Edit Profile (opens in new tab) Dijkstra, Edsger Wybe Compute Distance To: Compute Author ID: dijkstra.edsger-wybe Published as: Dijkstra, Edsger W.; Dijkstra, E. W.; Dijkstra, Edsger Wybe External Links: MacTutor · MGP · Wikidata · dblp · GND · IdRef Awards: Turing Award (1972) Documents Indexed: 81 Publications since 1955, including 7 Books 1 Contribution as Editor · 3 Further Contributions Biographic References: 5 Publications Co-Authors: 9 Co-Authors with 14 Joint Publications 145 Co-Co-Authors all top 5 Co-Authors 69 single-authored 5 van Gasteren, Antonetta Johanna Maria 4 Scholten, Carel S. 3 Feijen, W. H. J. 2 Hoare, C. A. R. Tony 2 Lamport, Leslie 2 Steffens, Elisabeth F. M. 1 Bauer, Friedrich Ludwig 1 Blaauw, G. W. 1 Boyer, Robert S. 1 Broy, Manfred 1 Burstall, Rod M. 1 Dahl, Ole-Johan 1 de Bakker, Jacobus W. 1 Duijvestijn, A. J. W. 1 Goguen, Joseph Amadee 1 Manna, Zohar 1 Misra, Jayadev 1 Moore, J Strother 1 Pnueli, Amir 1 van der Houwen, Pieter J. 1 Van der Poel, Willem Louis 1 van Wijngaarden, Adrian 1 Wilkes, Maurice Vincent 1 Zoutendijk, Guus all top 5 Serials 6 Information Processing Letters 5 Communications of the ACM 3 Acta Informatica 3 Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen. Proceedings. Series A. Indagationes Mathematicae 2 American Mathematical Monthly 2 Numerische Mathematik 2 Science of Computer Programming 2 Formal Aspects of Computing 1 The Mathematical Intelligencer 1 BIT 1 The Computer Journal. Section A / Section B 1 Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Ser. A 1 Mitteilungen der Mathematischen Gesellschaft in Hamburg 1 Nieuw Archief voor Wiskunde. Derde Serie 1 Distributed Computing 1 BIT. Nordisk Tidskrift for Informationsbehandling 1 Elektronische Datenverarbeitung 1 Mathematical Tables and other Aids to Computation 1 A.P.I.C. Studies in Data Processing 1 NATO ASI Series. Series F. Computer and Systems Sciences all top 5 Fields 58 Computer science (68-XX) 11 Mathematical logic and foundations (03-XX) 10 General and overarching topics; collections (00-XX) 5 Combinatorics (05-XX) 5 Number theory (11-XX) 4 History and biography (01-XX) 2 Operations research, mathematical programming (90-XX) 2 Information and communication theory, circuits (94-XX) 1 Order, lattices, ordered algebraic structures (06-XX) 1 General algebraic systems (08-XX) 1 Real functions (26-XX) 1 Sequences, series, summability (40-XX) 1 Probability theory and stochastic processes (60-XX) Publications by Year all cited Publications top 5 cited Publications Citations contained in zbMATH Open 42 Publications have been cited 2,312 times in 2,129 Documents Cited by ▼ Year ▼ A note on two problems in connexion with graphs. Zbl 0092.16002Dijkstra, E. W. 1,083 1959 Self-stabilizing systems in spite of distributed control. Zbl 0305.68048Dijkstra, Edsger W. 271 1974 A discipline of programming. Zbl 0368.68005Dijkstra, Edsger W. 261 1976 Guarded commands, nondeterminacy and formal derivation of programs. Zbl 0308.68017Dijkstra, Edsger W. 146 1975 Programming as a discipline of mathematical nature. Zbl 0286.00013Dijkstra, E. W. 137 1974 Predicate calculus and program semantics. Zbl 0698.68011Dijkstra, Edsger Wybe; Scholten, C. S. 103 1990 Structured programming. Zbl 0267.68001Dahl, O.