| 2026 | GECCO | Model-Based Evolutionary Algorithms. | Dirk Thierens, Peter A. N. Bosman |
| 2025 | FOGA | Conditional Direct Empirical Linkage Discovery for Solving Multi-Structured Problems. | Michal Witold Przewozniczek, Peter A. N. Bosman, Anton Bouter, Arthur Guijt, Marcin M. Komarnicki, Dirk Thierens |
| 2025 | GECCO | The Pitfalls and Potentials of Adding Gene-invariance to Optimal Mixing. | Anton Bouter, Dirk Thierens, Peter A. N. Bosman |
| 2025 | GECCO | Model-Based Evolutionary Algorithms. | Dirk Thierens, Peter A. N. Bosman |
| 2024 | GECCO | Exploring the Search Space of Neural Network Combinations obtained with Efficient Model Stitching. | Arthur Guijt, Dirk Thierens, Tanja Alderliesten, Peter A. N. Bosman |
| 2024 | GECCO | Model-Based Evolutionary Algorithms. | Dirk Thierens, Peter A. N. Bosman |
| 2023 | GECCO | The Impact of Asynchrony on Parallel Model-Based EAs. | Arthur Guijt, Dirk Thierens, Tanja Alderliesten, Peter A. N. Bosman |
| 2023 | GECCO | Model-Based Evolutionary Algorithms. | Dirk Thierens, Peter A. N. Bosman |
| 2022 | GECCO | Solving multi-structured problems by introducing linkage kernels into GOMEA. | Arthur Guijt, Dirk Thierens, Tanja Alderliesten, Peter A. N. Bosman |
| 2022 | GECCO | Model-based evolutionary algorithms: GECCO 2022 tutorial. | Dirk Thierens, Peter A. N. Bosman |
| 2021 | GECCO | Benchmark generator for TD Mk landscapes. | Tobias van Driessel, Dirk Thierens |
| 2021 | GECCO | Hybrid linkage learning for permutation optimization with Gene-pool optimal mixing evolutionary algorithms. | Michal Witold Przewozniczek, Marcin M. Komarnicki, Peter A. N. Bosman, Dirk Thierens, Bartosz Frej, Ngoc Hoang Luong |
| 2021 | GECCO | Optimization of multi-objective mixed-integer problems with a model-based evolutionary algorithm in a black-box setting. | Krzysztof L. Sadowski, Dirk Thierens, Peter A. N. Bosman |
| 2021 | GECCO | Model-based evolutionary algorithms. | Dirk Thierens, Peter A. N. Bosman |
| 2021 | GECCO | A benchmark generator of tree decomposition Mk landscapes. | Dirk Thierens, Tobias van Driessel |
| 2020 | GECCO | Model-based evolutionary algorithms: GECCO 2020 tutorial. | Dirk Thierens, Peter A. N. Bosman |
| 2019 | GECCO | Model-based evolutionary algorithms. | Dirk Thierens, Peter A. N. Bosman |
| 2019 | GECCO | Investigation of the traveling thief problem. | Rogier Hans Wuijts, Dirk Thierens |
| 2018 | GECCO | Real-valued evolutionary multi-modal optimization driven by hill-valley clustering. | S. C. Maree, Tanja Alderliesten, Dirk Thierens, Peter A. N. Bosman |
| 2018 | GECCO | Learning bayesian network structures with GOMEA. | Kalia Orphanou, Dirk Thierens, Peter A. N. Bosman |
| 2018 | GECCO | Model-based evolutionary algorithms: GECCO 2018 tutorial. | Dirk Thierens, Peter A. N. Bosman |
| 2018 | PPSN | Heuristics in Permutation GOMEA for Solving the Permutation Flowshop Scheduling Problem. | G. H. Aalvanger, Ngoc Hoang Luong, Peter A. N. Bosman, Dirk Thierens |
| 2017 | GECCO | Niching an estimation-of-distribution algorithm by hierarchical Gaussian mixture learning. | S. C. Maree, Tanja Alderliesten, Dirk Thierens, Peter A. N. Bosman |
| 2017 | GECCO | Exploring trade-offs between target coverage, healthy tissue sparing, and the placement of catheters in HDR brachytherapy for prostate cancer using a novel multi-objective model-based mixed-integer evolutionary algorithm. | Krzysztof L. Sadowski, Marjolein C. van der Meer, Ngoc Hoang Luong, Tanja Alderliesten, Dirk Thierens, Rob van der Laarse, Yury Niatsetski, Arjan Bel, Peter A. N. Bosman |
