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5513
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Neil Immerman 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 Neil Immerman sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 144 publications — 24th percentile

24% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Neil Immerman 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 Neil Immerman sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 50 D-Index — 62nd percentile

62% 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

  • 2003 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 2002 - ACM Fellow For contributions to complexity theory, descriptive complexity, and database theory.

Overview

Neil Immerman is affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the United States. Their research is primarily situated within the field of Computer Science, with a focus on several subfields including Artificial Intelligence, Computational Theory and Mathematics, Computer Networks and Communications, Software, and Philosophy.

Their work spans across multiple topics such as AI-based Problem Solving and Planning, Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge, Model-Driven Software Engineering Techniques, Natural Language Processing Techniques, Linguistics and Discourse Analysis, Advanced Algebra and Logic, and Logic, Programming, and Type Systems.

Recent papers by Neil Immerman include the following:

  • Computing Applicability Conditions for Plans with Loops, 2021, Proceedings of the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling
  • Stärken und Grenzen des Weisfeiler-Leman-Algorithmus, 2020, RWTH Publications (RWTH Aachen)
  • Multi-Structural Games and Beyond, 2023, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Summing up Smart Transitions, 2021, Lecture notes in computer science
  • Artifact for Article: First-Order Quantified Separators, 2020, Artifact Digital Object Group

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Neil Immerman include:

  • Phokion G. Kolaitis
  • Jonathan Lenchner
  • Rik Sengupta
  • Marco Carmosino
  • Ronald Fagin

The scientist has published regularly in various venues, with repeated contributions to:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • ACM SIGLOG News
  • Proceedings of the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling
  • Lecture notes in computer science
  • RWTH Publications (RWTH Aachen)

Among their recognitions, Neil Immerman was named a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2003. They were also honored as an ACM Fellow in 2002 for contributions to complexity theory, descriptive complexity, and database theory.

Best Publications

  • The Complexity of Decentralized Control of Markov Decision Processes

    Daniel S. Bernstein;Robert Givan;Neil Immerman;Shlomo Zilberstein

  • Nondeterministic space is closed under complementation

    N. Immerman

  • Relational queries computable in polynomial time

    Neil Immerman

  • Languages that capture complexity classes

    Neil Immerman

  • An optimal lower bound on the number of variables for graph identification

    Jin Yi Cai;Martin Fürer;Neil Immerman

  • On uniformity within NC 1

    David A. Mix-Barrington;Neil Immerman;Howard Straubing

  • Efficient pattern matching over event streams

    Jagrati Agrawal;Yanlei Diao;Daniel Gyllstrom;Neil Immerman

  • The complexity of decentralized control of Markov decision processes

    Daniel S. Bernstein;Shlomo Zilberstein;Neil Immerman

  • Upper and lower bounds for first order expressibility

    Neil Immerman;Neil Immerman

  • Describing Graphs: A First-Order Approach to Graph Canonization

    Neil Immerman;Eric Lander;Eric Lander

  • Number of quantifiers is better than number of tape cells

    Neil Immerman;Neil Immerman

  • Definability with bounded number of bound variables

    N. Immerman;D. Kozen

  • Sparse sets in NP-P: EXPTIME versus NEXPTIME*

    Juris Hartmanis;Neil Immerman;Vivian Sewelson

  • On complexity and optimization of expensive queries in complex event processing

    Haopeng Zhang;Yanlei Diao;Neil Immerman

  • Expressibility and parallel complexity

    Neil Immerman

  • Descriptive and Computational Complexity

    Neil Immerman

  • On the unusual effectiveness of logic in computer science

    Joseph Y. Halpern;Robert Harper;Neil Immerman;Phokion G. Kolaitis

  • Expressibility as a complexity measure: results and directions.

    Neil Immerman

  • Languages which capture complexity classes

    Neil Immerman

  • Leader election algorithms for wireless ad hoc networks

    S. Vasudevan;B. DeCleene;N. Immerman;J. Kurose

  • On uniformity within NC 1 .

    David A. Mix Barrington;Neil Immerman;Howard Straubing

Frequent Co-Authors

Mooly Sagiv
Mooly Sagiv Tel Aviv University
Shlomo Zilberstein
Shlomo Zilberstein University of Massachusetts Amherst
Kousha Etessami
Kousha Etessami University of Edinburgh
Eric Allender
Eric Allender Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Thomas Reps
Thomas Reps University of Wisconsin–Madison
Juris Hartmanis
Juris Hartmanis Cornell University
Phokion G. Kolaitis
Phokion G. Kolaitis University of California, Santa Cruz
Leonid Libkin
Leonid Libkin University of Edinburgh
Rajeev Alur
Rajeev Alur University of Pennsylvania
Saharon Shelah
Saharon Shelah Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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