2026 Scott A. DeLoach: 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	38	10328	10037	4328	4150	120	5465

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Overview

Scott A. DeLoach is affiliated with Kansas State University in the United States. The primary focus of their research is in the field of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a strong emphasis on several subfields including Agronomy and Crop Science, Food Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Infectious Diseases, and Endocrinology.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics related to animal health and food systems, particularly concentrating on:

Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
Food Supply Chain Traceability
Vector-Borne Animal Diseases
Viral Infections and Vectors
Plant and Fungal Interactions Research

Among their recent papers are the following publications, illustrating their research scope and interests:

Impact of truck contamination and information sharing on foot-and-mouth disease spreading in beef cattle production systems, 2020, published in PLoS ONE
Simulating human behavioral changes in livestock production systems during an epidemic: The case of the US beef cattle industry, 2021, published in PLoS ONE
Towards resilient beef cattle production systems: Impact of truck contamination and information sharing on foot-and-mouth disease spreading, 2020, published in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Frequently collaborating with Scott A. DeLoach are several coauthors, including:

Qihui Yang
Don Gruenbacher
Jessica L. Heier Stamm
Gary L. Brase
Caterina Scoglio

The scientist has published primarily in these venues:

PLoS ONE
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Best Publications

MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS ENGINEERING

Scott A. Deloach;Mark F. Wood;Clint H. Sparkman

833
Citations
An Overview of the Multiagent Systems Engineering Methodology

Mark F. Wood;Scott A. Deloach

505
Citations
Analysis and Design using MaSE and agentTool

Scott A. DeLoach

342
Citations
Towards a Theory of Moving Target Defense

Rui Zhuang;Scott A. DeLoach;Xinming Ou

294
Citations
Multiagent Systems Engineering: A Methodology and Language for Designing Agent Systems

Scott A DeLoach

269
Citations
A capabilities-based model for adaptive organizations

Scott A. Deloach;Walamitien H. Oyenan;Eric T. Matson

173
Citations
O-MaSE: a customisable approach to designing and building complex, adaptive multi-agent systems

Scott A. DeLoach;Juan Carlos Garcia-Ojeda

152
Citations
Developing Multiagent Systems with agentTool

Scott DeLoach;Mark F. Wood

151
Citations
O-MaSE: a customizable approach to developing multiagent development processes

Juan C. Garcia-Ojeda;Scott A. DeLoach;Robby Robby;Walamitien H. Oyenan

121
Citations
Engineering organization-based multiagent systems

Scott A. DeLoach

117
Citations
Determining when to use an agent-oriented software engineering paradigm

Scott A. O'malley;Scott A. Deloach

115
Citations
Simulation-based Approaches to Studying Effectiveness of Moving-Target Network Defense | NIST

Rui Zhuang;Su Zhang;Scott DeLoach;Xinming Ou

112
Citations
Investigating the application of moving target defenses to network security

Rui Zhuang;Su Zhang;Alex Bardas;Scott A. DeLoach

105
Citations
Metrics of Security

Yi Cheng;Julia Deng;Jason H. Li;Scott A. DeLoach

82
Citations
A Theory of Cyber Attacks: A Step Towards Analyzing MTD Systems

Rui Zhuang;Alexandru G. Bardas;Scott A. DeLoach;Xinming Ou

81
Citations
Modeling Organizational Rules in the Multi-agent Systems Engineering Methodology

Scott DeLoach

76
Citations
A Framework for Developing and Using Shared Mental Models in Human-Agent Teams:

Matthias Scheutz;Scott A. DeLoach;Julie A. Adams

74
Citations
Learning from Games: Seven Principles of Effective Design

Rob Houser;Scott DeLoach

74
Citations
A Goal Model for Adaptive Complex Systems

Scott A. DeLoach;Matthew Miller

71
Citations
Integrating ontologies into multiagent systems engineering

Jonathan DiLeo;Timothy Jacobs;Scott DeLoach

71
Citations
The O-MASE Methodology

Scott A. DeLoach;Juan C. Garcia-Ojeda

68
Citations
A model for analyzing the effect of moving target defenses on enterprise networks

Rui Zhuang;Scott A. DeLoach;Xinming Ou

67
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Xinming Ou University of South Florida

Caterina Scoglio Kansas State University

Michael Winikoff Victoria University of Wellington

Michael N. Huhns University of South Carolina

Lin Padgham RMIT University

Matthew C. Miller Northeastern University

Keith Decker University of Delaware

Michael Wooldridge University of Oxford

Julie A. Adams Oregon State University

Cristiano Castelfranchi National Research Council (CNR)

External Links

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