| 2017 | GECCO | Model-based evolutionary algorithms: GECCO 2017 tutorial. | Dirk Thierens, Peter A. N. Bosman |
| 2016 | CEC | Learning and exploiting mixed variable dependencies with a model-based EA. | Krzysztof L. Sadowski, Peter A. N. Bosman, Dirk Thierens |
| 2016 | GECCO | Expanding from Discrete Cartesian to Permutation Gene-pool Optimal Mixing Evolutionary Algorithms. | Peter A. N. Bosman, Ngoc Hoang Luong, Dirk Thierens |
| 2016 | GECCO | Model-Based Evolutionary Algorithms. | Dirk Thierens, Peter A. N. Bosman |
| 2016 | PPSN | The Multiple Insertion Pyramid: A Fast Parameter-Less Population Scheme. | Willem den Besten, Dirk Thierens, Peter A. N. Bosman |
| 2015 | GECCO | In Search of Optimal Linkage Trees. | Roy de Bokx, Dirk Thierens, Peter A. N. Bosman |
| 2015 | GECCO | A Clustering-Based Model-Building EA for Optimization Problems with Binary and Real-Valued Variables. | Krzysztof L. Sadowski, Peter A. N. Bosman, Dirk Thierens |
| 2015 | GECCO | Model-Based Evolutionary Algorithms. | Dirk Thierens, Peter A. N. Bosman |
| 2014 | GECCO | Model-based evolutionary algorithms. | Dirk Thierens, Peter A. N. Bosman |
| 2014 | PPSN | Combining Model-Based EAs for Mixed-Integer Problems. | Krzysztof L. Sadowski, Dirk Thierens, Peter A. N. Bosman |
| 2013 | GECCO | More concise and robust linkage learning by filtering and combining linkage hierarchies. | Peter A. N. Bosman, Dirk Thierens |
| 2013 | GECCO | On the usefulness of linkage processing for solving MAX-SAT. | Krzysztof L. Sadowski, Peter A. N. Bosman, Dirk Thierens |
| 2013 | GECCO | Hierarchical problem solving with the linkage tree genetic algorithm. | Dirk Thierens, Peter A. N. Bosman |
| 2013 | GECCO | Model-based evolutionary algorithms. | Dirk Thierens, Peter A. N. Bosman |
| 2012 | GECCO | Linkage neighbors, optimal mixing and forced improvements in genetic algorithms. | Peter A. N. Bosman, Dirk Thierens |
| 2012 | GECCO | Predetermined versus learned linkage models. | Dirk Thierens, Peter A. N. Bosman |
| 2012 | PPSN | On Measures to Build Linkage Trees in LTGA. | Peter A. N. Bosman, Dirk Thierens |
| 2012 | PPSN | Evolvability Analysis of the Linkage Tree Genetic Algorithm. | Dirk Thierens, Peter A. N. Bosman |
| 2011 | GECCO | The roles of local search, model building and optimal mixing in evolutionary algorithms from a bbo perspective. | Peter A. N. Bosman, Dirk Thierens |
| 2011 | GECCO | Generalized adaptive pursuit algorithm for genetic pareto local search algorithms. | Madalina M. Drugan, Dirk Thierens |
| 2011 | GECCO | Pairwise and problem-specific distance metrics in the linkage tree genetic algorithm. | Martin Pelikan, Mark Hauschild, Dirk Thierens |
| 2011 | GECCO | Optimal mixing evolutionary algorithms. | Dirk Thierens, Peter A. N. Bosman |
| 2010 | GECCO | Linkage tree genetic algorithm: first results. | Dirk Thierens |
| 2010 | PPSN | Path-Guided Mutation for Stochastic Pareto Local Search Algorithms. | Madalina M. Drugan, Dirk Thierens |
| 2010 | PPSN | The Linkage Tree Genetic Algorithm. | Dirk Thierens |
| 2009 | GECCO | AMaLGaM IDEAs in noiseless black-box optimization benchmarking. | Peter A. N. Bosman, Jrn Grahl, Dirk Thierens |
| 2009 | GECCO | AMaLGaM IDEAs in noisy black-box optimization benchmarking. | Peter A. N. Bosman, Jrn Grahl, Dirk Thierens |
