Journal Articles

• Solving Go for Rectangular Boards. E.C.D. van der Werf, M.H.M. Winands (2009). ICGA Journal. Vol.32, No. 2, pp. 77-88.

• Online Personalization of Hearing Instruments. A. Ypma, J. Geurts, S. Ozer, E.C.D. van der Werf, B. de Vries (2008) EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing vol. 2008, Article ID 183456, 14 pages. doi:10.1155/2008/183456

• Learning to Score Final Positions in the Game of Go. E.C.D. van der Werf, H.J. van den Herik, J.W.H.M. Uiterwijk (2005) Theoretical Computer Science. Vol.349(2), pp. 168-183.

• Enhanced Forward Pruning. M.H.M. Winands, H.J. van den Herik, J.W.H.M. Uiterwijk, E.C.D. van der Werf (2005) Information Sciences. Vol.175(4), pp. 315-329.

• Learning to Predict Life and Death from Go Game Records. E.C.D. van der Werf, M.H.M. Winands, H.J. van den Herik, J.W.H.M. Uiterwijk (2005) Information Sciences. Vol.175(4), pp. 258-272.

• Solving Go on Small Boards. E.C.D. van der Werf, H.J. van den Herik, J.W.H.M. Uiterwijk (2003). ICGA Journal. Vol.26, No. 2, pp. 92-107. [ps.gz]

Conference Articles

• Bayesian Feature Selection for Hearing Aid Personalization. A. Ypma, S. Ozer, E.C.D. van der Werf, B. de Vries (2007) IEEE Int. Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing, Thessaloniki, Greece.

• Learning to Estimate Potential Territory in the Game of Go. E.C.D. van der Werf, H.J. van den Herik, J. W. H. M. Uiterwijk (2006). In LNCS 3846: Computers and Games. 4^th International Conference, CG 2004, Ramat-Gan, Israel, July 2004, Revised Papers, eds. H.J. van den Herik, Y. Björnsson, N.S. Netanyahu. pp. 81-96. © Springer-Verlag. ISBN: 3-540-32488-7

• The Relative History Heuristic. M.H.M. Winands, E.C.D. van der Werf, H.J. van den Herik, J. W. H. M. Uiterwijk (2006). In LNCS 3846: Computers and Games. 4^th International Conference, CG 2004, Ramat-Gan, Israel, July 2004, Revised Papers, eds. H.J. van den Herik, Y. Björnsson, N.S. Netanyahu. pp. 262-272. © Springer-Verlag. ISBN: 3-540-32488-7

• Dedicated TD-learning for Stronger Gameplay: applications to Go. R. Ekker, E.C.D. van der Werf and L.R.B. Schomaker (2004) Proceedings of Benelearn 2004 Annual Machine Learning Conference of Belgium and The Netherlands (Brussels, BE, January 8-9, eds. A. Nowé, T. Lennaerts, K. Steenhaut), pp. 46-52.

• Learning to Estimate Potential Territory in the Game of Go. E.C.D. van der Werf, H.J. van den Herik, J. W. H. M. Uiterwijk (2004). In proceedings of the 4^th International Conference on Computers and Games (CG'04) (Ramat-Gan, Israel, July 5-7), To appear in LNCS, © Springer-Verlag.

• Learning to Score Final Positions in the Game of Go. E.C.D. van der Werf, H.J. van den Herik, J.W.H.M. Uiterwijk (2003) In Advances in Computer Games: Many Games, Many Challenges (Proceedings of the 10^th Advances in Computer Games Conference (ACG-10), eds. H.J. van den Herik, H. Iida, E.A. Heinz.), pp. 143-158. Kluwer Academic Publishers/Boston, © 2004 by IFIP. ISBN 1-4020-7709-2 [pdf]

• Learning to Predict Life and Death from Go Game Records. E.C.D. van der Werf, M.H.M. Winands, H.J. van den Herik, J.W.H.M. Uiterwijk (2003) Proceedings of JCIS 2003 7^th Joint Conference on Information Sciences (Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA, eds. Ken Chen et.al.), pp. 501-504. JCIS/Association for Intelligent Machinery, Inc. ISBN 0-9707890-2-5. [4-page paper summary]

