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Books

D.G. Stork and E. Yom-Tov (2004) "Computer Manual to accompany Pattern Classification", Wiley.

D. Carmel and E. Yom-Tov (2010) "Estimating the Query Diculty for Information Retrieval", Morgan and Claypool.

Chapters in books

G.F. Inbar and E. Yom-Tov (2000) "Estimation of Motor Task Effects on Adaptation and Learning from Recorded Single Movement Related Brain Potentials", In: "Sensorimotor Control", R. Dengler, A. Kossev, eds., NATO series Life Science and Technology, Series 1: Life and Behavioural Sciences 326: 195-202.

E. Yom-Tov (2004) "An introduction to Pattern Classification" In: O. Bousquet, U. von Luxburg and G. Ratsch Advanced Lectures on Machine Learning. LNAI 3176, Springer

E. Yom-Tov (2005) "Signals and Systems" In: M.D. Binder, N. Hirokawa, U. Windhorst Encyclopedic reference of Neuroscience. Springer.

E. Yom-Tov (2007) "A distributed sequential solver for large scale SVMs" In: O. Chapelle, D. DeCoste, J. Weston, L. Bottou Large scale kernel machines MIT Press: 141-156

Reviewed articles

E. Yom-Tov, S. Yom-Tov, and H. Ur (1999) "A model of induced coupled movements in the human body - a case study". Biological Cybernetics 80(6): 411-416.

E. Yom-Tov, G.F. Inbar (2000) "Movement-related potentials in the human spinal cord preceding toe movement". Clinical Neurophysiology 111(2): 350-361.

E. Yom-Tov, A. Grossman, G.F. Inbar (2001) "Movement-related potentials during the performance of a motor task 1: The effect of learning and force on the movement-related potentials". Biological Cybernetics 85(5): 395-399.

E. Yom-Tov, A. Grossman, G.F. Inbar (2001) "Movement-related potentials during the performance of a motor task 2: Cerebral areas activated during learning of the task". Biological Cybernetics 85(5): 387-394.

E.Yom-Tov, G.F. Inbar (2001) "Feature Selection for the Classification of Movements from Single Movement-Related Potentials". IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering 10(3): 170-177.

D. Peleg, E. Braiman, E. Yom-Tov, G.F. Inbar (2002) "Classification of finger activation for use in a robotic prosthesis arm". IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering 10(4): 290-293.

E. Yom-Tov, G.F. Inbar (2003) "On the detection of Movement-Related Potentials from on-going EEG for use in a Brain-Computer Interface". Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing 41(1): 85-93.

H. Serbi, E. Yom-Tov, and G.F. Inbar (2005) "An improved P300-based brain-computer interface". IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering 13(1): 89-98.

I. Makienko, E. Yom-Tov, and G.F. Inbar (2005) "On the effects of adaptation to changing loads on movement-related potentials" Biological Cybernetics 93(3): 171-177.

Y. Yom-Tov, S. Yom-Tov, D. MacDonald, E. Yom-Tov (2007) "Population cycles and changes in body size of the lynx in Alaska" Oecologia 152(2): 239-244.

S. Copty, S. Fine, S. Ur, E. Yom-Tov, A. Ziv (2008) "A Probabilistic Alternative to Regression Suites" Theoretical Computer Science 404(3): 219-234.

R. El-Yaniv, D. Pechyony, E. Yom-Tov (2008) "Better Multiclass Classification via a Margin-Optimized Single Binary Problem" Pattern Recognition Letters 29(14): 1954-1959.

Y. Yom-Tov, Y. Yom-Tov, E. Yom-Tov (2008) "Does the physical environment influence political corruption?" Accepted for publication in the Journal of Irreproducible Results

Y. Ben-Haim, E. Yom-Tov (2010) "A Streaming Parallel Decision Tree Algorithm" Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR) 11: 849-872.

Conference articles

E. Yom-Tov and G.F. Inbar (1999) "Movement-related potentials in the human spinal cord preceding toe movement". Fifth conference of the European Society for Engineering and Medicine

E. Yom-Tov and G.F. Inbar (2001) "Selection of Relevant Features for Classification of Movements from Single Movement-Related Potentials Using a Genetic Algorithm". 23rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society

E. Yom-Tov, S. Fine, D. Carmel, A. Darlow, E. Amitay (2004) "Juru at TREC 2004: Experiments with prediction of query difficulty", Text Retrieval Conference (TREC) 2004

E. Yom-Tov, S. Fine, D. Carmel, A. Darlow (2005) "Learning to Estimate Query Difficulty with Applications to Missing Content Detection and Distributed Information Retrieval", 28th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2005), Salvador, Brazil. pp. 512-219. Recipient of the Best Paper Award

S. Copty, S. Ur, E. Yom-Tov (2005) "Evaluating the Reverse Greedy Algorithm", Fifth Haifa Workshop on Interdisciplinary Applications of Graph Theory, Combinatorics and Algorithms"

