| 2017 | EUROGP | A Comparative Study of Different Grammar-Based Genetic Programming Approaches. | Nuno Loureno, Joaquim Ferrer, Francisco Baptista Pereira, Ernesto Costa |
| 2013 | GECCO | The importance of the learning conditions in hyper-heuristics. | Nuno Loureno, Francisco Baptista Pereira, Ernesto Costa |
| 2012 | CEC | Enhancing cluster geometry optimization with Island Models. | Antnio Leito, Francisco Baptista Pereira, Penousal Machado |
| 2012 | EUROGP | Automatic Design of Ant Algorithms with Grammatical Evolution. | Jorge Tavares, Francisco Baptista Pereira |
| 2012 | GECCO | DACCO: a discrete ant colony algorithm to cluster geometry optimization. | Nuno Loureno, Francisco Baptista Pereira |
| 2012 | GECCO | Evolving evolutionary algorithms. | Nuno Loureno, Francisco Baptista Pereira, Ernesto Costa |
| 2011 | EUROGP | Designing Pheromone Update Strategies with Strongly Typed Genetic Programming. | Jorge Tavares, Francisco Baptista Pereira |
| 2011 | GECCO | Towards the development of self-ant systems. | Jorge Tavares, Francisco Baptista Pereira |
| 2010 | CEC | Towards an effective evolutionary approach for binary Lennard-Jones clusters. | Francisco Baptista Pereira, Jorge M. C. Marques |
| 2010 | PPSN | Evolving Strategies for Updating Pheromone Trails: A Case Study with the TSP. | Jorge Tavares, Francisco Baptista Pereira |
| 2008 | CEC | Golomb Rulers: A fitness landscape analysis. | Jorge Tavares, Francisco Baptista Pereira, Ernesto Costa |
| 2008 | HIS | A Self-Adaptive Evolutionary Algorithm for Cluster Geometry Optimization. | Francisco Baptista Pereira, Jorge M. C. Marques |
| 2008 | HIS | A Hybrid Evolutionary Algorithm for Cluster Geometry Optimization: The Importance of Structural Elitism. | Francisco Baptista Pereira, Jorge M. C. Marques |
| 2007 | GECCO | Niching techniques: a study on the cluster geometry optimization problem. | Tiago Leito, Francisco Baptista Pereira, Jorge Tavares, Ernesto Costa |
| 2006 | CEC | The Role of Representation on the Multidimensional Knapsack Problem by means of Fitness Landscape Analysis. | Jorge Tavares, Francisco Baptista Pereira, Ernesto Costa |
| 2004 | EUROGP | On the Evolution of Evolutionary Algorithms. | Jorge Tavares, Penousal Machado, Amlcar Cardoso, Francisco Baptista Pereira, Ernesto Costa |
| 2004 | GECCO | Evolving Golomb Rulers. | Jorge Tavares, Francisco Baptista Pereira, Ernesto Costa |
| 2003 | EPIA | Golomb Rulers: The Advantage of Evolution. | Francisco Baptista Pereira, Jorge Tavares, Ernesto Costa |
| 2003 | SAC | On the Influence of GVR in Vehicle Routing. | Jorge Tavares, Francisco Baptista Pereira, Penousal Machado, Ernesto Costa |
| 2002 | GECCO | Vehicle Routing Problem: Doing It The Evolutionary Way. | Penousal Machado, Jorge Tavares, Francisco Baptista Pereira, Ernesto Costa |
| 2000 | CEC | Too busy to learn [individual learning interaction with evolutionary algorithm in Busy Beaver problem]. | Francisco Baptista Pereira, Penousal Machado, Ernesto Costa, Amlcar Cardoso, Alberto Ochoa-Rodrguez, Roberto Santana, Marta Soto |
| 2000 | GECCO | Probabilistic Evolution and the Busy Beaver Problem. | Roberto Santana, Alberto Ochoa-Rodrguez, Marta Soto, Francisco Baptista Pereira, Penousal Machado, Ernesto Costa, Amlcar Cardoso |
| 2000 | SAC | The Influence of Learning in the Behaviour of Information Retrieval Adaptive Agents. | Francisco Baptista Pereira, Ernesto Costa |
| 1999 | CEC | LamBaDa: an artificial environment to study the interaction between evolution and learning. | Marlia Oliveira, Jorge Barreiros, Ernesto Costa, Francisco Baptista Pereira |
| 1999 | EUROGP | Busy Beaver - The Influence of Representation. | Penousal Machado, Francisco Baptista Pereira, Amlcar Cardoso, Ernesto Costa |