| 2025 | GECCO | New, more efficient crossover and local search operators for recombination lattices. | L. Darrell Whitley |
| 2024 | GECCO | Next Generation Genetic Algorithms - efficient crossover and local search and new results on crossover lattices. | L. Darrell Whitley |
| 2021 | GECCO | An efficient implementation of iterative partial transcription for the traveling salesman problem. | Anirban Mukhopadhyay, L. Darrell Whitley, Renato Tins |
| 2020 | GECCO | Why many travelling salesman problem instances are easier than you think. | Swetha Varadarajan, L. Darrell Whitley, Gabriela Ochoa |
| 2020 | GECCO | Understanding transforms of pseudo-boolean functions. | L. Darrell Whitley, Hernn E. Aguirre, Andrew M. Sutton |
| 2020 | PPSN | Approximation Speed-Up by Quadratization on LeadingOnes. | Andrew M. Sutton, L. Darrell Whitley |
| 2019 | GECCO | The massively parallel | Swetha Varadarajan, L. Darrell Whitley |
| 2019 | GECCO | Next generation genetic algorithms. | L. Darrell Whitley, Francisco Chicano, Gabriela Ochoa, Andrew M. Sutton, Renato Tins |
| 2018 | CEC | A Fusion Mechanism for the Generalized Asymmetric Partition Crossover. | Renato Tins, L. Darrell Whitley |
| 2018 | GECCO | Tunneling between plateaus: improving on a state-of-the-art MAXSAT solver using partition crossover. | Wenxiang Chen, L. Darrell Whitley, Renato Tins, Francisco Chicano |
| 2018 | GECCO | Enhancing partition crossover with articulation points analysis. | Francisco Chicano, Gabriela Ochoa, L. Darrell Whitley, Renato Tins |
| 2018 | GECCO | Next generation genetic algorithms. | L. Darrell Whitley, Francisco Chicano, Gabriela Ochoa, Andrew M. Sutton, Renato Tins |
| 2018 | PPSN | Tutorials at PPSN 2018. | Gisele Lobo Pappa, Michael T. M. Emmerich, Ana L. C. Bazzan, Will N. Browne, Kalyanmoy Deb, Carola Doerr, Marko Durasevic, Michael G. Epitropakis, Saemundur O. Haraldsson, Domagoj Jakobovic, Pascal Kerschke, Krzysztof Krawiec, Per Kristian Lehre, Xiaodong Li, Andrei Lissovoi, Pekka Malo, Luis Mart, Yi Mei, Juan Julin Merelo Guervs, Julian F. Miller, Alberto Moraglio, Antonio J. Nebro, Su Nguyen, Gabriela Ochoa, Pietro S. Oliveto, Stjepan Picek, Nelishia Pillay, Mike Preuss, Marc Schoenauer, Roman Senkerik, Ankur Sinha, Ofer M. Shir, Dirk Sudholt, L. Darrell Whitley, Mark Wineberg, John R. Woodward, Mengjie Zhang |
| 2018 | PPSN | Efficient Recombination in the Lin-Kernighan-Helsgaun Traveling Salesman Heuristic. | Renato Tins, Keld Helsgaun, L. Darrell Whitley |
| 2018 | PPSN | Optimal Neuron Selection and Generalization: NK Ensemble Neural Networks. | L. Darrell Whitley, Renato Tins, Francisco Chicano |
| 2018 | PPSN | Exploration and Exploitation Without Mutation: Solving the Jump Function in \varTheta (n) Time. | L. Darrell Whitley, Swetha Varadarajan, Rachel Hirsch, Anirban Mukhopadhyay |
| 2017 | BIBE | Selecting Optimal Models Based on Efficiency and Robustness in Multi-valued Biological Networks. | Hooman Sedghamiz, Wenxiang Chen, Mark Rice, L. Darrell Whitley, Gordon Broderick |
