William M. Spears

William M. Spears, Steven D. Prager: Evolutionary search for understanding movement dynamics on mixed networks. GeoInformatica 17(2): 353-385 (2013)

Suranga Hettiarachchi, William M. Spears: Physicomimetics for Mobile Robot Obstacle Avoidance. SNPD 2012: 444-450

William M. Spears, Derek T. Green, Diana F. Spears: Biases in Particle Swarm Optimization. IJSIR 1(2): 34-57 (2010)

Steven D. Prager, William M. Spears: A hybrid evolutionary-graph approach for finding functional network paths. GIS 2009: 306-315

Paul M. Maxim, Suranga Hettiarachchi, William M. Spears, Diana F. Spears, Jerry C. Hamann, Thomas Kunkel, Caleb Speiser: Trilateration Localization for Multi-robot Teams. ICINCO-RA (2) 2008: 301-307

Erol Sahin, William M. Spears, Alan F. T. Winfield (Eds.): Swarm Robotics, Second International Workshop, SAB 2006, Rome, Italy, September 30-October 1, 2006, Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4433, Springer 2007, isbn 978-3-540-71540-5

R. Paul Wiegand, Mitchell A. Potter, Donald Sofge, William M. Spears: A Generalized Graph-Based Method for Engineering Swarm Solutions to Multiagent Problems. PPSN 2006: 741-750

William M. Spears, Jerry C. Hamann, Paul M. Maxim, Thomas Kunkel, Rodney Heil, Dimitri Zarzhitsky, Diana F. Spears, Christer Karlsson: Where Are You? Swarm Robotics 2006: 129-143

Suranga Hettiarachchi, William M. Spears: Moving Swarm Formations through Obstacle Fields. IC-AI 2005: 97-103

Dimitri Zarzhitsky, Diana F. Spears, William M. Spears: Distributed robotics approach to chemical plume tracing. IROS 2005: 4034-4039

William M. Spears, Rodney Heil, Dimitri Zarzhitsky: Artificial physics for mobile robot formations. SMC 2005: 2287-2292

Suranga Hettiarachchi, William M. Spears, Derek T. Green, Wesley Kerr: Distributed Agent Evolution with Dynamic Adaptation to Local Unexpected Scenarios. WRAC 2005: 245-256

Erol Sahin, William M. Spears (Eds.): Swarm Robotics, SAB 2004 International Workshop, Santa Monica, CA, USA, July 17, 2004, Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3342, Springer 2005, isbn 3-540-24296-1

William M. Spears, Diana F. Spears, Jerry C. Hamann, Rodney Heil: Distributed, Physics-Based Control of Swarms of Vehicles. Auton. Robots 17(2-3): 137-162 (2004)

Dimitri Zarzhitsky, Diana F. Spears, William M. Spears, David R. Thayer: A Fluid Dynamics Approach to Multi-Robot Chemical Plume Tracing. AAMAS 2004: 1476-1477

William M. Spears, Rodney Heil, Diana F. Spears, Dimitri Zarzhitsky: Physicomimetics for Mobile Robot Formations. AAMAS 2004: 1528-1529

Wesley Kerr, Diana F. Spears, William M. Spears, David R. Thayer: Two Formal Gas Models for Multi-agent Sweeping and Obstacle Avoidance. FAABS 2004: 111-130

William M. Spears, Diana F. Spears, Rodney Heil: A Formal Analysis of Potential Energy in a Multi-agent System. FAABS 2004: 131-145

Dimitri Zarzhitsky, Diana F. Spears, David R. Thayer, William M. Spears: Agent-Based Chemical Plume Tracing Using Fluid Dynamics. FAABS 2004: 146-160

William M. Spears, Diana F. Spears, Rodney Heil, Wesley Kerr, Suranga Hettiarachchi: An Overview of Physicomimetics. Swarm Robotics 2004: 84-97

Diana F. Gordon-Spears, William M. Spears: Analysis of a Phase Transition in a Physics-Based Multiagent System. FAABS 2002: 193-207

Worthy N. Martin, William M. Spears (Eds.): Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Foundations of Genetic Algorithms, Charlottesville, VA, USA, July 21-23, 2000. Morgan Kaufmann 2001, isbn 1-55860-734-X

Worthy N. Martin, William M. Spears: FOGA-2000 - Introduction. FOGA 2000: 1-3

William M. Spears: The Equilibrium and Transient Behavior of Mutation and Recombination. FOGA 2000: 241-260

William M. Spears, Diana F. Gordon: Evolving Finite-State Machine Strategies for Protecting Resources. ISMIS 2000: 166-175

William M. Spears, Kenneth A. De Jong: Dining with GAs: Operator Lunch Theorems. FOGA 1998: 85-101

Kenneth A. De Jong, Mitchell A. Potter, William M. Spears: Using Problem Generators to Explore the Effects of Epistasis. ICGA 1997: 338-345

William M. Spears, Kenneth A. De Jong: Analyzing GAs Using Markov Models with Semantically Ordered and Lumped States. FOGA 1996: 85-100

William M. Spears: Adapting Crossover in Evolutionary Algorithms. Evolutionary Programming 1995: 367-384

R. Bharat Rao, Diana F. Gordon, William M. Spears: For Every Generalization Action, Is There Really an Equal and Opposite Reaction? ICML 1995: 471-479

Kenneth A. De Jong, William M. Spears, Diana F. Gordon: Using Markov Chains to Analyze GAFOs. FOGA 1994: 115-137

Kenneth A. De Jong, William M. Spears, Diana F. Gordon: Using Genetic Algorithms for Concept Learning. Machine Learning 13: 161-188 (1993)

William M. Spears, Kenneth A. De Jong, Thomas Bäck, David B. Fogel, Hugo de Garis: An Overview of Evolutionary Computation. ECML 1993: 442-459

Kenneth A. De Jong, William M. Spears: On the State of Evolutionary Computation. ICGA 1993: 618-625

Kenneth A. De Jong, William M. Spears: A Formal Analysis of the Role of Multi-Point Crossover in Genetic Algorithms. Ann. Math. Artif. Intell. 5(1): 1-26 (1992)

William M. Spears: Crossover or Mutation? FOGA 1992: 221-237

William M. Spears, Kenneth A. De Jong: On the Virtues of Parameterised Uniform Crossover. ICGA 1991: 230-236

Kenneth A. De Jong, William M. Spears: Learning Concept Classification Rules Using Genetic Algorithms. IJCAI 1991: 651-657

William M. Spears, Vic Anand: A Study of Crossover Operators in Genetic Programming. ISMIS 1991: 409-418

William M. Spears, Kenneth A. De Jong: An Analysis of Multi-Point Crossover. FOGA 1990: 301-315

Kenneth A. De Jong, William M. Spears: An Analysis of the Interacting Roles of Population Size and Crossover in Genetic Algorithms. PPSN 1990: 38-47

Kenneth A. De Jong, William M. Spears: Using Genetic Algorithms to Solve NP-Complete Problems. ICGA 1989: 124-132