William M. Spears

6.0k total citations
44 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

William M. Spears is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Artificial Intelligence and Mechanical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, William M. Spears has authored 44 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 15 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 14 papers in Mechanical Engineering. Recurrent topics in William M. Spears's work include Distributed Control Multi-Agent Systems (15 papers), Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence (14 papers) and Robotic Path Planning Algorithms (10 papers). William M. Spears is often cited by papers focused on Distributed Control Multi-Agent Systems (15 papers), Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence (14 papers) and Robotic Path Planning Algorithms (10 papers). William M. Spears collaborates with scholars based in United States and Türkiye. William M. Spears's co-authors include Kenneth De Jong, Diana F. Spears, Diana F. Gordon, James Kennedy, Rodney Heil, Dimitri Zarzhitsky, Jerry Hamann, Suranga Hettiarachchi, Lora Billings and Ira B. Schwartz and has published in prestigious journals such as Physics Letters A, Machine Learning and Autonomous Robots.

In The Last Decade

William M. Spears

41 papers receiving 2.0k citations

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R.M. Goodman United States

Hanning Chen China

Ivan Zelinka Czechia

Sen Zhang China

Moshe Kam United States

Ayed Salman Kuwait

J. Yen United States

L. Darrell Whitley United States

Frederick Ducatelle Switzerland

Pedro U. Lima Portugal

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380 ×0.6

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192 ×0.6

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376 ×1.3

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All Works

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Spears, William M. & Diana F. Spears. (2012). Physicomimetics: Physics-Based Swarm Intelligence. Digital Access to Libraries (Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), l'Université de Namur (UNamur) and the Université Saint-Louis (USL-B)). 36 indexed citations

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Spears, William M., et al.. (2009). An Analysis of l\1ulti-Point Crossover. 45(1). 51–9. 1 indexed citations

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Hettiarachchi, Suranga & William M. Spears. (2009). Distributed adaptive swarm for obstacle avoidance. International Journal of Intelligent Computing and Cybernetics. 2(4). 644–671. 21 indexed citations

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Prager, Steven D. & William M. Spears. (2009). A hybrid evolutionary-graph approach for finding functional network paths. 306–315. 2 indexed citations

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Hettiarachchi, Suranga, et al.. (2008). Connectivity of Collaborative Robots in Partially Observable Domains. 제어로봇시스템학회 국제학술대회 논문집. 721–728. 3 indexed citations

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Şahi̇n, Erol, William M. Spears, & Alan Winfield. (2007). Swarm robotics : Second SAB 2006 International Workshop, Rome, Italy, September 30 - October 1, 2006 : revised selected papers. Springer eBooks. 2 indexed citations

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Hettiarachchi, Suranga & William M. Spears. (2005). Moving Swarm Formations through Obstacle Fields.. International Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 17(1). 97–103. 18 indexed citations

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Şahi̇n, Erol & William M. Spears. (2005). Swarm Robotics: SAB 2004 International Workshop, Santa Monica, CA, USA, July 17, 2004, Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). Springer eBooks. 13 indexed citations

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Zarzhitsky, Dimitri, Diana F. Spears, & William M. Spears. (2005). Swarms for chemical plume tracing. 249–256. 55 indexed citations

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Spears, William M., Rodney Heil, Diana F. Spears, & Dimitri Zarzhitsky. (2004). Physicomimetics for Mobile Robot Formations. Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agents Systems. 1528–1529. 35 indexed citations

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Zarzhitsky, Dimitri, Diana F. Spears, William M. Spears, & David R. Thayer. (2004). A Fluid Dynamics Approach to Multi-Robot Chemical Plume Tracing. Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agents Systems. 1476–1477. 19 indexed citations

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Spears, William M.. (2003). Aggregating models of evolutionary algorithms. 2. 631–638. 3 indexed citations

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Billings, Lora, William M. Spears, & Ira B. Schwartz. (2002). A unified prediction of computer virus spread in connected networks. Physics Letters A. 297(3-4). 261–266. 88 indexed citations

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Spears, William M., et al.. (2000). Evolutionary Algorithms: The Role of Mutation and Recombination. Springer eBooks. 85 indexed citations

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Spears, William M.. (2000). Evolutionary Algorithms. 36 indexed citations

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Jong, Kenneth De, Mitchell A. Potter, & William M. Spears. (1997). Using Problem Generators to Explore the Effects of Epistasis.. 338–345. 85 indexed citations

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Rao, R. Bharat, Diana F. Gordon, & William M. Spears. (1995). For every generalization action, is there really an equal and opposite reaction?. International Conference on Machine Learning. 471–479. 5 indexed citations

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Jong, Kenneth De, William M. Spears, & Diana F. Gordon. (1993). Using Genetic Algorithms for Concept Learning. Machine Learning. 13(2-3). 161–188. 72 indexed citations

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Spears, William M. & Kenneth De Jong. (1991). On the Virtues of Parameterised Uniform Crossover.. 230–236. 15 indexed citations

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Jong, Kenneth De & William M. Spears. (1989). Using Genetic Algorithms to Solve NP-Complete Problems. international conference on Genetic algorithms. 124–132. 235 indexed citations

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