Tim Smithers
Impact in
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- Manufacturing Process and Optimization
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- Product Development and Customization
Papers in
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- Manufacturing Process and Optimization 8
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- Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence 5
- Design Education and Practice 4
- Co-authors
- Ulrich Nehmzow (3 shared papers)John Hallam (2 shared papers)Ming Xi Tang (5 shared papers)Brian Logan (2 shared papers)Alistair Conkie (1 shared paper)Dave Corne (1 shared paper)Brendan McGonigle (1 shared paper)Peter Ross (1 shared paper)
- Journals
- Robotics and Autonomous Systems (2 papers)Computer-Aided Design (2 papers)Brain and Cognition (1 paper)Knowledge-Based Systems (1 paper)Behavioral and Brain Sciences (1 paper)
- Partner nations
- United KingdomSpainUnited States
In The Last Decade
Tim Smithers
30 papers receiving 305 citations
Peers
Comparison fields: 5 of 69
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering 65
- Management of Technology and Innovation 36
- Software 19
- Artificial Intelligence 135
- Architecture 6
Countries citing papers authored by Tim Smithers
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Fields of papers citing papers by Tim Smithers
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Co-authors
The 25 scholars most cited alongside Tim Smithers, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.
All Works
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| # | Work | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1997 | 48 | |
| 2 | 1990 | 47 | |
| 3 | 1990 | 41 | |
| 4 | 1989 | 41 | |
| 5 | 1995 | 33 | |
| 6 | 1990 | 26 | |
| 7 | Mapbuilding using self-organising networks in “really useful robots” | 1991 | 24 |
| 8 | An Emerging Paradigm in Robot Architecture | 1989 | 23 |
| 9 | 1989 | 10 | |
| 10 | Increasing behavioral repertoire in a mobile robot | 1993 | 7 |
| 11 | Really Useful Robots | 1989 | 7 |
| 12 | Solving design problems by computational exploration | 1994 | 7 |
| 13 | On Knowledge Level Theories and the Knowledge Management of Designing | 2002 | 4 |
| 14 | 1992 | 4 | |
| 15 | 1988 | 4 | |
| 16 | The Edinburgh designer system: an architecture for solving ill structured problems | 1992 | 3 |
| 17 | 1993 | 3 | |
| 18 | Design and sensor-based robotic assembly in the “design to product” project | 1988 | 2 |
| 19 | 2005 | 2 | |
| 20 | Integration with Ontologies | 2003 | 2 |
About Tim Smithers
Tim Smithers is a scholar working on Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Computational Theory and Mathematics and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, having authored 33 papers that have together received 351 indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Manufacturing Process and Optimization (8 papers), Semantic Web and Ontologies (5 papers), Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence (5 papers), Design Education and Practice (4 papers), AI-based Problem Solving and Planning (4 papers), Computational Drug Discovery Methods (2 papers), Robotic Path Planning Algorithms (2 papers) and Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services (2 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (65 citations), Management of Technology and Innovation (36 citations), Software (19 citations), Artificial Intelligence (135 citations) and Architecture (6 citations). Tim Smithers has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, Spain and United States. Frequent co-authors include Ulrich Nehmzow, John Hallam, Ming Xi Tang, Brian Logan, Alistair Conkie, Dave Corne, Brendan McGonigle, Peter Ross, David Corne and Christiane Floyd. Their work appears in journals such as Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Computer-Aided Design, Brain and Cognition, Knowledge-Based Systems and Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
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