| 2026 | EUROGP | Extending Model Selection Criteria with Extrapolation and Sensitivity Penalties for Symbolic Regression. | Fitria Wulandari Ramlan, Colm O'Riordan, James McDermott |
| 2026 | GECCO | Fitness Landscape as Knowledge Interface in Program Trace Optimization. | Alberto Moraglio, James McDermott |
| 2026 | LREC | Audio-Lyrics Alignment Dataset for Italian Arias. | Pushkar Jajoria, Arianna Graciotti, Giovanna Casali, Jesujoba Alabi, Rodolfo Delmonte, Angelo Pompilio, Rocco Tripodi, James McDermott, Dietrich Klakow |
| 2025 | GECCO | Symbolic Regression for Modelling Decarbonisation Pathways in the Global Energy-Economy-Climate System. | James McDermott, James Glynn, Iain Morrow, Evangelos Panos |
| 2025 | GECCO | Evolving to Extinction: a Case Study in Heuristic Search Dynamics. | James McDermott, Kostadin Dimanov Georgiev, Miguel Nicolau |
| 2025 | GECCO | Can Synthetic Data Improve Symbolic Regression Extrapolation Performance? | Fitria Wulandari Ramlan, Colm O'Riordan, Gabriel Kronberger, James McDermott |
| 2025 | IJCCI | Comparative Analysis of Model Selection Criteria for Symbolic Regression Using Genetic Programming. | Fitria Wulandari Ramlan, Gabriel Kronberger, Colm O'Riordan, James McDermott |
| 2024 | BMVC | Reclaiming Residual Knowledge: A Novel Paradigm to Low-Bit Quantization. | Risn Luo, Alexandru Drimbarean, James McDermott, Colm O'Riordan |
| 2023 | GECCO | Graph-Based Mutations for Music Generation. | Maziar Kanani, Sen O'Leary, James McDermott |
| 2022 | IJCNN | Facial Expression Recognition of Animated Characters using Deep Learning. | Mohd Ismail Lakhani, James McDermott, Frank G. Glavin, Sai Priya Nagarajan |
| 2021 | IJCNN | Fall detection with accelerometer data using Residual Networks adapted to multi-variate time series classification. | Amrutha Ramanathan, James McDermott |
| 2020 | EuroSPI | A Multivocal Literature Review of Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) Infrastructures and Implications for Software Developers. | Jake Grogan, Connor Mulready, James McDermott, Martynas Urbanavicius, Murat Yilmaz, Yalemisew M. Abgaz, Andrew McCarren, Silvana Togneri MacMahon, Vahid Garousi, Peter Elger, Paul M. Clarke |
| 2020 | PPSN | Program Synthesis in a Continuous Space Using Grammars and Variational Autoencoders. | David Lynch, James McDermott, Michael O'Neill |
| 2019 | EUROGP | Why Is Auto-Encoding Difficult for Genetic Programming? | James McDermott |
| 2018 | PPSN | Program Trace Optimization. | Alberto Moraglio, James McDermott |
| 2017 | GECCO | Late-acceptance and step-counting hill-climbing GP for anomaly detection. | Van Loi Cao, Miguel Nicolau, James McDermott |
| 2017 | GECCO | PonyGE2: grammatical evolution in Python. | Michael Fenton, James McDermott, David Fagan, Stefan Forstenlechner, Erik Hemberg, Michael O'Neill |
| 2017 | GECCO | Late-acceptance hill-climbing with a grammatical program representation. | James McDermott, Miguel Nicolau |
| 2016 | EUROGP | One-Class Classification for Anomaly Detection with Kernel Density Estimation and Genetic Programming. | Van Loi Cao, Miguel Nicolau, James McDermott |
| 2016 | PPSN | A Hybrid Autoencoder and Density Estimation Model for Anomaly Detection. | Van Loi Cao, Miguel Nicolau, James McDermott |
| 2015 | CEC | Tonality driven piano compositions with Grammatical Evolution. | Risn Loughran, James McDermott, Michael O'Neill |
| 2014 | EUROGP | Higher Order Functions for Kernel Regression. | Alexandros Agapitos, James McDermott, Michael O'Neill, Ahmed Kattan, Anthony Brabazon |
| 2014 | EUROGP | Measuring Mutation Operators' Exploration-Exploitation Behaviour and Long-Term Biases. | James McDermott |
| 2013 | EUROGP | Program Optimisation with Dependency Injection. | James McDermott, Paula Carroll |
| 2012 | GECCO | An investigation of local patterns for estimation of distribution genetic programming. | Erik Hemberg, Kalyan Veeramachaneni, James McDermott, Constantin Berzan, Una-May O'Reilly |
| 2012 | GECCO | Genetic programming needs better benchmarks. | James McDermott, David Robert White, Sean Luke, Luca Manzoni, Mauro Castelli, Leonardo Vanneschi, Wojciech Jaskowski, Krzysztof Krawiec, Robin Harper, Kenneth A. De Jong, Una-May O'Reilly |
| 2011 | EUROGP | How Far Is It from Here to There? A Distance That Is Coherent with GP Operators. | James McDermott, Una-May O'Reilly, Leonardo Vanneschi, Kalyan Veeramachaneni |
| 2011 | GECCO | An executable graph representation for evolutionary generative music. | James McDermott, Una-May O'Reilly |
| 2010 | CEC | Implementing an intuitive mutation operator for interactive evolutionary 3D design. | Jonathan Byrne, James McDermott, Edgar Galvn Lpez, Michael O'Neill |
| 2010 | CEC | Defining locality in genetic programming to predict performance. | Edgar Galvn Lpez, James McDermott, Michael O'Neill, Anthony Brabazon |
| 2010 | CEC | Higher-order functions in aesthetic EC encodings. | James McDermott, Jonathan Byrne, John Mark Swafford, Michael O'Neill, Anthony Brabazon |
| 2010 | CEC | Interactive interpolating crossover in grammatical evolution. | James McDermott, Michael O'Neill, Anthony Brabazon |
| 2010 | EUROGP | An Analysis of the Behaviour of Mutation in Grammatical Evolution. | Jonathan Byrne, Michael O'Neill, James McDermott, Anthony Brabazon |
| 2010 | GECCO | Towards an understanding of locality in genetic programming. | Edgar Galvn Lpez, James McDermott, Michael O'Neill, Anthony Brabazon |
| 2010 | PPSN | A Fine-Grained View of GP Locality with Binary Decision Diagrams as Ant Phenotypes. | James McDermott, Edgar Galvn Lpez, Michael O'Neill |
| 2009 | GECCO | Shape grammars and grammatical evolution for evolutionary design. | Michael O'Neill, John Mark Swafford, James McDermott, Jonathan Byrne, Anthony Brabazon, Elizabeth Shotton, Ciaran McNally, Martin Hemberg |