| 2026 | EvoCOP | Gray-Box Enhanced Decomposition-Based Local Search for Multi-objective NK-Landscapes. | Francesco Cecere, Bilel Derbel, Darrell Whitley, Surendra Kurivella |
| 2026 | EvoCOP | Gray-Box Bi-objective Boolean Optimization Using Deterministic Recombination with Iterated Local Search. | Surendra Kurivella, Darrell Whitley, Francisco Chicano, Gabriela Ochoa, Francesco Cecere, Bilel Derbel |
| 2026 | GECCO | Comparing to the Optimal Pareto Front: An Evaluation of Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithms for Boolean Functions. | Surendra Kurivella, Francisco Chicano, Darrell Whitley, Gabriela Ochoa, Bilel Derbel |
| 2026 | GECCO | Digging to the Ground Truth: Solving Multi-objective Gray-Box Optimization Problems through Hyperplane Elimination. | Carolin Mensendiek, Oliver Ludger Preu, Jeroen Rook, Francisco Chicano, Darrell Whitley, Heike Trautmann |
| 2026 | GECCO | Efficient deterministic crossover, and the periodicity of local optima under recombination. | Darrell Whitley |
| 2026 | GECCO | Evolutionary Tunneling and Periodicity Across the Big Valley Distribution. | Darrell Whitley, Gabriela Ochoa, Francisco Chicano |
| 2026 | PPSN | Efficient AB-Cycle Fusion: Boosting GPX and Assessing Its Impact on EAX. | Jonathan Heins, Pascal Kerschke, Darrell Whitley |
| 2026 | PPSN | Efficient Multi-child Recombination for Bi-objective NK Landscapes: A Comparison to Exact Pareto Fronts. | Surendra Kurivella, Francisco Chicano, Darrell Whitley, Francesco Cecere, Bilel Derbel |
| 2025 | FOGA | Clearing the Combinatorial Fog: Tracing the Hidden Paths of TSP Heuristics. | Jonathan Heins, Sebastian Dengel, Darrell Whitley, Pascal Kerschke |
| 2025 | GECCO | Dramatically Faster Partition Crossover for the Traveling Salesman Problem. | Ozeas Quevedo de Carvalho, Darrell Whitley |
| 2025 | GECCO | To Repair or Not to Repair? Investigating the Importance of AB-Cycles for the State-of-the-Art TSP Heuristic EAX. | Jonathan Heins, Darrell Whitley, Pascal Kerschke |
| 2025 | GECCO | How Partition Crossover Exposes Parallel Lattices and the Fractal Structure of k-Bounded Functions. | Darrell Whitley, Gabriela Ochoa, Francisco Chicano |
| 2024 | EvoCOP | Reduction-Based MAX-3SAT with Low Nonlinearity and Lattices Under Recombination. | Darrell Whitley, Gabriela Ochoa, Noah Floyd, Francisco Chicano |
| 2024 | PPSN | Generalizing and Unifying Gray-Box Combinatorial Optimization Operators. | Francisco Chicano, Darrell Whitley, Gabriela Ochoa, Renato Tins |
| 2024 | PPSN | Dancing to the State of the Art? - How Candidate Lists Influence LKH for Solving the Traveling Salesperson Problem. | Jonathan Heins, Lennart Schpermeier, Pascal Kerschke, Darrell Whitley |
| 2024 | PPSN | Satellite Resource Scheduling: Compaction Strategies for Genetic Algorithm Schedulers. | Darrell Whitley, Ozeas Quevedo de Carvalho, Mark Roberts, Vivint Shetty, Piyabutra Jampathom |
| 2024 | PPSN | Over Sampling Local Optima: Selection and Sampling Bias in Hybrid Genetic Algorithms. | Darrell Whitley, Gabriela Ochoa, Francisco Chicano |
| 2023 | FOGA | Partition Crossover can Linearize Local Optima Lattices of k-bounded Pseudo-Boolean Functions. | Darrell Whitley, Gabriela Ochoa, Francisco Chicano |
| 2023 | GECCO | Genetic Algorithm with Linkage Learning. | Renato Tins, Michal Przewozniczek, Darrell Whitley, Francisco Chicano |
| 2023 | GECCO | Sparse Mutation Decompositions: Fine Tuning Deep Neural Networks with Subspace Evolution. | Tim Whitaker, Darrell Whitley |
| 2023 | GECCO | Evolutionary Computation and Tunneling at the Edge of Quantum Computing. | Darrell Whitley |
| 2023 | GECCO | Scheduling Multi-Resource Satellites using Genetic Algorithms and Permutation Based Representations. | Darrell Whitley, Ozeas Quevedo de Carvalho, Mark Roberts, Vivint Shetty, Piyabutra Jampathom |
| 2023 | IJCNN | Synaptic Stripping: How Pruning Can Bring Dead Neurons Back to Life. | Tim Whitaker, Darrell Whitley |
| 2023 | IJCNN | Interpretable Diversity Analysis: Visualizing Feature Representations in Low-Cost Ensembles. | Tim Whitaker, Darrell Whitley |
| 2022 | AAAI | Prune and Tune Ensembles: Low-Cost Ensemble Learning with Sparse Independent Subnetworks. | Tim Whitaker, Darrell Whitley |
| 2022 | GECCO | Reducing the cost of partition crossover on large MAXSAT problems: the PX-preprocessor. | Preston Dunton, Darrell Whitley |
| 2022 | GECCO | Exploring the decision and objective space of SAT constrained multi-objective problems. | Felipe Honjo Ide, Hernn E. Aguirre, Minami Miyakawa, Darrell Whitley |
| 2022 | GECCO | Iterated local search with perturbation based on variables interaction for pseudo-boolean optimization. | Renato Tins, Michal Witold Przewozniczek, Darrell Whitley |
| 2022 | GECCO | Graybox optimization and next generation genetic algorithms. | Darrell Whitley |
| 2022 | GECCO | Local optima organize into lattices under recombination: an example using the traveling salesman problem. | Darrell Whitley, Gabriela Ochoa |
| 2021 | GECCO | Partition crossover for continuous optimization: ePX. | Renato Tins, Darrell Whitley, Francisco Chicano, Gabriela Ochoa |
| 2021 | GECCO | A parallel ensemble genetic algorithm for the traveling salesman problem. | Swetha Varadarajan, Darrell Whitley |
| 2021 | GECCO | Theoretical foundations of evolutionary computation for beginners and veterans. | Darrell Whitley |
| 2021 | GECCO | Quadratization of gray coded representations, long path problems and needle functions. | Darrell Whitley, Francisco Chicano, Hernn E. Aguirre |
| 2020 | PPSN | On the Design of a Partition Crossover for the Quadratic Assignment Problem. | Omar Abdelkafi, Bilel Derbel, Arnaud Liefooghe, Darrell Whitley |
| 1999 | CEC | Fast and accurate feature selection using hybrid genetic strategies. | Cesar Guerra-Salcedo, Stephen Chen, Darrell Whitley, Stephen F. Smith |