Robert E. Shostak

11.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
21 papers, 5.5k citations indexed

About

Robert E. Shostak is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Computational Theory and Mathematics and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert E. Shostak has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 5.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 9 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics and 5 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Robert E. Shostak's work include Logic, programming, and type systems (6 papers), Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge (4 papers) and Cryptography and Data Security (3 papers). Robert E. Shostak is often cited by papers focused on Logic, programming, and type systems (6 papers), Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge (4 papers) and Cryptography and Data Security (3 papers). Robert E. Shostak collaborates with scholars based in United States. Robert E. Shostak's co-authors include Leslie Lamport, Marshall C. Pease, J. H. Wensley, Karl Levitt, P. M. Melliar‐Smith, Jack Goldberg, Chuck Weinstock, Brenda S. Baker, W. W. Bledsoe and Danny Dolev and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the IEEE, Communications of the ACM and Artificial Intelligence.

In The Last Decade

Robert E. Shostak

21 papers receiving 4.9k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

The Byzantine Generals Problem

1982 3.3k citations Leslie Lamport, Robert E. Shostak et al. ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems profile →
Reaching Agreement in the Presence of Faults

1980 1.2k citations Marshall C. Pease, Robert E. Shostak et al. Journal of the ACM profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Robert E. Shostak United States	11	4.2k	1.8k	1.5k	833	813	21	5.5k
Abraham Silberschatz United States	36	5.1k 1.2×	1.8k 1.0×	2.0k 1.3×	1.2k 1.5×	824 1.0×	162	7.0k
Farnam Jahanian United States	41	4.5k 1.1×	2.2k 1.3×	956 0.6×	1.4k 1.6×	768 0.9×	117	6.0k
Fred B. Schneider United States	39	5.3k 1.2×	3.2k 1.8×	1.9k 1.3×	1.7k 2.1×	1.4k 1.8×	154	8.0k
P. M. Melliar‐Smith United States	30	3.6k 0.9×	755 0.4×	869 0.6×	1.1k 1.4×	506 0.6×	180	4.3k
Alan Demers United States	34	8.3k 2.0×	1.4k 0.8×	1.6k 1.1×	1.7k 2.1×	505 0.6×	99	10.3k
Nancy Lynch United States	45	8.7k 2.1×	2.6k 1.5×	1.8k 1.2×	2.1k 2.5×	3.0k 3.7×	269	11.2k
Norman I. Adams United States	17	1.3k 0.3×	1.1k 0.7×	783 0.5×	533 0.6×	403 0.5×	21	3.3k
Ken Birman United States	40	7.5k 1.8×	1.1k 0.7×	1.8k 1.2×	1.6k 1.9×	474 0.6×	232	8.5k
Stephen S. Yau United States	32	1.5k 0.4×	1.4k 0.8×	1.9k 1.3×	435 0.5×	260 0.3×	233	3.6k
Richard A. Kemmerer United States	32	3.1k 0.7×	2.4k 1.4×	1.4k 0.9×	584 0.7×	366 0.5×	96	4.2k

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Dolev, Danny, Leslie Lamport, Marshall C. Pease, & Robert E. Shostak. (1987). The Byzantine generals. 17(6). 348–369. 12 indexed citations

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Shostak, Robert E.. (1984). Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Automated Deduction. 6 indexed citations

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Shostak, Robert E., et al.. (1984). 7th International Conference on Automated Deduction. Lecture notes in computer science. 8 indexed citations

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Shostak, Robert E.. (1984). Deciding Combinations of Theories. Journal of the ACM. 31(1). 1–12. 122 indexed citations

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Levitt, Karl, et al.. (1983). Investigation, Development, and Evaluation of Performance Proving for Fault-tolerant Computers. NASA Technical Reports Server (NASA). 2 indexed citations

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Shostak, Robert E.. (1983). Computer-Assisted Composition Instruction: Some Promising Practices.. 8(1). 4–6. 2 indexed citations

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Lamport, Leslie, Robert E. Shostak, & Marshall C. Pease. (1982). The Byzantine Generals Problem. ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems. 4(3). 382–401. 3348 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wensley, J. H., et al.. (1982). Design study of Software-Implemented Fault-Tolerance (SIFT) computer. NASA STI Repository (National Aeronautics and Space Administration). 1 indexed citations

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Shostak, Robert E.. (1981). Deciding Linear Inequalities by Computing Loop Residues. Journal of the ACM. 28(4). 769–779. 106 indexed citations

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Pease, Marshall C., Robert E. Shostak, & Leslie Lamport. (1980). Reaching Agreement in the Presence of Faults. Journal of the ACM. 27(2). 228–234. 1236 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bledsoe, W. W., et al.. (1979). A prover for general inequalities. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 66–69. 3 indexed citations

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Shostak, Robert E.. (1979). A Practical Decision Procedure for Arithmetic with Function Symbols. Journal of the ACM. 26(2). 351–360. 74 indexed citations

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Wensley, J. H., Leslie Lamport, Jack Goldberg, et al.. (1978). SIFT - Design and analysis of a fault-tolerant computer for aircraft control. [Software Implemented Fault Tolerant systems]. NASA Technical Reports Server (NASA). 4 indexed citations

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Shostak, Robert E.. (1978). An algorithm for reasoning about equality. Communications of the ACM. 21(7). 583–585. 4 indexed citations

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Wensley, J. H., Leslie Lamport, Jack Goldberg, et al.. (1978). SIFT: Design and analysis of a fault-tolerant computer for aircraft control. Proceedings of the IEEE. 66(10). 1240–1255. 377 indexed citations

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Shostak, Robert E.. (1977). On the SUP-INF Method for Proving Presburger Formulas. Journal of the ACM. 24(4). 529–543. 65 indexed citations

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Wensley, J. H., et al.. (1976). The design, analysis, and verification of the SIFT fault tolerant system. International Conference on Software Engineering. 458–469. 20 indexed citations

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Shostak, Robert E., et al.. (1976). Primitive recursive program transformation. 171–174. 2 indexed citations

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Shostak, Robert E.. (1976). Refutation graphs. Artificial Intelligence. 7(1). 51–64. 50 indexed citations

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Baker, Brenda S. & Robert E. Shostak. (1972). Gossips and telephones. Discrete Mathematics. 2(3). 191–193. 82 indexed citations

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