Research work, etc.
(contact: azlan at uniten dot edu dot my)
Selected Publications
Full list @ ResearchGate
Books
Azlan Iqbal (2020). A Novel Machine Learning Method for Preference Identification: A Chess Case Study, Kindle Direct Publishing, Washington, United States. eISBN 978-983-808-250-1. Print ISBN 979-8570636583. E-book : Paperback
Azlan Iqbal (2019). Chesthetica's Book of Chess Constructs, Volume 3: Original Computer-Generated Chess Problems for Solving and Analysis, Kindle Direct Publishing, Washington, United States. eISBN 978-983-808-248-8. Print ISBN 978-1689062893. E-book : Paperback
Azlan Iqbal (2017). Chesthetica's
Book of Chess Constructs, Volume 1: Original Computer-Generated Chess
Problems for Solving and Analysis, Kindle Direct Publishing,
Washington, United States. eISBN 978-983-808-244-0. Print ISBN
978-1983346071. E-book : Paperback
Azlan Iqbal, Matej Guid, Simon Colton, Jana Krivec, Shazril Azman and Boshra Haghighi (2016). The Digital Synaptic Neural Substrate: A New Approach to Computational Creativity, 1st Edition, SpringerBriefs in Cognitive Computation, Springer International Publishing, Switzerland. eBook ISBN 978-3-319-28079-0, Softcover ISBN 978-3-319-28078-3, Series ISSN 2212-6023. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-28079-0. Springer : Amazon.com : arXiv
International Journals
Jagatheesan Kunasaikaran and Azlan Iqbal (2016). A Brief Overview of Functional Programming Languages, electronic Journal of Computer Science and Information Technology (eJCSIT), Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 32-36. ISSN 1985-7721. RG
Azlan
Iqbal (2015). A Simple Encryption Method for FTP Passwords,
electronic Journal of Computer Science
and Information Technology (eJCSIT), Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 13-15. ISSN
1985-7721. RG
Azlan Iqbal (2012). Knowledge Discovery in Chess Using an Aesthetics Approach, Journal of Aesthetic Education, Vol. 46, No. 1, pp. 73-90. ISSN 0021-8510, eISSN 1543-7809. RG : JSTOR
Azlan Iqbal (2010). Aesthetics in Mate-in-3 Combinations, Part II: Normality, ICGA Journal, Vol. 33, No. 4, pp. 202-211. ISSN 1389-6911.
Azlan Iqbal (2010). Aesthetics in Mate-in-3 Combinations, Part I: Combinatorics and Weights, ICGA Journal, Vol. 33, No. 3, pp. 140-148. ISSN 1389-6911.
Azlan Iqbal (2010). What Computer Chess Still Has to Teach Us: The Game That Will Not Go, electronic Journal of Computer Science and Information Technology (eJCSIT), Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 23-29. ISSN 1985-7721. RG : Video
Azlan Iqbal and Mashkuri Yaacob (2008). Theme Detection and Evaluation in Chess, ICGA Journal, Vol. 31, No. 2, pp. 97-109. ISSN 1389-6911.
Azlan Iqbal and Mashkuri Yaacob (2008). Advanced Computer Recognition of Aesthetics in the Game of Chess, WSEAS Transactions on Computers, Vol. 7, Issue 5, pp. 497-510. ISSN 1109-2750. RG
Azlan Iqbal (2007-08). Evaluation of Economy in a Zero-sum Perfect Information Game, The Computer Journal, Oxford University Press, Vol. 51, No. 4, pp. 408-418. Online ISSN 1460-2067, Print ISSN 0010-4620. DOI: 10.1093/comjnl/bxm060. RG : Oxford
Azlan
Iqbal (2006). Is Aesthetics Computable?, ICGA
Journal, Vol. 29, No. 1, pp. 32-39. ISSN 1389-6911.
Azlan Iqbal and Mashkuri Yaacob (2006). A Systematic and Discrete View of Aesthetics in Chess, Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics, Vol. XXIX, Nos. 1-2, pp. 53-65. ISSN 0252-8169. RG : Info
Theses
Mohammed Azlan Bin Mohamed Iqbal (2008). A Discrete Computational Aesthetics Model for a Zero-Sum Perfect Information Game, Ph.D. Thesis, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. RG
Mohammed Azlan Bin Mohamed Iqbal (2001). Comparative Study of Multimedia Interface Designs, M.Sc. Project Thesis, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia.
Mohammed Azlan Bin Mohamed Iqbal (2000). Date Analysis Engine, B.Sc. Project Thesis, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia.