| 2017 | GECCO | Optimizing one million variable NK landscapes by hybridizing deterministic recombination and local search. | Francisco Chicano, L. Darrell Whitley, Gabriela Ochoa, Renato Tins |
| 2017 | GECCO | Building a better heuristic for the traveling salesman problem: combining edge assembly crossover and partition crossover. | Danilo Sipoli Sanches, L. Darrell Whitley, Renato Tins |
| 2017 | GECCO | Improving an exact solver for the traveling salesman problem using partition crossover. | Danilo Sipoli Sanches, L. Darrell Whitley, Renato Tins |
| 2017 | GECCO | Next generation genetic algorithms. | L. Darrell Whitley |
| 2016 | GECCO | Efficient Hill Climber for Constrained Pseudo-Boolean Optimization Problems. | Francisco Chicano, L. Darrell Whitley, Renato Tins |
| 2016 | GECCO | A New Evaluation Function for Clustering: The NK Internal Validation Criterion. | Renato Tins, Liang Zhao, Francisco Chicano, L. Darrell Whitley |
| 2016 | GECCO | Blind No More: Deterministic Partition Crossover and Deterministic Improving Moves. | L. Darrell Whitley |
| 2016 | PPSN | Tutorials at PPSN 2016. | Carola Doerr, Nicolas Bredche, Enrique Alba, Thomas Bartz-Beielstein, Dimo Brockhoff, Benjamin Doerr, Gusz Eiben, Michael G. Epitropakis, Carlos M. Fonseca, Andreia P. Guerreiro, Evert Haasdijk, Jacqueline Heinerman, Julien Hubert, Per Kristian Lehre, Luigi Malag, Juan Julin Merelo Guervs, Julian Francis Miller, Boris Naujoks, Pietro S. Oliveto, Stjepan Picek, Nelishia Pillay, Mike Preuss, Patricia Ryser-Welch, Giovanni Squillero, Jrg Stork, Dirk Sudholt, Alberto Paolo Tonda, L. Darrell Whitley, Martin Zaefferer |
| 2016 | PPSN | Tunnelling Crossover Networks for the Asymmetric TSP. | Nadarajen Veerapen, Gabriela Ochoa, Renato Tins, L. Darrell Whitley |
| 2016 | SoCS | Stochastic Local Search over Minterms on Structured SAT Instances. | Wenxiang Chen, L. Darrell Whitley, Adele E. Howe, Brian W. Goldman |
| 2015 | FOGA | Partition Crossover for Pseudo-Boolean Optimization. | Renato Tins, L. Darrell Whitley, Francisco Chicano |
| 2015 | GECCO | Tunnelling Crossover Networks. | Gabriela Ochoa, Francisco Chicano, Renato Tins, L. Darrell Whitley |
| 2015 | GECCO | Mk Landscapes, NK Landscapes, MAX-kSAT: A Proof that the Only Challenging Problems are Deceptive. | L. Darrell Whitley |
| 2015 | GECCO | Blind No More: Constant TimeNon-Random Improving Moves and Exponentially Powerful Recombination. | L. Darrell Whitley |
| 2014 | GECCO | Efficient identification of improving moves in a ball for pseudo-boolean problems. | Francisco Chicano, L. Darrell Whitley, Andrew M. Sutton |
| 2014 | GECCO | Comparing search techniques for finding subtle higher order mutants. | Elmahdi Omar, Sudipto Ghosh, L. Darrell Whitley |
| 2014 | GECCO | Use of explicit memory in the dynamic traveling salesman problem. | Renato Tins, L. Darrell Whitley, Adele E. Howe |
| 2014 | GECCO | Generalized asymmetric partition crossover (GAPX) for the asymmetric TSP. | Renato Tins, L. Darrell Whitley, Gabriela Ochoa |
| 2014 | GECCO | Blind no more: constant time non-random improving moves and exponentially powerful recombination. | L. Darrell Whitley |
