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Stephen L. Smith

Stephen L. Smith

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
48
Citations
14219
World Ranking
3069
National Ranking
170

Overview

Stephen L. Smith is a researcher affiliated with the University of Guelph in Canada. Their work spans multiple areas within computer science and engineering, particularly focusing on robotics and control systems. They have contributed extensively to research in control and systems engineering, artificial intelligence, and computer vision and pattern recognition.

Their research themes include robotic path planning algorithms, optimization and search problems, advanced control systems optimization, and human-automation interaction and safety. Additional focuses include reinforcement learning applications in robotics, robot manipulation and learning, and control systems and identification.

Frequent coauthors in their body of work are:

  • Nils Wilde
  • Armin Sadeghi
  • Alexander Botros
  • Abhinav Dahiya
  • Kerstin Dautenhahn

Stephen L. Smith has published in several venues with multiple contributions to:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • IEEE Transactions on Robotics
  • 2022 IEEE 61st Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)
  • IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
  • IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems

Notable recent publications include:

  • A survey of multi-agent Human-Robot Interaction systems, 2022, Robotics and Autonomous Systems
  • The diffusion of Airbnb: a comparative look at earlier adopters, later adopters, and non-adopters, 2020, Current Issues in Tourism
  • Optimal Partitioning of Non-Convex Environments for Minimum Turn Coverage Planning, 2022, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
  • Safety-Critical Control of Stochastic Systems using Stochastic Control Barrier Functions, 2021, 2021 60th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)
  • Learning Control Barrier Functions with High Relative Degree for Safety-Critical Control, 2021, 2021 European Control Conference (ECC)

Their main fields of study consist of:

  • Computer Science
  • Engineering

Within these fields, their subfields of study are:

  • Control and Systems Engineering
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Computational Theory and Mathematics

Best Publications

  • Tourism Analysis: A Handbook

    Stephen L J Smith

  • THE TOURISM PRODUCT

    Stephen L.J. Smith

  • Why Tourists Choose Airbnb: A Motivation-Based Segmentation Study:

    Daniel Guttentag;Stephen Smith;Luke Potwarka;Mark Havitz

  • Segmenting Canadian Culinary Tourists

    Elena Ignatov;Stephen Smith

  • Assessing Airbnb as a disruptive innovation relative to hotels: Substitution and comparative performance expectations

    Daniel A. Guttentag;Stephen L.J. Smith

  • Defining tourism a supply-side view

    Stephen L.J. Smith

  • Residents’ attitudes to tourism: a longitudinal study of 140 articles from 1984 to 2010

    Robin Nunkoo;Stephen L. J. Smith;Haywantee Ramkissoon

  • Culinary Tourism Supply Chains: A Preliminary Examination

    Stephen L. J. Smith;Honggen Xiao

  • The making of tourism research: Insights from a Social Sciences Journal

    Honggen Xiao;Stephen L.J. Smith

  • Practical Tourism Research

    Stephen L.J. Smith

  • Robotic load balancing for mobility-on-demand systems

    Marco Pavone;Stephen L Smith;Emilio Frazzoli;Daniela Rus

  • Planning Paths for Package Delivery in Heterogeneous Multirobot Teams

    Neil Mathew;Stephen L. Smith;Steven L. Waslander

  • Case studies in tourism research: A state-of-the-art analysis

    Honggen Xiao;Stephen L.J. Smith

  • Political economy of tourism: trust in government actors, political support, and their determinants.

    Robin Nunkoo;Robin Nunkoo;Stephen L.J. Smith

  • Ethnic tourism development:: Chinese Government Perspectives

    Li Yang;Geoffrey Wall;Stephen L.J. Smith

  • Dynamic Vehicle Routing for Robotic Systems

    F. Bullo;E. Frazzoli;M. Pavone;K. Savla

  • Tourism Statistics

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  • The use of Tourism knowledge: Research Propositions

    Honggen Xiao;Stephen L.J. Smith

  • Optimal Control of Markov Decision Processes With Linear Temporal Logic Constraints

    Xuchu Ding;Stephen L. Smith;Calin Belta;Daniela Rus

  • Profiling Taiwanese ecotourists using a self-definition approach.

    Chang-Hung (Teresa) Tao;Paul F.J. Eagles;Stephen L.J. Smith

  • Ethnic representations: destination imagery.

    Christine N. Buzinde;Carla Almeida Santos;Stephen L.J. Smith

  • A Test Of Plog's Allocentric/Psychocentric Model: Evidence From Seven Nations

    Stephen L.J. Smith

  • Submodularity and greedy algorithms in sensor scheduling for linear dynamical systems

    Syed Talha Jawaid;Stephen L. Smith

  • GLNS: An effective large neighborhood search heuristic for the Generalized Traveling Salesman Problem

    Stephen L. Smith;Frank Imeson

  • Dynamic Vehicle Routing for Robotic Systems Planning optimal routes for multiple vehicles performing different tasks is discussed; fundamental limits on achievable performance are established for tasks that are generated by exogenous processes.

    Francesco Bullo;Emilio Frazzoli;Marco Pavone;Ketan Savla

Frequent Co-Authors

Francesco Bullo
Francesco Bullo University of California, Santa Barbara
Honggen Xiao
Honggen Xiao Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Mac Schwager
Mac Schwager Stanford University
Gaurav S. Sukhatme
Gaurav S. Sukhatme University of Southern California
Shreyas Sundaram
Shreyas Sundaram Purdue University West Lafayette
Bruce A. Francis
Bruce A. Francis University of Toronto
Robin Nunkoo
Robin Nunkoo University of Johannesburg
Joao P. Hespanha
Joao P. Hespanha University of California, Santa Barbara

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