| 2005 | GECCO | The emulation of social institutions as a method of coevolution. | Deborah Vakas Duong, John J. Grefenstette |
| 2003 | SMC | Inference of large-scale topology of gene regulation networks by neural nets. | Sohyoung Kim, John N. Weinstein, John J. Grefenstette |
| 2001 | BIBE | Comparing Algorithms for Large-Scale Sequence Analysis. | Hadon Nash, Douglas Blair, John J. Grefenstette |
| 1999 | CEC | Evolvability in dynamic fitness landscapes: a genetic algorithm approach. | John J. Grefenstette |
| 1999 | CEC | Visual analysis of evolutionary algorithms. | Annie S. Wu, Kenneth A. De Jong, Donald S. Burke, John J. Grefenstette, Connie Loggia Ramsey |
| 1998 | PPSN | Genome Length as an Evolutionary Self-adaptation. | Connie Loggia Ramsey, Kenneth A. De Jong, John J. Grefenstette, Annie S. Wu, Donald S. Burke |
| 1997 | AAAI | ARIEL: Autonomous Robot for Integrated Exploration and Localization. | Brian Yamauchi, Alan C. Schultz, William Adams, Kevin Graves, John J. Grefenstette, Dennis Perzanowski |
| 1994 | FOGA | Predictive Models Using Fitness Distributions of Genetic Operators. | John J. Grefenstette |
| 1993 | COLT | Genetic Algorithms and Machine Learning. | John J. Grefenstette |
| 1992 | FOGA | Deception Considered Harmful. | John J. Grefenstette |
| 1992 | ICML | An Approach to Anytime Learning. | John J. Grefenstette, Connie Loggia Ramsey |
| 1992 | PPSN | Genetic Algorithms for Changing Environments. | John J. Grefenstette |
| 1991 | ICML | Learning the Persistence of Actions in Reactive Control Rules. | Helen G. Cobb, John J. Grefenstette |
| 1990 | FOGA | Conditions for Implicit Parallelism. | John J. Grefenstette |
| 1990 | ICML | Explanations of Empirically Derived Reactive Plans. | Diana F. Gordon, John J. Grefenstette |
| 1990 | ICML | Simulation-Assisted Learning by Competition: Effects of Noise Differences Between Training Model and Target Environment. | Connie Loggia Ramsey, John J. Grefenstette, Alan C. Schultz |
| 1990 | ICTAI | Improving tactical plans with genetic algorithms. | Alan C. Schultz, John J. Grefenstette |
| 1989 | ICML | Incremental Learning of Control Strategies with Genetic algorithms. | John J. Grefenstette |
| 1988 | AAAI | Credit Assignment in Genetic Learning Systems. | John J. Grefenstette |
| 1985 | IJCAI | Multi-Objective Learning via Genetic Algorithms. | J. David Schaffer, John J. Grefenstette |