| 2009 | GECCO | On benchmark properties for adaptive operator selection. | Dirk Thierens |
| 2008 | GECCO | A bivariate probabilistic model-building genetic algorithm for graph bipartitioning. | Dirk Thierens |
| 2008 | PPSN | Enhancing the Performance of Maximum-Likelihood Gaussian EDAs Using Anticipated Mean Shift. | Peter A. N. Bosman, Jrn Grahl, Dirk Thierens |
| 2007 | GECCO | Adaptive variance scaling in continuous multi-objective estimation-of-distribution algorithms. | Peter A. N. Bosman, Dirk Thierens |
| 2006 | PPSN | Exploration and Exploitation Bias of Crossover and Path Relinking for Permutation Problems. | Dirk Thierens |
| 2005 | CEC | Recombinative EMCMC algorithms. | Madalina M. Drugan, Dirk Thierens |
| 2005 | EMO | The Naive MIDEA: A Baseline Multi-objective EA. | Peter A. N. Bosman, Dirk Thierens |
| 2005 | GECCO | On the complexity of hierarchical problem solving. | Edwin D. de Jong, Richard A. Watson, Dirk Thierens |
| 2005 | GECCO | A generator for hierarchical problems. | Edwin D. de Jong, Richard A. Watson, Dirk Thierens |
| 2005 | GECCO | An adaptive pursuit strategy for allocating operator probabilities. | Dirk Thierens |
| 2004 | GECCO | Exploiting Modularity, Hierarchy, and Repetition in Variable-Length Problems. | Edwin D. de Jong, Dirk Thierens |
| 2004 | GECCO | Population-Based Iterated Local Search: Restricting Neighborhood Search by Crossover. | Dirk Thierens |
| 2004 | PPSN | On the Use of a Non-redundant Encoding for Learning Bayesian Networks from Data with a GA. | Steven van Dijk, Dirk Thierens |
| 2004 | PPSN | Hierarchical Genetic Algorithms. | Edwin D. de Jong, Dirk Thierens, Richard A. Watson |
| 2003 | EMO | Convergence Time Analysis for the Multi-objective Counting Ones Problem. | Dirk Thierens |
| 2003 | GECCO | Building a GA from Design Principles for Learning Bayesian Networks. | Steven van Dijk, Dirk Thierens, Linda C. van der Gaag |
| 2002 | CEC | Adaptive mutation rate control schemes in genetic algorithms. | Dirk Thierens |
| 2002 | PPSN | Permutation Optimization by Iterated Estimation of Random Keys Marginal Product Factorizations. | Peter A. N. Bosman, Dirk Thierens |
| 2000 | PPSN | Expanding from Discrete to Continuous Estimation of Distribution Algorithms: The IDEA. | Peter A. N. Bosman, Dirk Thierens |
| 2000 | PPSN | Scalability and Efficiency of Genetic Algorithms for Geometrical Applications. | Steven van Dijk, Dirk Thierens, Mark de Berg |
| 1999 | CEC | A case study of a multiobjective recombinative genetic algorithm with coevolutionary sharing. | Martijn Neef, Dirk Thierens, Henryk F. R. Arciszewski |
| 1999 | GECCO | Linkage Information Processing In Distribution Estimation Algorithms. | Peter A. N. Bosman, Dirk Thierens |
| 1999 | GECCO | On The Design of Genetic Algorithms for Geographical Applications. | Steven van Dijk, Dirk Thierens, Mark de Berg |
| 1996 | ICEC | Non-Redundant Genetic Coding of Neural Networks. | Dirk Thierens |
| 1996 | PPSN | Dimensional Analysis of Allele-Wise Mixing Revisited. | Dirk Thierens |
| 1994 | ICEC | Elitist Recombination: An Integrated Selection Recombination GA. | Dirk Thierens, David E. Goldberg |
| 1994 | PPSN | Convergence Models of Genetic Algorithm Selection Schemes. | Dirk Thierens, David E. Goldberg |
| 1990 | PPSN | A Topology Exploiting Genetic Algorithm to Control Dynamic Systems. | Dirk Thierens, Leo Vercauteren |