| 2014 | ICST | HOMAJ: A Tool for Higher Order Mutation Testing in AspectJ and Java. | Elmahdi Omar, Sudipto Ghosh, L. Darrell Whitley |
| 2013 | AAAI | Greedy or Not? Best Improving versus First Improving Stochastic Local Search for MAXSAT. | L. Darrell Whitley, Adele E. Howe, Doug Hains |
| 2013 | GECCO | Second order partial derivatives for NK-landscapes. | Wenxiang Chen, L. Darrell Whitley, Doug Hains, Adele E. Howe |
| 2013 | GECCO | Hyperplane initialized local search for MAXSAT. | Doug Hains, L. Darrell Whitley, Adele E. Howe, Wenxiang Chen |
| 2013 | GECCO | Elementary landscapes: theory and applications. | L. Darrell Whitley, Andrew M. Sutton |
| 2013 | ISSRE | Constructing subtle higher order mutants for Java and AspectJ programs. | Elmahdi Omar, Sudipto Ghosh, L. Darrell Whitley |
| 2012 | GECCO | Exact computation of the expectation curves for uniform crossover. | Francisco Chicano, L. Darrell Whitley, Enrique Alba |
| 2012 | GECCO | Constant time steepest descent local search with lookahead for NK-landscapes and MAX-kSAT. | L. Darrell Whitley, Wenxiang Chen |
| 2012 | GECCO | Elementary landscapes: theory and applications. | L. Darrell Whitley, Andrew M. Sutton |
| 2012 | PPSN | Improving Lin-Kernighan-Helsgaun with Crossover on Clustered Instances of the TSP. | Doug Hains, L. Darrell Whitley, Adele E. Howe |
| 2012 | PPSN | An Empirical Evaluation of O(1) Steepest Descent for NK-Landscapes. | L. Darrell Whitley, Wenxiang Chen, Adele E. Howe |
| 2011 | FOGA | Approximating the distribution of fitness over hamming regions. | Andrew M. Sutton, L. Darrell Whitley, Adele E. Howe |
| 2011 | GECCO | Mutation rates of the (1+1)-EA on pseudo-boolean functions of bounded epistasis. | Andrew M. Sutton, L. Darrell Whitley, Adele E. Howe |
| 2011 | GECCO | Partial neighborhoods of the traveling salesman problem. | L. Darrell Whitley, Gabriela Ochoa |
| 2011 | SSBSE | Exploiting Decomposability Using Recombination in Genetic Algorithms: An Exploratory Discussion. | L. Darrell Whitley |
| 2010 | DBSEC | On the Identification of Property Based Generalizations in Microdata Anonymization. | Rinku Dewri, Indrajit Ray, Indrakshi Ray, L. Darrell Whitley |
| 2010 | GECCO | Elementary landscapes of frequency assignment problems. | L. Darrell Whitley, Francisco Chicano, Enrique Alba, Francisco Luna |
| 2010 | MDM | Query m-Invariance: Preventing Query Disclosures in Continuous Location-Based Services. | Rinku Dewri, Indrakshi Ray, Indrajit Ray, L. Darrell Whitley |
| 2010 | PPSN | A Hybrid Genetic Algorithm for the Traveling Salesman Problem Using Generalized Partition Crossover. | L. Darrell Whitley, Doug Hains, Adele E. Howe |
| 2010 | SecureComm | On the Formation of Historically k-Anonymous Anonymity Sets in a Continuous LBS. | Rinku Dewri, Indrakshi Ray, Indrajit Ray, L. Darrell Whitley |
| 2010 | SoCS | Directed Plateau Search for MAX-k-SAT. | Andrew M. Sutton, Adele E. Howe, L. Darrell Whitley |
| 2009 | CIKM | POkA: identifying pareto-optimal k-anonymous nodes in a domain hierarchy lattice. | Rinku Dewri, Indrajit Ray, Indrakshi Ray, L. Darrell Whitley |
