I. Some Preprints
II. English Reprints
III. Hebrew Transliterated Reprints
A.S. Fraenkel, U. Larsson, C. P. Santos & B. von Stengel, Editorial, Special issue on combinatorial game theory, Intern. J. Game Theory, 47 no. 2 (2018) 375 - 377.
L. Goldberg and A.S. Fraenkel, Rulesets For Beatty Games, Intern. J. Game Theory, special issue on combinatorial games. 47 no. 2 (2018) 577 - 594.
L. Goldberg and A.S. Fraenkel, Patterns in the generalized Fibonacci word, applied to games, Discrete Math. 341 (2018) 1675-1687.
H. Li, S. Liu, A.S. Fraenkel and W.A. Liu, Variants of $(s,t)$ Wythoff's games, Discrete Appl. Math. 227 (2017) 1-12.
10.1016/j.disc.2015.08.016 .
G.E. Andrews, A.S. Fraenkel and J.A. Sellers, Characterizing the number of $m$-ary partitions modulo $m$, Amer. Math. Monthly, 122 (2015), no. 9, 880-885, 2015. Copyright November 2015 Mathematical Association of America. All Rights Reserved.
A.S. Fraenkel and N.B. Ho, When are translati ons of P-positions of Wythoff's game P-positions?, INTEGERS 15A, #A4, 12 pp., Proc. INTEGERS 2013 Conference, The Erdos Centennial Conference, 2015.
F. Chung, C. Greene, J. Hutchinson --
Eds.,
Contributors; D.E. Knuth, A.S. Fraenkel, D. Zeilberger, M. Petkovsek,
N. Calkin, R. Canfield, A. Nijenhuis, C.D. Savage, R.P. Stanley, F.
Lazbenik -- Contributers,
Herbert S. Wilf (1931-2012) Remembrance, Notices AMS. vol.
62, No. 4, 346--360, April 2015. Full article at:
http://www.math.ucsd.edu/~fan/wilf/hw-ref.pdf .
A.S. Fraenkel and U. Peled, Harnessing the unwieldy MEX function, In: Games of No Chance 4, Proc. BIRS Workshop on Combinatorial Games, 2008, Banff, Alberta, Canada, MSRI Publ. (R.J. Nowakowski, ed.), Vol. 63, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 77--94, 2015.
A.S. Fraenkel, The Rat game and the Mouse game, In: Games of No Chance 4, Proc. BIRS Workshop on Combinatorial Games, 2008, Banff, Alberta, Canada, MSRI Publ. (R.J. Nowakowski, ed.), Vol. 63, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 95--113, 2015.
A.S. Fraenkel, R.A. Hearn and A.N. Siegel, Theory of combinatorial games, Chapter 15 in: Handbook of Game Theory, Volume 4 (H. Peyton Young and Shmuel Zamir, eds.), pp. 811- 859, Elsevier 2015.
A.S. Fraenkel, Integrating and Rejuvenating Old and New Gems, In Language, Culture, Computation, Essayss Dedicated to Yaacov Choueka on the Occasion of His 75th Birthday, Part I, pp. 37--49, Springer, 2014.
A. Fink, A.S. Fraenkel and C. Santos, Lim Is not Slim, Internat. J. Game Theory (2014) 43:269-281 DOI 10.1007/s00182-013-0380-z http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00182-013-0380-z#page-1.
A.S. Fraenkel, Beating Your Fractional Beatty Game Opponent and: What's the Question to Your Answer? , in: Advances in Combinatorics, in Memory of Herbert S. Wilf, Proc. Waterloo Workshop on Computer Algebra, I.S. Kotsireas and E.V. Zima, eds., May 2011, pp. 175-186, Springer 2013.
A.S. Fraenkel and Y. Tanny, A Class of Wythoff-Like Games , Proc. INTEGERS Conference, Carrollton, Georgia, Oct. 26-29, 2011, in: INTEGERS, Electr. J. Combinat. Number Theory 12(B) (2013) #A7, 18pp. Also in Combinatorial Number Theory, pp. 91-107, de Gruyter 2013. [Archive of INTEGERS.]
