Fred Spiessens

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
29 papers, 736 citations indexed

About

Fred Spiessens is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Control and Systems Engineering and Building and Construction. According to data from OpenAlex, Fred Spiessens has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 736 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 13 papers in Control and Systems Engineering and 9 papers in Building and Construction. Recurrent topics in Fred Spiessens's work include Smart Grid Energy Management (22 papers), Building Energy and Comfort Optimization (9 papers) and Energy Efficiency and Management (7 papers). Fred Spiessens is often cited by papers focused on Smart Grid Energy Management (22 papers), Building Energy and Comfort Optimization (9 papers) and Energy Efficiency and Management (7 papers). Fred Spiessens collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, United Kingdom and Netherlands. Fred Spiessens's co-authors include Geert Deconinck, Lieve Helsen, Javier Arroyo, Brida V. Mbuwir, Carlo Manna, Frederik Ruelens, Chris Hermans, Ana Soares, Koen Vanthournout and Davy Geysen and has published in prestigious journals such as Applied Energy, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems and Energy and Buildings.

In The Last Decade

Fred Spiessens

29 papers receiving 712 citations

Hit Papers

Reinforced model predictive control (RL-MPC) for building... 2022 2026 2023 2024 2022 40 80 120
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. Reinforced model predictive control (RL-MPC) for building energy management
    2022 134 citations Javier Arroyo, Carlo Manna et al. Applied Energy profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Fred Spiessens Belgium 14 471 317 272 105 96 29 736
Chang-Sic Choi South Korea 13 795 1.7× 295 0.9× 153 0.6× 47 0.4× 90 0.9× 25 927
Xiangyu Zhang United States 15 439 0.9× 229 0.7× 158 0.6× 108 1.0× 67 0.7× 63 714
Guanyu Gao China 16 212 0.5× 82 0.3× 185 0.7× 68 0.6× 55 0.6× 37 751
S.N. Khalid Malaysia 17 599 1.3× 197 0.6× 89 0.3× 136 1.3× 121 1.3× 60 799
You Lu China 11 378 0.8× 60 0.2× 223 0.8× 74 0.7× 62 0.6× 43 659
Silvio Brandi Italy 12 416 0.9× 137 0.4× 468 1.7× 113 1.1× 147 1.5× 18 737
Leïla Merghem‐Boulahia France 15 271 0.6× 142 0.4× 86 0.3× 65 0.6× 27 0.3× 56 526
Nihat İnanç Türkiye 11 375 0.8× 241 0.8× 100 0.4× 62 0.6× 21 0.2× 48 592
Tianshu Wei United States 10 372 0.8× 156 0.5× 314 1.2× 47 0.4× 97 1.0× 16 560
Thomas Schütz Germany 14 403 0.9× 144 0.5× 187 0.7× 15 0.1× 110 1.1× 31 613

Countries citing papers authored by Fred Spiessens

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Fields of papers citing papers by Fred Spiessens

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Fred Spiessens

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Fred Spiessens. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Fred Spiessens 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 Fred Spiessens. Fred Spiessens 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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Hermans, Chris, et al.. (2023). Combined peak reduction and self-consumption using proximal policy optimisation. Energy and AI. 16. 100323–100323. 1 indexed citations
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Arroyo, Javier, Fred Spiessens, & Lieve Helsen. (2022). Comparison of Model Complexities in Optimal Control Tested in a Real Thermally Activated Building System. Buildings. 12(5). 539–539. 18 indexed citations
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Arroyo, Javier, Carlo Manna, Fred Spiessens, & Lieve Helsen. (2022). Reinforced model predictive control (RL-MPC) for building energy management. Applied Energy. 309. 118346–118346. 134 indexed citations breakdown →
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Arroyo, Javier, Fred Spiessens, & Lieve Helsen. (2022). Comparison of Optimal Control Techniques for Building Energy Management. Frontiers in Built Environment. 8. 20 indexed citations
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Kazmi, Hussain, Brida V. Mbuwir, Chris Hermans, et al.. (2021). Transfer learning in demand response: A review of algorithms for data-efficient modelling and control. Energy and AI. 7. 100126–100126. 63 indexed citations
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Hermans, Chris, et al.. (2021). Domain Randomization for Demand Response of an Electric Water Heater. 2021 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM). 1–1. 2 indexed citations
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Mbuwir, Brida V., Fred Spiessens, & Geert Deconinck. (2020). Distributed optimization for scheduling energy flows in community microgrids. Electric Power Systems Research. 187. 106479–106479. 30 indexed citations
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Mbuwir, Brida V., Carlo Manna, Fred Spiessens, & Geert Deconinck. (2020). Benchmarking reinforcement learning algorithms for demand response applications. 289–293. 3 indexed citations
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Rossi, Marco, Gianluigi Migliavacca, Harald Svendsen, et al.. (2019). Testing TSO-DSO Interaction Schemes for the Participation of Distribution Energy Resources in the Balancing Market: the SmartNet Simulator. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 8 indexed citations
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Mbuwir, Brida V., Fred Spiessens, & Geert Deconinck. (2019). Benchmarking regression methods for function approximation in reinforcement learning: heat pump control. 1–5. 7 indexed citations
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Mbuwir, Brida V., Fred Spiessens, & Geert Deconinck. (2019). Distributed optimization of energy flows in microgrids based on dual decomposition. IFAC-PapersOnLine. 52(4). 500–505. 2 indexed citations
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Soares, Ana, et al.. (2019). Using reinforcement learning for maximizing residential self-consumption – Results from a field test. Energy and Buildings. 207. 109608–109608. 28 indexed citations
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Spiessens, Fred, et al.. (2018). A Network Flow Model for Price-Responsive Control of Deferrable Load Profiles. Energies. 11(3). 613–613. 3 indexed citations
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Mbuwir, Brida V., Fred Spiessens, & Geert Deconinck. (2018). Self-learning agent for battery energy management in a residential microgrid. 10. 1–6. 7 indexed citations
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Mbuwir, Brida V., Frederik Ruelens, Fred Spiessens, & Geert Deconinck. (2017). Battery Energy Management in a Microgrid Using Batch Reinforcement Learning. Energies. 10(11). 1846–1846. 135 indexed citations
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Spiessens, Fred, et al.. (2009). POLIPO: Policies & OntoLogies for Interoperability, Portability, and autOnomy. TU/e Research Portal. 3. 110–113. 12 indexed citations
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Spiessens, Fred. (2007). Patterns of safe collaboration. DIAL (Catholic University of Leuven). 14 indexed citations
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Spiessens, Fred, et al.. (2005). Using constraints to analyze and generate safe capability patterns. 3 indexed citations
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Spiessens, Fred, et al.. (2005). A Language for Safe Capability Based Collaboration. 2 indexed citations

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