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Ilkka Niemelä

Ilkka Niemelä

D-Index & Metrics

Computer Science

D-Index
41
Citations
8891
World Ranking
8706
National Ranking
72

Ilkka Niemelä 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 Ilkka Niemelä sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 166 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.

Ilkka Niemelä 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 Ilkka Niemelä sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 41 D-Index — 40th percentile

40% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Ilkka Niemelä is affiliated with Aalto University in Finland and conducts research primarily in the field of Computer Science. Their work spans multiple subfields, with a focus on Artificial Intelligence and Computer Networks and Communications.

Their research covers a range of topics including:

  • Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge
  • Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation
  • Logic, Programming, and Type Systems
  • Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization
  • Semantic Web and Ontologies

Ilkka Niemelä has contributed to the academic literature through publications in reputable venues. One of their recent papers is titled Applying Visible Strong Equivalence in Answer-Set Program Transformations, published in 2020 in the ACM Transactions on Computational Logic.

They have collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Jori Bomanson
  • Tomi Janhunen
  • Rolf Drechsler
  • Tommi Junttila

Their frequent publication venue is the ACM Transactions on Computational Logic, reflecting their engagement with topics related to logic and computational theory.

Best Publications

  • Extending and implementing the stable model semantics

    Patrik Simons;Ilkka Niemelá;Timo Soininen

  • Logic programs with stable model semantics as a constraint programming paradigm

    Ilkka Niemelä

  • Smodels — an implementation of the stable model and well-founded semantics for normal logic programs

    Ilkka Niemelä;Patrik Simons

  • Smodels - An Implementation of the Stable Model and Well-Founded Semantics for Normal LP

    Ilkka Niemelä;Patrik Simons

  • Planning as satisfiability: parallel plans and algorithms for plan search

    Jussi Rintanen;Keijo Heljanko;Ilkka Niemelä

  • Hyper Tableaux

    Peter Baumgartner;Ulrich Furbach;Ilkka Niemelä

  • Efficient Implementation of the Well-founded and Stable Model Semantics

    Ilkka Niemelä;Patrik Simons

  • Unfolding partiality and disjunctions in stable model semantics

    Tomi Janhunen;Ilkka Niemelä;Dietmar Seipel;Patrik Simons

  • Extending the Smodels system with cardinality and weight constraints

    Ilkka Niemelä;Patrik Simons

  • Developing a Declarative Rule Language for Applications in Product Configuration

    Timo Soininen;Ilkka Niemelä

  • Stable Model Semantics of Weight Constraint Rules

    Ilkka Niemelä;Patrik Simons;Timo Soininen

  • Answer set optimization

    Gerhard Brewka;Ilkka Niemela;Miroslaw Truszczynski

  • The Smodels System

    Tommi Syrjänen;Ilkka Niemelä

  • A Tableau Calculus for Minimal Model Reasoning

    Ilkka Niemelä

  • Smodels: A System for Answer Set Programming

    Ilkka Niemelä;Patrik Simons;Tommi Syrjänen

  • Bounded LTL model checking with stable models

    Keijo Heljanko;Ilkka Niemelä

  • Representing Configuration Knowledge With Weight Constraint Rules

    Timo Soininen;Ilkka Niemelä;Juha Tiihonen;Reijo Sulonen

  • Logic Programs with Ordered Disjunction

    Gerhard Brewka;Ilkka Niemelä;Tommi Syrjänen

  • A PRACTICAL TOOL FOR MASS-CUSTOMISING CONFIGURABLE PRODUCTS

    Juha Tiihonen;Timo Soininen;Ilkka Niemelä;Reijo Sulonen

  • Model Checking of Safety-Critical Software in the Nuclear Engineering Domain

    Jussi Lahtinen;Janne Valkonen;Kim Björkman;Juho Frits

  • Implementing Circumscription Using a Tableau Method.

    Ilkka Niemelä

Frequent Co-Authors

Gerhard Brewka
Gerhard Brewka Leipzig University
Miroslaw Truszczynski
Miroslaw Truszczynski University of Kentucky
Jürgen Dix
Jürgen Dix Clausthal University of Technology
Rolf Drechsler
Rolf Drechsler University of Bremen
Torsten Schaub
Torsten Schaub University of Potsdam
Randy Goebel
Randy Goebel University of Alberta
Pertti Vainikainen
Pertti Vainikainen Aalto University
Fabio Massacci
Fabio Massacci Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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