Rina Dechter
Rina Dechter studies automated reasoning with graphical models, constraint networks, and probabilistic inference. Dechter, Itay Meiri, and Judea Pearl co-authored Temporal Constraint Networks in 1991. Dechter, Itay Meiri and Judea Pearl received the 2020 AIJ Classic Paper Award for their paper. Dechter published Reasoning with Probabilistic and Deterministic Graphical Models: Exact Algorithms in 2013. A second edition appeared in 2019.
- Works
- 409
- Citations
- 14,740
- h-index
- 52
Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 14 October 2026.
Timeline
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1991
Temporal Constraint Networks
Dechter, Itay Meiri, and Judea Pearl co-authored Temporal Constraint Networks in 1991. Dechter, Itay Meiri and Judea Pearl received the 2020 AIJ Classic Paper Award for their paper.
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1994
Research recognition
AAAI elected Rina Dechter as a Fellow in 1994.
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2013
Graphical models book
Dechter published Reasoning with Probabilistic and Deterministic Graphical Models: Exact Algorithms in 2013. A second edition appeared in 2019.
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2025
Research excellence recognition
Dechter received the IJCAI Research Excellence Award in 2025.
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As of October 2026
Reasoning under computational limits
Her group studies tractable reasoning tasks and uses them to design general anytime algorithms. These methods can provide a solution during processing and improve its quality when more computation time is available.
Sources and credits
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