Alan Winfield

6.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
132 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Alan Winfield is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Mechanical Engineering and Control and Systems Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Alan Winfield has authored 132 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 47 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 39 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 29 papers in Control and Systems Engineering. Recurrent topics in Alan Winfield's work include Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence (37 papers), Reinforcement Learning in Robotics (23 papers) and Ethics and Social Impacts of AI (22 papers). Alan Winfield is often cited by papers focused on Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence (37 papers), Reinforcement Learning in Robotics (23 papers) and Ethics and Social Impacts of AI (22 papers). Alan Winfield collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Netherlands and China. Alan Winfield's co-authors include Marina Jirotka, Wenguo Liu, Joanna J. Bryson, Julien Nembrini, Jens Krause, J. L. Deneubourg, Dieter Vanderelst, Michael Fisher, Katina Michael and Vanessa Evers and has published in prestigious journals such as Trends in Ecology & Evolution, Proceedings of the IEEE and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Alan Winfield

129 papers receiving 2.7k citations

Hit Papers

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alan Winfield United Kingdom 29 890 660 566 542 364 132 2.8k
Michael Fisher United Kingdom 31 2.0k 2.2× 223 0.3× 139 0.2× 493 0.9× 183 0.5× 210 3.7k
Catholijn M. Jonker Netherlands 32 2.4k 2.6× 269 0.4× 100 0.2× 397 0.7× 266 0.7× 311 4.4k
Michael Terry Canada 26 928 1.0× 269 0.4× 200 0.4× 104 0.2× 203 0.6× 80 2.9k
Matthias Scheutz United States 37 2.4k 2.7× 799 1.2× 222 0.4× 187 0.3× 1.2k 3.3× 302 5.0k
Karl Tuyls Netherlands 29 1.5k 1.7× 258 0.4× 163 0.3× 600 1.1× 72 0.2× 163 3.2k
Mark Guzdial United States 47 877 1.0× 259 0.4× 247 0.4× 271 0.5× 91 0.3× 307 10.8k
Jean Scholtz United States 31 801 0.9× 116 0.2× 394 0.7× 173 0.3× 221 0.6× 148 3.5k
Mary Lou Maher United States 33 959 1.1× 72 0.1× 1.1k 1.9× 161 0.3× 185 0.5× 209 3.5k
Brian Magerko United States 24 789 0.9× 378 0.6× 127 0.2× 53 0.1× 167 0.5× 132 2.8k
William J. Clancey United States 32 2.4k 2.7× 96 0.1× 191 0.3× 275 0.5× 299 0.8× 137 4.3k

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All Works

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Hart, Emma, et al.. (2024). Towards a Unified Framework for Software-Hardware Integration in Evolutionary Robotics. Robotics. 13(11). 157–157. 1 indexed citations
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Winfield, Alan. (2024). Evolutionary robotics as a modelling tool in evolutionary biology. Frontiers in Robotics and AI. 11. 1278983–1278983. 1 indexed citations
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Hart, Emma, Zhongxue Gan, Alan Winfield, et al.. (2023). Evaluation of Frameworks That Combine Evolution and Learning to Design Robots in Complex Morphological Spaces. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation. 28(6). 1561–1574. 11 indexed citations
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McGinn, Conor, et al.. (2023). Ethical Assessment of a Hospital Disinfection Robot. 12008–12014. 1 indexed citations
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Hart, Emma, et al.. (2023). Practical hardware for evolvable robots. Frontiers in Robotics and AI. 10. 1206055–1206055. 1 indexed citations
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Winfield, Alan, et al.. (2022). An ethical black box for social robots: A draft open standard. 99–110. 2 indexed citations
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Falco, Gregory, Ben Shneiderman, Julia Badger, et al.. (2021). Governing AI safety through independent audits. Nature Machine Intelligence. 3(7). 566–571. 115 indexed citations
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Winfield, Alan & Susan Blackmore. (2021). Experiments in artificial culture: from noisy imitation to storytelling robots. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 377(1843). 20200323–20200323. 8 indexed citations
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Jones, Simon, Matthew Studley, Sabine Hauert, & Alan Winfield. (2018). A Two Teraflop Swarm. Frontiers in Robotics and AI. 5. 11–11. 11 indexed citations
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Winfield, Alan. (2018). Experiments in Artificial Theory of Mind: From Safety to Story-Telling. Frontiers in Robotics and AI. 5. 75–75. 43 indexed citations
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Fisher, Michael, Christian List, Marija Slavkovik, & Alan Winfield. (2016). Engineering moral machines. London School of Economics and Political Science Research Online (London School of Economics and Political Science). 1 indexed citations
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Winfield, Alan, et al.. (2013). A.: On fault-tolerance and scalability of swarm robotic systems. UWE Research Repository (UWE Bristol). 8 indexed citations
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Winfield, Alan. (2012). Robotics: A Very Short Introduction. Artificial Organs. 38(10). 845–55. 32 indexed citations
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Kernbach, Serge, et al.. (2010). Adaptive Action Selection Mechanisms for Evolutionary Multimodular Robotics. Artificial Life. 781–788. 1 indexed citations
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Dorigo, Marco, et al.. (2008). Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence: 6th International Conference, ANTS 2008, Brussels, Belgium, September 22-24, 2008, Proceedings (Lecture ... Computer Science and General Issues). Springer eBooks. 17 indexed citations
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Dorigo, Marco, Mauro Birattari, Christian Blum, et al.. (2008). Ant colony optimization and Swarm intelligence : 6th International Conference, ANTS 2008, Brussels, Belgium, September22-24, 2008 : proceedings. Springer eBooks. 10 indexed citations
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Şahi̇n, Erol, William M. Spears, & Alan Winfield. (2007). Swarm robotics : Second SAB 2006 International Workshop, Rome, Italy, September 30 - October 1, 2006 : revised selected papers. Springer eBooks. 2 indexed citations
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Winfield, Alan, et al.. (2005). Immediate distant action and correlation in modern physics : the balanced universe. 1 indexed citations
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Winfield, Alan, et al.. (2005). On the Formal Specification of Emergent Behaviours of Swarm Robotics Systems. International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems. 2. 10 indexed citations
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Ellery, Alex, Dave Barnes, Chris Welch, et al.. (2003). The UK space and planetary robotics network. Journal of the British Interplanetary Society. 56. 328–337. 1 indexed citations

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