Christian J. Darken

4.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
36 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

Christian J. Darken is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Control and Systems Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Christian J. Darken has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 14 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and 8 papers in Control and Systems Engineering. Recurrent topics in Christian J. Darken's work include Artificial Intelligence in Games (7 papers), Robotic Path Planning Algorithms (7 papers) and Neural Networks and Applications (6 papers). Christian J. Darken is often cited by papers focused on Artificial Intelligence in Games (7 papers), Robotic Path Planning Algorithms (7 papers) and Neural Networks and Applications (6 papers). Christian J. Darken collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Germany. Christian J. Darken's co-authors include John Moody, N.I. Santoso, Russell Greiner, Eduardo D. Sontag, Leonid Gurvits, Gary M. Kuhn, Thomas Petsche, Stephen José Hanson, Tobias Scheffer and Neil C. Rowe and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, ACM Computing Surveys and Neural Computation.

In The Last Decade

Christian J. Darken

32 papers receiving 3.0k 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.

Fast Learning in Networks of Locally-Tuned Processing Units

1989 3.0k citations John Moody, Christian J. Darken Neural Computation profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christian J. Darken United States	9	2.1k	823	672	372	258	36	3.3k
Jihun Park South Korea	11	1.3k 0.6×	1.2k 1.5×	424 0.6×	164 0.4×	342 1.3×	51	3.2k
Ken-ichi Funahashi Japan	6	2.1k 1.0×	1.2k 1.5×	358 0.5×	261 0.7×	426 1.7×	10	3.6k
James Llinas United States	18	2.0k 1.0×	787 1.0×	744 1.1×	386 1.0×	465 1.8×	78	4.2k
Sung‐Kwun Oh South Korea	31	2.1k 1.0×	776 0.9×	533 0.8×	155 0.4×	328 1.3×	236	3.4k
P. A. Estévez Chile	28	1.4k 0.7×	243 0.3×	923 1.4×	394 1.1×	358 1.4×	131	3.5k
Andrew D. Back Australia	16	1.1k 0.5×	375 0.5×	1.1k 1.6×	490 1.3×	336 1.3×	42	2.9k
Wenbo Xu China	22	1.8k 0.9×	808 1.0×	482 0.7×	152 0.4×	649 2.5×	111	3.5k
John S. Denker United States	15	2.6k 1.3×	358 0.4×	2.1k 3.2×	441 1.2×	395 1.5×	20	4.8k
David B. Rosen United States	11	2.1k 1.0×	429 0.5×	731 1.1×	316 0.8×	252 1.0×	20	3.3k
Matthias Seeger Germany	30	3.0k 1.5×	1.1k 1.4×	1.1k 1.6×	556 1.5×	419 1.6×	60	5.7k

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Darken, Christian J., et al.. (2024). Applying Deep Reinforcement Learning to Train AI Agents in a Wargaming Framework. 1131–1136.

Darken, Christian J., et al.. (2013). Behavior Selection Using Utility-Based Reinforcement Learning in Irregular Warfare Simulation Models. International Journal of Operations Research and Information Systems. 4(3). 61–78. 2 indexed citations

Darken, Christian J., et al.. (2012). Faster conceptual blending predictors on relational time series. Calhoun: The Naval Postgraduate School Institutional Archive (Naval Postgraduate School). 188–195. 1 indexed citations

Darken, Christian J., et al.. (2011). Modeling and integration of situational awareness and soldier target search. The Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation Applications Methodology Technology. 10(1). 3–21. 2 indexed citations

Darken, Christian J., et al.. (2011). A practical situation based agent architecture for social simulations. 37. 305–312. 1 indexed citations

Rowe, Neil C., et al.. (2010). AUTOMATED ASSESSMENT OF PHYSICAL-MOTION TASKS FOR MILITARY INTEGRATIVE TRAINING. Calhoun: The Naval Postgraduate School Institutional Archive (Naval Postgraduate School). 190–195.

Darken, Christian J., et al.. (2008). Blended Inverse Kinematics: Delta3D System Utilization. Calhoun: The Naval Postgraduate School Institutional Archive (Naval Postgraduate School). 1 indexed citations

Darken, Christian J., et al.. (2008). A Reference Model of Soldier Attention and Behavior. Calhoun: The Naval Postgraduate School Institutional Archive (Naval Postgraduate School). 6 indexed citations

Darken, Christian J.. (2007). Level Annotation and Test by Autonomous Exploration: Abbreviated Version. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment. 3(1). 77–79. 1 indexed citations

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Darken, Christian J.. (2007). Level Annotation and Test by Autonomous Exploration. Calhoun: The Naval Postgraduate School Institutional Archive (Naval Postgraduate School). 9 indexed citations

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Darken, Christian J., et al.. (2006). A Mental Simulation-Based Decision-Making Architecture Applied to Ground Combat. 3 indexed citations

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Darken, Christian J.. (2005). Towards Learned Anticipation in Complex Stochastic Environments. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment. 1(1). 27–32. 5 indexed citations

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Darken, Christian J.. (2004). Visibility and Concealment Algorithms for 3D Simulations. Physical Review Letters. 86(14). 3076–9. 9 indexed citations

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Darken, Christian J., et al.. (2003). Concurrent estimation of time-to-failure and effective wear. Calhoun: The Naval Postgraduate School Institutional Archive (Naval Postgraduate School). 11(6). 2 indexed citations

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Darken, Christian J.. (1998). Stochastic approximation and neural network learning. MIT Press eBooks. 941–945. 2 indexed citations

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Scheffer, Tobias, Russell Greiner, & Christian J. Darken. (1997). Why Experimentation can be better than Perfect Guidance. International Conference on Machine Learning. 331–339. 5 indexed citations

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Petsche, Thomas, et al.. (1995). A Neural Network Autoassociator for Induction Motor Failure Prediction. Neural Information Processing Systems. 8. 924–930. 32 indexed citations

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Darken, Christian J. & John Moody. (1991). Towards Faster Stochastic Gradient Search. Neural Information Processing Systems. 4. 1009–1016. 64 indexed citations

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Darken, Christian J. & John Moody. (1990). Note on Learning Rate Schedules for Stochastic Optimization. Neural Information Processing Systems. 3. 832–838. 93 indexed citations

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Moody, John & Christian J. Darken. (1989). Fast Learning in Networks of Locally-Tuned Processing Units. Neural Computation. 1(2). 281–294. 2980 indexed citations breakdown →

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