-J.; Dijkstra, E. W.; Hoare, C. A. R. 48 1972 Termination detection for diffusing computations. Zbl 0439.68039Dijkstra, Edsger W.; Scholten, C. S. 41 1980 A belated proof of self-stabilization. Zbl 0604.68015Dijkstra, Edsger W. 37 1986 Selected writings on computing: a personal perspective. Zbl 0497.68001Dijkstra, Edsger W. 25 1982 The structure of the ‘THE’-multiprogramming system. Zbl 0164.18704Dijkstra, E. W. 24 1968 On-the-fly garbage collection: An exercise in cooperation. Zbl 0386.68024Dijkstra, Edsger W.; Lamport, Leslie; Martin, A. J.; Scholten, C. S.; Steffens, E. F. M. 19 1978 A constructive approach to the program correctness. Zbl 0167.46002Dijkstra, E. W. 19 1968 Smoothsort, an alternative for sorting in situ. Zbl 0486.68050Dijkstra, Edsger W. 11 1982 Some beautiful arguments using mathematical induction. Zbl 0435.68055Dijkstra, Edsger W. 10 1980 Recursive programming. Zbl 0093.13911Dijkstra, E. W. 10 1960 A simple fixpoint argument without the restriction to continuity. Zbl 0591.68007Dijkstra, Edsger W.; van Gasteren, A. J. M. 7 1986 A method of programming. Translated from the Dutch by Joke Sterringa. Zbl 0681.68001Dijkstra, Edsger W.; Feijen, W. H. J. 6 1988 On-the-fly garbage collection: An exercise in cooperation. Zbl 0347.68019Dijkstra, Edsger W.; Lamport, Leslie; Martin, A. J.; Scholten, C. S.; Steffens, E. F. M. 5 1976 Invariance and non-determinacy. Zbl 0544.68011Dijkstra, E. W. 4 1984 Derivation of a termination detection algorithm for distributed computations. Zbl 0566.68025Dijkstra, Edsger W.; Feijen, W. H. J.; van Gasteren, A. J. M. 4 1985 Operating experience with AlGOL 60. Zbl 0100.13107Dijkstra, E. W. 4 1962 On a cultural gap. Zbl 0586.68025Dijkstra, E. W. 3 1986 Shmuel Safra’s version of termination detection. Zbl 0987.68526Dijkstra, Edsger W. 3 1999 On the interplay between mathematics and programming. Zbl 0418.68032Dijkstra, E. W. 3 1979 A simple axiomatic basis for programming language constructs. Zbl 0277.68008Dijkstra, Edsger W. 3 1974 An introduction to three algorithms for sorting in situ. Zbl 0491.68059Dijkstra, Edsger W.; van Gasteren, A. J. M. 2 1982 Errata to: “Smoothsort, an alternative for sorting in situ”. Zbl 0492.68049Dijkstra, E. W. 2 1982 A tutorial on the split binary semaphore. Zbl 0569.68016Dijkstra, Edsger W. 2 1982 EWD1300: The notational conventions I adopted, and why. Zbl 1029.68004Dijkstra, Edsger W. 2 2002 Guarded commands, nondeterminacy, and formal derivation of programs. Zbl 0395.68005Dijkstra, Edsger W. 2 1978 Finding the correctness proof of a concurrent program. Zbl 0397.68010Dijkstra, E. W. 2 1978 Finding the correctness proof of a concurrent program. Zbl 0429.68024Dijkstra, E. W. 2 1978 The correctness problem in computer science. Zbl 0476.68009 2 1981 An attemt to unify the constituent concepts of serial program execution. Zbl 0137.10706Dijkstra, E. W. 2 1962 Making a fair roulette from a possibly biased coin. Zbl 0722.60015Dijkstra, Edsger W. 1 1990 Correctness concerns and, among other things, why they are resented. Zbl 0395.68011Dijkstra, Edsger W. 1 1978 On the interplay between mathematics and programming. Zbl 0418.68033Dijkstra, E. W. 1 1979 A bagatelle on Euclid’s algorithm (EWD 1158). Zbl 0858.11004Dijkstra, Edsger W. 1 1996 Iterative processes for the computation of elementary functions. Zbl 0074.12005Dijkstra, Edsger W. 1 1956 Letters to the editor. Defense of ALGOL 60. Zbl 0106.11401Dijkstra, E. W. 1 1961 On a gauntlet thrown by David Gries. Zbl 0332.05001Dijkstra, Edsger W. 1 1976 EWD1300: The notational conventions I adopted, and why. Zbl 1029.68004Dijkstra, Edsger W. 2 2002 Shmuel Safra’s version of termination detection. Zbl 0987.68526Dijkstra, Edsger W. 3 1999 A bagatelle on Euclid’s algorithm (EWD 1158). Zbl 0858.11004Dijkstra, Edsger W. 1 1996 Predicate calculus and program semantics. Zbl 0698.68011Dijkstra, Edsger Wybe; Scholten, C. S. 103 1990 Making a