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Victor Lesser 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 Victor Lesser sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 442 publications — 90th percentile

90% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Victor Lesser 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 Victor Lesser sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 86 D-Index — 95th percentile

95% 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

  • 2010 - Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA)
  • 2009 - IJCAI Award for Research Excellence
  • 1990 - Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)

Overview

Victor Lesser is affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the United States. Their research focuses primarily within the field of Computer Science, with particular contributions in several specialized subfields.

The main areas of study for Victor Lesser include:

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

Within these subfields, their work covers key topics such as:

  • Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation
  • Optimization and Search Problems
  • Mobile Agent-Based Network Management
  • Reinforcement Learning in Robotics
  • Multimodal Machine Learning Applications

Victor Lesser has published research in a number of academic venues, including:

  • AI Matters
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Autonomous agents and multiagent systems," published in 2021 by AI Matters
  • "ROMA: Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning with Emergent Roles," published in 2020 on arXiv (Cornell University)

Frequent collaborators who have co-authored papers with Victor Lesser include:

  • Ulle Endriss
  • Ann Nowé
  • Maria Gini
  • G. Flucke
  • Ana Paiva

Victor Lesser has received several notable recognitions during their career. These include:

  • Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), awarded in 1990
  • IJCAI Award for Research Excellence, awarded in 2009
  • Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA), awarded in 2010

Best Publications

  • The Hearsay-II Speech-Understanding System: Integrating Knowledge to Resolve Uncertainty

    Lee D. Erman;Frederick Hayes-Roth;Victor R. Lesser;D. Raj Reddy

  • Functionally accurate, cooperative distributed systems

    Victor R. Lesser;Daniel D. Corkill

  • A survey of multi-agent organizational paradigms

    Bryan Horling;Victor Lesser

  • Trends in cooperative distributed problem solving

    E.H. Durfee;V.R. Lesser;D.D. Corkill

  • Using partial global plans to coordinate distributed problem solvers

    Edmund H. Durfee;Victor R. Lesser

  • Coalitions among computationally bounded agents

    Tuomas W. Sandholm;Victor R. Lesser

  • Issues in automated negotiation and electronic commerce: extending the contract net framework

    Tuomas Sandholm;Victor Lesser

  • The distributed vehicle monitoring testbed: a tool for investigating distributed problem solving networks

    Victor R. Lesser;Daniel D. Corkill

  • Coherent cooperation among communicating problem solvers

    Edmund H. Durfee;Victor R. Lesser;Daniel D. Corkill

  • Designing a family of coordination algorithms

    Keith S. Decker;Victor R. Lesser

  • Partial global planning: a coordination framework for distributed hypothesis formation

    E.H. Durfee;V.R. Lesser

  • Cooperative multiagent systems: a personal view of the state of the art

    V.R. Lesser

  • Solving Distributed Constraint Optimization Problems Using Cooperative Mediation

    Roger Mailler;Victor Lesser

  • Solving transition independent decentralized Markov decision processes

    Raphen Becker;Shlomo Zilberstein;Victor Lesser;Claudia V. Goldman

  • Distributed Sensor Networks: A Multiagent Perspective

    Victor Lesser;Milind Tambe;Charles L. Ortiz

  • Organization of the Hearsay II speech understanding system

    V. Lesser;R. Fennell;L. Erman;D. Reddy

  • Multistage negotiation for distributed constraint satisfaction

    S.E. Conry;K. Kuwabara;V.R. Lesser;R.A. Meyer

  • Negotiating task decomposition and allocation using partial global planning

    Edmund H. Durfee;Edmund H. Durfee;Victor R. Lesser;Victor R. Lesser

  • Evolution of the GPGP/TÆMS domain-independent coordination framework

    Victor R. Lesser

  • Communication decisions in multi-agent cooperation: model and experiments

    Ping Xuan;Victor Lesser;Shlomo Zilberstein

Frequent Co-Authors

Keith Decker
Keith Decker University of Delaware
Edmund H. Durfee
Edmund H. Durfee University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Bo An
Bo An Nanyang Technological University
Tuomas Sandholm
Tuomas Sandholm Carnegie Mellon University
Han Yu
Han Yu Nanyang Technological University
Shlomo Zilberstein
Shlomo Zilberstein University of Massachusetts Amherst
Zhiqi Shen
Zhiqi Shen Nanyang Technological University
Chunyan Miao
Chunyan Miao Nanyang Technological University
Ana L. C. Bazzan
Ana L. C. Bazzan Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
Cyril Leung
Cyril Leung University of British Columbia

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