Publications

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Peer reviewed papers

• M. Orlov, M. Sipper. Flight of the FINCH through the Java wilderness (DOI). IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 2011, 15(2):166–182.
• M. Orlov. Optimized random number generation in an interval (DOI). Information Processing Letters, 2009, 109(13):722–725.

Articles in refereed conference volumes

• M. Orlov, M. Litvak. Using behavior and text analysis to detect propagandists and misinformers on Twitter. In: Proceedings of the 5th Annual International Symposium on Information Management and Big Data (SIMBig 2018), Track on Social Network and Media Analysis and Mining (SNMAM), pp 67–74. Lima, Perú. CEUR-WS, 2018.
• M. Orlov. Towards modular large-scale Darwinian software improvement (presentation, DOI). In: Companion Proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (GECCO 2018), The 5th International Workshop on Genetic Improvement (GI 2018), pp. 1614–1615. Kyoto, Japan. ACM Press, 2018.
• M. Orlov. Evolving software building blocks with FINCH (presentation, DOI). In: Companion Proceedings of the 19th Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (GECCO 2017), The 3rd Annual Workshop on the Genetic Improvement of Software (GI 2017), pp. 1539–1540. Berlin, Germany. ACM Press, 2017.
• M. Orlov, C. Bregman, M. Sipper. Automatic evolution of Java-written game heuristics (presentation, DOI). In: M. B. Cohen, M. Ó Cinnéide (Eds.), Search Based Software Engineering: Proceedings of the Third International Symposium (SSBSE 2011), p. 277. Szeged, Hungary. Springer-Verlag, 2011.
• M. Orlov, M. Sipper. FINCH: A system for evolving Java (bytecode) (presentation, DOI). In: R. Riolo, T. McConaghy, E. Vladislavleva (Eds.), Genetic Programming Theory and Practice VIII (GPTP-2010), 1–16. Ann Arbor, MI, USA. Springer, 2010.
• M. Orlov, M. Sipper. Genetic programming in the wild: Evolving unrestricted bytecode (presentation, DOI). In: G. Raidl et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (GECCO 2009), 1043–1050. Montréal, QC, Canada. ACM Press, 2009.
• M. Orlov, M. Sipper. Evolutionary software improvement for instruction set meta-evolution (presentation). In: Proceedings of WSSEC 2008 Workshop and Summer School on Evolutionary Computing, 60–63. Derry, NI, UK. WSSEC, 2008.
• M. Orlov, A. Meisels. Descending requirements search for DisCSPs (presentation). In: Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Distributed Constraint Satisfaction Problems, ECAI-2006. Riva del Garda, Italy. ECAI, 2006.
• A. Meisels, M. Orlov, T. Maor. Discovering associations in XML data (DOI). In: Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (Workshops) — (WISEw’02), 178–183. Singapore. IEEE Computer Society, 2002.

Chapters in books

• M. Orlov, M. Sipper, A. Hauptman. Genetic and evolutionary algorithms and programming: General introduction and application to game playing (DOI). In: R. A. Meyers (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science, 7:4133–4145. New York, Springer, 2009.

Contributed conference presentations

• M. Orlov. Detection of high-level anomaly events in utility networks (presentation). In: S. Chamarty, B. Gilad, O. Margalit (Eds.), Technical Report of 2018 International Symposium on Cyber Security, Cryptography and Machine Learning (CSCML 2018), Entrepreneurship Pitch Track, pp. 65–68. Beer Sheva, Israel. BGU, 2018.
• A. Elyasaf, M. Orlov, M. Sipper. A HeuristicLab evolutionary algorithm for FINCH (DOI). In: Companion Proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (GECCO 2013), 1727–1728. Amsterdam, Netherlands. ACM Press, 2013.
• M. Orlov, M. Sipper. Flight of the FINCH through the Java wilderness. Bar-Ilan Symposium on Foundations of Artificial Intelligence (BISFAI 2011), Department of Computer Science, Bar-Ilan University, Israel, 2011.
• M. Orlov, M. Sipper. Entry and presentation at the annual awards for human-competitive results produced by genetic and evolutionary computation (HUMIES-2010). 12th Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (GECCO 2010), Portland, OR, USA, 2010.

Seminar presentations

• M. Orlov. Deanonymizing Tor: A practical approach. Cyber Night 325 Conference, Shamoon College of Engineering, Israel, 2014.
• M. Orlov. Evolving unrestricted Java software with FINCH (presentation). The 26th CREST Open Workshop, University College London, UK, 2013.
• M. Orlov. Evolving unrestricted Java software with FINCH (abstract). ASAP Research Group, School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham, UK, 2011.

Other publications/reports

• M. Orlov. Darwinian software engineering. Ph.D. thesis, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, 2013, QA 76.618.O75.
• M. Orlov. Random numbers in a range using generic programming (code). Dr. Dobb’s Journal, 2008, 33(4):44–48.
• M. Orlov. Hierarchical search on DisCSPs (presentation). Master’s thesis, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, 2006, QA 76.63.O7.
• M. Orlov. Efficient generation of set partitions (code). Technical report, 2002.