2026 Adele E. Howe: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	38	10362	10071	4336	4158	138	5153

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Computer Science

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5153

Overview

Adele E. Howe is affiliated with Colorado State University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on areas within computer science, with specific contributions in artificial intelligence and computer networks and communications.

Their main research topics include constraint satisfaction and optimization, logic, reasoning, and knowledge, as well as multi-agent systems and negotiation.

Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization
Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge
Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation

Adele E. Howe has contributed to publications in the field of computer science, with a particular emphasis on artificial intelligence. They have participated in research published in the Proceedings of the International Symposium on Combinatorial Search.

Proceedings of the International Symposium on Combinatorial Search

Recent relevant work includes a paper titled "Stochastic Local Search over Minterms on Structured SAT Instances", published in 2021 in the Proceedings of the International Symposium on Combinatorial Search.

Stochastic Local Search over Minterms on Structured SAT Instances (2021, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Combinatorial Search)

Adele E. Howe has collaborated with several researchers, including Wen-Xiang Chen, Darrell Whitley, and Brian W. Goldman, reflecting a network of co-authors contributing to the development of their research areas.

Wen-Xiang Chen
Darrell Whitley
Brian W. Goldman

Best Publications

Trial by fire: understanding the design requirements for agents in complex environments

P. R. Cohen;M. L. Greenberg;D. M. Hart;A. E. Howe

393
Citations
Experiences with selecting search engines using metasearch

Daniel Dreilinger;Adele E. Howe

372
Citations
SAVVYSEARCH: A Metasearch Engine That Learns Which Search Engines to Query

Adele E. Howe;Daniel Dreilinger

337
Citations
Scheduling Space–Ground Communications for the Air Force Satellite Control Network

Laura Barbulescu;Jean-Paul Watson;L. Darrell Whitley;Adele E. Howe

295
Citations
The Psychology of Security for the Home Computer User

A. E. Howe;I. Ray;M. Roberts;M. Urbanska

174
Citations
Problem difficulty for tabu search in job-shop scheduling

Jean-Paul Watson;J. Christopher Beck;Adele E. Howe;L. Darrell Whitley

162
Citations
Contrasting Structured and Random Permutation Flow-Shop Scheduling Problems: Search-Space Topology and Algorithm Performance

Jean-Paul Watson;Laura Barbulescu;L. Darrell Whitley;Adele E. Howe

155
Citations
Dominic I: Progress toward domain independence in design by iterative redesign

John R. Dixon;Adele Howe;Paul R. Cohen;Melvin K. Simmons

146
Citations
AFSCN scheduling: How the problem and solution have evolved

Laura Barbulescu;Adele Howe;Darrell Whitley

142
Citations
Decision Tree Function Approximation in Reinforcement Learning

Larry D. Pyeatt;Adele E. Howe

133
Citations
How evaluation guides AI research

Paul Coehn;Adele Howe

130
Citations
Dominic: A Domain-Independent Program for Mechanical Engineering Design

Adele E. Howe;Paul R. Cohen;John R. Dixon;Melvin K. Simmons

114
Citations
A critical assessment of benchmark comparison in planning

Adele E. Howe;Eric Dahlman

111
Citations
A hybrid genetic algorithm for the traveling salesman problem using generalized partition crossover

Darrell Whitley;Doug Hains;Adele Howe

108
Citations
Program understanding behaviour during enhancement of large-scale software

Anneliese von Mayrhauser;A. Marie Vans;Adele E. Howe

107
Citations
Test Case Generation as an AI Planning Problem

Adele E. Howe;Anneliese von Mayrhauser;Richard T. Mraz

99
Citations
Effects of web document evolution on genre classification

Elizabeth Sugar Boese;Adele E. Howe

94
Citations
Deconstructing Nowicki and Smutnicki's i -TSAB tabu search algorithm for the job-shop scheduling problem

Jean-Paul Watson;Adele E. Howe;L. Darrell Whitley

91
Citations
Tunneling between optima: partition crossover for the traveling salesman problem

Darrell Whitley;Doug Hains;Adele Howe

91
Citations
Exploiting Competitive Planner Performance

Adele E. Howe;Eric Dahlman;Christoper Hansen;Michael Scheetz

89
Citations
Satellite Range Scheduling: A Comparison of Genetic, Heuristic and Local Search

Laura Barbulescu;Adele E. Howe;Jean-Paul Watson;L. Darrell Whitley

86
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

L. Darrell Whitley Colorado State University

Jean-Paul Watson Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Paul R. Cohen University of Pittsburgh

Indrajit Ray Colorado State University

Zinta S. Byrne Colorado State University

Simon Parsons University of Lincoln

Thomas R. Gruber Austrian Institute of Technology

Tim Finin University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Robert C. Holte University of Alberta

J. Christopher Beck University of Toronto

External Links

Personal website of Adele E. Howe Google Scholar page

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