A.S. Fraenkel, Ratwyt, In memory of Martin Gardner, The College Math. J., March 2012, pp. 160-164.
A.S. Fraenkel, The vile, dopey, evil and odious game players, Discrete Math. 312 (2012) 42-46, special volume in honor of the 80th birthday of Gert Sabidussi.
A.S. Fraenkel, Aperiodic subtraction games, Electronic J. Combinatorics vol. 18(2) P19 12pp., 2011. http://www.combinatorics.org/Journal/journalhome.html
S. Blanco and A.S. Fraenkel, Tromping Games: Tiling with Trominoes, Proc. INTEGERS Conference, in honor of the birthdays of Melvyn Nathanson and Carl Pomerance, Carrollton, Georgia, Oct. 14-17, 2009, in: INTEGERS, Electr. J. Combinat. Number Theory 11(A) (2011) #6, 29pp.
U. Larsson, P. Hegarty and A.S. Fraenkel, Invariant and dual subtraction games resolving the Duchene-Rigo conjecture, Theoretical Computer Science 412 (2011), 729-735.
A.S. Fraenkel, From enmity to amity. Amer. Math. Monthly 117 (2010), 646--648.
A.S. Fraenkel, Complementary Iterated Floor Words and the Flora Game. SIAM J. on Discrete Math 24 (2010), 570--588.
E. Duchene, A.S. Fraenkel, R.J. Nowakowski and M. Rigo, Extensions and restrictions of Wythoff's game preserving its P-positions. J. Combinat. Theory A 117 (2010), 545--567.
J. Bell, E. Charlier, A.S. Fraenkel, M. Rigo, A decision problem for ultimately periodic sets in non-standard numeration systems. Internat. J. Algebra Computat 19 (2009), 6, 809--839.
A.S. Fraenkel and E. Reisner, The game of End-Wythoff, in Games of No Chance 3, Proc. BIRS Workshop on Combinatorial Games, July 2005, Banff, Alberta, Canada, MSRI Publ. (M.H. Albert and R.J. Nowakowski, eds.), Vol. 56, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 329-347, 2009.
A.S. Fraenkel, The cyclic Butler University game, in: Mathematical Wizardry for a Gardner (E. Pegg Jr, A.H. Schoen, and T. Rodgers, eds.), in honor of Martin Gardner, pp. 97-105, A K Peters, Natick, MA, 2009.
E. Duchene, A.S. Fraenkel, S. Gravier and R.J. Nowakowski, Another bridge between Nim and Wythoff, Australasian J. of Combinatorics 44 (2009), 43--56.
S. Artstein-Avidan, A.S. Fraenkel and V. Sos, A two-parameter family of an extension of Beatty sequences, Discrete Math 308 (2008) 4578-4588.
A.S. Fraenkel, Games played by Boole and Galois, Discrete Appl. Math., 156 (2008) 420-427.
P.J. Davis and A.S. Fraenkel, Remembering Philip Rabinowitz, Notices AMS 54 (2007) 1502-1506. Reprinted, with the permission of the AMS, in The Birth of Numerical Analysis (A. Bultheel, R. Cools, eds.) World Scientific (2009) 179-185.
A.S. Fraenkel, The Raleigh game. in: Combinatorial Number Theory, Proc. INTEGERS Conference 2005, in celebration of the 70th birthday of Ronald Graham, Carrollton, Georgia, Oct. 27-30, 2005; B. Landman, M. Nathanson, J. Nesetril, R. Nowakowski, C. Pomerance, eds., de Gruyter, pp. 199-208, 2007. Also appeared in INTEGERS, Electr. J. Combinat. Number Theory 7(2) (2007) #13, 11pp., special volume in honor of Ron Graham.
A.S. Fraenkel and A. Kontorovich, The Sierpinski sieve of Nim-varieties and binomial coefficients. in: Combinatorial Number Theory, Proc. Integers Conference 2005, in celebration of the 70th birthday of Ronald Graham, Carrollton, Georgia, Oct. 27-30, 2005; B. Landman, M. Nathanson, J. Nesetril, R. Nowakowski, C. Pomerance, eds., de Gruyter, pp. 209-227, 2007. Also appeared in INTEGERS, Electr. J. Combinat. Number Theory 7(2) (2007) #14, 19pp., special volume in honor of Ron Graham.
