| 2023 | LICS | Expressive Completeness of Two-Variable First-Order Logic with Counting for First-Order Logic Queries on Rooted Unranked Trees. | Jelle Hellings, Marc Gyssens, Jan Van den Bussche, Dirk Van Gucht |
| 2020 | PODS | 2020 ACM PODS Alberto O. Mendelzon Test-of-Time Award. | Georg Gottlob, Jan Van den Bussche, Dirk Van Gucht |
| 2019 | PODS | 2019 ACM PODS Alberto O. Mendelzon Test-of-Time Award. | Jianwen Su, Dirk Van Gucht, Victor Vianu |
| 2017 | LICS | The primitivity of operators in the algebra of binary relations under conjunctions of containments. | Dimitri Surinx, Jan Van den Bussche, Dirk Van Gucht |
| 2015 | PODS | The Communication Complexity of Distributed Set-Joins with Applications to Matrix Multiplication. | Dirk Van Gucht, Ryan Williams, David P. Woodruff, Qin Zhang |
| 2013 | PODS | The ACM PODS Alberto O. Mendelzon test-of-time award 2013. | Michael Benedikt, Tova Milo, Dirk Van Gucht |
| 2012 | PODS | The ACM PODS Alberto O. Mendelzon test-of-time award 2012. | Richard Hull, Phokion G. Kolaitis, Dirk Van Gucht |
| 2011 | ICDT | Relative expressive power of navigational querying on graphs. | George H. L. Fletcher, Marc Gyssens, Dirk Leinders, Jan Van den Bussche, Dirk Van Gucht, Stijn Vansummeren, Yuqing Wu |
| 2009 | ICDT | Towards a theory of search queries. | George H. L. Fletcher, Jan Van den Bussche, Dirk Van Gucht, Stijn Vansummeren |
| 2008 | UAI | On the Conditional Independence Implication Problem: A Lattice-Theoretic Approach. | Mathias Niepert, Dirk Van Gucht, Marc Gyssens |
| 2007 | ICDT | Coupling Fragments of XPath with XML Indexing and Query Decomposition. | George H. L. Fletcher, Dirk Van Gucht, Yuqing Wu, Marc Gyssens, Jan Paredaens |
| 2007 | ICDT | Structural Recursion on Ordered Trees and List-Based Complex Objects. | Edward L. Robertson, Lawrence V. Saxton, Dirk Van Gucht, Stijn Vansummeren |
| 2007 | PODS | A crash course on database queries. | Jan Van den Bussche, Dirk Van Gucht, Stijn Vansummeren |
| 2006 | PODS | Structural characterizations of the semantics of XPath as navigation tool on a document. | Marc Gyssens, Jan Paredaens, Dirk Van Gucht, George H. L. Fletcher |
| 2006 | SAC | A probability analysis for candidate-based frequent itemset algorithms. | Nele Dexters, Paul W. Purdom, Dirk Van Gucht |
| 2005 | ICDT | Well-Definedness and Semantic Type-Checking in the Nested Relational Calculus and XQuery Extended Abstract. | Jan Van den Bussche, Dirk Van Gucht, Stijn Vansummeren |
| 2005 | PODS | Differential constraints. | Bassem Sayrafi, Dirk Van Gucht |
| 2001 | CIKM | A Relational Algebra for Data/Metadata Integration in a Federated Database System. | Catharine M. Wyss, Dirk Van Gucht |
| 2000 | TIME | Towards a Theory of Movie Database Queries. | Bart Kuijpers, Jan Paredaens, Dirk Van Gucht |
| 1998 | PODS | Typed Query Languages for Databases Containing Queries. | Frank Neven, Jan Van den Bussche, Dirk Van Gucht, Gottfried Vossen |
| 1998 | PODS | An Expressive Language for Linear Spatial Database Queries. | Luc Vandeurzen, Marc Gyssens, Dirk Van Gucht |
| 1997 | DS | CE: the Classifier-Estimator Framework for Data Mining. | Mehmet M. Dalkilic, Edward L. Robertson, Dirk Van Gucht |
| 1997 | PODS | On the Decidability of Semi-Linearity of Semi-Algebraic Sets and Its Implications for Spatial Databases. | Freddy Dumortier, Marc Gyssens, Luc Vandeurzen, Dirk Van Gucht |
| 1997 | PODS | Complete Geometrical Query Languages. | Marc Gyssens, Jan Van den Bussche, Dirk Van Gucht |
