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Thomas Ball

Thomas Ball publishes mostly in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Hardware and Architecture, on topics such as Software Testing and Debugging Techniques, Logic, programming, and type systems and Formal Methods in Verification.

World rank
#19,590
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#9,314
of 358,040
Works
43
Citations
673
Citations per work
15.7

What does Thomas Ball research?

Artificial Intelligence: 17.3%Software: 15.4%Hardware and Architecture: 13.5%Computational Theory and Mathematics: 9.6%other fields: 44.2%17%top field
Artificial Intelligence17.3%Software15.4%Hardware and Architecture13.5%Computational Theory and Mathematics9.6%other fields44.2%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Artificial Intelligence17% of their works
  2. 2Software15% of their works
  3. 3Hardware and Architecture14% of their works
  4. 4Computational Theory and Mathematics10% of their works
  5. 5Information Systems8% of their works
  6. 6Media Technology6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Thomas Ball's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Model Checking, Automated Testing, Software Fault Localization, Formal Verification, Satisfiability Modulo Theories, Static Analysis, Symbolic Model Checker and Code Clone Detection.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Model Checking102 topics
  2. Automated Testing61 topic
  3. Software Fault Localization61 topic
  4. Formal Verification51 topic
  5. Satisfiability Modulo Theories51 topic
  6. Static Analysis51 topic
  7. Symbolic Model Checker51 topic
  8. Code Clone Detection31 topic
  9. Refactoring31 topic
  10. Autonomic Computing21 topic
  11. Computational Thinking21 topic
  12. Parallel Computing21 topic
  13. Performance Optimization21 topic
  14. Programming Education21 topic
  15. Security Policies21 topic
  16. Self-Adaptive Systems21 topic
  17. Side-Channel Attacks21 topic

Where does Thomas Ball work?

Thomas Ball's main affiliation in the publication record is Microsoft (United States), United States.

How many publications and citations does Thomas Ball have?

Science Explorer counts 43 works and 673 citations for Thomas Ball, ranking #19,590 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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