| 2025 | GECCO | Interpreting Machine Learning Pipelines Produced by Evolutionary AutoML for Biochemical Property Prediction. | Alex G. C. de S, Gisele L. Pappa, Alex Alves Freitas, David B. Ascher |
| 2025 | SGAI | A New Longitudinal Classification Method Based on Stacking Predictions for Separate Time Points. | Simon Provost, Alex Alves Freitas |
| 2024 | SAC | A Genetic Algorithm-based Auto-ML System for Survival Analysis. | Tossapol Pomsuwan, Alex Alves Freitas |
| 2022 | GECCO | GA-auto-PU: a genetic algorithm-based automated machine learning system for positive-unlabeled learning. | Jack D. Saunders, Alex Alves Freitas |
| 2022 | PPSN | Fair Feature Selection with a Lexicographic Multi-objective Genetic Algorithm. | James Brookhouse, Alex Alves Freitas |
| 2022 | SAC | Nested trees for longitudinal classification. | Sergey Ovchinnik, Fernando E. B. Otero, Alex Alves Freitas |
| 2021 | ICDM | An Ensemble of Naive Bayes Classifiers for Uncertain Categorical Data. | Marcelo Rodrigues de Holanda Maia, Alexandre Plastino, Alex Alves Freitas |
| 2020 | ESANN | Adapting Random Forests to Cope with Heavily Censored Datasets in Survival Analysis. | Tossapol Pomsuwan, Alex Alves Freitas |
| 2020 | GECCO | A robust experimental evaluation of automated multi-label classification methods. | Alex Guimares Cardoso de S, Cristiano Guimares Pimenta, Gisele Lobo Pappa, Alex Alves Freitas |
| 2019 | SGAI | Monotonicity Detection and Enforcement in Longitudinal Classification. | Sergey Ovchinnik, Fernando E. B. Otero, Alex Alves Freitas |
| 2018 | CEC | A Survey of Genetic Algorithms for Multi-Label Classification. | Eduardo Corra Gonalves, Alex Alves Freitas, Alexandre Plastino |
| 2018 | PPSN | Automated Selection and Configuration of Multi-Label Classification Algorithms with Grammar-Based Genetic Programming. | Alex Guimares Cardoso de S, Alex Alves Freitas, Gisele L. Pappa |
| 2018 | SDM | A Novel Genetic Algorithm for Feature Selection in Hierarchical Feature Spaces. | Pablo Nascimento da Silva, Alexandre Plastino, Alex Alves Freitas |
| 2017 | GECCO | Towards a method for automatically selecting and configuring multi-label classification algorithms. | Alex Guimares Cardoso de S, Gisele L. Pappa, Alex Alves Freitas |
| 2017 | ICDM | Feature Selection for the Classification of Longitudinal Human Ageing Data. | Tossapol Pomsuwan, Alex Alves Freitas |
| 2016 | CEC | Feature engineering for improving financial derivatives-based rainfall prediction. | Sam Cramer, Michael Kampouridis, Alex Alves Freitas |
| 2016 | GECCO | A Genetic Decomposition Algorithm for Predicting Rainfall within Financial Weather Derivatives. | Sam Cramer, Michael Kampouridis, Alex Alves Freitas |
| 2015 | BIBE | A hierarchical neural network for predicting protein functions. | Jlio Csar Nievola, Emerson Cabrera Paraiso, Alex Alves Freitas |
| 2015 | ESANN | A new genetic algorithm for multi-label correlation-based feature selection. | Suwimol Jungjit, Alex Alves Freitas |
| 2015 | GECCO | Simpler is Better: a Novel Genetic Algorithm to Induce Compact Multi-label Chain Classifiers. | Eduardo Corra Gonalves, Alexandre Plastino, Alex Alves Freitas |
| 2015 | GECCO | A Lexicographic Multi-Objective Genetic Algorithm for Multi-Label Correlation Based Feature Selection. | Suwimol Jungjit, Alex Alves Freitas |
