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Duane Szafron publication distribution in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Computer Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Duane Szafron sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 180 publications — 38th percentile

38% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 991 publications or more.

Duane Szafron D-index placement in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Computer Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Duane Szafron sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 40 D-Index — 37th percentile

37% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 131 D-Index or more.

Overview

Duane Szafron is affiliated with the University of Alberta in Canada. Their research spans multiple fields within social sciences and economics, with a specific focus on topics related to game theory, artificial intelligence, and behavioral economics.

The scientist has contributed to publications in several main fields of study including Social Sciences and Economics, Econometrics and Finance. Their subfields of study further highlight specialization in Economics and Econometrics, Artificial Intelligence, Sociology and Political Science, Safety Research, and Management Science and Operations Research.

Their work addresses a range of main topics, notably:

  • Sports Analytics and Performance
  • Artificial Intelligence in Games
  • Digital Games and Media
  • Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
  • Game Theory and Applications

Duane Szafron has published multiple papers in the Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Two recent papers include:

  • Using Sliding Windows to Generate Action Abstractions in Extensive-Form Games, 2021, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • Generalized Sampling and Variance in Counterfactual Regret Minimization, 2021, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Their frequently collaborating co-authors are:

  • John Hawkin
  • Robert C. Holte
  • Richard G. Gibson
  • Marc Lanctot
  • Neil Burch

Duane Szafron's scholarly contributions situate them at the intersection of advanced artificial intelligence techniques and applications in economics and social sciences. Their work integrates concepts from game theory, digital media analytics, and experimental studies of economic behavior to explore performance in sports and gameplay contexts.

Best Publications

  • Predicting subcellular localization of proteins using machine-learned classifiers

    Z. Lu;D. Szafron;R. Greiner;P. Lu

  • The challenge of poker

    Darse Billings;Aaron Davidson;Jonathan Schaeffer;Duane Szafron

  • BASys: a web server for automated bacterial genome annotation.

    Gary H. Van Domselaar;Paul Stothard;Savita Shrivastava;Joseph A. Cruz

  • Approximating game-theoretic optimal strategies for full-scale poker

    D. Billings;N. Burch;A. Davidson;R. Holte

  • A world championship caliber checkers program

    Jonathan Schaeffer;Joseph Culberson;Norman Treloar;Brent Knight

  • Opponent modeling in poker

    Darse Billings;Denis Papp;Jonathan Schaeffer;Duane Szafron

  • Improving Protein Function Prediction using the Hierarchical Structure of the Gene Ontology

    R. Eisner;B. Poulin;D. Szafron;P. Lu

  • The Enterprise model for developing distributed applications

    J. Schaeffer;D. Szafron;G. Lobe;I. Parsons

  • Proteome Analyst: custom predictions with explanations in a web-based tool for high-throughput proteome annotations

    Duane Szafron;Paul Lu;Russell Greiner;David S. Wishart

  • From patterns to frameworks to parallel programs

    S. MacDonald;J. Anvik;S. Bromling;J. Schaeffer

  • Visual explanation of evidence in additive classifiers

    Brett Poulin;Roman Eisner;Duane Szafron;Paul Lu

  • Modeling of moving objects in a video database

    J.Z. Li;M.T. Ozsu;D. Szafron

  • Using probabilistic knowledge and simulation to play poker

    Darse Billings;Lourdes Peña;Jonathan Schaeffer;Duane Szafron

  • Computer-game construction: A gender-neutral attractor to Computing Science

    Mike Carbonaro;Duane Szafron;Maria Cutumisu;Jonathan Schaeffer

  • Game-Tree search with adaptation in stochastic imperfect-information games

    Darse Billings;Aaron Davidson;Terence Schauenberg;Neil Burch

  • An object-oriented multimedia database system for a news-on-demand application

    M. Tamer Özsu;Duane Szafron;Ghada El-Medani;Chiradeep Vittal

  • Tigukat: a uniform behavioral objectbase management system

    M. Tamer Özsu;Randal Peters;Duane Szafron;Boman Irani

  • Abstraction pathologies in extensive games

    Kevin Waugh;David Schnizlein;Michael Bowling;Duane Szafron

  • On type systems for object-oriented database programming languages

    Yuri Leontiev;M. Tamer Özsu;Duane Szafron

  • ScriptEase: generative design patterns for computer role-playing games

    M. McNaughton;M. Cutumisu;D. Szafron;J. Schaeffer

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan Schaeffer
Jonathan Schaeffer University of Alberta
M. Tamer Özsu
M. Tamer Özsu University of Waterloo
Russell Greiner
Russell Greiner University of Alberta
David S. Wishart
David S. Wishart University of Alberta
Michael Bowling
Michael Bowling University of Alberta
Neil Burch
Neil Burch University of Alberta
Robert C. Holte
Robert C. Holte University of Alberta
Zhiyong Lu
Zhiyong Lu National Institutes of Health
Nathan R. Sturtevant
Nathan R. Sturtevant University of Alberta
Marc Lanctot
Marc Lanctot DeepMind (United Kingdom)

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