Frederick Ducatelle

4.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
28 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Frederick Ducatelle is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Frederick Ducatelle has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 10 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 9 papers in Mechanical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Frederick Ducatelle's work include Opportunistic and Delay-Tolerant Networks (13 papers), Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (11 papers) and Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence (9 papers). Frederick Ducatelle is often cited by papers focused on Opportunistic and Delay-Tolerant Networks (13 papers), Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (11 papers) and Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence (9 papers). Frederick Ducatelle collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Belgium and Italy. Frederick Ducatelle's co-authors include Luca Maria Gambardella, Gianni A. Di, Carlo Pinciroli, Joshua A. Levine, Farrukh Nagi, Ueli Meier, Alessandro Giusti, Dan Cireşan, Jawad Nagi and Jürgen Schmidhuber and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the Operational Research Society, Swarm Intelligence and European Transactions on Telecommunications.

In The Last Decade

Frederick Ducatelle

27 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

Max-pooling convolutional neural networks for vision-base... 2011 2026 2016 2021 2011 2012 100 200 300 400
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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.

  1. Max-pooling convolutional neural networks for vision-based hand gesture recognition
    2011 450 citations Jawad Nagi, Frederick Ducatelle et al. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) profile →
  2. ARGoS: a modular, parallel, multi-engine simulator for multi-robot systems
    2012 291 citations Carlo Pinciroli, Vito Trianni et al. Swarm 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
Frederick Ducatelle Switzerland 17 1.1k 450 388 374 284 28 2.1k
Pedro U. Lima Portugal 26 614 0.5× 349 0.8× 493 1.3× 749 2.0× 235 0.8× 181 2.1k
Arvin Agah United States 18 282 0.2× 209 0.5× 270 0.7× 291 0.8× 179 0.6× 119 1.2k
Luca Iocchi Italy 28 529 0.5× 381 0.8× 776 2.0× 1.2k 3.2× 155 0.5× 165 2.5k
Jun Lin China 26 589 0.5× 166 0.4× 650 1.7× 565 1.5× 989 3.5× 157 2.3k
Andrew Howard United States 20 914 0.8× 608 1.4× 504 1.3× 1.2k 3.1× 465 1.6× 47 2.7k
Manuele Brambilla Belgium 12 974 0.9× 900 2.0× 451 1.2× 366 1.0× 61 0.2× 15 1.8k
Moshe Kam United States 22 683 0.6× 99 0.2× 671 1.7× 391 1.0× 323 1.1× 187 2.1k
Farshad Arvin United Kingdom 26 863 0.8× 566 1.3× 320 0.8× 640 1.7× 239 0.8× 115 2.3k
F. Sandoval Spain 24 322 0.3× 121 0.3× 456 1.2× 768 2.1× 503 1.8× 187 2.1k
Robert F. Sproull United States 21 436 0.4× 125 0.3× 362 0.9× 1.2k 3.2× 319 1.1× 51 3.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Frederick Ducatelle

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All Works

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Ducatelle, Frederick, Gianni A. Di, & Luca Maria Gambardella. (2012). Spatial awareness in robotic swarms through local wireless communications. Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agents Systems. 1205–1206. 1 indexed citations
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Di, Gianni A., Frederick Ducatelle, & Luca Maria Gambardella. (2012). A fully distributed communication-based approach for spatial clustering in robotic swarms. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 7 indexed citations
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Nagi, Jawad, Frederick Ducatelle, Gianni A. Di, et al.. (2011). Max-pooling convolutional neural networks for vision-based hand gesture recognition. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 342–347. 450 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ducatelle, Frederick, Gianni A. Di, Carlo Pinciroli, Francesco Mondada, & Luca Maria Gambardella. (2011). Communication assisted navigation in robotic swarms: Self-organization and cooperation. 2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. 21 indexed citations
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Pinciroli, Carlo, Vito Trianni, Rehan O’Grady, et al.. (2011). ARGoS: A modular, multi-engine simulator for heterogeneous swarm robotics. 2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. 5027–5034. 72 indexed citations
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Ducatelle, Frederick, Gianni A. Di, Carlo Pinciroli, Francesco Mondada, & Luca Maria Gambardella. (2011). Communication assisted navigation in robotic swarms: Self-organization and cooperation. 2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. 4981–4988. 43 indexed citations
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Ducatelle, Frederick, Gianni A. Di, & Luca Maria Gambardella. (2010). Principles and applications of swarm intelligence for adaptive routing in telecommunications networks. Swarm Intelligence. 4(3). 173–198. 61 indexed citations
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Ducatelle, Frederick, Gianni A. Di, & Luca Maria Gambardella. (2010). Cooperative self-organization in a heterogeneous swarm robotic system. 87–94. 42 indexed citations
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Ducatelle, Frederick, Alexander Förster, Gianni A. Di, & Luca Maria Gambardella. (2009). Supporting Navigation in Multi-Robot Systems through Delay Tolerant Network Communication. IFAC Proceedings Volumes. 42(22). 25–30. 7 indexed citations
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Ducatelle, Frederick, Gianni A. Di, & Luca Maria Gambardella. (2008). An evaluation of two swarm intelligence MANET routing algorithms in an urban environment. 9. 1–8. 10 indexed citations
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Ducatelle, Frederick. (2007). Adaptive routing in ad hoc wireless multi-hop networks. reroDoc Digital Library. 38 indexed citations
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Babaoğlu, Özalp, Geoffrey Canright, Andreas Deutsch, et al.. (2006). Design patterns from biology for distributed computing. ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems. 1(1). 26–66. 180 indexed citations
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Babaoğlu, Özalp, Geoffrey Canright, Andreas Deutsch, et al.. (2005). Design Patterns from Biology for Distributed Computing. Archivio istituzionale della ricerca (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna). 1. 1–27. 20 indexed citations
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Di, Gianni A., Frederick Ducatelle, & Luca Maria Gambardella. (2005). AntHocNet: an adaptive nature‐inspired algorithm for routing in mobile ad hoc networks. European Transactions on Telecommunications. 16(5). 443–455. 363 indexed citations
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Ducatelle, Frederick & Luca Maria Gambardella. (2005). Survivable routing in IP-over-WDM networks: An efficient and scalable local search algorithm. Optical Switching and Networking. 2(2). 86–99. 4 indexed citations
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Ducatelle, Frederick, Gianni A. Di, & Luca Maria Gambardella. (2005). USING ANT AGENTS TO COMBINE REACTIVE AND PROACTIVE STRATEGIES FOR ROUTING IN MOBILE AD-HOC NETWORKS. International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Applications. 5(2). 169–184. 72 indexed citations
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Levine, Joshua A. & Frederick Ducatelle. (2004). Ant colony optimization and local search for bin packing and cutting stock problems. Journal of the Operational Research Society. 55(7). 705–716. 123 indexed citations
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Ducatelle, Frederick & L. M. Gambardella. (2004). A scalable algorithm for survivable routing in IP-over-WDM networks. 54–63. 7 indexed citations

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