fair roulette from a possibly biased coin. Zbl 0722.60015Dijkstra, Edsger W. 1 1990 A method of programming. Translated from the Dutch by Joke Sterringa. Zbl 0681.68001Dijkstra, Edsger W.; Feijen, W. H. J. 6 1988 A belated proof of self-stabilization. Zbl 0604.68015Dijkstra, Edsger W. 37 1986 A simple fixpoint argument without the restriction to continuity. Zbl 0591.68007Dijkstra, Edsger W.; van Gasteren, A. J. M. 7 1986 On a cultural gap. Zbl 0586.68025Dijkstra, E. W. 3 1986 Derivation of a termination detection algorithm for distributed computations. Zbl 0566.68025Dijkstra, Edsger W.; Feijen, W. H. J.; van Gasteren, A. J. M. 4 1985 Invariance and non-determinacy. Zbl 0544.68011Dijkstra, E. W. 4 1984 Selected writings on computing: a personal perspective. Zbl 0497.68001Dijkstra, Edsger W. 25 1982 Smoothsort, an alternative for sorting in situ. Zbl 0486.68050Dijkstra, Edsger W. 11 1982 An introduction to three algorithms for sorting in situ. Zbl 0491.68059Dijkstra, Edsger W.; van Gasteren, A. J. M. 2 1982 Errata to: “Smoothsort, an alternative for sorting in situ”. Zbl 0492.68049Dijkstra, E. W. 2 1982 A tutorial on the split binary semaphore. Zbl 0569.68016Dijkstra, Edsger W. 2 1982 The correctness problem in computer science. Zbl 0476.68009 2 1981 Termination detection for diffusing computations. Zbl 0439.68039Dijkstra, Edsger W.; Scholten, C. S. 41 1980 Some beautiful arguments using mathematical induction. Zbl 0435.68055Dijkstra, Edsger W. 10 1980 On the interplay between mathematics and programming. Zbl 0418.68032Dijkstra, E. W. 3 1979 On the interplay between mathematics and programming. Zbl 0418.68033Dijkstra, E. W. 1 1979 On-the-fly garbage collection: An exercise in cooperation. Zbl 0386.68024Dijkstra, Edsger W.; Lamport, Leslie; Martin, A. J.; Scholten, C. S.; Steffens, E. F. M. 19 1978 Guarded commands, nondeterminacy, and formal derivation of programs. Zbl 0395.68005Dijkstra, Edsger W. 2 1978 Finding the correctness proof of a concurrent program. Zbl 0397.68010Dijkstra, E. W. 2 1978 Finding the correctness proof of a concurrent program. Zbl 0429.68024Dijkstra, E. W. 2 1978 Correctness concerns and, among other things, why they are resented. Zbl 0395.68011Dijkstra, Edsger W. 1 1978 A discipline of programming. Zbl 0368.68005Dijkstra, Edsger W. 261 1976 On-the-fly garbage collection: An exercise in cooperation. Zbl 0347.68019Dijkstra, Edsger W.; Lamport, Leslie; Martin, A. J.; Scholten, C. S.; Steffens, E. F. M. 5 1976 On a gauntlet thrown by David Gries. Zbl 0332.05001Dijkstra, Edsger W. 1 1976 Guarded commands, nondeterminacy and formal derivation of programs. Zbl 0308.68017Dijkstra, Edsger W. 146 1975 Self-stabilizing systems in spite of distributed control. Zbl 0305.68048Dijkstra, Edsger W. 271 1974 Programming as a discipline of mathematical nature. Zbl 0286.00013Dijkstra, E. W. 137 1974 A simple axiomatic basis for programming language constructs. Zbl 0277.68008Dijkstra, Edsger W. 3 1974 Structured programming. Zbl 0267.68001Dahl, O.-J.; Dijkstra, E. W.; Hoare, C. A. R. 48 1972 The structure of the ‘THE’-multiprogramming system. Zbl 0164.18704Dijkstra, E. W. 24 1968 A constructive approach to the program correctness. Zbl 0167.46002Dijkstra, E. W. 19 1968 Operating experience with AlGOL 60. Zbl 0100.13107Dijkstra, E. W. 4 1962 An attemt to unify the constituent concepts of serial program execution. Zbl 0137.10706Dijkstra, E. W. 2 1962 Letters to the editor. Defense of ALGOL 60. Zbl 0106.11401Dijkstra, E. W. 1 1961 Recursive programming. Zbl 0093.13911Dijkstra, E. W. 10 1960 A note on two problems in