International (Book) Chapters
Azlan Iqbal (2015). Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence: "Computational Aesthetics", in Encyclopedia Britannica, 11 February. Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., Chicago, USA. RG : Britannica
Azlan Iqbal (2014). How Relevant Are Chess Composition Conventions?, in Computer Games: Communications in Computer and Information Science, Vol. 408, pp. 122-131. Simone Diniz Junqueira Barbosa, Phoebe Chen, Alfredo Cuzzocrea, Xiaoyong Du, Joaquim Filipe, Orhun Kara, Igor Kotenko, Krishna M. Sivalingam, Dominik Ślęzak, Takashi Washio, Xiaokang Yang (Eds.). Springer. Online ISSN 1865-0937, Print ISSN 1865-0929. Originally as (online) Proceedings of the 23rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) Workshop on Computer Games. RG : Springer : arXiv
Azlan Iqbal (2013). Investigating the Role of Composition Conventions in Three-Move Mate Problems, in Entertainment Computing - ICEC 2013, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 8215, pp. 61-68. Anacleto, J.C.; Clua, E.W.G.; Correa da Silva, F.S.; Fels, S.; Yang, H.S. (Eds.). 1st Edition., 2013, XIV. Springer. ISBN 978-3-642-41105-2. RG : Springer
Azlan
Iqbal (2011). Increasing Efficiency and Quality in the
Automatic Composition of Three-Move Mate Problems, in
Entertainment Computing - ICEC 2011, Lecture Notes in Computer Science,
Vol. 6972, pp. 186-197. Anacleto, J.; Fels, S.; Graham, N.; Kapralos,
B.; Saif El-Nasr, M.; Stanley, K. (Eds.). 1st Edition., 2011, XVI.
Springer. ISBN 978-3-642-24499-5. RG
: Springer
International Conferences
Azlan Iqbal (2014). On 'Additives' and Some of Their Properties, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Computer Science and Computational Mathematics (ICCSCM 2014), Langkawi, Malaysia, 8-9 May, pp. 103-105. ISBN: 978-967-11414-6-5. RG
Azlan Iqbal (2013). Switch-Side Chain-Chess, Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Computer Games: AI, Animation, Mobile, Interactive Multimedia, Educational and Serious Games (CGames 2013), Louisville, Kentucky, USA, 30 July - 1 August, pp. 182-187. ISBN: 978-1-4799-0818-9. RG
Azlan Iqbal and Sinan Qahtan Mohammad Salih (2012). Detecting 'Islands' in Game Matrices, (CD-ROM) Proceedings of the International Conference on Applied and Theoretical Information Systems Research (ATISR 2012), Taipei, Taiwan, 10-12 February. ISBN: 2225-4560. RG
Azlan Iqbal (2010). The Relevance of Universal Metrics in Relation to Human Aesthetic Perception, (CD-ROM) Proceedings of the 2010 International Conference on Intelligent and Advanced Systems (ICIAS 2010), World Engineering, Science & Technology Congress (ESTCON), Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, Malaysia, 15-17 June. ISBN 978-1-4244-6624-5. Print ISBN: 978-1-4244-6623-8. INSPEC Accession Number: 11834706. Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/ICIAS.2010.5716144. RG
Azlan
Iqbal and Mashkuri Yaacob (2008). Computational Assessment of
Sparsity in Board Games, Proceedings of the 13th
International Conference on Computer Games: AI, Animation, Mobile,
Educational and Serious Games (CGames 2008), Louisville, Kentucky, USA,
30 July - 2 August, pp. 29-33. ISBN 978-0954901660. RG
: Amazon.com
Azlan Iqbal and Mashkuri Yaacob (2008). Computer Recognition of Aesthetics in a Zero-sum Perfect Information Game, Proceedings of the 7th WSEAS International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge Engineering and Data Bases (AIKED '08), University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, 20-22 February, pp.78-88. ISBN 978-960-6766-41-1, ISSN 1790-5109. RG
Azlan Iqbal (2006). Computing the Aesthetics of Chess, Technical Report of the AAAI '06 Workshop on Computational Aesthetics (WS-06-04), Organized by Massachusetts Institute of Technology and University of North Texas, AAAI Press, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 16-20 July, pp. 16-23. ISBN 978-1-57735-286-0. RG : AAAI
