| 2022 | CEC | Sequence-based Selection Hyper-heuristics for Real-World Fibre Network Design Optimisation. | Anil Arpaci, Jun Chen, John H. Drake, Tim Glover |
| 2021 | EMNLP | Natural SQL: Making SQL Easier to Infer from Natural Language Specifications. | Yujian Gan, Xinyun Chen, Jinxia Xie, Matthew Purver, John R. Woodward, John H. Drake, Qiaofu Zhang |
| 2019 | EUROGP | Quantum Program Synthesis: Swarm Algorithms and Benchmarks. | Timothy Atkinson, Athena Karsa, John H. Drake, Jerry Swan |
| 2018 | IJCAI | Counterexample-Driven Genetic Programming: Stochastic Synthesis of Provably Correct Programs. | Krzysztof Krawiec, Iwo Bladek, Jerry Swan, John H. Drake |
| 2017 | CEC | A modified indicator-based evolutionary algorithm (mIBEA). | Wenwen Li, Ender zcan, Robert I. John, John H. Drake, Aneta Neumann, Markus Wagner |
| 2017 | SSBSE | A Hyper-heuristic for Multi-objective Integration and Test Ordering in Google Guava. | Giovani Guizzo, Mosab Bazargani, Matheus Paixo, John H. Drake |
| 2016 | GECCO | Automatically Designing More General Mutation Operators of Evolutionary Programming for Groups of Function Classes Using a Hyper-Heuristic. | Libin Hong, John H. Drake, John R. Woodward, Ender zcan |
| 2016 | GECCO | Automatic Improvement of Apache Spark Queries using Semantics-preserving Program Reduction. | Zoltan A. Kocsis, John H. Drake, Douglas Carson, Jerry Swan |
| 2016 | SSBSE | Searching for Configurations in Clone Evaluation - A Replication Study. | Chaiyong Ragkhitwetsagul, Matheus Paixo, Manal T. Adham, Saheed A. Busari, Jens Krinke, John H. Drake |
| 2016 | SSBSE | Multi-objective Regression Test Suite Minimisation for Mockito. | Andrew James Turner, David R. White, John H. Drake |
| 2015 | CEC | A comparison of crossover control mechanisms within single-point selection hyper-heuristics using HyFlex. | John H. Drake, Ender zcan, Edmund K. Burke |
| 2015 | CEC | A Modified Choice Function hyper-heuristic controlling unary and binary operators. | John H. Drake, Ender zcan, Edmund K. Burke |
| 2014 | GECCO | A step size based self-adaptive mutation operator for evolutionary programming. | Libin Hong, John H. Drake, Ender zcan |
| 2013 | EUROGP | Generation of VNS Components with Grammatical Evolution for Vehicle Routing. | John H. Drake, Nikolaos Kililis, Ender zcan |
| 2012 | PPSN | An Improved Choice Function Heuristic Selection for Cross Domain Heuristic Search. | John H. Drake, Ender zcan, Edmund K. Burke |