Phil Husbands

5.1k total citations
128 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Phil Husbands is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Neuroscience and Mechanical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Phil Husbands has authored 128 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 52 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 41 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 24 papers in Mechanical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Phil Husbands's work include Neural dynamics and brain function (34 papers), Evolutionary Algorithms and Applications (30 papers) and Reinforcement Learning in Robotics (22 papers). Phil Husbands is often cited by papers focused on Neural dynamics and brain function (34 papers), Evolutionary Algorithms and Applications (30 papers) and Reinforcement Learning in Robotics (22 papers). Phil Husbands collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Japan. Phil Husbands's co-authors include Inman Harvey, Dave Cliff, Michael O’Shea, Tom Smith, Andrew Philippides, Frank Mill, Jordan Pollack, Chrisantha Fernando, Richard A. Watson and Mark A. Bedau and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Neuroscience, PLoS ONE and Trends in Cognitive Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Phil Husbands

124 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Phil Husbands United Kingdom 22 999 525 327 236 221 128 2.1k
Jean-Arcady Meyer France 24 728 0.7× 336 0.6× 259 0.8× 125 0.5× 95 0.4× 138 2.3k
Jean-Baptiste Mouret France 21 1.1k 1.1× 251 0.5× 492 1.5× 113 0.5× 93 0.4× 78 2.2k
Inman Harvey United Kingdom 19 687 0.7× 333 0.6× 205 0.6× 169 0.7× 112 0.5× 70 1.4k
Randall D. Beer United States 29 1.2k 1.2× 1.9k 3.5× 524 1.6× 269 1.1× 278 1.3× 103 4.7k
Jacques Gautrais France 30 253 0.3× 425 0.8× 247 0.8× 340 1.4× 252 1.1× 65 3.1k
Chrystopher L. Nehaniv United Kingdom 30 1.3k 1.3× 922 1.8× 171 0.5× 204 0.9× 308 1.4× 244 3.6k
Stefano Nolfi Italy 35 2.7k 2.7× 823 1.6× 1.5k 4.4× 695 2.9× 176 0.8× 151 5.0k
Owen Holland United Kingdom 20 417 0.4× 239 0.5× 286 0.9× 102 0.4× 50 0.2× 77 2.0k
Stewart W. Wilson United States 30 3.0k 3.0× 196 0.4× 175 0.5× 166 0.7× 1.0k 4.7× 132 3.8k
Josh Bongard United States 29 1.8k 1.8× 732 1.4× 1.6k 4.9× 195 0.8× 382 1.7× 135 4.9k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Phil Husbands

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Phil Husbands

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All Works

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Fernando, Chrisantha, et al.. (2019). Encoding Temporal Regularities and Information Copying in Hippocampal Circuits. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 19036–19036. 5 indexed citations
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Husbands, Phil, et al.. (2016). The evolution of handedness: why are ant colonies left- and right-handed?. 3(1). 4 indexed citations
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McGregor, Simon, Vera Vasas, Phil Husbands, & Chrisantha Fernando. (2012). Evolution of Associative Learning in Chemical Networks. PLoS Computational Biology. 8(11). e1002739–e1002739. 42 indexed citations
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Moioli, Renan C., Patrícia A. Vargas, & Phil Husbands. (2012). Synchronisation effects on the behavioural performance and information dynamics of a simulated minimally cognitive robotic agent. Biological Cybernetics. 106(6-7). 407–427. 5 indexed citations
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Husbands, Phil, et al.. (2010). Chaotic Search of Emergent Locomotion Patterns for a Bodily Coupled Robotic System. Artificial Life. 757–764. 1 indexed citations
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Husbands, Phil, et al.. (2010). Accommodating Homeostatically Stable Dynamical Regimes to Cope with Different Environmental Conditions. Artificial Life. 395–402. 1 indexed citations
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Vargas, Patrícia A., Renan C. Moioli, Fernando J. Von Zuben, & Phil Husbands. (2009). Homeostasis and evolution together dealing with novelties and managing disruptions. International Journal of Intelligent Computing and Cybernetics. 2(3). 435–454. 16 indexed citations
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Vargas, Patrícia A., Ezequiel A. Di Paolo, & Phil Husbands. (2008). A study of GasNet spatial embedding in a delayed-response task. Artificial Life. 640–647. 3 indexed citations
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Pollack, Jordan, et al.. (2004). Artificial life IX : proceedings of the ninth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Artificial Life. MIT Press eBooks. 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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Pollack, Jordan, Mark A. Bedau, Phil Husbands, Richard A. Watson, & Takashi Ikegami. (2004). Learning Ant Foraging Behaviors. 575–580. 1 indexed citations
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Smith, Tom, Phil Husbands, & Michael O’Shea. (2003). Local evolvability of statistically neutral GasNet robot controllers. Biosystems. 69(2-3). 223–243. 11 indexed citations
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Quinn, Matt, et al.. (2002). Evolving Formation Movement for a Homogeneous Multi-Robot System: Teamwork and Role-Allocation with Real Robots. 3 indexed citations
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Husbands, Phil & Jean-Arcady Meyer. (1998). Evolutionary Robotics. Lecture notes in computer science. 19 indexed citations
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Husbands, Phil & Inman Harvey. (1997). Fourth European Conference on Artificial Life. MIT Press eBooks. 107 indexed citations
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Cliff, Dave, Inman Harvey, & Phil Husbands. (1993). Incremental evolution of neural network architectures for adaptive behavior.. The European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks. 32 indexed citations
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Harvey, Inman, Phil Husbands, & Dave Cliff. (1993). Genetic Convergence in a Species of Evolved Robot Control Architectures. international conference on Genetic algorithms. 24(2). 636–303. 9 indexed citations
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Husbands, Phil & Frank Mill. (1991). Simulated Co-Evolution as the Mechanism for Emergent Planning and Scheduling.. 264–270. 85 indexed citations

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