2026 Maria Fox: 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	44	7423	7206	443	438	178	11627

Overview

Maria Fox is affiliated with the British Antarctic Survey in the United Kingdom and specializes in engineering, with a focus on aerospace and ocean engineering, as well as atmospheric science. Their research spans multiple fields, including artificial intelligence and astronomy and astrophysics.

Their research topics cover a range of areas:

Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
Inertial Sensor and Navigation
Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization
Maritime Navigation and Safety
Climate change and permafrost
Cryospheric studies and observations
Target Tracking and Data Fusion in Sensor Networks

Maria Fox has contributed to several publications, appearing repeatedly in venues such as:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Remote Sensing of Environment
Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets
Advances in Space Research
IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Maria Fox include:

Long-Range Route-planning for Autonomous Vehicles in the Polar Oceans, 2021, arXiv (Cornell University)
Sea ice detection using concurrent multispectral and synthetic aperture radar imagery, 2024, Remote Sensing of Environment
Embedded State Estimation for Optimization of Cislunar Space Domain Awareness Constellation Design, 2024, Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets
Optimal placement and coordinated scheduling of distributed space-based lasers for orbital debris remediation, 2025, Advances in Space Research
Efficient Temporal Piecewise-Linear Numeric Planning With Lazy Consistency Checking, 2022, IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence

Maria Fox frequently collaborates with several researchers including:

Derek Long
Hang Woon Lee
Thomas H. Clareson
Dominic K. Amato
Michael P. Meredith

Best Publications

PDDL2.1: an extension to PDDL for expressing temporal planning domains

Maria Fox;Derek Long

2579
Citations
The 3rd international planning competition: results and analysis

Derek Long;Maria Fox

422
Citations
Forward-chaining partial-order planning

Amanda Coles;Andrew Coles;Maria Fox;Derek Long

371
Citations
The automatic inference of state invariants in TIM

Maria Fox;Derek Long

339
Citations
Modelling mixed discrete-continuous domains for planning

Maria Fox;Derek Long

330
Citations
Plan stability: replanning versus plan repair

Maria Fox;Alfonso Gerevini;Derek Long;Ivan Serina

311
Citations
VAL: automatic plan validation, continuous effects and mixed initiative planning using PDDL

R. Howey;D. Long;M. Fox

281
Citations
ROSPlan: planning in the robot operating system

Michael Cashmore;Maria Fox;Derek Long;Daniele Magazzeni

275
Citations
The Detection and Exploitation of Symmetry in Planning Problems

Maria Fox;Derek Long

230
Citations
Efficient implementation of the plan graph in STAN

Derek Long;Maria Fox

229
Citations
COLIN: planning with continuous linear numeric change

Amanda Coles;Andrew Coles;Maria Fox;Derek Long

192
Citations
IJCAI International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Josef Bajada;Maria Fox;Derek Long

178
Citations
Learning macro-actions for arbitrary planners and domains

M. A. Hakim Newton;John Levine;Maria Fox;Derek Long

130
Citations
Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Chiara Piacentini;Maria Fox;Derek Long

129
Citations
Planning with problems requiring temporal coordination

Andrew Coles;Maria Fox;Derek Long;Amanda Smith

124
Citations
Exploiting a Graphplan framework in temporal planning

Derek Long;Maria Fox

115
Citations
Robot introspection through learned hidden Markov models

Maria Fox;Malik Ghallab;Guillaume Infantes;Derek Long

113
Citations
Explainable Planning

Maria Fox;Derek Long;Daniele Magazzeni

111
Citations
Proceedings of International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling

Andrew Coles;Maria Fox;Derek Long;Amanda Coles

110
Citations
Automatic synthesis and use of generic types in planning

Derek Long;Maria Fox

101
Citations
ROSPlan: Planning in the Robot Operating System

Michael Cashmore;Maria Fox;Derek Long;Daniele Magazzeni

96
Citations
Proceedings of OCEANS'13 MTS/IEEE

Michael Cashmore;Maria Fox;Tom Larkworthy;Derek Long

74
Citations
Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2014)

Michael Cashmore;Maria Fox;Tom Larkworthy;Derek Long

56
Citations
Efficient Implementation of the Plan Graph in STAN

M. Fox;D. Long

8
Citations
Recent Advances in AI Planning

Susanne Biundo;Maria Fox

8
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Derek Long King's College London

Enrico Giunchiglia University of Genoa

David M. Lane Heriot-Watt University

Mark J. Weal University of Southampton

Nicholas R. Jennings Loughborough University

Michael Luck University of Sussex

Chris Reed University of Dundee

John P. Ryan Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute

Virginia Dignum Umeå University

Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos National Technical University of Athens

External Links

Personal website of Maria Fox Google Scholar page

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