| Components of expertise L Steels AI magazine 11 (2), 28-28, 1990 | 814 | 1990 |
| COOPERATION BETWEEN DISTRIBUTED AGENTS THROUGH SELF-ORGANISATION L Steels | 567 | 1989 |
| Language networks: Their structure, function, and evolution RV Solé, B Corominas‐Murtra, S Valverde, L Steels Complexity 15 (6), 20-26, 2010 | 540 | 2010 |
| The synthetic modeling of language origins L Steels Evolution of communication 1 (1), 1-34, 1997 | 540 | 1997 |
| The artificial life roots of artificial intelligence L Steels Artificial life 1 (1_2), 75-110, 1993 | 518 | 1993 |
| A self-organizing spatial vocabulary L Steels Artificial life 2 (3), 319-332, 1995 | 504 | 1995 |
| Coordinating perceptually grounded categories through language: A case study for colour L Steels, T Belpaeme Cambridge University Press, 2005 | 488 | 2005 |
| Evolving grounded communication for robots L Steels Trends in cognitive sciences 7 (7), 308-312, 2003 | 476 | 2003 |
| NoiseTube: Measuring and mapping noise pollution with mobile phones N Maisonneuve, M Stevens, ME Niessen, L Steels Information technologies in environmental engineering, 215-228, 2009 | 467 | 2009 |
| Sharp transition towards shared vocabularies in multi-agent systems A Baronchelli, M Felici, V Loreto, E Caglioti, L Steels Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment 2006 (06), P06014, 2006 | 442 | 2006 |
| Aibo’s first words: The social learning of language and meaning L Steels, F Kaplan Evolution of communication 4 (1), 3-32, 2000 | 401 | 2000 |
| The artificial life route to artificial intelligence: Building embodied, situated agents L Steels, R Brooks Routledge, 2018 | 387* | 2018 |
| Grounding adaptive language games in robotic agents L Steels, P Vogt Proceedings of the fourth european conference on artificial life 97, 1997 | 330 | 1997 |
| The origins of syntax in visually grounded robotic agents L Steels Artificial Intelligence 103 (1-2), 133-156, 1998 | 314 | 1998 |
| Language as a complex adaptive system L Steels International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature, 17-26, 2000 | 304 | 2000 |
| Language games for autonomous robots L Steels IEEE Intelligent systems 16 (5), 16-22, 2001 | 300 | 2001 |
| Self-organizing vocabularies L Steels Artificial Life V, 179-184, 1997 | 280 | 1997 |
| Towards a theory of emergent functionality JA Meyer, SW Wilson MIT Press, 1991 | 271 | 1991 |
| Citizen noise pollution monitoring N Maisonneuve, M Stevens, ME Niessen, P Hanappe, L Steels Association for Computing Machinery, 2009 | 255 | 2009 |
| Modeling the cultural evolution of language L Steels Physics of life reviews 8 (4), 339-356, 2011 | 253 | 2011 |
