Ernest Davis

3.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
80 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Ernest Davis is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Computer Networks and Communications and Computational Theory and Mathematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Ernest Davis has authored 80 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 50 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 17 papers in Computer Networks and Communications and 14 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics. Recurrent topics in Ernest Davis's work include AI-based Problem Solving and Planning (30 papers), Semantic Web and Ontologies (27 papers) and Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge (21 papers). Ernest Davis is often cited by papers focused on AI-based Problem Solving and Planning (30 papers), Semantic Web and Ontologies (27 papers) and Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge (21 papers). Ernest Davis collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and China. Ernest Davis's co-authors include Gary Marcus, Drew McDermott, Leora Morgenstern, Jeffrey M. Jaffe, Ralph Grishman, Charles L. Ortiz, Todd M. Gureckis, Neil R Bramley, Brian J. Reiser and Anthony G. Cohn and has published in prestigious journals such as Psychological Science, Communications of the ACM and ACM Computing Surveys.

In The Last Decade

Ernest Davis

76 papers receiving 1.7k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ernest Davis United States	21	1.0k	435	210	185	184	80	1.9k
Simon Colton United Kingdom	11	1.2k 1.2×	240 0.6×	194 0.9×	115 0.6×	356 1.9×	32	2.1k
Lynn Andrea Stein United States	18	1.5k 1.4×	508 1.2×	126 0.6×	129 0.7×	236 1.3×	59	2.3k
Mark d’Inverno United Kingdom	21	983 1.0×	289 0.7×	72 0.3×	110 0.6×	227 1.2×	98	1.7k
Gerald Tesauro United States	31	2.1k 2.0×	761 1.7×	262 1.2×	121 0.7×	341 1.9×	71	3.5k
Spyridon Samothrakis United Kingdom	16	1.6k 1.5×	187 0.4×	176 0.8×	139 0.8×	426 2.3×	40	2.4k
John R. Josephson United States	17	1.4k 1.4×	251 0.6×	132 0.6×	82 0.4×	124 0.7×	49	2.3k
Mehdi Dastani Netherlands	22	1.6k 1.5×	330 0.8×	153 0.7×	68 0.4×	88 0.5×	178	2.1k
Simon Colton United Kingdom	20	1.8k 1.8×	213 0.5×	235 1.1×	193 1.0×	728 4.0×	92	2.9k
Jon Doyle United States	22	2.3k 2.2×	552 1.3×	402 1.9×	76 0.4×	79 0.4×	98	2.9k
Enrico Pontelli United States	22	1.0k 1.0×	447 1.0×	255 1.2×	141 0.8×	59 0.3×	217	1.7k

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Davis, Ernest, et al.. (2023). The defeat of the Winograd Schema Challenge. Artificial Intelligence. 325. 103971–103971. 16 indexed citations

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Davis, Ernest. (2023). Benchmarks for Automated Commonsense Reasoning: A Survey. ACM Computing Surveys. 56(4). 1–41. 19 indexed citations

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Bramley, Neil R, et al.. (2019). Limits on the Use of Simulation in Physical Reasoning. PsyArXiv (OSF Preprints). 2 indexed citations

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Davis, Ernest, et al.. (2017). Commonsense reasoning about containers using radically incomplete information. Artificial Intelligence. 248. 46–84. 18 indexed citations

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Davis, Ernest. (2016). Algorithms and everyday life. Artificial Intelligence. 239. 1–6. 1 indexed citations

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Davis, Ernest. (2015). Does the world look different in different languages?. Artificial Intelligence. 229. 202–209. 1 indexed citations

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Davis, Ernest & Gary Marcus. (2015). The scope and limits of simulation in automated reasoning. Artificial Intelligence. 233. 60–72. 32 indexed citations

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Davis, Ernest. (2014). Ethical guidelines for a superintelligence. Artificial Intelligence. 220. 121–124. 16 indexed citations

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Davis, Ernest, Patrick Doherty, & Esra Erdem. (2011). Logical formalizations of commonsense reasoning : papers from the AAAI Spring Symposium. 11 indexed citations

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Davis, Ernest. (2010). How does a box work? A study in the qualitative dynamics of solid objects. Artificial Intelligence. 175(1). 299–345. 9 indexed citations

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Davis, Ernest. (2005). Knowledge and communication: A first-order theory. Artificial Intelligence. 166(1-2). 81–139. 10 indexed citations

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Davis, Ernest, et al.. (2005). Processes and continuous change in a SAT-based planner. Artificial Intelligence. 166(1-2). 194–253. 74 indexed citations

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Davis, Ernest, et al.. (2004). Continuous time in a SAT-based planner. National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 531–536. 9 indexed citations

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Davis, Ernest. (1998). Naive Physics Perplex. AI Magazine. 19(4). 51–79. 13 indexed citations

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Davis, Ernest. (1997). The Naive Physics Perplex. AI Magazine. 19(4). 51–79. 32 indexed citations

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Davis, Ernest. (1994). Branching continuous time and the semantics of continuous action. 231–236. 3 indexed citations

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Davis, Ernest & Ralph Grishman. (1986). Artificial Intelligence Research in Progress at the Courant Institute, New York University. AI Magazine. 7(5). 82–86. 42 indexed citations

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Davis, Ernest & Ralph Grishman. (1986). AI Research in progress at the courant institute, New York University. AI Magazine. 7(5). 82–86. 1 indexed citations

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Davis, Ernest, et al.. (1985). A representation for complex physical domains. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 443–446. 9 indexed citations

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Davis, Ernest. (1983). The MERCATOR representation of spatial knowledge. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 295–301. 10 indexed citations

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