Scientific Journal and Conference Papers:

• 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)

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Omid David, Moshe Koppel, and Nathan S. Netanyahu (2010): Expert-Driven Genetic Algorithms for Simulating Evaluation Functions, Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, to appear.

Other Publications:

• 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.

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

• 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.

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

Seminar Presentations:

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

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

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

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