William M. Spears

100 total papers · 6.1k total citations
22 papers, 988 citations indexed

About

William M. Spears is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Computer Networks and Communications and Mechanical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, William M. Spears has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 988 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 9 papers in Computer Networks and Communications and 7 papers in Mechanical Engineering. Recurrent topics in William M. Spears’s work include Distributed Control Multi-Agent Systems (7 papers), Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence (7 papers) and Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms Research (6 papers). William M. Spears is often cited by papers focused on Distributed Control Multi-Agent Systems (7 papers), Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence (7 papers) and Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms Research (6 papers). William M. Spears collaborates with scholars based in United States. William M. Spears's co-authors include Kenneth De Jong, Diana F. Gordon, Diana F. Spears, Rodney Heil, Jerry Hamann, Ira B. Schwartz, Lora Billings, Suranga Hettiarachchi, Dimitri Zarzhitsky and Grzegorz Rozenberg and has published in prestigious journals such as Physics Letters A, Machine Learning and SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications.

In The Last Decade

Co-authorship network of co-authors of William M. Spears

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

William M. Spears

22 papers receiving 902 citations

Fields of papers citing papers by William M. Spears

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Countries citing papers authored by William M. Spears

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