| 2009 | EDBT | On the comparison of microdata disclosure control algorithms. | Rinku Dewri, Indrajit Ray, Indrakshi Ray, L. Darrell Whitley |
| 2009 | GECCO | A multi-objective approach to data sharing with privacy constraints and preference based objectives. | Rinku Dewri, L. Darrell Whitley, Indrajit Ray, Indrakshi Ray |
| 2009 | GECCO | A polynomial time computation of the exact correlation structure of k-satisfiability landscapes. | Andrew M. Sutton, L. Darrell Whitley, Adele E. Howe |
| 2009 | GECCO | No free lunch: 1995-2008. | L. Darrell Whitley |
| 2009 | GECCO | Tunneling between optima: partition crossover for the traveling salesman problem. | L. Darrell Whitley, Doug Hains, Adele E. Howe |
| 2009 | GECCO | Partial neighborhoods of elementary landscapes. | L. Darrell Whitley, Andrew M. Sutton |
| 2009 | GECCO | Elementary landscape analysis. | L. Darrell Whitley, Andrew M. Sutton |
| 2008 | EDBT | Optimizing on-demand data broadcast scheduling in pervasive environments. | Rinku Dewri, Indrakshi Ray, Indrajit Ray, L. Darrell Whitley |
| 2008 | ESORICS | Security Provisioning in Pervasive Environments Using Multi-objective Optimization. | Rinku Dewri, Indrakshi Ray, Indrajit Ray, L. Darrell Whitley |
| 2008 | GECCO | Evolution strategy based optimization of on-demand dependent data broadcast scheduling. | Rinku Dewri, L. Darrell Whitley, Indrakshi Ray, Indrajit Ray |
| 2008 | GECCO | No free lunch. | L. Darrell Whitley |
| 2008 | GECCO | Focused no free lunch theorems. | L. Darrell Whitley, Jonathan E. Rowe |
| 2008 | GECCO | Understanding elementary landscapes. | L. Darrell Whitley, Andrew M. Sutton, Adele E. Howe |
| 2008 | ICDE | On the Optimal Selection of k in the k-Anonymity Problem. | Rinku Dewri, Indrajit Ray, Indrakshi Ray, L. Darrell Whitley |
| 2008 | PPSN | Optimizing Real-Time Ordered-Data Broadcasts in Pervasive Environments Using Evolution Strategy. | Rinku Dewri, L. Darrell Whitley, Indrajit Ray, Indrakshi Ray |
| 2008 | PPSN | The Impact of Global Structure on Search. | Monte Lunacek, L. Darrell Whitley, Andrew M. Sutton |
| 2007 | CCS | Optimal security hardening using multi-objective optimization on attack tree models of networks. | Rinku Dewri, Nayot Poolsappasit, Indrajit Ray, L. Darrell Whitley |
| 2007 | GECCO | Differential evolution and non-separability: using selective pressure to focus search. | Andrew M. Sutton, Monte Lunacek, L. Darrell Whitley |
| 2007 | GECCO | No free lunch. | Michael D. Vose, L. Darrell Whitley |
| 2006 | GECCO | The dispersion metric and the CMA evolution strategy. | Monte Lunacek, L. Darrell Whitley |
| 2006 | GECCO | A crossover operator for the | Monte Lunacek, L. Darrell Whitley, Indrakshi Ray |
| 2006 | GECCO | PSO and multi-funnel landscapes: how cooperation might limit exploration. | Andrew M. Sutton, L. Darrell Whitley, Monte Lunacek, Adele E. Howe |
| 2006 | GECCO | Alternative evolutionary algorithms for evolving programs: evolution strategies and steady state GP. | L. Darrell Whitley, Marc D. Richards, J. Ross Beveridge, Andr da Motta Salles Barreto |
| 2006 | PPSN | Searching for Balance: Understanding Self-adaptation on Ridge Functions. | Monte Lunacek, L. Darrell Whitley |
