Jordan Pollack

12.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
196 papers, 6.8k citations indexed

About

Jordan Pollack is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Mechanical Engineering and Computational Theory and Mathematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Jordan Pollack has authored 196 papers receiving a total of 6.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 110 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 34 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 29 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics. Recurrent topics in Jordan Pollack's work include Evolutionary Algorithms and Applications (80 papers), Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms Research (30 papers) and Reinforcement Learning in Robotics (27 papers). Jordan Pollack is often cited by papers focused on Evolutionary Algorithms and Applications (80 papers), Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms Research (30 papers) and Reinforcement Learning in Robotics (27 papers). Jordan Pollack collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Japan. Jordan Pollack's co-authors include Hod Lipson, Peter J. Angeline, Gregory S. Hornby, Richard A. Watson, Gregory M. Saunders, Sevan G. Ficici, David L. Waltz, Edwin D. de Jong, Alan Blair and John F. Kolen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Neuroscience and Langmuir.

In The Last Decade

Jordan Pollack

189 papers receiving 6.1k citations

Hit Papers

An evolutionary algorithm... 1990 2026 2002 2014 1994 2000 1990 200 400 600

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Jordan Pollack 4.1k 1.2k 718 697 631 196 6.8k
Kenneth O. Stanley 6.5k 1.6× 867 0.7× 743 1.0× 410 0.6× 1.1k 1.7× 138 8.6k
Risto Miikkulainen 5.5k 1.3× 473 0.4× 540 0.8× 336 0.5× 506 0.8× 203 7.3k
Stefano Nolfi 2.7k 0.6× 1.5k 1.3× 289 0.4× 176 0.3× 695 1.1× 151 5.0k
Kenneth De Jong 4.1k 1.0× 277 0.2× 1.4k 1.9× 503 0.7× 348 0.6× 190 6.7k
A. E. Eiben 5.1k 1.2× 929 0.8× 2.4k 3.3× 405 0.6× 279 0.4× 167 9.2k
Jeff Clune 3.3k 0.8× 545 0.5× 278 0.4× 428 0.6× 203 0.3× 58 7.2k
Josh Bongard 1.8k 0.4× 1.6k 1.4× 287 0.4× 382 0.5× 195 0.3× 135 4.9k
Francesco Mondada 1.5k 0.4× 2.5k 2.1× 211 0.3× 192 0.3× 382 0.6× 180 6.2k
Kevin M. Passino 3.9k 1.0× 1.4k 1.2× 1.2k 1.7× 345 0.5× 353 0.6× 263 13.2k
Gianni A. Di 2.6k 0.6× 878 0.8× 817 1.1× 221 0.3× 150 0.2× 107 8.4k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Jordan Pollack

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jordan Pollack

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

All Works

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Pollack, Jordan, et al.. (2005). On the Coevolutionary Construction of Learnable Gradients.. National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 35–40. 1 indexed citations
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Pollack, Jordan. (2005). Nannon: A Nano Backgammon for Machine Learning Research.. 1 indexed citations
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Pollack, Jordan, et al.. (2005). Towards Metrics and Visualizations Sensitive to Coevolutionary Failures.. National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 1–8. 7 indexed citations
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Pollack, Jordan, et al.. (2005). Theme Preservation and the Evolution of Representation.. Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 1444–1463. 1 indexed citations
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Pollack, Jordan, Mark A. Bedau, Phil Husbands, Takashi Ikegami, & Richard A. Watson. (2004). Artificial Life IX: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems. ePrints Soton (University of Southampton). 42 indexed citations
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Nicolelis, Miguel A. L., Cherie R. Kagan, Usama M. Fayyad, et al.. (2001). The technology review ten. Technology Review. 104(1). 97–113. 5 indexed citations
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Hornby, Gregory S. & Jordan Pollack. (2001). Body-brain co-evolution using L-systems as a generative encoding. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. 868–875. 88 indexed citations
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Pollack, Jordan, et al.. (2000). Infinite RAAM: A Principled Connectionist Basis for Grammatical Competence. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 22(22). 4 indexed citations
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Pollack, Jordan & Elizabeth Sklar. (2000). Cel: a framework for enabling an internet learning community. Educational Technology & Society. 3. 12 indexed citations
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Watson, Richard A. & Jordan Pollack. (2000). Recombination without respect: schema combination and disruption in genetic algorithm crossover. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. 112–119. 14 indexed citations
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Watson, Richard A. & Jordan Pollack. (1999). Incremental commitment in genetic algorithms. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. 710–717. 15 indexed citations
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Saunders, Gregory M., John F. Kolen, Peter J. Angeline, & Jordan Pollack. (1997). Additive Modular Learning in Preemptrons. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 306(5). 960–971. 1 indexed citations
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Pollack, Jordan & Alan Blair. (1996). Why did TD-Gammon Work?. Neural Information Processing Systems. 9. 10–16. 12 indexed citations
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Maes, Pattie, Maja J. Matarić, Jean-Arcady Meyer, Jordan Pollack, & Stewart W. Wilson. (1996). Robotic “Food” Chains: Externalization of State and Program for Minimal-Agent Foraging. 625–634. 44 indexed citations
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Saunders, Gregory M., Peter J. Angeline, & Jordan Pollack. (1993). Structural and Behavioral Evolution of Recurrent Networks. Neural Information Processing Systems. 6. 88–95. 5 indexed citations
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Pollack, Jordan. (1990). Language Induction by Phase Transition in Dynamical Recognizers. Neural Information Processing Systems. 3. 619–626. 1 indexed citations
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Kolen, John F. & Jordan Pollack. (1990). Back Propagation is Sensitive to Initial Conditions. Complex Systems. 3. 860–867. 184 indexed citations
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Pollack, Jordan. (1988). Implications of Recursive Distributed Representations. Neural Information Processing Systems. 1. 527–536. 28 indexed citations
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Waltz, David L. & Jordan Pollack. (1985). Massively parallel parsing: A strongly interactive model of natural language interpretation. Cognitive Science. 9(1). 51–74. 41 indexed citations

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