connexion with graphs. Zbl 0092.16002Dijkstra, E. W. 1,083 1959 Iterative processes for the computation of elementary functions. Zbl 0074.12005Dijkstra, Edsger W. 1 1956 all cited Publications top 5 cited Publications all top 5 Cited by 3,627 Authors 18 Datta, Ajoy Kumar 17 Hesselink, Wim H. 17 Hoare, C. A. R. Tony 17 Tixeuil, Sébastien 14 Devismes, Stéphane 14 Huang, Shingtsaan 13 Cavalcanti, Ana 13 Dolev, Shlomi 13 Morgan, Carroll C. 13 Srimani, Pradip K. 11 Back, Ralph-Johan 11 Takaoka, Tadao 10 Scheideler, Christian 10 Sedeño-Noda, Antonio 9 Chaudhuri, Pranay Kumar 9 Duin, Cees W. 9 Kakugawa, Hirotsugu 9 Katoen, Joost-Pieter 9 Larmore, Lawrence L. 9 Masuzawa, Toshimitsu 9 Villain, Vincent 8 Dubois, Swan 8 Guerriero, Francesca 8 Huang, Tetz C. 8 McIver, Annabelle K. 8 Mili, Ali 8 Petit, Franck 8 Volgenant, Anton 8 Yamauchi, Yukiko 7 Bergstra, Jan A. 7 Bose, Prosenjit K. 7 Dehmer, Matthias 7 Francez, Nissim 7 Gouda, Mohamed G. 7 He, Jifeng 7 Hedetniemi, Stephen Travis 7 Kulkarni, Sandeep S. 7 Leino, K. Rustan M. 7 Ponse, Alban 7 Woodcock, James C. P. 6 Antonoiu, Gheorghe 6 Backhouse, Roland C. 6 Cournier, Alain 6 Er, Mingcheng 6 Frieze, Alan Michael 6 Ghosh, Sukumar 6 Gries, David 6 Gudmundsson, Joachim 6 Hansen, Pierre 6 Kamei, Sayaka 6 Karaata, Mehmet Hakan 6 Katz, Shmuel 6 Kheddouci, Hamamache 6 Kutten, Shay 6 Laporte, Gilbert 6 Lin, Ji-Cherng 6 Nesterenko, Mikhail V. 6 Sampaio, Augusto C. A. 6 Schiller, Elad Michael 6 Vladimirsky, Alexander 5 Apt, Krzysztof Rafal 5 Attie, Paul C. 5 Climaco, Joao Carlos Namorado 5 Desharnais, Jules 5 Festa, Paola 5 Gupta, Arobinda 5 Guttmann, Walter 5 Jacobs, Bart 5 Levcopoulos, Christos 5 Martin, Alain J. 5 Möller, Bernhard 5 Nannicini, Giacomo 5 Osher, Stanley Joel 5 Pascoal, Marta Margarida Braz 5 Potop-Butucaru, Maria Gradinariu 5 Solin, Kim 5 Tarantilis, Christos D. 5 Tarjan, Robert Endre 5 Tzeng, Chi-Hung 5 Wagner, Dorothea 4 Arora, Anish 4 Batta, Rajan 4 Berghammer, Rudolf 4 Best, Eike 4 Bijlsma, Alex 4 Bonakdarpour, Borzoo 4 Chen, Yen-Liang 4 Clarke, Edmund Melson jun. 4 Colvin, Robert J. 4 Cousot, Patrick 4 Cruz, Frederico R. B. 4 de Carufel, Jean-Lou 4 Delling, Daniel 4 Derigs, Ulrich 4 Di Puglia Pugliese, Luigi 4 Dijkstra, Edsger Wybe 4 Dijkstra, Rutger M. 4 Ding, Wei 4 Emmert-Streib, Frank 4 Fernández-Zepeda, José Alberto ...and 3,527 more Authors all top 5 Cited in 305 Serials 194 Theoretical Computer Science 151 Information Processing Letters 112 European Journal of Operational Research 86 Formal Aspects of Computing 78 Computers & Operations Research 66 Distributed Computing 55 Acta Informatica 47 Discrete Applied Mathematics 32 Artificial Intelligence 30 Algorithmica 30 Information and Computation 29 Journal of Computer and System Sciences 26 Information Sciences 23 Applied Mathematics and Computation 22 Annals of Operations Research 21 Computers & Mathematics with Applications 21 International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science 19 Science of Computer Programming 18 Journal of Combinatorial Optimization 18 The Journal of Logic and Algebraic Programming 16 Computing 16 Operations Research Letters 16 Formal Methods in System Design 14 Journal of Computational Physics 13 Networks 13 Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision 13 Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming 12 Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing 12 Mathematical Programming. 