A. Williams

873 total citations · 1 hit paper
6 papers, 652 citations indexed

About

A. Williams is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Control and Systems Engineering and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, A. Williams has authored 6 papers receiving a total of 652 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 2 papers in Control and Systems Engineering and 2 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in A. Williams's work include Distributed Control Multi-Agent Systems (6 papers), Neural Networks Stability and Synchronization (3 papers) and Mathematical and Theoretical Epidemiology and Ecology Models (2 papers). A. Williams is often cited by papers focused on Distributed Control Multi-Agent Systems (6 papers), Neural Networks Stability and Synchronization (3 papers) and Mathematical and Theoretical Epidemiology and Ecology Models (2 papers). A. Williams collaborates with scholars based in United States. A. Williams's co-authors include Gerardo Lafferriere, John S. Caughman, J. J. P. Veerman, Sonja Glavaški, Tarıq Samad, Partha P. Nag and Madalena Chaves and has published in prestigious journals such as Systems & Control Letters, Journal of Statistical Physics and PDXScholar (Portland State University).

In The Last Decade

A. Williams

6 papers receiving 615 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.

Decentralized control of vehicle formations

2005 488 citations Gerardo Lafferriere, A. Williams et al. Systems & Control Letters profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
A. Williams United States	6	609	220	101	100	65	6	652
Wenze Ren United States	4	762 1.3×	307 1.4×	186 1.8×	141 1.4×	43 0.7×	7	802
Jiaxin Lin United States	7	702 1.2×	149 0.7×	73 0.7×	66 0.7×	124 1.9×	13	743
Peng Lin China	12	495 0.8×	204 0.9×	113 1.1×	131 1.3×	54 0.8×	30	678
Yi Dong China	18	762 1.3×	526 2.4×	95 0.9×	77 0.8×	54 0.8×	66	889
Ming-Can Fan China	11	455 0.7×	254 1.2×	46 0.5×	54 0.5×	37 0.6×	21	517
Nima Moshtagh United States	8	385 0.6×	132 0.6×	145 1.4×	20 0.2×	90 1.4×	20	444
Maobin Lu China	18	525 0.9×	530 2.4×	117 1.2×	55 0.6×	26 0.4×	60	842
Junping Du China	11	211 0.3×	187 0.8×	49 0.5×	44 0.4×	42 0.6×	39	419
Chang‐E Ren China	16	712 1.2×	666 3.0×	56 0.6×	61 0.6×	29 0.4×	35	946

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of A. Williams

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of A. Williams. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of A. Williams based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with A. Williams. A. Williams is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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6 of 6 papers shown

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Williams, A., Gerardo Lafferriere, & J. J. P. Veerman. (2006). Stable motions of vehicle formations. PDXScholar (Portland State University). 72–77. 15 indexed citations

2.

Lafferriere, Gerardo, A. Williams, John S. Caughman, & J. J. P. Veerman. (2005). Decentralized control of vehicle formations. Systems & Control Letters. 54(9). 899–910. 488 indexed citations breakdown →

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Veerman, J. J. P., Gerardo Lafferriere, John S. Caughman, & A. Williams. (2005). Flocks and Formations. Journal of Statistical Physics. 121(5-6). 901–936. 38 indexed citations

4.

Lafferriere, Gerardo, John S. Caughman, & A. Williams. (2004). Graph theoretic methods in the stability of vehicle formations. 3729–3734 vol.4. 49 indexed citations

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Glavaški, Sonja, et al.. (2004). Vehicle networks: achieving regular formation. 5. 4095–4100. 20 indexed citations

6.

Williams, A., Sonja Glavaški, & Tarıq Samad. (2004). Formations of formations: hierarchy and stability. 2992–2997 vol.4. 42 indexed citations

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