A.S. Fraenkel, Why are games exciting and stimulating?, Math Horizons February 2007, 5--7; 32--33. A German translation, by Niek Neuwahl, was poster-displayed at the ``Games & Science, Science & Games" exhibition, which took place in Goettingen, July 17 -- Aug 21, 2005. It was selected as runner up for an EMS Article Competition 2005 for the educated layman.
A.S. Fraenkel, Nim is easy, chess is hard --- but why??, J. Internat. Computer Games Assoc. 29 (2006) 203--2006. Earlier shorter version appeared in Plus Mag. (electronic) issue 40, pluschat section, Sept., 2006.
A.S. Fraenkel, Euclid and Wythoff games, Discrete Math. 304 (2005) 65--68.
Aviezri S. Fraenkel and Jamie Simpson, An extension of the periodicity lemma to longer periods, Discrete Appl. Math. 146 (2005) 146-155 (special issue of 12th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching). Preliminary version appeared in Proc. 12th Annual Sympos. Combinatorial Pattern Matching, Jerusalem, Israel, July 1--4, 2001 (A. Amir and G. M. Landau, eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, Berlin, pp. 98--105) (invited).
A.S. Fraenkel, New games related to old and new sequences. INTEGERS, Electronic J. Combinat. Number Theory 4 (2004) #G06, 18pp. http://www.integers-ejcnt.org . First version appeared in Advances in Computer Games, Proc. 10-th Advances in Computer Games Conference (ACG-10), Nov. 2003, Graz, Austria (H.J. van den Herik, H. Iida, E.A. Heinz, eds.), pp. 367--382, Kluwer.
A.S. Fraenkel, Complexity, appeal and challenges of combinatorial games, Expanded version of a keynote address at Dagstuhl Seminar Feb.~17--22, 2002, Theoretical Computer Science 313 (2004) 393-415, special issue on Algorithmic Combinatorial Game Theory.
S.P. Fekete, R. Fleischer, A.S. Fraenkel and M. Schmitt, Traveling salesmen in the presence of competition, Theoretical Computer Science 313 (2004) 377-392, special issue on Algorithmic Combinatorial Game Theory.
E.D. Demaine, R. Fleischer, A.S. Fraenkel and R.J. Nowakowski, Open problems at the 2002 Dagstuhl Seminar on Algorithmic combinatorial game theory, Theoretical Computer Science 313 (2004) 539-543, special issue on Algorithmic Combinatorial Game Theory (Appendix B).
A.S. Fraenkel and Dalia Krieger, The structure of complementary sets of integers: a 3-shift theorem, Internat. J. Pure and Appl. Math. 10 (2004) 1--49.
Aviezri S. Fraenkel and Ofer Rahat, Complexity of error-correcting codes derived from combinatorial games, Proc. Intern. Conference on Computers and Games CG'2002, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, July 2002 (Y. Bj\"{o}rnsson, M.\ M\"{u}ller, J. Schaeffer, eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science LNCS 2883, pp. 201--212, Springer 2003.
Aviezri S. Fraenkel, Jamie Simpson and Mike Paterson, On abelian circular squares in binary words. In: Paul Erdos and his Mathematics II, Bolyai Soc., Mathematical Studies 11, Budapest 2002, pp. 329--338. An earlier version entitled ``On weak circular squares in binary words'' appeared in Proc. 8th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching, Aarhus, Denmark, June 30--July 2, 1997 (A. Apostolico and J. Hein, eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, Berlin, pp. 76--82).
A.S. Fraenkel, Two-player games on cellular automata, in More Games of No Chance, Proc. MSRI Workshop on Combinatorial Games, July 10--28, 2000, Berkeley, CA (R. J. Nowakowski, ed.), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, Vol. 42, 2002, pp. 279--306.
A.S. Fraenkel, Arrays, numeration systems and Frankenstein games, Theoretical Computer Science 282 (2002) 271--284 (special "FUN in Algorithms" issue).
