2026 Katia Sycara: 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	97	416	404	229	221	767	45928

Research.com Recognitions

2006 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to case based reasoning, multi-agent systems and semantic web services and standards.
2002 - Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) For significant contributions to case-based reasoning, autonomous agents, and multiagent systems.

Overview

Katia Sycara is affiliated with Carnegie Mellon University in the United States. Their research focuses on several areas within computer science and engineering, particularly in robotic path planning, control systems, and artificial intelligence.

The scientist's recent publications include:

OffRIPP: Offline RL-based Informative Path Planning, 2024, arXiv (Cornell University)
DyPNIPP: Predicting Environment Dynamics for RL-based Robust Informative Path Planning, 2024, arXiv (Cornell University)

Key topics covered in their work consist of:

Robotic Path Planning Algorithms
Control and Dynamics of Mobile Robots
Fluid Dynamics Simulations and Interactions
Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization
Algorithms and Data Compression

The main fields of study in which they have contributed are:

Computer Science
Engineering

Within these fields, their subfields include:

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Control and Systems Engineering
Computational Mechanics
Aerospace Engineering
Artificial Intelligence

Sycara frequently publishes in the venue arXiv (Cornell University).

The scientist collaborates with a number of co-authors on their research, including:

Srujan Deolasee
Siva Kailas
Wenhao Luo
Woojun Kim
Srikar Babu Gadipudi

Recognition for their work includes:

IEEE Fellow (2006) for contributions to case-based reasoning, multi-agent systems, and semantic web services and standards
Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) (2002) for significant contributions to case-based reasoning, autonomous agents, and multiagent systems

Best Publications

Semantic Matching of Web Services Capabilities

Massimo Paolucci;Takahiro Kawamura;Terry R. Payne;Katia P. Sycara

3648
Citations
DAML-S: semantic markup for web services

Anupriya Ankolekar;Mark Burstein;Jerry R. Hobbs;Ora Lassila

2469
Citations
A Roadmap of Agent Research and Development

Unknown

2006
Citations
DAML-S: Web Service Description for the Semantic Web

Mark H. Burstein;Jerry R. Hobbs;Ora Lassila;David Martin

1154
Citations
Bringing semantics to web services: the OWL-S approach

David Martin;Massimo Paolucci;Sheila McIlraith;Mark Burstein

1141
Citations
Distributed intelligent agents

K. Sycara;A. Pannu;M. Willamson;Dajun Zeng

1003
Citations
Automated discovery, interaction and composition of Semantic Web services

Katia P. Sycara;Massimo Paolucci;Anupriya Ankolekar;Naveen Srinivasan

957
Citations
WebMate: a personal agent for browsing and searching

Liren Chen;Katia Sycara

928
Citations
The Semantic Web - ISWC 2003

Dieter Fensel;Katia Sycara;John Mylopoulos

911
Citations
Reaching agreements through argumentation: a logical model and implementation

Sarit Kraus;Katia Sycara;Amir Evenchik

817
Citations
Middle-Agents for the Internet.

Keith Decker;Katia P. Sycara;Mike Williamson

768
Citations
Automated semantic web service discovery with OWLS-MX

Matthias Klusch;Benedikt Fries;Katia Sycara

763
Citations
Larks: Dynamic Matchmaking Among Heterogeneous Software Agents in Cyberspace

Katia Sycara;Seth Widoff;Matthias Klusch;Jianguo Lu

735
Citations
Bringing Semantics to Web Services with OWL-S

David Martin;Mark Burstein;Drew Mcdermott;Sheila Mcilraith

734
Citations
Bayesian learning in negotiation

Dajun Zeng;Katia Sycara

711
Citations
Importing the Semantic Web in UDDI

Massimo Paolucci;Takahiro Kawamura;Takahiro Kawamura;Terry R. Payne;Katia P. Sycara

680
Citations
Dynamic service matchmaking among agents in open information environments

Katia Sycara;Matthias Klusch;Seth Widoff;Jianguo Lu

593
Citations
The RETSINA MAS Infrastructure

Katia Sycara;Massimo Paolucci;Martin Van Velsen;Joseph Giampapa

546
Citations
DAML-S: A Semantic Markup Language For Web Services

Anupriya Ankolenkar;Mark Burstein;Jerry Hobbs;Ora Lassila

541
Citations
Human Interaction With Robot Swarms: A Survey

Andreas Kolling;Phillip Walker;Nilanjan Chakraborty;Katia Sycara

450
Citations
OWLS-MX: A hybrid Semantic Web service matchmaker for OWL-S services

Matthias Klusch;Benedikt Fries;Katia Sycara

409
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Massimo Paolucci NTT (Japan)

Timothy J. Norman University of Southampton

Terry R. Payne University of Liverpool

Onn Shehory Bar-Ilan University

Keith Decker University of Delaware

Matthias Klusch German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence

Norman Sadeh Carnegie Mellon University

Christian Lebiere Carnegie Mellon University

Nigel Shadbolt University of Oxford

Mark S. Fox University of Toronto

External Links

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