| 2017 | EDBT | A Role for Chordless Cycles in the Representation and Retrieval of Information. | John L. Pfaltz |
| 2014 | ADC | A Functional Database Representation of Large Sets of Objects. | Ratko Orlandic, John L. Pfaltz, Christopher M. Taylor |
| 2013 | ICDE | Chordless cycles in networks. | John L. Pfaltz |
| 2013 | WISE | The Irreducible Spine(s) of Undirected Networks. | John L. Pfaltz |
| 2007 | ICTAI | Establishing Logical Rules from Empirical Data. | John L. Pfaltz |
| 2007 | SSDBM | What Constitutes a Scientific Database? | John L. Pfaltz |
| 2006 | ICFCA | Using Concept Lattices to Uncover Causal Dependencies in Software. | John L. Pfaltz |
| 2004 | IWCIA | Jordan Surfaces in Discrete Antimatroid Topologies. | Ralph Kopperman, John L. Pfaltz |
| 2002 | KDD | Closed Set Mining of Biological Data. | John L. Pfaltz, Christopher M. Taylor |
| 2001 | SSDBM | Exploring the Behavior of the Spring Ecosystem Model Using An Object-Oriented Database System. | David R. Mikesell, John L. Pfaltz |
| 1998 | SSDBM | Scalable, Parallel, Scientific Databases. | John L. Pfaltz, Russell F. Haddleton, James C. French |
| 1995 | WG | Partition Coefficients of Acyclic Graphs. | John L. Pfaltz |
| 1992 | SSDBM | A Functional Approach to Scientific Database Implementation. | John L. Pfaltz |
| 1990 | SSDBM | Implementing Subscripted Identifiers in Scientific Databases. | John L. Pfaltz, James C. French |
| 1989 | FCT | Analysis of Compact 0-Complete Trees: A New Access Method to Large Databases. | Ratko Orlandic, John L. Pfaltz |
| 1988 | VLDB | Compact 0-Complete Trees. | Ratko Orlandic, John L. Pfaltz |
| 1969 | IJCAI | Web Grammars. | John L. Pfaltz, Azriel Rosenfeld |