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William S. Cooper

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Active since

1908

Affiliations

University of California, Berkeley(Current)

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

William S. Cooper is an author at University of California, Berkeley specializing in engineering, information retrieval, and social sciences.

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EngineeringInformation RetrievalPhysicsNatural SciencesGeographyPlasma PhysicsSocial SciencesStatisticsText MiningInstrumentation

Publications per year

1908–2024

88

Publications

88

Science in China

William S. Cooper, Pei‐Sung Tang · Science · 1940 · 466 citations

Chinese Culture, History Of Science, East Asian Studies +2

The Evolution of Developmental Plasticity in Reproductive Characteristics: An Application of the "Adaptive Coin-Flipping" Principle

Robert H. Kaplan, William S. Cooper · The American Naturalist · 1984 · 315 citations

Fertility, Fitness, Natural Selection +20

A definition of relevance for information retrieval

William S. Cooper · Information Storage and Retrieval · 1971 · 306 citations

Engineering, Information Retrieval, Knowledge Discovery +8

Adaptive “coin-flipping”: a decision-theoretic examination of natural selection for random individual variation

William S. Cooper, Robert H. Kaplan · Journal of Theoretical Biology · 1982 · 302 citations

Random Individual Variation, Evolutionary Game Theory, Selection Bias +9

Expected search length: A single measure of retrieval effectiveness based on the weak ordering action of retrieval systems

William S. Cooper · American Documentation · 1968 · 261 citations

Artificial Intelligence, Retrieval Effectiveness, Engineering +19

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