| 2010 | CIKM | Search for patents using treatment and causal relationships. | Ashwathi Krishnan, Alfonso F. Cardenas, Derek Springer |
| 2008 | CIKM | Automatic detection of treatment relationships for patent retrieval. | Aaron Chu, Shigeyuki Sakurai, Alfonso F. Cardenas |
| 2007 | CIDM | iScore: Measuring the Interestingness of Articles in a Limited User Environment. | Raymond K. Pon, Alfonso F. Cardenas, David Buttler, Terence Critchlow |
| 2007 | KDD | Tracking multiple topics for finding interesting articles. | Raymond K. Pon, Alfonso F. Cardenas, David Buttler, Terence Critchlow |
| 2002 | AMIA | A context-sensitive methodology for automatic episode creation. | Roderick Y. Son, Ricky K. Taira, Alex A. T. Bui, Hooshang Kangarloo, Alfonso F. Cardenas |
| 1999 | AMIA | TimeLine: A Multimedia, Problem-Centric Visualization of Patient Records. | Alex A. T. Bui, Denise R. Aberle, Jonathan G. Goldin, Michael F. McNitt-Gray, Alfonso F. Cardenas, Eric Kleerup, Osman Ratib |
| 1998 | AMIA | The evolution of an integrated timeline for oncology patient healthcare. | Alex A. T. Bui, Denise R. Aberle, Michael F. McNitt-Gray, Alfonso F. Cardenas, Jonathan G. Goldin |
| 1997 | ISMIS | Knowledge-Based Image Retrieval with Spatial and Temporal Constructs. | Wesley W. Chu, Alfonso F. Cardenas, Ricky K. Taira |
| 1987 | ICDE | Generalized Pictorial Data Management. | Alfonso F. Cardenas |
| 1985 | ER | Translation of SQL/DS Data Access/Update into Entity-Relationship Data Access/Update. | Alfonso F. Cardenas, George R. Wang |
| 1984 | ICDE | On the Effectiveness of Fault-Tolerance Techniques in Parallel Associative Database Processors. | Algirdas Avizienis, Alfonso F. Cardenas, Farid Alavian |
| 1983 | SIGMOD | Remotely-Sensed Geophysical Databases: Experience and Implications for Generalized DBMS. | Guy M. Lohman, Joseph C. Stoltzfus, Anita N. Benson, Michael D. Martin, Alfonso F. Cardenas |
| 1979 | ER | The E-R Model in a Heterogeneous Data Base Management System Network Architecture. | Alfonso F. Cardenas, Mir Hamid Pirahesh |
| 1979 | VLDB | Some Very Large Data Bases in Developing Countries. | Sakti P. Ghosh, Alfonso F. Cardenas, Ignacio Mijares, Gio Wiederhold |
| 1976 | VLDB | An Approach to Data Communication between Different Generalized Data Base Management Systems. | E. Nahouraii, L. O. Brooks, Alfonso F. Cardenas |