| 2015 | ICTAI | A Novel Extended Hierarchical Dependence Network Method Based on Non-hierarchical Predictive Classes and Applications to Ageing-Related Data. | Fabio Fabris, Alex Alves Freitas |
| 2014 | CIBCB | Extending multi-label feature selection with KEGG pathway information for microarray data analysis. | Suwimol Jungjit, Martin Michaelis, Alex Alves Freitas, Jindrich Cinatl |
| 2014 | CIDM | Dependency network methods for Hierarchical Multi-label Classification of gene functions. | Fabio Fabris, Alex Alves Freitas |
| 2014 | GECCO | Evolving relational hierarchical classification rules for predicting gene ontology-based protein functions. | Ricardo Cerri, Rodrigo C. Barros, Alex Alves Freitas, Andr Carlos Ponce de Leon Ferreira de Carvalho |
| 2013 | CEC | A grammatical evolution algorithm for generation of Hierarchical Multi-Label Classification rules. | Ricardo Cerri, Rodrigo C. Barros, Andr Carlos Ponce de Leon Ferreira de Carvalho, Alex Alves Freitas |
| 2013 | CEC | Investigating the impact of various classification quality measures in the predictive accuracy of ABC-Miner. | Khalid M. Salama, Alex Alves Freitas |
| 2013 | CEC | Clustering-based Bayesian Multi-net Classifier construction with Ant Colony Optimization. | Khalid M. Salama, Alex Alves Freitas |
| 2013 | DaWaK | An Extended Local Hierarchical Classifier for Prediction of Protein and Gene Functions. | Luiz Henrique de Campos Merschmann, Alex Alves Freitas |
| 2013 | GECCO | Improving the interpretability of classification rules discovered by an ant colony algorithm. | Fernando E. B. Otero, Alex Alves Freitas |
| 2013 | GECCO | Evaluating the use of different measure functions in the predictive quality of ABC-miner. | Khalid M. Salama, Alex Alves Freitas |
| 2013 | ICTAI | A Genetic Algorithm for Optimizing the Label Ordering in Multi-label Classifier Chains. | Eduardo Corra Gonalves, Alexandre Plastino, Alex Alves Freitas |
| 2013 | SMC | Two Extensions to Multi-label Correlation-Based Feature Selection: A Case Study in Bioinformatics. | Suwimol Jungjit, Martin Michaelis, Alex Alves Freitas, Jindrich Cinatl |
| 2012 | CEC | AutoClustering: An estimation of distribution algorithm for the automatic generation of clustering algorithms. | Aruanda Simes Goncalves Meiguins, Roberto Clio Limo de Oliveira, Bianchi Serique Meiguins, Samuel F. S. Junior, Alex Alves Freitas |
| 2012 | CEC | Evolving recursive programs using non-recursive scaffolding. | Alberto Moraglio, Fernando E. B. Otero, Colin G. Johnson, Simon J. Thompson, Alex Alves Freitas |
| 2012 | GECCO | A hyper-heuristic evolutionary algorithm for automatically designing decision-tree algorithms. | Rodrigo C. Barros, Mrcio P. Basgalupp, Andr Carlos Ponce de Leon Ferreira de Carvalho, Alex Alves Freitas |
| 2011 | GECCO | Towards the automatic design of decision tree induction algorithms. | Rodrigo C. Barros, Mrcio P. Basgalupp, Andr Carlos Ponce de Leon Ferreira de Carvalho, Alex Alves Freitas |
| 2011 | IJCNN | A hierarchical approach to represent relational data applied to clustering tasks. | Joo C. Xavier Junior, Anne M. P. Canuto, Alex Alves Freitas, Luiz M. G. Gonalves, Carlos Nascimento Silla Jr. |
| 2010 | GECCO | An estimation of distribution algorithm for the automatic generation of clustering algorithms. | Aruanda Simes Goncalves Meiguins, Alex Alves Freitas, Roberto Clio Limo de Oliveira, Samuel F. S. Junior, Bianchi Serique Meiguins |
