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Michael Kifer 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 Michael Kifer sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 175 publications — 37th percentile

37% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Michael Kifer 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 Michael Kifer sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 47 D-Index — 56th percentile

56% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Michael Kifer is affiliated with Stony Brook University in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the field of Computer Science, with a focus on several subfields including Artificial Intelligence, Software, Management Information Systems, Information Systems, and Computer Networks and Communications.

Their body of work covers a range of topics, particularly emphasizing Semantic Web and Ontologies, Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge, as well as Topic Modeling. Additional areas of research include Logic, programming, and type systems, Model-Driven Software Engineering Techniques, Natural Language Processing Techniques, and Business Process Modeling and Analysis.

Michael Kifer has contributed to several academic publications. Recent papers include:

  • Logic-based Software Modeling with FOML., 2020, The Journal of Object Technology
  • Knowledge Authoring for Rules and Actions, 2023, Theory and Practice of Logic Programming
  • An Overview of F-OML: An F-Logic Based Object Modeling Language, 2024, Technische Universität Berlin - Universitätsbibliothek
  • Knowledge Authoring with Factual English, 2022, Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science
  • Knowledge Authoring for Rules and Actions, 2023, arXiv (Cornell University)

Their frequent coauthors include Paul Fodor, Theresa Swift, Mira Balaban, Yuheng Wang, and Benjamin N. Grosof. The venues where their work appears reflect the diversity of their research interests and include:

  • Theory and Practice of Logic Programming
  • The Journal of Object Technology
  • Technische Universität Berlin - Universitätsbibliothek
  • Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

Best Publications

  • Logical foundations of object-oriented and frame-based languages

    Michael Kifer;Georg Lausen;James Wu

  • Taming the infinite chase: query answering under expressive relational constraints

    Andrea Calì;Georg Gottlob;Michael Kifer

  • F-logic: a higher-order language for reasoning about objects, inheritance, and scheme

    Michael Kifer;Georg Lausen

  • Theory of generalized annotated logic programming and its applications

    Michael Kifer;V. S. Subrahmanian

  • HILOG: a foundation for higher-order logic programming

    Weidong Chen;Michael Kifer;David S. Warren

  • Querying object-oriented databases

    Michael Kifer;Won Kim;Yehoshua Sagiv

  • A logic for reasoning with inconsistency

    Michael Kifer;Eliezer L. Lozinskii

  • RI: a logic for reasoning with inconsistency

    M. Kifer;E.L. Lozinskii

  • Logic based modeling and analysis of workflows

    Hasan Davulcu;Michael Kifer;C. R. Ramakrishnan;I. V. Ramakrishnan

  • Transaction logic programming

    Anthony J. Bonner;Michael Kifer

  • An overview of transaction logic

    Anthony J. Bonner;Michael Kifer

  • Database systems : an application-oriented approach

    Michael Kifer;Arthur J. Bernstein;Philip M. Lewis

  • Databases and Transaction Processing: An Application-Oriented Approach

    Philip M. Lewis;Arthur Bernstein;Michael Kifer

  • ON SAFETY, DOMAIN INDEPENDENCE, AND CAPTURABILITY OF DATABASE QUERIES (Preliminary Report)

    Michael Kifer

  • A realistic architecture for the Semantic Web

    Michael Kifer;Jos De Bruijn;Harold Boley;Dieter Fensel

  • A logic for object-oriented logic programming

    M. Kifer;J. Wu

  • OpenRuleBench: an analysis of the performance of rule engines

    Senlin Liang;Paul Fodor;Hui Wan;Michael Kifer

  • On the Semantics of Rule-Based Expert Systems with Uncertainty

    Michael Kifer;Ai Li

  • Concurrency and Communication in Transaction Logic.

    Anthony J. Bonner;Michael Kifer

  • \mathcal{F}lora-2: A Rule-Based Knowledge Representation and Inference Infrastructure for the Semantic Web

    Guizhen Yang;Michael Kifer;Chang Zhao

  • A Higher-Order Language for Reasoning About Objects, Inheritance, and Scheme

    M. Kifer

Frequent Co-Authors

Benjamin N. Grosof
Benjamin N. Grosof Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
I. V. Ramakrishnan
I. V. Ramakrishnan Stony Brook University
David S. Warren
David S. Warren Stony Brook University
Georg Gottlob
Georg Gottlob University of Calabria
Ian Horrocks
Ian Horrocks University of Oxford
Dieter Fensel
Dieter Fensel University of Innsbruck
Scott A. Smolka
Scott A. Smolka Stony Brook University
John Mylopoulos
John Mylopoulos University of Ottawa
Catriel Beeri
Catriel Beeri Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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