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William F. Smyth

William F. Smyth

D-Index & Metrics

Computer Science

D-Index
31
Citations
3986
World Ranking
13686
National Ranking
533

William F. Smyth 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 William F. Smyth sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 209 publications — 49th percentile

49% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

William F. Smyth 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 William F. Smyth sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 31 D-Index — 6th percentile

6% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

William F. Smyth is affiliated with McMaster University in Canada. Their research primarily contributes to the field of Management Science and Operations Research, with a particular focus on Stock Market Forecasting Methods.

Recent publications include two papers co-authored with Daniel Broby. These papers are:

  • On the use of principal components analysis in index construction, 2025, Financial Statistical Journal
  • On the Use of Principal Components Analysis in Index Construction, 2023, SSRN Electronic Journal

Smyth's research topics revolve around stock market forecasting methodologies, highlighting analytical techniques to improve financial index construction and related forecasting applications.

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Daniel Broby

They have published primarily in the following venues:

  • Financial Statistical Journal
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Best Publications

  • A taxonomy of suffix array construction algorithms

    Simon J. Puglisi;W. F. Smyth;Andrew H. Turpin

  • Computing Patterns in Strings

    William Smyth

  • A fast and effective heuristic for the feedback arc set problem

    Peter Eades;Xuemin Lin;W. F. Smyth;W. F. Smyth

  • Efficient token based clone detection with flexible tokenization

    Hamid Abdul Basit;Simon J. Puglisi;William F. Smyth;Andrew Turpin

  • A characterization of the squares in a Fibonacci string

    Costas S. Iliopoulos;Costas S. Iliopoulos;Dennis W. G. Moore;William F. Smyth;William F. Smyth

  • A Simple Algorithm for Computing the Lempel Ziv Factorization

    M. Crochemore;L. Ilie;W.F. Smyth

  • Computing the Cover Array in Linear Time

    Yin Li;William F. Smyth

  • How many runs can a string contain

    Simon J. Puglisi;Jamie Simpson;W. F. Smyth

  • A simple fast hybrid pattern-matching algorithm

    Frantisek Franek;Christopher G. Jennings;W. F. Smyth

  • Verifying a border array in linear time

    W. Lu;P.J. Ryan;W.F. Smyth;Y. Sun

  • Program style analysis: a natural by-product of program compilation

    K. A. Redish;W. F. Smyth

  • An optimal algorithm to compute all the covers of a string

    Dennis Moore;W. F. Smyth;W. F. Smyth

  • Lempel-Ziv Factorization Using Less Time & Space

    Gang Chen;Simon J. Puglisi;William F. Smyth;William F. Smyth

  • Fast pattern-matching on indeterminate strings

    Jan Holub;W. F. Smyth;Shu Wang

  • The maximum number of runs in a string

    F. Franěk;R.J. Simpson;W.F. Smyth

  • An Improved Method for Reducing the Bandwidth of Sparse Symmetric Matrices.

    Ilona Arany;Lajos Szoda;W. F. Smyth

  • A correction to “An optimal algorithm to compute all the covers of a string”

    Dennis Moore;W. F. Smyth;W. F. Smyth

  • Finding patterns with variable length gaps or don’t cares

    M. Sohel Rahman;Costas S. Iliopoulos;Inbok Lee;Manal Mohamed

  • Inverted files versus suffix arrays for locating patterns in primary memory

    Simon J. Puglisi;W. F. Smyth;Andrew Turpin

  • The performance of linear time suffix sorting algorithms

    S.J. Puglisi;W.F. Smyth;A. Turpin

  • Weak repetitions in strings

    L.J. Cummings;W.F. Smyth

Frequent Co-Authors

Costas S. Iliopoulos
Costas S. Iliopoulos King's College London
Simon J. Puglisi
Simon J. Puglisi University of Helsinki
Andrew Turpin
Andrew Turpin University of Melbourne
Maxime Crochemore
Maxime Crochemore King's College London
Giovanni Manzini
Giovanni Manzini University of Eastern Piedmont Amadeo Avogadro
Richard Cole
Richard Cole New York University
Donald A. Adjeroh
Donald A. Adjeroh West Virginia University
Xuemin Lin
Xuemin Lin Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Peter Eades
Peter Eades University of Sydney
Wing-Kin Sung
Wing-Kin Sung Chinese University of Hong Kong

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