It is time to emphasize arraylists over arrays in Java-based first programming courses. - Norman Jacobson; Alex Thornton (ACM SIGCSE Bull., 2004)

Computational and Structural Advantages of Pairwise Flocking. - Geoff Nagy; Alex Thornton; Hangjian Ling; Guillam McIvor; Nicholas T. Ouellette; Richard Vaughan 001 (MRS, 2019)

Swarm Intelligence Based Drone Flocking Model. - Shuyan Dong; Saptarshi Das; Stuart Townley; Alex Thornton (ICAC, 2023)

Control System Autonomy Improvement: An Attempt to Introduce Meta-Heuristic Algorithms into Closed-loop UAV Control Systems. - Shuyan Dong; Saptarshi Das; Alex Thornton; Stuart Townley (ICARCV, 2024)