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Jonathan Schaeffer

Jonathan Schaeffer

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Computer Science
Canada
2025

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Computer Science

D-Index
62
Citations
11377
World Ranking
2964
National Ranking
112

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Canada Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Computer Science in Canada Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Canada Leader Award

Overview

Jonathan Schaeffer is a researcher affiliated with the University of Alberta in Canada, with a primary focus in the field of Computer Science. Their work spans several interconnected subfields including Artificial Intelligence, Geophysics, Computer Networks and Communications, Sociology and Political Science, and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.

The main topics covered by their research include:

  • Artificial Intelligence in Games
  • AI-based Problem Solving and Planning
  • Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques
  • Seismic Waves and Analysis
  • Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization
  • Robotic Path Planning Algorithms
  • Digital Games and Media

Schaeffer has contributed extensively to academic literature with notable recent papers such as:

  • "EIDA: The European Integrated Data Archive and Service Infrastructure within ORFEUS" (2021), published in Seismological Research Letters
  • "Degrees of Separation in Social Networks" (2021), published in the Proceedings of the International Symposium on Combinatorial Search
  • "Partial-Expansion A* with Selective Node Generation" (2021), published in the Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • "Simultaneously Searching with Multiple Settings: An Alternative to Parameter Tuning for Suboptimal Single-Agent Search Algorithms" (2021), published in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling
  • "Partial-Expansion A* with Selective Node Generation" (2021), published in the Proceedings of the International Symposium on Combinatorial Search

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Helle Pedersen
  • Nathan Sturtevant
  • Ariel Felner
  • Meir Goldenberg
  • Javier Quinteros

Jonathan Schaeffer has published a number of works in the following venues with the indicated frequency:

  • ICGA Journal (13 publications)
  • Proceedings of the International Symposium on Combinatorial Search (6 publications)
  • Seismological Research Letters (3 publications)
  • Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (1 publication)
  • Proceedings of the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (1 publication)

In addition to journal and conference papers, Schaeffer's work includes book publications with Springer Science+Business Media. These books, titled "Advances in Computer Games," appeared in 2022 and 2024.

Best Publications

  • Near Optimal Hierarchical Path-Finding.

    Adi Botea;Martin Müller;Jonathan Schaeffer

  • Checkers Is Solved

    Jonathan Schaeffer;Neil Burch;Yngvi Björnsson;Akihiro Kishimoto

  • The challenge of poker

    Darse Billings;Aaron Davidson;Jonathan Schaeffer;Duane Szafron

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

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

  • The history heuristic and alpha-beta search enhancements in practice

    J. Schaeffer

  • Parallel sorting by regular sampling

    Hanmao Shi;Jonathan Schaeffer

  • One Jump Ahead: Challenging Human Supremacy in Checkers

    Jonathan Schaeffer

  • Macro-FF: improving AI planning with automatically learned macro-operators

    Adi Botea;Markus Enzenberger;Martin Müller;Jonathan Schaeffer

  • 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

  • CHINOOK The World Man-Machine Checkers Champion

    Jonathan Schaeffer;Robert Lake;Paul Lu;Martin Bryant

  • Searching with Pattern Databases

    Joseph C. Culberson;Jonathan Schaeffer

  • Enhanced partial expansion A

    Meir Goldenberg;Ariel Felner;Roni Stern;Guni Sharon

  • On the versatility of parallel sorting by regular sampling

    Xiaobo Li;Paul Lu;Jonathan Schaeffer;John Shillington

  • Monte Carlo Planning in RTS Games.

    Michael Chung;Michael Buro;Jonathan Schaeffer

  • Sokoban: enhancing general single-agent search methods using domain knowledge

    Andreas Junghanns;Jonathan Schaeffer

  • The Enterprise model for developing distributed applications

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

  • From patterns to frameworks to parallel programs

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

  • The game of chess

    Herbert Simon;Jonathan Schaeffer

  • Pattern Databases

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  • A* search with inconsistent heuristics

    Zhifu Zhang;Nathan R. Sturtevant;Robert Holte;Jonathan Schaeffer

Frequent Co-Authors

Duane Szafron
Duane Szafron University of Alberta
Nathan R. Sturtevant
Nathan R. Sturtevant University of Alberta
Robert C. Holte
Robert C. Holte University of Alberta
Ariel Felner
Ariel Felner Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Neil Burch
Neil Burch University of Alberta
Michael Bowling
Michael Bowling University of Alberta
Herbert A. Simon
Herbert A. Simon Carnegie Mellon University
Henri E. Bal
Henri E. Bal Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
David S. Wishart
David S. Wishart University of Alberta
Dale Schuurmans
Dale Schuurmans University of Alberta

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