| 2026 | ACL | Mechanistic Interpretability of Text-to-Image Diffusion Models via Cross-Attention Interventions. | Maisha Maliha, Dean F. Hougen |
| 2026 | CoNLL | Logic-Level Evaluation of Logical Table-to-Text Generation. | Lena Trigg, Dean F. Hougen, Ahsan Bilal |
| 2025 | IJCNLP | Logical Table-to-Text Generation: Challenges, Methods, and Reasoning. | Lena Trigg, Dean F. Hougen |
| 2020 | ICMLA | Districts by Demographics: Predicting U.S. House of Representative Elections using Machine Learning and Demographic Data. | Britt Richardson, Dean F. Hougen |
| 2012 | ALIFE | Sexual Selection, Resource Distribution, and Population Size in Synthetic Sympatric Speciation. | Mark Woehrer, Dean F. Hougen, Ingo Schlupp |
| 2010 | GECCO | Phenotype feedback genetic algorithm operators for heuristic encoding of snakes within hypercubes. | Benjamin P. Carlson, Dean F. Hougen |
| 2010 | GECCO | Applying the triple parameter hypothesis to maintenance scheduling. | John Crofford, Brent E. Eskridge, Dean F. Hougen |
| 2009 | GECCO | Three interconnected parameters for genetic algorithms. | Pedro A. Diaz-Gomez, Dean F. Hougen |
| 2009 | GECCO | Using action abstraction to evolve effective controllers. | Brent E. Eskridge, Dean F. Hougen |
| 2009 | GECCO | Elitism, fitness, and growth. | Gerardo Gonzalez, Dean F. Hougen |
| 2008 | GECCO | Is "best-so-far" a good algorithmic performance metric? | Nathaniel P. Troutman, Brent E. Eskridge, Dean F. Hougen |
| 2006 | AAAI | A Benchmark for Cooperative Learning Agents. | Jason M. Black, Dean F. Hougen |
| 2006 | CEC | An Analysis of Memetic Crossover's Impact on a Population. | Brent E. Eskridge, Dean F. Hougen |
| 2006 | GECCO | The snake in the box problem: mathematical conjecture and a genetic algorithm approach. | Pedro A. Diaz-Gomez, Dean F. Hougen |
| 2006 | SNPD | Genetic Algorithms for Hunting Snakes in Hypercubes: Fitness Function Analysis and Open Questions. | Pedro A. Diaz-Gomez, Dean F. Hougen |
| 2005 | FlAIRS | Analysis of an Off-Line Intrusion Detection System: A Case Study in Multi-Objective Genetic Algorithms. | Pedro A. Diaz-Gomez, Dean F. Hougen |
| 2005 | GECCO | Analysis and mathematical justification of a fitness function used in an intrusion detection system. | Pedro A. Diaz-Gomez, Dean F. Hougen |
| 2004 | CEC | Imitating success: a memetic crossover operator for genetic programming. | Brent E. Eskridge, Dean F. Hougen |
| 2004 | GECCO | Memetic Crossover for Genetic Programming: Evolution Through Imitation. | Brent E. Eskridge, Dean F. Hougen |
| 2001 | IROS | Effects of limited bandwidth communications channels on the control of multiple robots. | Paul E. Rybski, Sascha Stoeter, Maria L. Gini, Dean F. Hougen, Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos |
| 2000 | ICML | An Integrated Connectionist Approach to Reinforcement Learning for Robotic Control. | Dean F. Hougen, Maria L. Gini, James R. Slagle |
| 2000 | ICRA | A Miniature Robotic System for Reconnaissance and Surveillance. | Dean F. Hougen, Saifallah Benjaafar, Jordan Bonney, John Budenske, Mark Dvorak, Maria L. Gini, Howard French, Donald G. Krantz, Perry Y. Li, Fred Malver, Bradley J. Nelson, Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos, Paul E. Rybski, Sascha Stoeter, Richard M. Voyles, Kemal Berk Yesin |
| 2000 | SMC | Nomadic routing applications for wireless networking in a team of miniature robots. | John R. Budenske, Jordan Bonney, Atiq Ahamad, Ranga S. Ramanujan, Dean F. Hougen, Nikos Papanikolopoulos |
| 1997 | ICRA | Rapid unsupervised connectionist learning for backing a robot with two trailers. | Dean F. Hougen, Maria L. Gini, James R. Slagle |
| 1996 | ICRA | Fast connectionist learning for trailer backing using a real robot. | Dean F. Hougen, John Fischer, Maria L. Gini, James R. Slagle |