E. Yom-Tov and G. F. Inbar (2005) "Evidence for a decision making process at the cortical level during adaptation to changing environments" Computational Motor Control Workshop 2005, Ben Guryon University (Paper, Poster)

E. Yom-Tov, D. Carmel, A. Darlow, D. Pelleg, S. Errera-Yaakov, S. Fine (2005) "Juru at TREC 2005: Query Prediction in the Terabyte and the Robust tracks" Text Retrieval Conference (TREC) 2005

E. Yom-Tov (2005) "A parallel training algorithm for large scale support vector machines" Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) Workshop on Large Scale Kernel Machines 2005, Whistler, Canada

E. Yom-Tov, Y. Aridor (2006) "Improving Resource Matching Through Estimation of Actual Job Requirements", 15th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC 2006)

E. Yom-Tov, D. Carmel, A. Darlow, D. Pelleg (2006) "What makes a query difficult?", 29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2006), Seattle, Washington. pp. 390-397

S. Ur, E. Yom-Tov, P. Wernick (2006) "An Open Source Simulation Model of Software Testing", Haifa Verification Conference, 2006

S. Sabato, E. Yom-Tov, A. Tsherniak, S. Rosset (2007) "Analyzing System Logs: A New View of What's Important", Second Workshop on Tackling Computer Systems Problems with Machine Learning Techniques (SysML07)

E. Yom-Tov, Y. Xu, M. Rosen-Zvi, J. Wong (2007) "A Novel Classification Technique Using Compression-based Similarity with Application to Residual Gas Analysis Data" 8th European AEC/APC Conference

R. Tzoref, S. Ur, E. Yom-Tov (2007) "Instrumenting Where it Hurts - An Automatic Concurrent Debugging Technique" Proceedings of the 2007 International Symposium on Software testing and analysis (ISSTA 2007), London, UK. pp. 27-38.

E. Yom-Tov, Y. Aridor (2007) "A self-optimized job scheduler for heterogeneous server clusters" 13th Workshop on Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing (JSSPP 2007) (Also in LNCS 4942)

E. Amitay, S. Yogev, E. Yom-Tov (2007) "Serial Sharers: Detecting Split Identities of Web Authors" SIGIR Workshop on Plagiarism Analysis, Authorship Identification, and Near-Duplicate Detection (PAN 2007)

H. Leather, E. Yom-Tov, M. Namolaru, A. Freund (2008) "Automatic Feature Generation for Setting Compilers Heuristics" 2nd Workshop on Statistical and Machine learning approaches to ARchitectures and compilaTion (SMART'08)"

D. Carmel, E. Yom-Tov, H. Roitman (2008) "Enhancing Digital Libraries Using Missing Content Analysis" The 2008 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2008) , Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. pp. 1-10

H. Roitman, D. Carmel, E. Yom-Tov (2008) "Maintaining Dynamic Channel Profiles on the Web" The 34th Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2008) , Auckland, New-Zealand. pp. 151-162

E. Yom-Tov, R. Tzoref, S. Ur, S. Hoory (2008) "Automatic debugging of concurrent programs through active sampling of low dimensional random projections" Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2008) , L'Aquila, Italy. pp. 307-316

D. Bickson, E. Yom-Tov, D. Dolev (2008) "A Gaussian Belief Propagation Solver for Large Scale Support Vector Machines" Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Complex Systems (ECCS 2008)

E. Yom-Tov, N. Slonim (2009) "Parallel Pairwise Clustering" Proceedings of the SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM09) , Reno, NV. pp. 745-755

E. Yom-Tov, D. Carmel, H. Roitman (2009) "Who Tags the Tags? A Framework for Social Bookmarking" Proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Hong-Kong, China. pp. 1577-1580

Y. Richter, E. Yom-Tov, N. Slonim (2010) "Predicting customer churn in mobile networks through analysis of social groups" Proceedings of the 2010 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM 2010), Columbus, OH.

K. Dyagilev, E. Yom-Tov, S. Mannor (2010) "Generative Models for Rapid Information Propagation" Accepted to the SIGKDD Workshop on Social Media Analytics (SOMA), Washington, DC

Others

E. Yom-Tov (1999) "A keyboardless computer (In Hebrew)". Haaretz special edition on Hi-Tech, December 1999: 120-122.

E. Yom-Tov (2003) "Evidence for learning of force fields in EEG potentials related to movement" Control and Biological systems: The path to the robo-sapiens age - Israeli Association for Automatic Control

R. El-Yaniv, T. Kotek, D. Pechyony, E. Yom-Tov (2006) "On Multiclass Classification via a Single Binary Classifier" IBM Research Report H-0241

R. El-Yaniv, D. Pechyony, E. Yom-Tov (2006) "Superior Multi-Class Classification through a Margin-Optimized Single Binary Problem" IBM Research Report H-0243