Azlan Iqbal (2006). Increasing Complexity of Self-Organization in a Variation of Langton's Ant, Findings of the Young Researchers Conference on Applied Sciences (CAS 2006) Vol. 1: Physics & Material Science, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Selangor, Malaysia, 13-14 June, pp. 199-204. ISBN 983-3643-17-5. RG : Software
Azlan Iqbal (2005). Quantifying Aesthetic Principles within a Specific Domain for Computation, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Information Technology & Multimedia (ICIMU '05), Universiti Tenaga Nasional, Selangor, Malaysia, 22-24 November, pp. 302-305. RG
International Articles
Azlan Iqbal (2021). Is This the Most Complex Forced Mate Chess Problem Ever? Medium, San Francisco, California, United States, 29 October. Medium
Azlan Iqbal (2020). Centering a Cropped Image or Video Using Adobe Premiere Pro, Medium, San Francisco, California, United States, 8 July. Medium
Azlan Iqbal (2019). What Makes a Good Chess Construct? Medium, San Francisco, California, United States, 6 November. Medium
Azlan Iqbal (2018). Revisiting Whether Women Play More Beautiful Chess, ChessBase News, Hamburg, Germany, 17 September. ChessBase
Azlan Iqbal (2018). Challenging Studies, Automatically, ChessBase News, Hamburg, Germany, 22 March. ChessBase
Azlan Iqbal (2018). Estimating Total Search Space Size for Specific Piece Sets in Chess, arXiv, Cornell University Library, Cornell University, United States, 27 February. RG : arXiv
Azlan Iqbal (2017). A Computer Composes A Fabled Problem: Four Knights vs. Queen, arXiv, Cornell University Library, Cornell University, United States, 4 September. RG : arXiv
Azlan Iqbal (2017). Switch-Side
Chain-Chess for Android and iOS, ChessBase News,
Hamburg, Germany, 13 July. RG : ChessBase
Azlan Iqbal (2017). Chesthetica Composes Custom Mates, ChessBase News, Hamburg, Germany, 7 April. RG : ChessBase
Paul Bonham and Azlan Iqbal (2016). A Chain-Detection Algorithm for Two-Dimensional Grids. arXiv, Cornell University Library, Cornell University, United States, 12 October. RG : arXiv
Azlan Iqbal (2016). The Digital Synaptic Neural Substrate: Size and Quality Matters. arXiv, Cornell University Library, Cornell University, United States, 20 September. RG : arXiv
Azlan Iqbal (2016). Chesthetica:
Studies and a Decade in Development, ChessBase News,
Hamburg, Germany, 31 May. RG : ChessBase
Azlan Iqbal (2016). Recomposition Contest II Result, ChessBase News, Hamburg, Germany, 30 April. RG : ChessBase
Azlan Iqbal (2016). Do Women Play More Beautiful Chess? A Response
to Critics, ChessBase News,
Hamburg, Germany, 27 March;
ResearchGate, 19 March, DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.1.2481.3685. ChessBase
Azlan Iqbal (2016). Do Women Play More Beautiful Chess?, ChessBase News, Hamburg, Germany, 26 February. RG : ChessBase
Azlan Iqbal (2016). Recomposition Contest Result, ChessBase News, Hamburg, Germany, 24 February. RG : ChessBase
Azlan Iqbal (2015). Introducing Recompositions: An Exercise in Forensic Chess. ChessBase News, Hamburg, Germany, 29 December. RG : ChessBase
Azlan
Iqbal (2015). Chesthetica
Composes Longer Mates! ChessBase News,
Hamburg, Germany, 7 September. RG : ChessBase
Azlan Iqbal (2015). Celebrating 300 Chesthetica-Generated
Chess Problems. ChessBase News,
Hamburg, Germany, 31 May. RG : ChessBase
Azlan Iqbal (2015). Switch-Side Chain-Chess Revisited. ChessBase News, Hamburg, Germany, 7 April. RG : ChessBase
Azlan Iqbal
(2015). Computer Generated Chess
Problems for Everyone. ChessBase
News, Hamburg, Germany, 6 February. RG : ChessBase
Azlan
Iqbal (2014). The World's Most Advanced Automatic Chess Problem
Composer. ChessBase
News, Hamburg, Germany, 7 November. RG : ChessBase
Azlan Iqbal (2014). ChessBase Chess Construct Contest. ChessBase News, Hamburg, Germany, 26 July. RG : ChessBase
Azlan
Iqbal (2014). Azlan
Iqbal: Introducing 'Chess Constructs'.
ChessBase News, Hamburg, Germany, 29 June. RG : ChessBase
Azlan
Iqbal (2014). Kasparov Visits UNITEN! ChessBase News,
Hamburg, Germany, 11 May. RG : ChessBase
Azlan
Iqbal (2014). A
New, Challenging Chess Variant.