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Operations Research 6 Computer Science Review 5 Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications 5 Programming and Computer Software 5 RAIRO, Informatique Théorique 5 Systems & Control Letters 5 Optimization 5 Journal of Global Optimization 5 Journal of Functional Programming 5 Theory of Computing Systems 5 Wuhan University Journal of Natural Sciences (WUJNS) 5 Computational Geosciences 5 4OR 5 Networks and Spatial Economics 5 International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems 5 Mathematical Programming Computation 4 Discrete Mathematics 4 International Journal of General Systems 4 International Journal of Systems Science 4 Algebra Universalis 4 International Journal of Computer & Information Sciences 4 Opsearch 4 Studia Logica 4 Journal of Classification 4 Journal of Computer Science and Technology 4 Discrete & Computational Geometry 4 Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research 4 International Journal of Computational Geometry & Applications 4 Discrete Event Dynamic Systems 4 Linear Algebra and its Applications 4 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 4 International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos in Applied Sciences and Engineering 4 SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing 4 International Journal of Computer Vision 4 Top 4 INFORMS Journal on Computing 4 Chaos 4 International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science 4 OR Spectrum ...and 205 more Serials all top 5 Cited in 49 Fields 1,383 Computer science (68-XX) 612 Operations research, mathematical programming (90-XX) 301 Combinatorics (05-XX) 134 Numerical analysis (65-XX) 113 Mathematical logic and foundations (03-XX) 77 Systems theory; control (93-XX) 64 Game theory, economics, finance, and other social and behavioral sciences (91-XX) 53 Information and communication theory, circuits (94-XX) 37 Biology and other natural sciences (92-XX) 36 Calculus of variations and optimal control; optimization (49-XX) 27 Probability theory and stochastic processes (60-XX) 27 Statistics (62-XX) 23 Category theory; homological algebra (18-XX) 23 Partial differential equations (35-XX) 22 Order, lattices, ordered algebraic structures (06-XX) 14 Fluid mechanics (76-XX) 13 Convex and discrete geometry (52-XX) 13 Mechanics of deformable solids (74-XX) 11 General algebraic systems (08-XX) 11 Number theory (11-XX) 10 Linear and multilinear algebra; matrix theory (15-XX) 10 Quantum theory (81-XX) 10 Statistical mechanics, structure of matter (82-XX) 8 General and overarching topics; collections (00-XX) 7 Group theory and generalizations (20-XX) 7 Ordinary differential equations (34-XX) 7 Dynamical systems and ergodic theory (37-XX) 6 General topology (54-XX) 6 Geophysics (86-XX) 5 Differential geometry (53-XX) 4 Algebraic geometry (14-XX) 4 Measure and integration (28-XX) 4 Mechanics of particles and systems (70-XX) 3 Commutative algebra (13-XX) 3 Associative rings and algebras (16-XX) 3 Geometry (51-XX) 3 Manifolds and cell complexes (57-XX) 3 Global analysis, analysis on manifolds (58-XX) 2 Topological groups, Lie groups (22-XX) 2 Real functions (26-XX) 2 Algebraic topology (55-XX) 2 Mathematics education (97-XX) 1 Difference and functional equations (39-XX) 1 Approximations and expansions (41-XX) 1 Integral transforms, operational calculus (44-XX) 1 Integral equations (45-XX) 1 Functional analysis (46-XX) 1 Optics, electromagnetic theory (78-XX) 1 Classical thermodynamics, heat transfer (80-XX) Citations by Year Wikidata Timeline The data are displayed as stored in Wikidata under a Creative Commons CC0 License. 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