2026 Thomas Eiter: 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	76	1342	1301	10	9	490	23050

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Computer Science in Austria Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Austria Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Computer Science in Austria Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Austria Leader Award
2020 - ACM Fellow For contributions to knowledge representation and reasoning, logic programming, and declarative problem solving
2016 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Thomas Eiter is affiliated with TU Wien in Austria and has a significant body of research primarily in computer science with a focus on artificial intelligence.

The main research fields of Thomas Eiter include:

Computer Science

Within computer science, the key subfields of study are:

Artificial Intelligence
Computer Networks and Communications
Computational Theory and Mathematics
Applied Mathematics
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

The main topics covered in Thomas Eiter's work include:

Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge
Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation
Semantic Web and Ontologies
Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization
Navier-Stokes Equation Solutions
Advanced Mathematical Modeling in Engineering
Advanced Database Systems and Queries

Thomas Eiter has contributed to numerous publications with a variety of frequent co-authors. These collaborators include:

Johannes Oetsch
Rafael Kiesel
Tobias Geibinger
Nysret Musliu
Daria Stepanova

The scientist's research has appeared in multiple well-known venues, including:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Theory and Practice of Logic Programming
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence
Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science

Among Thomas Eiter's recent papers are:

"Query Rewriting for Horn-SHIQ Plus Rules" (2021) published in Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
"A Neuro-Symbolic ASP Pipeline for Visual Question Answering" (2022) published in Theory and Practice of Logic Programming

Other notable papers associated with the scientist's research network include:

"A Scalable Reasoning and Learning Approach for Neural-Symbolic Stream Fusion" (2021) in Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
"Abstraction for non-ground answer set programs" (2021) published in Artificial Intelligence
"Omission-Based Abstraction for Answer Set Programs" (2020) in Theory and Practice of Logic Programming

Thomas Eiter has contributed to academic book publications as well, including a title published by Springer Science+Business Media:

Prolog: The Next 50 Years (2023)

Recognition of Thomas Eiter's scientific contributions includes the following awards:

ACM Fellow (2020) for contributions to knowledge representation and reasoning, logic programming, and declarative problem solving
Member of Academia Europaea (2016)

Best Publications

The DLV system for knowledge representation and reasoning

Nicola Leone;Gerald Pfeifer;Wolfgang Faber;Thomas Eiter

1561
Citations
Complexity and expressive power of logic programming

Evgeny Dantsin;Thomas Eiter;Georg Gottlob;Andrei Voronkov

1165
Citations
Answer set programming at a glance

Gerhard Brewka;Thomas Eiter;Mirosław Truszczyński

1122
Citations
Combining answer set programming with description logics for the Semantic Web

Thomas Eiter;Giovambattista Ianni;Thomas Lukasiewicz;Roman Schindlauer

764
Citations
Disjunctive datalog

Thomas Eiter;Georg Gottlob;Heikki Mannila

680
Citations
Combining answer set programming with description logics for the semantic web

Thomas Eiter;Thomas Lukasiewicz;Roman Schindlauer;Hans Tompits

638
Citations
On the complexity of propositional knowledge base revision, updates, and counterfactuals

Thomas Eiter;Georg Gottlob

595
Citations
The complexity of logic-based abduction

Thomas Eiter;Georg Gottlob

584
Citations
Identifying the Minimal Transversals of a Hypergraph and Related Problems

Thomas Eiter;Georg Gottlob

578
Citations
On the computational cost of disjunctive logic programming: Propositional case

Thomas Eiter;Georg Gottlob

482
Citations
Preferred answer sets for extended logic programs

Gerhard Brewka;Thomas Eiter

396
Citations
A uniform integration of higher-order reasoning and external evaluations in answer-set programming

Thomas Eiter;Giovambattista Ianni;Roman Schindlauer;Hans Tompits

314
Citations
Distance measures for point sets and their computation

Thomas Eiter;Heikki Mannila

286
Citations
Answer Set Programming: A Primer

Thomas Eiter;Giovambattista Ianni;Thomas Krennwallner

277
Citations
The KR system dlv: progress report, comparisons and benchmarks

Thomas Eiter;Nicola Leone;Cristinel Mateis;Gerald Pfeifer

276
Citations
Propositional circumscription and extended closed-world reasoning are P p 2 -complete

Thomas Eiter;Georg Gottlob

266
Citations
Equilibria in heterogeneous nonmonotonic multi-context systems

Gerhard Brewka;Thomas Eiter

262
Citations
A Deductive System for Non-Monotonic Reasoning

Thomas Eiter;Nicola Leone;Cristinel Mateis;Gerald Pfeifer

258
Citations
Declarative problem-solving using the DLV system

Thomas Eiter;Wolfgang Faber;Nicola Leone;Gerald Pfeifer

251
Citations
New Results on Monotone Dualization and Generating Hypergraph Transversals

Thomas Eiter;Georg Gottlob;Kazuhisa Makino

233
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Georg Gottlob University of Calabria

Hans Tompits TU Wien

Nicola Leone University of Calabria

Wolfgang Faber University of Klagenfurt

Stefan Woltran TU Wien

Axel Polleres Vienna University of Economics and Business

Thomas Lukasiewicz University of Oxford

Gerhard Brewka Leipzig University

V. S. Subrahmanian Dartmouth College

Toshihide Ibaraki Kyoto College of Graduate Studies for Informatics

External Links

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