| 2006 | PPSN | Comparing the Niches of CMA-ES, CHC and Pattern Search Using Diverse Benchmarks. | L. Darrell Whitley, Monte Lunacek, Artem Sokolov |
| 2005 | CEC | Dynamic power minimization during combinational circuit testing as a traveling salesman problem. | Artem Sokolov, Alodeep Sanyal, L. Darrell Whitley, Yashwant K. Malaiya |
| 2005 | FOGA | Gray, Binary and Real Valued Encodings: Quad Search and Locality Proofs. | L. Darrell Whitley, Jonathan E. Rowe |
| 2005 | GECCO | Measuring mobility and the performance of global search algorithms. | Monte Lunacek, L. Darrell Whitley, James N. Knight |
| 2005 | GECCO | Evolving cooperative strategies for UAV teams. | Marc D. Richards, L. Darrell Whitley, J. Ross Beveridge, Todd Mytkowicz, Duong Nguyen, David Rome |
| 2005 | GECCO | Unbiased tournament selection. | Artem Sokolov, L. Darrell Whitley |
| 2005 | GECCO | Alternative implementations of the Griewangk function. | Artem Sokolov, L. Darrell Whitley, Monte Lunacek |
| 2004 | AAAI | Leap Before You Look: An Effective Strategy in an Oversubscribed Scheduling Problem. | Laura Barbulescu, L. Darrell Whitley, Adele E. Howe |
| 2004 | GECCO | Comparing Search Algorithms for the Temperature Inversion Problem. | Monte Lunacek, L. Darrell Whitley, Philip Gabriel, Graeme Stephens |
| 2004 | GECCO | Subthreshold-Seeking Behavior and Robust Local Search. | L. Darrell Whitley, Keith Bush, Jonathan E. Rowe |
| 2004 | GECCO | Ruffled by Ridges: How Evolutionary Algorithms Can Fail. | L. Darrell Whitley, Monte Lunacek, James N. Knight |
| 2003 | GECCO | Quad Search and Hybrid Genetic Algorithms. | L. Darrell Whitley, Deon Garrett, Jean-Paul Watson |
| 2002 | PPSN | Satellite Range Scheduling: A Comparison of Genetic, Heuristic and Local Search. | Laura Barbulescu, Adele E. Howe, Jean-Paul Watson, L. Darrell Whitley |
| 2000 | AAAI | Dynamic Representations and Escaping Local Optima: Improving Genetic Algorithms and Local Search. | Laura Barbulescu, Jean-Paul Watson, L. Darrell Whitley |
| 2000 | FOGA | Local Search and High Precision Gray Codes: Convergence Results and Neighborhoods. | L. Darrell Whitley, Laura Barbulescu, Jean-Paul Watson |
| 2000 | GECCO | A Hybrid Genetic Algorithm for the Quadratic Assignment Problem. | Manuel Vzquez, L. Darrell Whitley |
| 2000 | GECCO | A Comparison of Genetic Algorithms for the Dynamic Job Shop Scheduling Problem. | Manuel Vzquez, L. Darrell Whitley |
| 2000 | PPSN | A Comparison of Genetic Algorithms for the Static Job Shop Scheduling Problem. | Manuel Vzquez, L. Darrell Whitley |
| 2000 | PPSN | Functions as Permutations: Regarding No Free Lunch, Walsh Analysis and Summary Statistics. | L. Darrell Whitley |
| 2000 | WACV | Augmented geophysical data interpretation through automated velocity picking in semblance velocity images. | J. Ross Beveridge, Charlie Ross, L. Darrell Whitley, Barry Fish |
| 1999 | AAAI | Algorithm Performance and Problem Structure for Flow-shop Scheduling. | Jean-Paul Watson, Laura Barbulescu, Adele E. Howe, L. Darrell Whitley |
