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Hector Geffner publication distribution in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Computer Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Hector Geffner sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 165 publications — 33rd percentile

33% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 991 publications or more.

Hector Geffner D-index placement in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Computer Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Hector Geffner sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 50 D-Index — 62nd percentile

62% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 131 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2007 - Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) For significant contributions to the fields of planning, reasoning, and knowledge representation.

Overview

Hector Geffner is affiliated with RWTH Aachen University in Germany. Their research primarily falls within the field of Computer Science, with a significant focus on Artificial Intelligence and related subfields including Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Computer Networks and Communications, Software, and Control and Systems Engineering.

Their work addresses several main topics in computer science, such as AI-based Problem Solving and Planning, Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge, Artificial Intelligence in Games, Machine Learning and Algorithms, Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization, Topic Modeling, and Model-Driven Software Engineering Techniques.

Hector Geffner's recent publications include:

  • "Action Selection for MDPs: Anytime AO* Versus UCT," 2021, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • "Learning General Optimal Policies with Graph Neural Networks: Expressive Power, Transparency, and Limits," 2022, Proceedings of the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling
  • "Learning General Planning Policies from Small Examples Without Supervision," 2021, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • "Qualitative Numeric Planning: Reductions and Complexity," 2020, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
  • "General Policies, Representations, and Planning Width," 2021, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Geffner on multiple occasions include Blai Bonet, Simon Ståhlberg, Dominik Drexler, Jendrik Seipp, and Ivan Dario Jimenez Rodriguez.

Their research outputs have often appeared in several academic venues, notably:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Proceedings of the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling
  • Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
  • Proceedings of the International Symposium on Combinatorial Search

Hector Geffner received the recognition of Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) in 2007, acknowledging their contributions to the fields of planning, reasoning, and knowledge representation.

Best Publications

  • Planning as heuristic search

    Blai Bonet;Héctor Geffner

  • Admissible heuristics for optimal planning

    Patrik Haslum;Héctor Geffner

  • Heuristic Planning with Time and Resources

    Patrik Haslum;Hector Geffner

  • Labeled RTDP: improving the convergence of real-time dynamic programming

    Blai Bonet;Héctor Geffner

  • Planning with incomplete information as heuristic search in belief space

    Blai Bonet;Héctor Geffner

  • Planning as Heuristic Search: New Results

    Blai Bonet;Hector Geffner

  • Probabilistic plan recognition using off-the-shelf classical planners

    Miquel Ramírez;Hector Geffner

  • Plan recognition as planning

    Miquel Ramírez;Hector Geffner

  • A robust and fast action selection mechanism for planning

    Blai Bonet;Gábor Loerincs;Héctor Geffner

  • A Concise Introduction to Models and Methods for Automated Planning

    Hector Geffner;Blai Bonet

  • Branching and pruning: An optimal temporal POCL planner based on constraint programming

    Vincent Vidal;Héctor Geffner

  • Conditional entailment: bridging two approaches to default reasoning

    Hector Geffner;Judea Pearl

  • Default Reasoning: Causal and Conditional Theories

    Hector Alberto Geffner;Judea Pearl

  • Compiling uncertainty away in conformant planning problems with bounded width

    Hector Palacios;Hector Geffner

  • New admissible heuristics for domain-independent planning

    Patrik Haslum;Blai Bonet;Héctor Geffner

  • Learning Generalized Policies from Planning Examples Using Concept Languages

    Mario Martín;Hector Geffner

  • Goal recognition over POMDPs: inferring the intention of a POMDP agent

    Miquel Ramírez;Hector Geffner

  • Unifying the causal graph and additive heuristics

    Malte Helmert;Héctor Geffner

  • A translation-based approach to contingent planning

    Alexandre Albore;Héctor Palacios;Héctor Geffner

  • Faster heuristic search algorithms for planning with uncertainty and full feedback

    Blai Bonet;Hector Geffner

  • A Concise Introduction to Models and Methods for Automated Planning: Synthesis Lectures on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

    Hector Geffner;Blai Bonet

Frequent Co-Authors

Blai Bonet
Blai Bonet Simón Bolívar University
Judea Pearl
Judea Pearl University of California, Los Angeles
Giuseppe De Giacomo
Giuseppe De Giacomo Sapienza University of Rome
Henry Kautz
Henry Kautz University of Virginia
Joseph Y. Halpern
Joseph Y. Halpern Cornell University
Daniel S. Weld
Daniel S. Weld University of Washington
Jörg Hoffmann
Jörg Hoffmann Saarland University
Rina Dechter
Rina Dechter University of California, Irvine
Rafael A. Calvo
Rafael A. Calvo Imperial College London
Christopher Winship
Christopher Winship Harvard University

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