E. Yom-Tov, Y. Aridor (2006) "Improving Resource Matching through Estimation of Actual Job Requirements" IBM Research Report H-0244

U. Aharoni, A. Ghoting, E. Pednault, D. Pelleg, H. Toledano, R. Natarajan, E. Yom-Tov (2006) "IBM Parallel Machine Learning Toolbox", Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) Demonstration

E. Yom-Tov, M. Rosen-Zvi, Y. Xu, J. Wong (2006) "Towards root-cause analysis in compression-based similarity" NIPS 2006 Workshop on Revealing Hidden Elements of Dynamical Systems

E. Yom-Tov, U. Aharoni, A. Ghoting, E. Pednault, D. Pelleg, H. Toledano, R. Natarajan (2007) "An introduction to the IBM Parallel Machine Learning Toolbox" IBM developerWorks

H. Toledano, E. Yom-Tov, D. Pelleg, E. Pednault, R. Natarajan (2008) "Support Vector Machine Solvers: Large-scale, Accurate, and Fast (Pick Any Two)" IBM Research Report H-0260

Patents

E. Yom-Tov (2001) "Monitoring Vital Signs During Labor" Israeli patent number 143420.

E. Yom-Tov, S. Fine, D. Carmel, A. Darlow (2004) "Prediction of query difficulty for a generic search engine" U.S. patent number 7406462

E. Yom-Tov, S. Fine, D. Carmel, A. Darlow, A.Z. Broder (2005) "Detection of missing content in a searchable repository" U.S. patent request 11/181324

E. Yom-Tov, S. Fine, D. Carmel, A. Darlow (2004) "Merging of results in distributed information retrieval" U.S. patent request 11/183086

E. Yom-Tov, B. Mizrachi and S. Ur (2005) "Identification of input sequences" U.S. patent request 11/210922

E. Yom-Tov, Y. Aridor, R.E. Harper (2005) "Method and system for scheduling of jobs" U.S. patent request 11/313395

S. Ur, E. Yom-Tov (2006) "List display with redundant text removal" U.S. patent request 11/423713

E. Yom-Tov, S. Fine, D. Carmel, A. Darlow and D. Pelleg (2006) "Analyzing the Ability to Find Textual Content" U.S. patent request 11/461464

E. Yom-Tov (2006) "Method and System for Interactively Navigating Search Results" U.S. patent request 11/532571

B. Mizrachi, E. Yom-Tov (2007) "Consistency Checking in Computer-Implemented Calendar Systems" U.S. patent request 11/669199

A. Zlotnick, E. Yom-Tov, Z. Machulsky (2007) "Systems, method, and computer program product for evaluating a storage policy" U.S. patent request 11/762092

E. Amitai, S. Yogev, E. Yom-Tov (2007) "Detection of Web authors and its uses" U.S. patent request 11/733808

S. Sabato, A. Tsherniak, E. Yom-Tov (2007) "Apparatus for and Method of Implementing System Log Message Ranking via System Behavior Analysis" U.S. patent request 11/877679

R. Tzoref, S. Ur, E. Yom-Tov (2007) "Device, System and Method of Debugging Computer Programs" U.S. patent request 11/877689

E. Yom-Tov, M. Rosen-Zvi, Y. Xu, J. Wong (2007) "Method and Computer Program Product for Wafer Manufacturing Process Abnormalities Detection" U.S. patent request 11/946064

E. Yom-Tov, A. Adi (2007) "A method for automatic extraction of rules from event streams" U.S. patent request 12/033896

N. Slonim, E. Yom-Tov (2008) "Method and System for Clustering Massive Graphs using Multiple Processing Nodes" \ U.S. patent request 12/060210

D. Carmel, H. Roitman, E. Yom-Tov (2008) "Method and System for Maintaining Profiles of Information Channels" U.S. patent request 12/111972

O. Margalit, S. Hoory, E. Yom-Tov (2008) "Efficient Expertise Extraction" U.S. patent request 12/062465

D. Carmel, N. Zwerdling, E. Yom-Tov (2008) "Content analysis simulator for improving site findability in information retrieval systems" U.S. patent request 12/188013

S. Ur, E. Yom-Tov (2008) "Providing Customized Medical Information" U.S. patent request 12/246598

E. Yom-Tov, N. Slonim (2008) "Predicting novel associations amongst associated entities" U.S. patent request 12/276071

E. Yom-Tov, Y. Richter (2009) "Detection of failures in a telecommunication system" U.S. patent request 12/485946

E. Yom-Tov, Y. Richter (2009) "Statistical anaysis of data records for automatic determination of social reference groups" U.S. patent request 12/494314

D. Carmel, H. Roitman, E. Yom-Tov (2009) "Method and system for using social bookmarks" U.S. patent request 12/550376