| 2010 | ICMLC | Web log data clustering for a multi-agent recommendation system. | Joo Carlos Xavier Jr., Alex Alves Freitas, Anne M. P. Canuto, Luiz Marcos Gonalves |
| 2010 | SAC | Evolutionary model tree induction. | Rodrigo C. Barros, Mrcio P. Basgalupp, Duncan D. Ruiz, Andr Carlos Ponce de Leon Ferreira de Carvalho, Alex Alves Freitas |
| 2009 | CIDM | Handling continuous attributes in Ant Colony Classification algorithms. | Fernando E. B. Otero, Alex Alves Freitas, Colin G. Johnson |
| 2009 | ICCCI | A Hybrid Evolutionary Approach for the Protein Classification Problem. | Denise Fukumi Tsunoda, Heitor S. Lopes, Alex Alves Freitas |
| 2009 | ICDM | A Global-Model Naive Bayes Approach to the Hierarchical Prediction of Protein Functions. | Carlos Nascimento Silla Jr., Alex Alves Freitas |
| 2009 | ISDA | MAHATMA: A Genetic Programming-Based Tool for Protein Classification. | Denise Fukumi Tsunoda, Alex Alves Freitas, Heitor S. Lopes |
| 2009 | SMC | Novel Top-Down Approaches for Hierarchical Classification and Their Application to Automatic Music Genre Classification. | Carlos Nascimento Silla Jr., Alex Alves Freitas |
| 2009 | SAC | LEGAL-tree: a lexicographic multi-objective genetic algorithm for decision tree induction. | Mrcio P. Basgalupp, Rodrigo C. Barros, Andr Carlos Ponce de Leon Ferreira de Carvalho, Alex Alves Freitas, Duncan D. Ruiz |
| 2009 | SDM | A Hybrid Data Mining Metaheuristic for the p-Median Problem. | Alexandre Plastino, Erick R. Fonseca, Richard Fuchshuber, Simone L. Martins, Alex Alves Freitas, Martino Luis, Sad Salhi |
| 2007 | CEC | WAIRS: improving classification accuracy by weighting attributes in the AIRS classifier. | Andrew Secker, Alex Alves Freitas |
| 2007 | GECCO | Particle swarm and bayesian networks applied to attribute selection for protein functional classification. | Elon Santos Correa, Alex Alves Freitas, Colin G. Johnson |
| 2007 | GECCO | A hybrid PSO/ACO algorithm for classification. | Nicholas Holden, Alex Alves Freitas |
| 2007 | GECCO | Induction of fuzzy rules with artificial immune systems in acgh based er status breast cancer characterization. | Filippo Menolascina, Roberto Teixeira Alves, Stefania Tommasi, Patrizia Chiarappa, Myriam Regattieri Delgado, Giuseppe Mastronardi, Angelo Paradiso, Alex Alves Freitas, Vitoantonio Bevilacqua |
| 2007 | ISDA | EDACluster: an Evolutionary Density and Grid-Based Clustering Algorithm. | Csar S. de Oliveira, Paulo Igor Alves Godinho, Aruanda Simes Goncalves Meiguins, Bianchi Serique Meiguins, Alex Alves Freitas |
| 2007 | KES | Fuzzy Rule Induction and Artificial Immune Systems in Female Breast Cancer Familiarity Profiling. | Filippo Menolascina, Roberto Teixeira Alves, Stefania Tommasi, Patrizia Chiarappa, Myriam Regattieri Delgado, Vitoantonio Bevilacqua, Giuseppe Mastronardi, Alex Alves Freitas, Angelo Paradiso |
| 2006 | GECCO | A new ant colony algorithm for multi-label classification with applications in bioinfomatics. | Allen Chan, Alex Alves Freitas |
| 2006 | GECCO | A new discrete particle swarm algorithm applied to attribute selection in a bioinformatics data set. | Elon Santos Correa, Alex Alves Freitas, Colin G. Johnson |
