2026 Simon M. Lucas: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	46	6703	6510	404	399	290	12838

Overview

Simon M. Lucas is affiliated with Queen Mary University of London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily falls within the field of Computer Science, with a strong focus on Artificial Intelligence and its applications in games and related areas.

They have contributed extensively to the study of Artificial Intelligence in Games, with notable topics including:

Artificial Intelligence in Games
Reinforcement Learning in Robotics
Digital Games and Media
Evolutionary Algorithms and Applications
Educational Games and Gamification
Advanced Bandit Algorithms Research
Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms Research

The scientist's frequent co-authors include:

Diego Pérez-Liébana (9 publications)
Raluca D. Gaina (5 publications)
James Goodman (5 publications)
Yizhao Jin (4 publications)
Greg Slabaugh (4 publications)

Simon M. Lucas has published in a variety of venues, with the most frequent being:

arXiv (Cornell University) - 14 publications
IEEE Transactions on Games - 8 publications
2020 IEEE Conference on Games (CoG) - 8 publications
IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence - 3 publications
IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine - 2 publications

Recent papers by Simon M. Lucas include:

Artificial Intelligence and Games, 2020, KI - Künstliche Intelligenz
Self-Adaptive Rolling Horizon Evolutionary Algorithms for General Video Game Playing, 2020, 2020 IEEE Conference on Games (CoG)
Choosing Representation, Mutation, and Crossover in Genetic Algorithms, 2022, IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine
Enhanced Rolling Horizon Evolution Algorithm With Opponent Model Learning: Results for the Fighting Game AI Competition, 2020, IEEE Transactions on Games
Facebook's Cyber-Cyber and Cyber-Physical Digital Twins, 2021, Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering

Simon M. Lucas has also authored a book titled General Video Game Artificial Intelligence, published in 2020 by Morgan & Claypool Publishers.

Best Publications

A Survey of Monte Carlo Tree Search Methods

C. B. Browne;E. Powley;D. Whitehouse;S. M. Lucas

3586
Citations
ICDAR 2003 robust reading competitions: entries, results, and future directions

Simon M. Lucas;Alex Panaretos;Luis Sosa;Anthony Tang

1067
Citations
ICDAR 2003 robust reading competitions

S.M. Lucas;A. Panaretos;L. Sosa;A. Tang

706
Citations
ICDAR 2005 text locating competition results

S.M. Lucas

417
Citations
Towards automatic personalised content creation for racing games

J. Togelius;R. De Nardi;S.M. Lucas

374
Citations
Parallel Problem Solving from Nature – PPSN X

Günter Rudolph;Thomas Jansen;Nicola Beume;Simon Lucas

335
Citations
Evolving mario levels in the latent space of a deep convolutional generative adversarial network

Vanessa Volz;Jacob Schrum;Jialin Liu;Simon M. Lucas

266
Citations
The 2014 General Video Game Playing Competition

Diego Perez-Liebana;Spyridon Samothrakis;Julian Togelius;Tom Schaul

262
Citations
General Video Game AI: competition, challenges, and opportunities

Diego Perez-Liebana;Spyridon Samothrakis;Julian Togelius;Simon M. Lucas

219
Citations
General Video Game AI: A Multitrack Framework for Evaluating Agents, Games, and Content Generation Algorithms

Diego Perez-Liebana;Jialin Liu;Ahmed Khalifa;Raluca D. Gaina

181
Citations
Evolutionary computation and games

S.M. Lucas;G. Kendall

166
Citations
Evolving a Neural Network Location Evaluator to Play Ms. Pac-Man.

Simon M. Lucas

144
Citations
Learning deterministic finite automata with a smart state labeling evolutionary algorithm

S.M. Lucas;T.J. Reynolds

143
Citations
General Video Game Level Generation

Ahmed Khalifa;Diego Perez-Liebana;Simon M. Lucas;Julian Togelius

126
Citations
Making Racing Fun Through Player Modeling and Track Evolution

J Togelius;R De Nardi;S Lucas

125
Citations
Towards a Video Game Description Language

Marc Ebner;John Levine;Simon M. Lucas;Tom Schaul

113
Citations
Evolving controllers for simulated car racing

J. Togelius;S.M. Lucas

111
Citations
Rolling horizon evolution versus tree search for navigation in single-player real-time games

Diego Perez;Spyridon Samothrakis;Simon Lucas;Philipp Rohlfshagen

106
Citations
General video game playing

John Levine;Clare Bates Congdon;Marc Ebner;Graham Kendall

105
Citations
Coevolution versus self-play temporal difference learning for acquiring position evaluation in small-board go

T.P. Runarsson;S.M. Lucas

96
Citations
Parallel problem solving from nature - PPSN X : 10th international conference, Dortmund, Germany, September 13-17, 2008 : proceedings

Günter Rudolph;Thomas Jansen;Simon M Lucas;Carlo Poloni

4
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Julian Togelius New York University

Tom Schaul DeepMind (United Kingdom)

Sebastian Risi IT University of Copenhagen

Dongbin Zhao Chinese Academy of Sciences

Günter Rudolph TU Dortmund University

Michael Mateas University of California, Santa Cruz

Thomas Jansen Aberystwyth University

Mike Preuss Leiden University

Peter I. Cowling Queen Mary University of London

Rudolf Kruse Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg

External Links

Personal website of Simon M. Lucas Google Scholar page

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