIxIA Doctoral Consortium (DC) was ofered as part of the Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIxIA) that took place in Bolzano, Italy on November 25-28, 2024. The DC provided an opportunity for PhD students to explore and develop their research interests in the Artificial Intelligence field, in the broader sense, under the guidance of a panel of distinguished researchers from both academia and industry. Attending students had the opportunity to present their work in a dedicated poster session during the conference. We thank the reviewers and the mentors who agreed to read the papers and ofered their time to discuss the projects presented by the DC participants:</p>
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      <p>• Marco Polignano
• Riccardo Rasconi
• Andrea Roli
• Andrea Rosani
• Salvatore Ruggieri
• Enrico Scala
• Luciano Serafini
• Fabio Stella
• Sergio Tessaris
• Floriano Zini
1. DC Paper Award
Moreover, the DC Paper award was conferred on the authors of the Doctoral Consortium best papers
who distinguished themselves in their poster presentation. One students were selected and received the
award:</p>
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