Richard E. Korf
Richard E. Korf earned his Carnegie Mellon doctorate in 1983 and held an assistant professorship at Columbia from 1983 to 1985. His research covers problem solving, heuristic search and planning. Korf published Depth-First Iterative-Deepening: An Optimal Admissible Tree Search. The paper examines search time, memory use and solution cost, and reports results under defined tree-search assumptions. His book Learning to Solve Problems by Searching for Macro-Operators examines reusable sequences of actions. His work also covers abstraction and the trade between search time and stored knowledge.
- Works
- 141
- Citations
- 8,174
- h-index
- 44
Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 14 October 2026.
Timeline
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1983–1985
Doctorate and faculty work
Richard E. Korf earned his Carnegie Mellon doctorate in 1983 and held an assistant professorship at Columbia from 1983 to 1985. His research covers problem solving, heuristic search and planning.
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1985
Iterative deepening
Korf published Depth-First Iterative-Deepening: An Optimal Admissible Tree Search. The paper examines search time, memory use and solution cost, and reports results under defined tree-search assumptions.
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1985 and later
Learning search structure
His book Learning to Solve Problems by Searching for Macro-Operators examines reusable sequences of actions. His work also covers abstraction and the trade between search time and stored knowledge.
Sources and credits
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