| 1996 | CP | On Query Languages for Linear Queries Definable with Polynomial Constraints. | Luc Vandeurzen, Marc Gyssens, Dirk Van Gucht |
| 1996 | SIGMOD | Providing Better Support for a Class of Decision Support Queries. | Sudhir Rao, Antonio Badia, Dirk Van Gucht |
| 1995 | COMAD | A Uniform Data Model for Relational Data and Meta-Data Query Processing. | Manoj Jain, Anurag Mendhekar, Dirk Van Gucht |
| 1995 | LICS | First-order Queries on Finite Structures over the Reals | Jan Paredaens, Jan Van den Bussche, Dirk Van Gucht |
| 1994 | ER | Levelled Entity Relationship Model. | Munish Gandhi, Edward L. Robertson, Dirk Van Gucht |
| 1994 | ICALP | Expressiveness of Efficient Semi-Deterministic Choice Constructs. | Marc Gyssens, Jan Van den Bussche, Dirk Van Gucht |
| 1994 | PODS | A Query Language for List-Based Complex Objects. | Latha S. Colby, Edward L. Robertson, Lawrence V. Saxton, Dirk Van Gucht |
| 1994 | PODS | Towards a Theory of Spatial Database Queries. | Jan Paredaens, Jan Van den Bussche, Dirk Van Gucht |
| 1993 | ICDE | Algebraic Foundation and Optimization for Object Based Query Languages. | Vijay M. Sarathy, Lawrence V. Saxton, Dirk Van Gucht |
| 1993 | ICLP | Complexity Issues in Supporting Queries Involving Intermediate Sets in Relational Database Systems. | Lawrence V. Saxton, Latha S. Colby, Dirk Van Gucht |
| 1993 | PODS | Reflective Programming in the Relational Algebra. | Jan Van den Bussche, Dirk Van Gucht, Gottfried Vossen |
| 1992 | FOCS | On the Completeness of Object-Creating Query Languages (Extended Abstract) | Jan Van den Bussche, Dirk Van Gucht, Marc Andries, Marc Gyssens |
| 1992 | ICDT | A Hierarchy of Faithful Set Creation in Pure OODB's. | Jan Van den Bussche, Dirk Van Gucht |
| 1992 | PODS | Semi-determinism. | Jan Van den Bussche, Dirk Van Gucht |
| 1990 | PODS | A Graph-Oriented Object Database Model. | Marc Gyssens, Jan Paredaens, Dirk Van Gucht |
| 1990 | SIGMOD | A Graph-Oriented Object Model for Database End-User Interfaces. | Marc Gyssens, Jan Paredaens, Dirk Van Gucht |
| 1989 | SIGMOD | A Grammar-Based Approach Towards Unifying Hierarchical Data Models (Extended Abstract). | Marc Gyssens, Jan Paredaens, Dirk Van Gucht |
| 1988 | PODS | Possibilities and Limitations of Using Flat Operators in Nested Algebra Expressions. | Jan Paredaens, Dirk Van Gucht |
| 1988 | SIGMOD | The Powerset Algebra as a Result of Adding Programming Constructs to the Nested Relational Algebra. | Marc Gyssens, Dirk Van Gucht |
| 1988 | VLDB | An Implementation for Nested Relational Databases. | Anand Deshpande, Dirk Van Gucht |
| 1987 | BTW | A Storage Structure for Unnormalized Relational Databases. | Anand Deshpande, Dirk Van Gucht |
| 1987 | PODS | On the Expressive Power of the Extended Relational Algebra for the Unnormalized Relational Model. | Dirk Van Gucht |
| 1986 | ICDT | Interaction-Free Multivalued Dependency Sets. | Dirk Van Gucht |
| 1986 | PODS | Some Classes of Multilevel Relational Structures. | Dirk Van Gucht, Patrick C. Fischer |
| 1986 | XP | High Level Data Manipulation Languages for Unnormalized Relational Database Models. | Dirk Van Gucht, Patrick C. Fischer |
| 1985 | VLDB | Determining when a Structure is a Nested Relation. | Patrick C. Fischer, Dirk Van Gucht |
| 1985 | STACS | Structure of Relations Satisfying Certain Families of Dependencies. | Patrick C. Fischer, Dirk Van Gucht |
| 1984 | PODS | Weak Multivalued Dependencies. | Patrick C. Fischer, Dirk Van Gucht |