Peer-Reviewed Papers in Scientific Journals and Conferences:

  1. Omid David and Nathan S. Netanyahu (2002): Verified Null-Move Pruning.
    ICGA Journal, International Computer Games Association, Vol. 25, No. 3, pp. 153--161, September 2002. (Also appeared as Technical Report CAR-TR-980, CS-TR-4406, UMIACS-TR-2002-39, Center for Automation Research, University of Maryland, USA, gzipped postscript)

  2. Omid David, Ariel Felner, and Nathan S. Netanyahu (2004): Blockage Detection in Pawn Endgames.
    ICGA Journal, International Computer Games Association, Vol. 27, No. 3, pp. 150--158, September 2004.

  3. Omid David, Ariel Felner, and Nathan S. Netanyahu (2006): Blockage Detection in King and Pawn Endings.
    CG 2004, LNCS, eds. H.J. van den Herik, Y. Bjornsson, and N.S. Netanyahu, Vol. 3846, pp. 187--201, Springer, 2006.

  4. Omid David and Nathan S. Netanyahu (2008): Extended Null-Move Reductions.
    CG 2008, LNCS, eds. H.J. van den Herik et al., Vol. 5131, pp. 205--216, Springer, 2008.

  5. Omid David, Moshe Koppel, and Nathan S. Netanyahu (2008): Genetic Algorithms for Mentor-Assisted Evaluation Function Optimization.
    Winner of GECCO '08 Best Paper Award in Real-World Applications track    , ACM Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO '08), pp. 1469--1475, Atlanta, GA, July 2008.

  6. Omid David, H. Jaap van den Herik, Moshe Koppel, and Nathan S. Netanyahu (2009): Simulating Human Grandmasters: Evolution and Coevolution of Evaluation Functions.
    ACM Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO '09), pp. 1483--1489, Montreal, Canada, July 2009.

  7. Omid David, Moshe Koppel, and Nathan S. Netanyahu (2010): Expert-Driven Genetic Algorithms for Simulating Evaluation Functions.
    Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines. Accepted for publication (online version available).

  8. Omid David, Nathan S. Netanyahu, Yoav Rosenberg, and Moshe Shimoni (2010): Genetic Algorithms for Automatic Classification of Moving Objects.
    ACM Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO '10), Portland, OR, July 2010.

  9. Omid David, Moshe Koppel, Nathan S. Netanyahu (2010): Optimizing Selective Search in Chess.
     International Conference on Machine Learning - Workshop on Machine Learning and Games (ICML-MLG), Haifa, Israel, June 2010.

Other Publications:

  1. Omid David and Nathan S. Netanyahu (2002): Report on the Symposium Man vs. Machine: The Experiment.
    ICGA Journal, International Computer Games Association, Vol. 25, No. 4, pp. 250--251, December 2002.

  2. Omid David (2003): The 11th World Computer-Chess Championship.
    ICGA Journal, International Computer Games Association, Vol. 26, No. 4, pp. 252--258, December 2003.

  3. Omid David (2004): The 12th World Computer-Chess Championship.
    BNVKI, Belgium-Netherlands Association for Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 84--85, August 2004.

  4. Omid David (2008): The 16th World Computer-Chess Championship.
    ICGA Journal, International Computer Games Association, Vol. 31, No. 3, pp. 166--171, September 2008.

  5. Omid David, Moshe Koppel, and Nathan S. Netanyahu (2008): Genetic Algorithms at the Service of Chess (in Hebrew). Galileo: The Israeli Magazine for Science and Thought, No. 119,  pp. 48--54, July 2008. (Also appeared in Ynet)

Seminar Presentations and Invited Talks:

  1. Omid David (2002): Deep (Re)Search in Computer Chess.
    Department of Computer Science, Bar-Ilan University, Israel, December 2002.

  2. Omid David (2008): Genetic Algorithms and Chess: From Novice to Grandmaster in 60 Seconds.
    Department of Computer Science, Bar-Ilan University, Israel, July 2008.

  3. Omid David (2009): Expert-Driven Parameter Tuning by Means of Natural Selection.
    Department of Industrial Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Israel, January 2009.

  4. Omid David (2010): Genetic Algorithms for Automatic Object Classification.
    VULCAN Annual Conference, Herzlya, Israel, April 2010.

Theses:

  1. Omid David (2005): Search and Knowledge-Based Innovations in Computer Chess,
    Master's Thesis (advisor: Nathan Netanyahu), Department of Computer Science, Bar-Ilan University, Israel, May 2005.

  2. Omid David (2009): Genetic Algorithms Based Learning for Evolving Intelligent Organisms,
    Ph.D. Thesis (advisors: Nathan Netanyahu and Moshe Koppel), Department of Computer Science, Bar-Ilan University, Israel, June 2009.
 
 

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