Simon M. Lucas

9.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
196 papers, 5.3k citations indexed

About

Simon M. Lucas is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Simon M. Lucas has authored 196 papers receiving a total of 5.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 153 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 44 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and 40 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Simon M. Lucas's work include Artificial Intelligence in Games (94 papers), Reinforcement Learning in Robotics (54 papers) and Evolutionary Algorithms and Applications (54 papers). Simon M. Lucas is often cited by papers focused on Artificial Intelligence in Games (94 papers), Reinforcement Learning in Robotics (54 papers) and Evolutionary Algorithms and Applications (54 papers). Simon M. Lucas collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. Simon M. Lucas's co-authors include Diego Pérez-Liébana, Julian Togelius, Spyridon Samothrakis, Philipp Rohlfshagen, Peter Cowling, Daniel Whitehouse, Edward J. Powley, Cameron Browne, Simon Colton and Renzo De Nardi and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation and Pattern Recognition Letters.

In The Last Decade

Simon M. Lucas

185 papers receiving 5.0k citations

Hit Papers

A Survey of Monte Carlo Tree Search Methods 2012 2026 2016 2021 2012 500 1000 1.5k

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Simon M. Lucas United Kingdom 32 3.6k 1.7k 1.1k 454 453 196 5.3k
Jonathan Schaeffer Canada 33 2.8k 0.8× 913 0.5× 634 0.6× 725 1.6× 399 0.9× 200 4.0k
Michael Bowling Canada 31 3.0k 0.8× 354 0.2× 457 0.4× 619 1.4× 100 0.2× 138 4.1k
Julian Togelius United States 43 5.7k 1.6× 2.1k 1.3× 3.0k 2.6× 403 0.9× 1.5k 3.4× 282 7.0k
Simon Colton United Kingdom 20 1.8k 0.5× 728 0.4× 505 0.4× 204 0.4× 271 0.6× 92 2.9k
Tom Schaul United States 26 3.3k 0.9× 877 0.5× 343 0.3× 115 0.3× 107 0.2× 54 4.9k
Cameron Browne Netherlands 8 1.7k 0.5× 592 0.3× 650 0.6× 224 0.5× 292 0.6× 56 2.4k
Diego Pérez-Liébana United Kingdom 18 2.0k 0.6× 559 0.3× 704 0.6× 305 0.7× 265 0.6× 100 2.8k
Spyridon Samothrakis United Kingdom 16 1.6k 0.4× 426 0.3× 487 0.4× 255 0.6× 164 0.4× 40 2.4k
Yingcai Wu China 35 1.1k 0.3× 2.7k 1.6× 519 0.5× 226 0.5× 78 0.2× 164 4.0k
Jie Yang China 33 849 0.2× 1.4k 0.8× 173 0.2× 47 0.1× 91 0.2× 184 3.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Simon M. Lucas

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

All Works

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Pérez-Liébana, Diego, et al.. (2025). Seeding for Success: Skill and Stochasticity in Tabletop Games. IEEE Transactions on Games. 17(3). 777–786.
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Goodman, James, Diego Pérez-Liébana, & Simon M. Lucas. (2024). Measuring Randomness in Tabletop Games. 1–8. 1 indexed citations
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Lucas, Simon M., et al.. (2024). Intrusion detection in software defined networks with imbalanced attack classes. 5(4). 422–432. 1 indexed citations
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Lucas, Simon M., et al.. (2024). Deduction Game Framework and Information Set Entropy Search. Queen Mary Research Online (Queen Mary University of London). 1–4. 1 indexed citations
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Estévez, P. A., Bernadette Bouchon‐Meunier, Gary B. Fogel, et al.. (2021). IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence. 5(4). C3–C3.
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Zhu, Yuanheng, et al.. (2020). Enhanced Rolling Horizon Evolution Algorithm With Opponent Model Learning: Results for the Fighting Game AI Competition. IEEE Transactions on Games. 15(1). 5–15. 19 indexed citations
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Agapitos, Alexandros, et al.. (2019). A Survey of Statistical Machine Learning Elements in Genetic Programming. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation. 23(6). 1029–1048. 18 indexed citations
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Lucas, Simon M., et al.. (2012). A web tool for monitoring HTTP asynchronous method invocations. International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions. 127–132. 3 indexed citations
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Jansen, Thomas, et al.. (2008). Parallel problem solving from nature - PPSN X : 10th international conference, Dortmund, Germany, September 13-17, 2008 : proceedings. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 9 indexed citations
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Togelius, Julian, Renzo De Nardi, & Simon M. Lucas. (2007). Towards automatic personalised content creation for racing games. 252–259. 203 indexed citations
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Lucas, Simon M.. (2005). Evolving a Neural Network Location Evaluator to Play Ms. Pac-Man.. 79 indexed citations
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Togelius, Julian & Simon M. Lucas. (2005). Forcing neurocontrollers to exploit sensory symmetry through hard-wired modularity in the game of Cellz. CogPrints (University of Southampton). 37–43. 5 indexed citations
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Keijzer, Maarten, Una-May O’Reilly, Simon M. Lucas, Ernesto Costa, & Terence Soule. (2004). Genetic Programming: 7th European Conference, Eurogp2004, Coimbra, Portugal, April 5-7, 2004, Proceedings (LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE). Springer eBooks. 2 indexed citations
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Lucas, Simon M., et al.. (2003). Learning DFA: evolution versus evidence driven state merging. 351–358 Vol.1. 27 indexed citations
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Lucas, Simon M.. (1997). Face recognition with the continuous n-tuple classifier.. British Machine Vision Conference. 29 indexed citations
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Lucas, Simon M.. (1996). Evolving neural network learning behaviours with set-based chromosomes.. The European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks. 7 indexed citations
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Lucas, Simon M. & R.I. Damper. (1992). Syntactic neural networks for bidirectional text-phonetics translation. ePrints Soton (University of Southampton). 3 indexed citations
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Lucas, Simon M.. (1991). Algebraic learning in syntactic neural networks. 185–189. 1 indexed citations
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Lucas, Simon M. & R.I. Damper. (1989). A new learning paradigm for neural networks. ePrints Soton (University of Southampton). 346–350. 2 indexed citations

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