ChessBase News, Hamburg, Germany, 2 February. RG : ChessBase
Azlan
Iqbal (2014). Switch-Side
Chain-Chess. The Chess Variant Pages,
Rochester, NY, USA, 12 January. ChessVariants
Azlan
Iqbal, Harold van der Heijden, Matej Guid and Ali Makhmali
(2012). What Makes
Problems and Studies Beautiful? A Computer Program Takes a Look.
ChessBase News, Hamburg, Germany, 15 December. RG : ChessBase
Azlan
Iqbal, Harold van der Heijden and Matej Guid (2010). Research
Grant to Investigate Multi-Dimensional Aesthetic Perception using
Endgame Studies, EG, Alexander Rueb Vereniging voor
Schaakeindspelstudie (ARVES), No. 180, Vol. XVI, April, p. 127. ISSN
0012-7671. RG
Azlan
Iqbal (2009). Chess Aesthetics Research Survey Results,
Chess Games Database (Chessgames.com), Florida, USA, 11 September. RG : Chessgames
Azlan Iqbal (2009). A Discrete
Computational Aesthetics Model for a Zero-sum Perfect Information Game
(PhD Thesis Abstract).
ChessBase News, Hamburg, Germany, 2 September. RG : ChessBase
Azlan Iqbal (2000). The Future of Books, Letter to the Editor, TIME Magazine International, USA, 17 July.
Azlan
Iqbal (2009). Using Games as a Means of Instruction in
Malaysia, Programme Book of the Teaching and Learning
Conference & Workshop @ UNITEN, 2009 (TCLW@UNITEN
'09), Universiti Tenaga Nasional, Selangor, Malaysia, 6-7 August, p.
22. RG
Azlan Iqbal (2004). The Integrated Multimedia Computing Agent, Proceedings of the 2nd National Conference on Computer Graphics & Multimedia (COGRAMM '04), Universiti Teknologi MARA, Selangor, Malaysia, 8-10 December, pp. 404-409. ISBN 983-42004-0-4. RG
National Magazines/Newspapers
Azlan Iqbal (2013). Mechanizing Human Creativity: The Basic Idea, COIT Research Chronicles, Issue 3: September-December, p. 2, Malaysia. RG
Azlan Iqbal (2013). How I Used A.I. to Name My Firstborn, CHIP, Feature Article, August, pp. 38-39, Malaysia. ISSN 1675-0322. RG
Azlan Iqbal (2010). Embarking on a Ph.D. in Computer Science, Veritas, Issue 8: Jan-Dec 2009, pp. 30-32, College of Information Technology, Universiti Tenaga Nasional. ISSN 1985-0492. RG
Azlan Iqbal (2004). Virtual Reality: What Will We Think of Next?, Cover (Feature) Article, My Multimedia Magazine, January-March Issue, pp. 28-31, Rhythm Publishing Co. Sdn. Bhd., Malaysia. ISSN 1675-493X. RG
Azlan Iqbal (2001). Broadband - The Facts, The Star: In Tech Magazine, Malaysia, 13 November.
Azlan Iqbal (2001). Multimedia Innovation: Our Undoing, The Star: In Tech Magazine, Malaysia, 18 July.
Azlan Iqbal (2001). Broadband Banned, The Star: In Tech Magazine, Malaysia, 13 February.
Azlan Iqbal (2000). Eating Our Own Dust, The Star: In Tech Magazine, Malaysia, 1 August.
Azlan Iqbal (2000). The Real PC Story - Part 2, The Star: In Tech Magazine, Malaysia, 25 April.
Azlan Iqbal (2000). The Real PC Story, The Star: In Tech Magazine, Malaysia, 18 April.
Azlan Iqbal (1996). Internet is Not Pornography, The Sun: Megazine, Malaysia, 25 January.
Azlan Iqbal (1995). How Far Will Censorship Go?, The Sun: Megazine, Malaysia, 26 February.
Other Articles
Azlan
Iqbal (2018). Detection of Doubled-Pawn Illegality Using Only
Character String Positional Information, ResearchGate, September. DOI:
10.13140/RG.2.2.14282.82883. RG
International Media Coverage
Frrederic Friedel (2017). Four Knights vs Queen Challenge II, ChessBase News, Hamburg, Germany, 2 October. ChessBase
Natasha Frost (2017). Can You Solve the Million-Dollar,
Unsolvable Chess Problem? Atlas Obscura, United States, 1
September. AO
Pál Benkö (2016). Can Computers Compose Artistic Problems? (2), ChessBase News, Hamburg, Germany, 16 June. ChessBase
Bjørn Enemark (2015). Computer-genererede Problemer,
Problemskak, Denmark, Vol. 4, No. 31, July, pp. 1, 3-6. ISSN 1903-0169.
