2026 Edmund H. Durfee: 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	64	2611	2531	1297	1248	301	15707

Research.com Recognitions

2004 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to distributed artificial intelligence, multiagent systems, and real-time intelligent control.
2001 - Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) For significant contributions to the field of multiagent systems, distributed computing and real-time intelligent control.

Overview

Edmund H. Durfee is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on computer science, with an emphasis on artificial intelligence, computer networks and communications, management science and operations research, signal processing, and control and systems engineering.

Their work covers a variety of topics, including:

Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation
Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge
Auction Theory and Applications
Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization
Data Management and Algorithms
Optimization and Search Problems
Semantic Web and Ontologies

Durfee's recent publications reflect contributions in multiple areas of AI and multiagent systems. Notable works include:

"A Comparison of Algorithms for Solving the Multiagent Simple Temporal Problem," 2021, Proceedings of the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling
"A Distributed Approach to Summarizing Spaces of Multiagent Schedules," 2021, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
"Querying to Find a Safe Policy under Uncertain Safety Constraints in Markov Decision Processes," 2020, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
"Semantics and algorithms for trustworthy commitment achievement under model uncertainty," 2020, Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
"Modeling Probabilistic Commitments for Maintenance Is Inherently Harder than for Achievement," 2020, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as:

Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Proceedings of the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling
Artificial Intelligence
SAE technical papers on CD-ROM/SAE technical paper series

Frequent collaborators in their research include Qi Zhang, Satinder Singh, James C. Boerkoel, and Shun Zhang.

Edmund H. Durfee has been recognized with several awards, including:

IEEE Fellow (2004) for contributions to distributed artificial intelligence, multiagent systems, and real-time intelligent control
Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) (2001) for significant contributions to the field of multiagent systems, distributed computing, and real-time intelligent control

Best Publications

The distributed constraint satisfaction problem: formalization and algorithms

M. Yokoo;E.H. Durfee;T. Ishida;K. Kuwabara

1030
Citations
Distributed problem solving and planning

Edmund H. Durfee

859
Citations
Trends in cooperative distributed problem solving

E.H. Durfee;V.R. Lesser;D.D. Corkill

765
Citations
Using partial global plans to coordinate distributed problem solvers

Edmund H. Durfee;Victor R. Lesser

696
Citations
Coherent cooperation among communicating problem solvers

Edmund H. Durfee;Victor R. Lesser;Daniel D. Corkill

602
Citations
Distributed constraint satisfaction for formalizing distributed problem solving

M. Yokoo;T. Ishida;E.H. Durfee;K. Kuwabara

567
Citations
Coordination of distributed problem solvers

Edmund H. Durfee

503
Citations
Partial global planning: a coordination framework for distributed hypothesis formation

E.H. Durfee;V.R. Lesser

497
Citations
CIRCA: a cooperative intelligent real-time control architecture

D.J. Musliner;E.H. Durfee;K.G. Shin

427
Citations
Negotiating task decomposition and allocation using partial global planning

Edmund H. Durfee;Edmund H. Durfee;Victor R. Lesser;Victor R. Lesser

375
Citations
Distributed Problem Solving and Multi-Agent Systems: Comparisons and Examples*

Edmund H. Durfee;Jeffrey S. Rosenschein

252
Citations
A Rigorous, Operational Formalization of Recursive Modeling

Piotr J. Gmytrasiewicz;Edmund H. Durfee

252
Citations
Approximate Processing in Real-Time Problem Solving

Victor R. Lesser;Jasmina Pavlin;Edmund Durfee

246
Citations
A Survey of Research in Distributed, Continual Planning

Marie E. desJardins;Edmund H. Durfee;Charles L. Ortiz;Michael J. Wolverton

246
Citations
Coordination as distributed search in a hierarchical behavior space

E.H. Durfee;T.A. Montgomery

226
Citations
UM-PRS: An implementation of the procedural reasoning system for multirobot applications

Jaeho Lee;Marcus J. Huber;Edmund H. Durfee;Patrick G. Kenny

221
Citations
The challenges of real-time AI

D.J. Musliner;J.A. Hendler;A.K. Agrawala;E.H. Durfee

199
Citations
Cooperation through communication in a distributed problem-solving network

Edmund H. Durfee;Victor R. Lesser;Daniel D. Corkill

196
Citations
Research directions for service-oriented multiagent systems

M.N. Huhns;M.P. Singh;M. Burstein;K. Decker

196
Citations
World modeling for the dynamic construction of real-time control plans

David J. Musliner;Edmund H. Durfee

170
Citations
Proceedings of the 6th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems

Edmund Durfee;Makoto Yokoo;Michael Huhns;Onn Shehory

32
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Satinder Singh DeepMind (United Kingdom)

Victor Lesser University of Massachusetts Amherst

Dmitri A. Dolgov Waymo

Kang G. Shin University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Michael P. Wellman University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Sandip Sen University of Tulsa

Robert P. Goldman Honeywell (United States)

Jeffrey O. Kephart IBM (United States)

Keith Decker University of Delaware

Michael N. Huhns University of South Carolina

External Links

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