| 1997 | WSC | Using Compensating Reconfiguration to Maintain Military Distributed Simulations. | Donald J. Welch, James M. Purtilo |
| 1997 | WETICE | Domain-Driven Reconfiguration in Collaborative Virtual Environments. | Donald J. Welch, James M. Purtilo |
| 1996 | HPDC | A Source-Level Transformation Framework for RPC-Based Distributed Programs. | Tae-Hyung Kim, James M. Purtilo |
| 1996 | ICPP | Load Balancing for Parallel Loops in Workstation Clusters. | Tae-Hyung Kim, James M. Purtilo |
| 1996 | WETICE | Software engineering of distributed simulation environments. | James W. Duff, James M. Purtilo, Michael V. Capps, P. David Stotts |
| 1995 | ICDCS | Configuration-Level Optimization of RPC-Based Distributed Programs. | Tae-Hyung Kim, James M. Purtilo |
| 1995 | SEKE | Event Adaption for Integrating Distributed Applications. | Chen Chen, James M. Purtilo |
| 1995 | WETICE | Tool support for collaborative software prototyping. | Elliot A. Shefrin, James M. Purtilo |
| 1994 | WETICE | Virtual environment architectures: interoperability through software interconnection technology. | P. David Stotts, James M. Purtilo |
| 1993 | ICDCS | Dynamic Reconfiguration in Distributed Systems: Adapting Software Modules for Replacement. | Christine Hofmeister, James M. Purtilo |
| 1993 | SEKE | A Packager for Multicast Software in Distributed Systems. | Chen Chen, Elizabeth L. White, James M. Purtilo |
| 1992 | OOPSLA | Object-Oriented Megaprogramming (Panel). | Peter Wegner, William L. Scherlis, James M. Purtilo, David C. Luckham, Ralph E. Johnson |
| 1991 | ICDCS | Dynamic reconfiguration of distributed programs. | James M. Purtilo, Christine Hofmeister |
| 1991 | ICSE | A Methodology for Prototyping-in-the-Large. | James M. Purtilo, Aaron Larson, Jeff Clark |
| 1989 | ICDCS | An environment for prototyping distributed applications. | James M. Purtilo, Pankaj Jalote |
| 1989 | ISSAC | MINION: An Environment to Organize Mathematical Problem Solving. | James M. Purtilo |
| 1987 | ICPP | Environments for Prototyping Parallel Algorithms. | James M. Purtilo, Daniel A. Reed, Dirk Grunwald |
| 1986 | ISSAC | Applications of a software interconnection system in mathematical problem solving environments. | James M. Purtilo |