Fritz Juhnke (2014). Computer-resistant Chess Variants, ChessBase News, Hamburg, Germany, 21 February. ChessBase
Andy Soltis (2013). Strange but True, New York Post, USA, 5 January. NYP
K. K. (2009). Μεζούρα στην ωραιότητα, Atzenta, Opi Zon Tee, Ta Nea, Greece, 8 September, p. 3.
Emil Vlasák (2009). Computer Recognition of Beauty in Chess, Computer News, EG, Alexander Rueb Vereniging voor Schaakeindspelstudie (ARVES), The Netherlands, No. 175, Vol. XV, Jan, pp. 31-36. ISSN 0012-7671.
VerticalNews™ (2008). Study Data from A. Iqbal et al Provide New Insights into Computer Science, Computer Weekly News, USA, 18 August. Online ISSN 1944-1606, Print ISSN 1944-1592.
Selected Editorial Work
More @ Publons
Chief
Editor (2009-2020). electronic Journal of Computer Science and
Information Technology (eJCSIT).
Chair
(2010). Graphics and Multimedia Symposium 2010 (GMS'10).
Reviewer (2015-2016). Game & Puzzle Design.
Reviewer (2013, 2016). Entertainment Computing (Elsevier).
Program Committee & Reviewer (2010). Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Computer Graphics, Imaging and Visualization (CGIV 2010).
Reviewer (2012). Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Digital Information and Communication Technology and its Applications (DICTAP 2012). IEEE.
Reviewer (2011). Proceedings of the 7th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2012). ACM
Reviewer (2011). Proceedings of the 6th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2011). ACM
Reviewer (2009). Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Computer Graphics, Imaging and Visualization (CGIV 2009). IEEE
Patent(s)
Research Grants
Project Leader (2014). An Efficient Extraction Method of Game and Image Attribute Measurements Using a Computer (J510050547; RM 20,000; December 2014-December 2015; COMPLETED). Other member: Shazril bin Azman (Research Assistant). Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN) : Internal Research Grant.
Project Leader (2010). A Computational Approach to Modelling Multi-Dimensional Human Aesthetic Perception (01-02-03-SF0188; RM 66,000; March 2010-October 2011; COMPLETED). Other members: Dr. Harold van der Heijden (International Judge for Chess Composition, Netherlands), Dr. Matej Guid (FIDE Master, AI Laboratory, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia), Ali Makhmali (Research Assistant). Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI) : eScienceFund.
Project Leader (2010). A New Approach toward Solving the Technology Issues of Games of Very High Complexity (FRGS/1/10/TK/UNITEN/02/2); RM 19,200; March 2010-Feb 2012; COMPLETED). Other members: Saraswathy Shamini Gunasekaran (College of Information Technology, Universiti Tenaga Nasional), Sinan Qahtan Mohammad Salih (Graduate Research Assistant). Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE) : Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (FRGS).
Project Leader (2008). Investigation of Economy and Sparsity as Viable Heuristics in Board Games (J510050159; RM 20,750; September 2008-March 2010; COMPLETED). Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN) : Seed Fund.
Invited Talks/Expertise
Keynote Speaker (2014). Chess in Education and Research, Hari Pendidik MARA 2014, 10.30 am - 12 pm, 10 June, Hotel Premiera, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Speaker (2009). My Experience Doing a Ph.D., Knowledge Sharing Series (KSS), 3-4 pm, 10 July, Postgraduate Room, College of Information Technology, Universiti Tenaga Nasional, Selangor, Malaysia.
Awards
Mohammed Azlan Bin Mohamed Iqbal, The Foreign Special Award by the Association of Polish Inventors and Rationalizers: Crystal Statuette as the Prize of Association (2012). "Chesthetica Endgame", Malaysia Technology Expo 2012, 16-18 February, Putra World Trade Center, Kuala Lumpur. Other member: Ali Makhmali (Research Assistant).
Mohammed Azlan Bin Mohamed Iqbal, Bronze Medal (2012). "Chesthetica Endgame", Malaysia Technology Expo 2012, 16-18 February, Putra World Trade Center, Kuala Lumpur. Other member: Ali Makhmali (Research Assistant).
Mohammed Azlan Bin Mohamed Iqbal, Best Researcher (2010). Anugerah Khidmat Cemerlang, 27 May, Universiti Tenaga Nasional.