| 2025 | EvoMUSART | Towards the Automatic Evaluation of Legibility for Graphic Design Posters. | Daniel Lopes, Joo Macedo, Iria Santos, Alvaro Torrente-Patio, Joo Correia, Penousal Machado |
| 2024 | DAS | How Does Changing the Optical Character Recognition System Impact the Layout-Aware Named Entity Recognition Models? | Joo Macedo, Byron L. D. Bezerra, Cleber Zanchettin |
| 2024 | EvoMUSART | Evolving User Interfaces: A Neuroevolution Approach for Natural Human-Machine Interaction. | Joo Macedo, Habtom Kahsay Gidey, Karina Brotto Rebuli, Penousal Machado |
| 2024 | EvoMUSART | Evolving Visually-Diverse Graphic Design Posters. | Joo Macedo, Daniel Lopes, Joo Correia, Penousal Machado, Ernesto Costa |
| 2022 | GECCO | Hybridizing bio-inspired strategies with infotaxis through genetic programming. | Joo Macedo, Lino Marques, Ernesto Costa |
| 2021 | GECCO | Designing fitness functions for odour source localisation. | Joo Macedo, Lino Marques, Ernesto Costa |
| 2021 | IROS | Evolving Infotaxis for Meandering Environments. | Joo Macedo, Lino Marques, Ernesto Costa |
| 2018 | EUROGP | Geometric Crossover in Syntactic Space. | Joo Macedo, Carlos M. Fonseca, Ernesto Costa |
| 2013 | ICORES | Developing Tools for the Team Orienteering Problem - A Simple Genetic Algorithm. | Joo A. Ferreira, Jos Antnio Oliveira, Guilherme A. B. Pereira, Lus M. S. Dias, Fernando Vieira, Joo Macedo, Tiago Caro, Tiago Leite, Daniel Murta |