A.S. Fraenkel, Mathematical Chats Between Two Physicists, in Puzzlers' Tribute: A Feast for the Mind, honoring Martin Gardner (D. Wolfe and T. Rodgers, eds.), A K Peters, 2002, pp. 315--325.
A.S. Fraenkel, Virus versus mankind, in: Proc. 2nd Intern. Conference on Computer Games CG'2000, Hamamatsu, Japan, Oct. 2000, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer (T. Marsland, I. Frank, eds.), 2001, pp. 204--213.
A.S. Fraenkel, T. Seeman and J. Simpson The subword complexity of a two-parameter family of sequences, Electronic J. Combinatorics vol. 8(2) R10, 2001 http://www.combinatorics.org/Journal/journalhome.html
A.S. Fraenkel, A Selection Of Mathematical Board Games, Abstract Presented at Board Games in Academia III, Florence, April 12--15, 1999. Proceedings Board Games in Academia III, pp. 46--67.
A.S. Fraenkel and D. Zusman, A New Heap Game, Theoretical Computer Science 252 (2001) 5--12 (special "Computers and Games issue"). Initial version appeared in Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1558, Proc. 1-st Intern. Conference on Computer Games, Tsukuba, Japan, Nov. 1998, pp. 205--211, 1999.
A.S. Fraenkel and O. Rahat, Infinite cyclic impartial games, Theoretical Computer Science 252 (2001) 13-22 (special "Computers and Games issue"). Initial version appeared in Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1558, Proc. 1-st Intern. Conference on Computer Games, Tsukuba, Japan, Nov. 1998, pp. 212--221, 1999.
A.S. Fraenkel, Recent results and questions in combinatorial game complexities, Expanded version of invited lecture at Ninth Australasian Workshop on Combinatorial Algorithms, Perth, Western Australia, 27---30 July 1998, Theoret. Comput. Sci. 249 (2000) 265--288. Conference version in: Proc. AWOCA98 --- Ninth Australasian Workshop on Combinatorial Algorithms, (C.S. Iliopoulos, ed.), pp. 124--146.
A.S. Fraenkel, On the recurrence f(m+1)=b(m)f(m)-f(m-1) and applications, Discrete Mathematics 224 (2000) 273--279 (Note).
A.S. Fraenkel and S.T. Klein, Information retrieval from annotated texts, J. Amer. Soc. for Information Sciences 50 (1999) 845--854.
A.S. Fraenkel and Jamie Simpson, The exact number of squares in Fibonacci words, Theoret. Comput. Sci. 218 (1999) 95--106 (special Words issue).
A.S. Fraenkel, Protein folding, spin glass and computational complexity, Expanded form of invited paper presented at DNA Based Computers III, Proc. DIMACS Workshop (H. Rubin and D. H. Wood, Eds.), June 23--25, 1997, University of Pennsylvania, DIMACS Series in Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science Vol. 48, AMS, 1999, pp. 101--121.
A.S. Fraenkel, Heap games, numeration systems and sequences, Annals of Combinatorics 2 (1998) 197--210.
U.Blass, A.S. Fraenkel and R. Guelman, How far can Nim in disguise be stretched?, J. Combin. Theory (Ser. A) 84 (1998) 145--156.
A.S. Fraenkel, The Responsa storage and retrieval system---whither? The Hebrew version: Proyect hashut: avar, hoveh---v'gam atid? appeared in Dinei Yisrael 19 (1997-98) 253--270.
A.S. Fraenkel and Michal Ozery, Adjoining to Wythoff's game its P-positions as moves, Theoretical Computer Science 205 (1998) 283--296.
A.S. Fraenkel, Multivision: a game of arbitrarily long play, Amer. Math. Monthly 105 (1998) 923--928.
A.S. Fraenkel and Jamie Simpson, How many squares can a string contain? J. Combin. Theory Ser. A 82 (1998) 112--120. Errata: In Table 1, the number of maximal words (last column) should be 6 and 72 for n=3 and n=12 respectively. These corrections do not otherwise affect the results of the paper. We thank Troy Vasiga for pointing out the first of these typos.
A.S. Fraenkel, Combinatorial game theory foundations applied to digraph kernels , Electronic J. of Combinatorics 4(2) (1997) R10, 17pp. (Wilf Festschrift).