| 2011 | FOGA | On the practicality of optimal output mechanisms for co-optimization algorithms. | Elena Popovici, Ezra Winston, Anthony Bucci |
| 2009 | FOGA | Monotonicity versus performance in co-optimization. | Elena Popovici, Kenneth A. De Jong |
| 2009 | GECCO | Analysis of coevolution for worst-case optimization. | Philipp Stuermer, Anthony Bucci, Jrgen Branke, Pablo Funes, Elena Popovici |
| 2006 | CEC | Sequential versus Parallel Cooperative Coevolutionary Algorithms for Optimization. | Elena Popovici, Kenneth A. De Jong |
| 2006 | GECCO | The effects of interaction frequency on the optimization performance of cooperative coevolution. | Elena Popovici, Kenneth A. De Jong |
| 2005 | CEC | Relationships between internal and external metrics in co-evolution. | Elena Popovici, Kenneth A. De Jong |
| 2005 | GECCO | Understanding cooperative co-evolutionary dynamics via simple fitness landscapes. | Elena Popovici, Kenneth A. De Jong |
| 2003 | GECCO | Understanding EA Dynamics via Population Fitness Distributions. | Elena Popovici, Kenneth A. De Jong |
| 2001 | IJCAI | Ontologies and the Knowledge Acquisition Bottleneck. | Mihai Boicu, Gheorghe Tecuci, Bogdan Stanescu, Catalin Balan, Elena Popovici |