| 2009 | PDPTA | Scalable, Parallel, and Distributed Approximate Shortest Paths in Massive Graphs. | Arthur W. Mahoney, Greg Newby, Daniel W. Watson |
| 2009 | PDPTA | Parallel Flow-Direction and Contributing Area Calculation for Hydrology Analysis in Digital Elevation Models. | Chase Wallis, Daniel W. Watson, David G. Tarboton, Robert M. Wallace |
| 2006 | PDPTA | Path Planning for Altruistically Negotiating Systems: The Near-Sighted Tarzan Algorithm. | Arthur W. Mahoney, Daniel W. Watson |
| 1997 | PDPTA | An Efficient Scalable Ray Tracing Algorithm for General Purpose SIMD Parallel Machines. | Sandeep V. Kharkar, Daniel W. Watson, Larre N. Egbert |
| 1996 | ICPP | A Massively Parallel SIMD Algorithm for Combinatorial Optimization. | Ranjit A. Henry, Nicholas S. Flann, Daniel W. Watson |
| 1996 | PDPTA | Generational Scheduling for Heterogeneous Computing System. | Richard F. Freund, Brent R. Carter, Daniel W. Watson, Elaine G. Keith, Francesca Mirabile |
| 1991 | COMPSAC | Aspects of mapping tasks onto parallel processing systems. | Howard Jay Siegel, James B. Armstrong, Daniel W. Watson, Wayne G. Nation, Mark Allemang |