William M. Spears

Using genetic algorithms for concept learning

Kenneth De Jong, William M. Spears, Diana F. Gordon · Machine Learning · 1993 · 451 citations · Full text

Artificial Intelligence, Evolutionary Data Mining, Engineering +8

Distributed, Physics-Based Control of Swarms of Vehicles

William M. Spears, Diana F. Spears, Jerry Hamann et al. · Autonomous Robots · 2004 · 397 citations

Engineering, Physics-based Control, Mechanical Systems +5

Matching algorithms to problems: an experimental test of the particle swarm and some genetic algorithms on the multimodal problem generator

James Kennedy, William M. Spears · 2002 · 390 citations

Artificial Intelligence, Factorial Time-series Experiment, Multimodal Problem Generator +13

Using Genetic Algorithms to Solve NP-Complete Problems

Kenneth De Jong, William M. Spears · 1989 · 363 citations

A formal analysis of the role of multi-point crossover in genetic algorithms

Kenneth De Jong, William M. Spears · Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence · 1992 · 277 citations

Memetic Algorithm, Engineering, Genetic Algorithms +8