Ben Wegbreit

5.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
46 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Ben Wegbreit is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Computational Theory and Mathematics and Hardware and Architecture. According to data from OpenAlex, Ben Wegbreit has authored 46 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 22 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics and 14 papers in Hardware and Architecture. Recurrent topics in Ben Wegbreit's work include Logic, programming, and type systems (19 papers), Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques (13 papers) and Formal Methods in Verification (12 papers). Ben Wegbreit is often cited by papers focused on Logic, programming, and type systems (19 papers), Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques (13 papers) and Formal Methods in Verification (12 papers). Ben Wegbreit collaborates with scholars based in United States and France. Ben Wegbreit's co-authors include Sebastian Thrun, Michael Montemerlo, Daphne Koller, Daniel G. Bobrow, Stephen Boyd, Ronald V. Book, Steven M. German, James H. Morris, Sheila A. Greibach and Thomas E. Cheatham and has published in prestigious journals such as Communications of the ACM, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering and The International Journal of Robotics Research.

In The Last Decade

Ben Wegbreit

46 papers receiving 3.1k citations

Hit Papers

FastSLAM: a factored solution to the simultaneous localiz... 2002 2026 2010 2018 2002 2003 400 800 1.2k
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. FastSLAM: a factored solution to the simultaneous localization and mapping problem
    2002 1.5k citations Michael Montemerlo, Sebastian Thrun et al. National Conference on Artificial Intelligence profile →
  2. FastSLAM 2.0: an improved particle filtering algorithm for simultaneous localization and mapping that provably converges
    2003 646 citations Michael Montemerlo, Sebastian Thrun et al. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ben Wegbreit United States 20 1.9k 1.3k 1.3k 867 542 46 3.4k
Patrick Doherty Sweden 29 1.0k 0.5× 955 0.7× 1.4k 1.1× 143 0.2× 326 0.6× 146 2.9k
A. Howard United States 17 1.4k 0.8× 1.7k 1.3× 788 0.6× 504 0.6× 63 0.1× 28 3.6k
P.K. Khosla United States 30 994 0.5× 2.3k 1.7× 804 0.6× 270 0.3× 110 0.2× 100 4.3k
Mark H. Overmars Netherlands 29 611 0.3× 1.4k 1.1× 552 0.4× 78 0.1× 357 0.7× 98 2.8k
Andrew Howard United States 20 916 0.5× 1.2k 0.9× 504 0.4× 465 0.5× 57 0.1× 47 2.7k
Pedro U. Lima Portugal 26 564 0.3× 749 0.6× 493 0.4× 235 0.3× 228 0.4× 181 2.1k
Dave Ferguson United States 36 2.2k 1.2× 3.8k 2.9× 846 0.6× 179 0.2× 90 0.2× 59 5.0k
Ashok K. Agrawala United States 32 592 0.3× 552 0.4× 601 0.5× 3.9k 4.5× 234 0.4× 180 6.0k
Miklós Maróti United States 25 195 0.1× 418 0.3× 725 0.6× 1.5k 1.8× 514 0.9× 71 4.9k
Maxim Likhachev United States 38 2.5k 1.3× 5.1k 3.9× 1.6k 1.3× 137 0.2× 183 0.3× 185 6.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Ben Wegbreit

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ben Wegbreit

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ben Wegbreit

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ben Wegbreit. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ben Wegbreit 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 Ben Wegbreit. Ben Wegbreit is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Hager, Gregory D. & Ben Wegbreit. (2011). Scene parsing using a prior world model. The International Journal of Robotics Research. 30(12). 1477–1507. 22 indexed citations
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Montemerlo, Michael, et al.. (2003). FastSLAM 2.0: an improved particle filtering algorithm for simultaneous localization and mapping that provably converges. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 1151–1156. 646 indexed citations breakdown →
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Montemerlo, Michael, Sebastian Thrun, Daphne Koller, & Ben Wegbreit. (2002). FastSLAM: a factored solution to the simultaneous localization and mapping problem. National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 593–598. 1451 indexed citations breakdown →
4.
Wegbreit, Ben. (1980). Studies in Extensible Programming Languages. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 6 indexed citations
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Wegbreit, Ben. (1976). Faster retrieval from context trees. Communications of the ACM. 19(9). 526–529. 6 indexed citations
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Wegbreit, Ben, et al.. (1975). The verification and synthesis of data structures. Acta Informatica. 4(2). 127–144. 31 indexed citations
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Wegbreit, Ben. (1975). Mechanical program analysis. Communications of the ACM. 18(9). 528–539. 145 indexed citations
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German, Steven M. & Ben Wegbreit. (1975). A synthesizer of inductive assertions. 369–369. 4 indexed citations
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Wegbreit, Ben. (1974). The treatment of data types in EL1. Communications of the ACM. 17(5). 251–264. 61 indexed citations
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Wegbreit, Ben. (1973). Heuristic Methods for Mechanically Deriving Inductive Assertions.. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 3(1). 524–536. 9 indexed citations
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Cheatham, Thomas E. & Ben Wegbreit. (1972). On a laboratory for the study of automating programming. 208–211. 12 indexed citations
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Cheatham, Thomas E. & Ben Wegbreit. (1972). On a laboratory for the study of automating programming. ACM SIGPLAN Notices. 7(1). 208–211. 2 indexed citations
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Wegbreit, Ben. (1972). A generalised compactifying garbage collector. The Computer Journal. 15(3). 204–208. 14 indexed citations
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Cheatham, Thomas E. & Ben Wegbreit. (1972). A laboratory for the study of automating programming. ACM SIGSAM Bulletin. 8–26. 17 indexed citations
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Book, Ronald V. & Ben Wegbreit. (1971). A note on AFLs and bounded erasing. Information and Control. 19(1). 18–29. 10 indexed citations
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Wegbreit, Ben. (1971). An overview of the ECL programming system. ACM SIGPLAN Notices. 6(12). 26–28. 4 indexed citations
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Wegbreit, Ben. (1971). The ECL programming system. 253–253. 43 indexed citations
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Book, Ronald V., Sheila A. Greibach, Óscar H. Ibarra, & Ben Wegbreit. (1970). Tape-bounded turing acceptors and principal AFLs. Journal of Computer and System Sciences. 4(6). 622–625. 14 indexed citations
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Book, Ronald V., Sheila A. Greibach, & Ben Wegbreit. (1970). Time- and tape-bounded turing acceptors and AFLs. Journal of Computer and System Sciences. 4(6). 606–621. 53 indexed citations
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Wegbreit, Ben. (1969). A generator of context-sensitive languages. Journal of Computer and System Sciences. 3(4). 456–461. 13 indexed citations

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