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Nils J. Nilsson

Nils J. Nilsson has 2 papers in our library, in 1971–1972, most of them on Reasoning; often with Richard E. Fikes.

2 papers in our library · 1971–1972

OpenAlex · h-index 33 · 184 works · 40,845 citations OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

📄 2 works in our library · 🔗 Cited 121 times in our library · ⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #599

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 Affiliations

🎓Stanford UniversityStanford · United States1971–2017 · 113 papers🔬SRI InternationalMenlo Park · United States1899–1985 · 20 papers

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 Fields, topics and concepts

Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

📚 Shelves 3The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).Computer Science · 2 worksArtificial Intelligence · 2 worksComputer Networks and Communications · 1 work

🧭 Topics 1Research subjects and languages the work is about.Reasoning · 1 work

 Works by year

1970s

19721 paper19711 paper

 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

  1. STRIPS: A new approach to the application of theorem proving to problem solving (1971 · 4,967 citations)
    Fikes and Nilsson present STRIPS (STanford Research Institute Problem Solver), a planner for robot tasks such as moving objects and navigating between rooms.
  2. Learning and executing generalized robot plans (1972 · 1,038 citations)
    The paper extends two components of an SRI mobile-robot system: the planner STRIPS and the execution monitor PLANEX.

 Co-authors here

1 co-author with a page, the most papers together first.

Venues

Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page.

 Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 121 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); 20 citing papers with a page here →.

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