• Local move prediction in Go. E.C.D. van der Werf, J.W.H.M. Uiterwijk, E.O. Postma, H.J. van den Herik (2003). In LNCS 2883: Computers and Games. Third International Conference, CG 2002, Edmonton, Canada, July 2002, Revised Papers, eds. J. Schaeffer, M. Müller, Y. Björnsson. pp. 393-412. © Springer-Verlag. ISBN: 3-540-20545-4 [ Abstract ][fig6]

• Solving Ponnuki-Go on Small Boards. E.C.D. van der Werf, J.W.H.M. Uiterwijk, H.J. van den Herik (2002). Proceedings of BNAIC'02 14^th Belgian-Dutch Artificial Intelligence Conference (Leuven, BE, October 21-22, eds. H. Blockeel and M. Denecker), pp. 347-354. K.U.Leuven, Leuven.

• Programming a Computer to Play and Solve Ponnuki-Go. E.C.D. van der Werf, J.W.H.M. Uiterwijk, H.J. van den Herik (2002). In proceedings of GAME-ON 2002 3rd International Conference on Intelligent Games and Simulation. (London, UK, November 29-30, eds. Quasim Mehdi, Norman Gough and Marc Cavazza). SCS Europe Bvba. ISBN 90-77039-10-4.

• Learning Connectedness in Binary Images. E.C.D. van der Werf, J.W.H.M. Uiterwijk, H.J. van den Herik (2001). Proceedings of BNAIC'01 13^th Belgian-Dutch Artificial Intelligence Conference (Amsterdam, NL, October 25-26, eds. B. Krose, M. de Rijke, G. Schreiber, M. van Someren), pp. 459-466. Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam.

• Improved image features by training non-linear diabolo networks. E.C.D. van der Werf, R.P.W. Duin (1999). Proceedings of ASCI'99 5^th annual Conference of the Advanced School for Computing and Imaging (ASCI'99) (Heijen, NL, June 15-17, eds. M.Boasson, J.A. Kaandorp, J.F.M. Tonino, M.G. Vosselman), pp.229-234. ASCI, Delft.

Theses

• AI techniques for the game of Go. E.C.D. van der Werf (2004) Ph.D. thesis, Universiteit Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands. Universitaire Pers Maastricht. ISBN 90 5278 445 0. [ Full text PDF (1.7M)][ PS.GZ (0.9M)][ Stellingen ]

• Non-linear target based feature extraction by diabolo networks. E.C.D. van der Werf (1999). Master's thesis. Pattern Recognition Group, Department of Applied Physics, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Delft University of Technology. [pdf]

Workshop articles

• Visual Learning in Go. E.C.D. van der Werf, H.J. van den Herik (2001). The CMG Sixth Computer Olympiad Computer-Games Workshop Proceedings (Maastricht, NL, August 25-30, ed. J.W.H.M. Uiterwijk). Report CS 01-04, IKAT, Department of Computer Science, Universiteit Maastricht, The Netherlands.

Miscellaneous

• Go Tournament Rules of the Computer Olympiad. E.C.D. van der Werf (2006).

• AI technieken voor het spel Go. E.C.D. van der Werf (2005). Go Tijdschrift van de Nederlandse Go-Bond Vol.42, No. 2, pp. 52-54.

• Go at the frontiers of AI. E.C.D. van der Werf (2005). ICGA Journal Vol.28, No. 1, pp. 46-47.

• Aya wins 9x9 Go Tournament. E.C.D. van der Werf (2003). ICGA Journal Vol.26, No. 4, pp. 263.

• The third international conference on computers and games. L. Kocsis and E.C.D. van der Werf (2002). ICGA Journal Vol.25, No. 4, pp. 259.

• Go4++ wins 9x9 Go Tournament. E.C.D. van der Werf (2002). ICGA Journal Vol.25, No. 3, pp. 181.