2026 James A. Hendler: 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	101	347	336	189	182	553	63356

Research.com Recognitions

2017 - AAAI Distinguished Service Award For his outstanding contributions to the field of artificial intelligence through sustained service to AAAI, other professional societies, and government activities promoting the importance of Artificial Intelligence research.
2016 - ACM Fellow For contributions to artificial intelligence and the development of the Semantic Web.
2011 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
2010 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to artificial intelligence, and development of the semantic web
2005 - AAAI Robert S. Engelmore Memorial Lecture Award For two decades of technical and government leadership in artificial intelligence, as well as pioneering research on agent-based systems and the semantic web.
1999 - Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) For significant contributions to the field of planning, knowledge representation, and high-performance artificial intelligence.
Fellow of The National Academy of Public Administration
Fellow of The National Academy of Public Administration

Overview

James A. Hendler is affiliated with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Computer Science and Decision Sciences, with a notable focus on Artificial Intelligence and Information Systems as subfields of study.

Their work addresses a range of main topics including:

Semantic Web and Ontologies
Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
Scientific Computing and Data Management
Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services
Data Quality and Management
Topic Modeling
Computational Drug Discovery Methods

James A. Hendler's publication record includes papers across various venues, notably:

arXiv (Cornell University)
AI Magazine
Computer Assisted Language Learning
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies
ACM eBooks

Recent publications include:

"Foreign language acquisition via artificial intelligence and extended reality: design and evaluation," 2021, Computer Assisted Language Learning
"Mental-LLM," 2024, Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies
"Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist," 2020, ACM eBooks
"Accurate clinical toxicity prediction using multi-task deep neural nets and contrastive molecular explanations," 2023, Scientific Reports
"Mental-LLM: Leveraging Large Language Models for Mental Health Prediction via Online Text Data," 2023, arXiv (Cornell University)

Their frequent collaborators include Fabien Gandon, Dean Allemang, Bingsheng Yao, Dakuo Wang, and Bhanushee Sharma.

James A. Hendler has also contributed to book publications, including "Web Information Systems and Applications" published by Springer Science+Business Media in 2020.

Their work has been recognized with several awards and honors, including:

AAAI Distinguished Service Award, 2017, for contributions to artificial intelligence through service to AAAI and related organizations
ACM Fellow, 2016, for contributions to artificial intelligence and the development of the Semantic Web
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2011
IEEE Fellow, 2010, for contributions to artificial intelligence and the semantic web
AAAI Robert S. Engelmore Memorial Lecture Award, 2005, for leadership in artificial intelligence and research on agent-based systems and the semantic web
Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 1999, for contributions to planning, knowledge representation, and high-performance artificial intelligence
Fellow of The National Academy of Public Administration

Best Publications

The Semantic Web" in Scientific American

Tim Berners-lee;James A. Hendler;Ora Lassila

10150
Citations
OWL Web Ontology Language - Reference

M. Dean;A.T. Schreiber;S. Bechofer;F.A.H. van Harmelen

3435
Citations
The Semantic Web: A new form of Web content that is meaningful to computers will unleash a revolutio

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2192
Citations
Agents and the Semantic Web

J. Hendler

1835
Citations
Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist: Effective Modeling in RDFS and OWL

Dean Allemang;James Hendler

1623
Citations
Computing and applying trust in web-based social networks

Jennifer Ann Golbeck;James Hendler

1253
Citations
Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist

Dean Allemang;Jim Hendler;Fabien Gandon

1199
Citations
HTN planning for Web Service composition using SHOP2

Evren Sirin;Bijan Parsia;Dan Wu;James Hendler

1082
Citations
HTN planning: complexity and expressivity

Kutluhan Erol;James Hendler;Dana S. Nau

1040
Citations
The Semantic Web — ISWC 2002

Ian Horrocks;James Hendler

955
Citations
Spinning the Semantic Web: Bringing the World Wide Web to Its Full Potential

Dieter Fensel;James A. Hendler;Henry Lieberman;Wolfgang Wahlster

866
Citations
Semi-automatic Composition ofWeb Services using Semantic Descriptions

Evren Sirin;James A. Hendler;Bijan Parsia

718
Citations
Trust Networks on the Semantic Web

Jennifer Golbeck;Bijan Parsia;James A. Hendler

691
Citations
Inferring binary trust relationships in Web-based social networks

Jennifer Golbeck;James Hendler

663
Citations
Readings in Planning

Austin Tate;James Hendler;James Allen

622
Citations
Automating DAML-S web services composition using SHOP2

Dan Wu;Bijan Parsia;Evren Sirin;James Hendler

612
Citations
UMCP: a sound and complete procedure for hierarchical task-network planning

Kutluhan Erol;James Hendler;Dana S. Nau

600
Citations
A Framework for Web Science

Tim Berners-Lee;Wendy Hall;James A. Hendler;Kieron O'Hara

581
Citations
Information accountability

Daniel J. Weitzner;Harold Abelson;Tim Berners-Lee;Joan Feigenbaum

576
Citations
FilmTrust: movie recommendations using trust in web-based social networks

J. Golbeck;J. Hendler

528
Citations
Web science: an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the web

James Hendler;Nigel Shadbolt;Wendy Hall;Tim Berners-Lee

510
Citations
Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on World Wide Web

Jacqueline Bourdeau;Jim A. Hendler;Roger Nkambou Nkambou;Ian Horrocks

413
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Tim Berners-Lee University of Oxford

Bijan Parsia University of Manchester

Dana S. Nau University of Maryland, College Park

Dieter Fensel University of Innsbruck

Deborah L. McGuinness Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Jennifer Golbeck University of Maryland, College Park

Henry Lieberman MIT

Wolfgang Wahlster German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence

Evren Sirin University of Maryland, College Park

Wendy Hall University of Southampton

External Links

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