| 2006 | GECCO | Estimating photometric redshifts with genetic algorithms. | Nick Miles, Alex Alves Freitas, Stephen Serjeant |
| 2006 | GECCO | A new version of the ant-miner algorithm discovering unordered rule sets. | James Smaldon, Alex Alves Freitas |
| 2006 | SGAI | The Integration of Heterogeneous Biological Data using Bayesian Networks. | Ken Mcflarry, Nick Morris, Alex Alves Freitas |
| 2006 | SGAI | Estimating Photometric Redshifts Using Genetic Algorithms. | Nicholas Miles, Alex Alves Freitas, Stephen Serjeant |
| 2006 | SGAI | Improving the Interpretability of Classification Rules in Sparse Bioinformatics Datasets. | James Smaldon, Alex Alves Freitas |
| 2005 | ECCB | Predicting post-synaptic activity in proteins with data mining. | Gisele L. Pappa, Anthony J. Baines, Alex Alves Freitas |
| 2004 | PPSN | An Artificial Immune System for Fuzzy-Rule Induction in Data Mining. | Roberto Teixeira Alves, Myriam Regattieri Delgado, Heitor S. Lopes, Alex Alves Freitas |
| 2004 | PPSN | Web Page Classification with an Ant Colony Algorithm. | Nicholas Holden, Alex Alves Freitas |
| 2003 | CEC | AISEC: an artificial immune system for e-mail classification. | Andrew Secker, Alex Alves Freitas, Jon Timmis |
| 2003 | EUROGP | An Innovative Application of a Constrained-Syntax Genetic Programming System to the Problem of Predicting Survival of Patients. | Celia C. Bojarczuk, Heitor S. Lopes, Alex Alves Freitas |
| 2003 | EUROGP | Genetic Programming for Attribute Construction in Data Mining. | Fernando E. B. Otero, Monique M. S. Silva, Alex Alves Freitas, Jlio C. Nievola |
| 2002 | GECCO | A Genetic Algorithm With Sequential Niching For Discovering Small-disjunct Rules. | Deborah R. Carvalho, Alex Alves Freitas |
| 2002 | GECCO | Constructing X-of-n Attributes With A Genetic Algorithm. | Otavio Larsen, Alex Alves Freitas, Jlio C. Nievola |
| 2002 | GECCO | Constructing X-of-N Attributes with a Genetic Algorithm. | Otavio Larsen, Alex Alves Freitas, Jlio C. Nievola |
| 2002 | GECCO | Genetic Programming For Attribute Construction In Data Mining. | Fernando E. B. Otero, Monique M. S. Silva, Alex Alves Freitas |
| 2002 | GECCO | Genetic Programming for Attribute Construction in Data Mining. | Fernando E. B. Otero, Monique M. S. Silva, Alex Alves Freitas |
| 2002 | GECCO | A Genetic Algorithm For Discovering Interesting Fuzzy Prediction Rules: Applications To Science And Technology Data. | Wesley Romo, Alex Alves Freitas, Roberto C. S. Pacheco |
| 2002 | SMC | Devising adaptive migration policies for cooperative distributed genetic algorithms. | Edgar Noda, Andr L. V. Coelho, Ivan L. M. Ricarte, Akebo Yamakami, Alex Alves Freitas |
| 2000 | CEC | Discovering comprehensible classification rules with a genetic algorithm. | M. V. Fidelis, Heitor S. Lopes, Alex Alves Freitas |
| 2000 | GECCO | A hybrid decision tree/genetic algorithm for coping with the problem of small disjuncts in data mining. | Deborah R. Carvalho, Alex Alves Freitas |
| 2000 | GECCO | Comparing a Genetic Algorithm with a Rule Induction Algorithm in the Data Mining Task of Dependence Modeling. | Edgar Noda, Alex Alves Freitas, Heitor S. Lopes |
| 1999 | GECCO | Discovering comprehensible classification rules by using Genetic Programming: a case study in a medical domain. | Celia C. Bojarczuk, Heitor S. Lopes, Alex Alves Freitas |