2026 Robert C. Holte: 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	47	6336	6152	254	241	191	13609

Research.com Recognitions

2011 - Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) For significant contributions to the science and practice of empirical machine learning, and for leadership of the Machine Learning Journal.

Overview

Robert C. Holte is affiliated with the University of Alberta in Canada and has contributed extensively to the field of computer science, particularly within artificial intelligence. Their work encompasses various subfields including artificial intelligence, computer networks and communications, computer vision and pattern recognition, economics and econometrics, and management science and operations research.

The scientist's primary research interests include AI-based problem solving and planning, constraint satisfaction and optimization, machine learning and algorithms, metaheuristic optimization algorithms research, robotic path planning algorithms, logic, reasoning, and knowledge, as well as advanced database systems and queries.

Frequent co-authors of Robert C. Holte include Ariel Felner, Roni Stern, Nathan Sturtevant, Jonathan Schaeffer, and Wheeler Ruml.

Some examples of recent papers authored or co-authored by the scientist are:

A Polynomial-Time Algorithm for Non-Optimal Multi-Agent Pathfinding, 2021, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Combinatorial Search
Partial-Expansion A* with Selective Node Generation, 2021, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Partial-Expansion A* with Selective Node Generation, 2021, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Combinatorial Search
Using Sliding Windows to Generate Action Abstractions in Extensive-Form Games, 2021, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Optimal-Generation Variants of EPEA*, 2021, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Combinatorial Search

The scientist frequently publishes in these venues:

Proceedings of the International Symposium on Combinatorial Search
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
arXiv (Cornell University)
Proceedings of the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling

Robert C. Holte's work mainly falls under the broad field of computer science with a specific focus on artificial intelligence and associated technical areas.

In recognition of contributions to the field, Robert C. Holte was named a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) in 2011 for significant contributions to empirical machine learning and leadership related to the Machine Learning Journal.

Best Publications

Very Simple Classification Rules Perform Well on Most Commonly Used Datasets

Robert C. Holte

2741
Citations
Machine Learning for the Detection of Oil Spills in Satellite Radar Images

Miroslav Kubat;Robert C. Holte;Stan Matwin

1715
Citations
C4.5, Class Imbalance, and Cost Sensitivity: Why Under-Sampling beats Over-Sampling

Chris Drummond;Robert C. Holte

1190
Citations
Concept learning and the problem of small disjuncts

Robert C. Holte;Liane E. Acker;Bruce W. Porter

571
Citations
The Ninja architecture for robust Internet-scale systems and services373423

Steven D. Gribble;Matt Welsh;Rob von Behren;Eric A. Brewer

534
Citations
Concept learning and heuristic classification in weak-theory domains

Bruce W. Porter;Ray Bareiss;Robert C. Holte

450
Citations
Cost curves: An improved method for visualizing classifier performance

Chris Drummond;Robert C. Holte

404
Citations
Learning When Negative Examples Abound

Miroslav Kubat;Robert Holte;Stan Matwin

387
Citations
Approximating game-theoretic optimal strategies for full-scale poker

D. Billings;N. Burch;A. Davidson;R. Holte

352
Citations
Exploiting the Cost (In)sensitivity of Decision Tree Splitting Criteria

Chris Drummond;Robert C. Holte

295
Citations
Explicitly representing expected cost: an alternative to ROC representation

Chris Drummond;Robert C. Holte

272
Citations
Hierarchical A *: searching abstraction hierarchies efficiently

Robert C. Holte;M. B. Perez;R. M. Zimmer;A. J. MacDonald

233
Citations
The pinwheel: a real-time scheduling problem

R. Holte;A. Mok;L. Rosier;I. Tulchinsky

219
Citations
Enhanced partial expansion A

Meir Goldenberg;Ariel Felner;Roni Stern;Guni Sharon

175
Citations
Theory and applications of agnostic PAC-learning with small decision trees

Peter Auer;Robert C. Holte;Wolfgang Maass

173
Citations
Speeding up problem solving by abstraction: a graph oriented approach

R. C. Holte;T. Mkadmi;R. M. Zimmer;A. J. MacDonald

168
Citations
The exponentiated subgradient algorithm for heuristic Boolean programming

Dale Schuurmans;Finnegan Southey;Robert C. Holte

124
Citations
Game-Tree search with adaptation in stochastic imperfect-information games

Darse Billings;Aaron Davidson;Terence Schauenberg;Neil Burch

117
Citations
Learning heuristic functions for large state spaces

Shahab Jabbari Arfaee;Sandra Zilles;Robert C. Holte

107
Citations
Fringe Search: Beating A* at Pathfinding on Game Maps.

Yngvi Björnsson;Markus Enzenberger;Robert C. Holte;Jonathan Schaeffer

101
Citations
A* search with inconsistent heuristics

Zhifu Zhang;Nathan R. Sturtevant;Robert Holte;Jonathan Schaeffer

23
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Ariel Felner Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Jonathan Schaeffer University of Alberta

Neil Burch University of Alberta

Nathan R. Sturtevant University of Alberta

Duane Szafron University of Alberta

Michael Bowling University of Alberta

Sven Koenig University of Southern California

Frank Hutter University of Freiburg

Richard E. Korf University of California, Los Angeles

Gary F. Marcus New York University

External Links

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