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Joost Engelfriet

Joost Engelfriet

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Computer Science
Netherlands
2025

D-Index & Metrics

Computer Science

D-Index
52
Citations
8679
World Ranking
5161
National Ranking
77

Joost Engelfriet 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 Joost Engelfriet sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 182 publications — 39th percentile

39% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Joost Engelfriet 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 Joost Engelfriet sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 52 D-Index — 65th percentile

65% 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

  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Netherlands Leader Award

Overview

Joost Engelfriet is affiliated with Leiden University in the Netherlands and works primarily in the field of computer science. Their research spans several subfields including computational theory and mathematics, artificial intelligence, and computer networks and communications.

Engelfriet's publication record includes contributions to notable academic venues such as:

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science
  • Information Processing Letters

Their recent papers cover topics focused on automata theory, logic, and computational models. Notable publications include:

  • "XML navigation and transformation by tree-walking automata and transducers with visible and invisible pebbles" (2020, Theoretical Computer Science)
  • "A Büchi-Elgot-Trakhtenbrot theorem for automata with MSO graph storage" (2020, Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science)
  • "Computability by monadic second-order logic" (2020, Information Processing Letters)

Engelfriet's work addresses core areas such as semigroups and automata theory, algorithms and data compression, logic and programming type systems, optimization problems, computability and AI algorithms, as well as advanced algebra and logic. These topics reflect a focus on theoretical underpinnings of computation and formal methods.

  • semigroups and automata theory
  • Algorithms and Data Compression
  • Logic, programming, and type systems
  • Optimization and Search Problems
  • Computability, Logic, AI Algorithms
  • Advanced Algebra and Logic

Collaborations are part of Engelfriet's research activities, including joint work with frequent co-authors such as Hendrik Jan Hoogeboom, Bart Samwel, and Heiko Vogler. These collaborations appear within the context of their specialized research topics.

  • Hendrik Jan Hoogeboom
  • Bart Samwel
  • Heiko Vogler

The scientist's work contributes to ongoing developments in computational theory using formal logic and automata frameworks. The range of publication venues and topics indicates a sustained engagement with several branches of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence, reflecting specialized expertise in these domains.

Best Publications

  • Graph Structure and Monadic Second-Order Logic: A Language-Theoretic Approach

    Bruno Courcelle;Joost Engelfriet

  • Branching processes of Petri nets

    Joost Engelfriet

  • Handle-rewriting hypergraph grammars

    Bruno Courcelle;Joost Engelfriet;Grzegorz Rozenberg

  • Bottom-up and top-down tree transformations - a comparison

    Joost Engelfriet

  • Elementary net systems

    G. Rozenberg;J. Engelfriet

  • Macro Tree Transducers

    Joost Engelfriet;Heiko Vogler

  • IO and OI. II

    Joost Engelfriet;Erik Meineche Schmidt

  • MSO definable string transductions and two-way finite-state transducers

    Joost Engelfriet;Hendrik Jan Hoogeboom

  • Top-down tree transducers with regular look-ahead

    Joost Engelfriet

  • Tree Transducers, L Systems, and Two-Way Machines

    Joost Engelfriet;Grzegorz Rozenberg;Giora Slutzki

  • Node replacement graph grammars

    J. Engelfriet;G. Rozenberg

  • SOME OPEN QUESTIONS AND RECENT RESULTS ON TREE TRANSDUCERS AND TREE LANGUAGES

    Joost Engelfriet

  • IO and OI

    Joost Engelfriet;Erik Meineche Schmidt

  • Context-free graph grammars

    Joost Engelfriet

  • Macro Tree Transducers, Attribute Grammars, and MSO Definable Tree Translations

    Joost Engelfriet;Sebastian Maneth

  • Fixed Point Languages, Equality Languages, and Representation of Recursively Enumerable Languages

    J. Engelfriet;G. Rozenberg

  • X-automata on Ω-words

    Joost Engelfriet;Hendrik Jan Hoogeboom

  • A comparison of boundary graph grammars and context-free hypergraph grammars

    Joost Engelfriet;Grzegorz Rozenberg

  • Attribute grammars: attribute evaluation methods

    J Engelfriet

  • A Comparison of Tree Transductions Defined by Monadic Second Order Logic and by Attribute Grammars

    Roderick Bloem;Joost Engelfriet

  • Tree transducers, L systems and two-way machines (Extended Abstract)

    J. Engelfriet;G. Rozenberg;G. Slutzki

Frequent Co-Authors

Grzegorz Rozenberg
Grzegorz Rozenberg Leiden University
Bruno Courcelle
Bruno Courcelle University of Bordeaux
Helmut Seidl
Helmut Seidl Technical University of Munich
Andrzej Ehrenfeucht
Andrzej Ehrenfeucht University of Colorado Boulder
Andreas Brandstädt
Andreas Brandstädt University of Rostock
Vadim V. Lozin
Vadim V. Lozin University of Warwick
Roderick Bloem
Roderick Bloem Graz University of Technology
Michael Benedikt
Michael Benedikt University of Oxford
Hans L. Bodlaender
Hans L. Bodlaender Utrecht University
Emo Welzl
Emo Welzl ETH Zurich

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