| 1999 | GECCO | Genetic Approach to Feature Selection for Ensemble Creation. | Cesar Guerra-Salcedo, L. Darrell Whitley |
| 1999 | GECCO | Polynomial Time Summary Statistics for a Generalization of MAXSAT. | Robert B. Heckendorn, Soraya B. Rana, L. Darrell Whitley |
| 1998 | AAAI | A Tractable Walsh Analysis of SAT and its Implications for Genetic Algorithms. | Soraya B. Rana, Robert B. Heckendorn, L. Darrell Whitley |
| 1998 | FOGA | Test Function Generators as Embedded Landscapes. | Robert B. Heckendorn, Soraya B. Rana, L. Darrell Whitley |
| 1998 | FOGA | A Formal Language for Permutation Recombination Operators. | Michael D. Vose, L. Darrell Whitley |
| 1998 | PPSN | Genetic Algorithm Behavior in the MAXSAT Domain. | Soraya B. Rana, L. Darrell Whitley |
| 1998 | PPSN | The Traveling Salesrep Problem, Edge Assembly Crossover, and 2-opt. | Jean-Paul Watson, Charlie Ross, V. Eisele, Jason Denton, Jos Bins, C. Guerra, L. Darrell Whitley, Adele E. Howe |
| 1998 | SMC | Comparing heuristic search methods and genetic algorithms for warehouse scheduling. | L. Darrell Whitley, Adele E. Howe, Soraya B. Rana, Jean-Paul Watson, Laura Barbulescu |
| 1998 | SMC | Comparing heuristic search methods and genetic algorithms for warehouse scheduling. | L. Darrell Whitley, Adele E. Howe, Soraya B. Rana, Jean-Paul Watson, Laura Barbulescu |
| 1997 | AAAI | Representation, Search and Genetic Algorithms. | L. Darrell Whitley, Soraya B. Rana |
| 1996 | FOGA | Nonlinearity, Hyperplane Ranking and the Simple Genetic Algorithm. | Robert B. Heckendorn, L. Darrell Whitley, Soraya B. Rana |
| 1996 | PPSN | Searching in the Presence of Noise. | Soraya B. Rana, L. Darrell Whitley, Ronald Cogswell |
| 1994 | FOGA | Modeling Simple Genetic Algorithms for Permutation Problems. | L. Darrell Whitley, Nam-Wook Yoo |
| 1994 | ICEC | Initial Performance Comparisons for the Delta Coding Algorithm. | Keith E. Mathias, L. Darrell Whitley |
| 1994 | ICEC | Transforming the Search Space with Gray Coding. | Keith E. Mathias, L. Darrell Whitley |
| 1994 | ICEC | Staged Hybrid Genetic Search for Seismic Data Imaging. | Keith E. Mathias, L. Darrell Whitley, Christof Stork, Tony Kusuma |
| 1994 | PPSN | Advanced Correlation Analysis of Operators for the Traveling Salesman Problem. | John Dzubera, L. Darrell Whitley |
| 1994 | PPSN | Lamarckian Evolution, The Baldwin Effect and Function Optimization. | L. Darrell Whitley, V. Scott Gordon, Keith E. Mathias |
| 1994 | SAC | A note on the performance of genetic algorithms on zero-one knapsack problems. | V. Scott Gordon, A. P. Wim Bhm, L. Darrell Whitley |
| 1994 | SAC | Cellular genetic algorithms as function optimizers: locality effects. | V. Scott Gordon, Keith E. Mathias, L. Darrell Whitley |
| 1992 | FOGA | Remapping Hyperspace During Genetic Search: Canonical Delta Folding. | Keith E. Mathias, L. Darrell Whitley |
| 1992 | FOGA | An Executable Model of a Simple Genetic Algorithm. | L. Darrell Whitley |
| 1992 | PPSN | Dataflow Parallelism in Genetic Algorithms. | V. Scott Gordon, L. Darrell Whitley, A. P. Wim Bhm |
| 1992 | PPSN | Genetic Operators, the Fitness Landscape and the Traveling Salesman Problem. | Keith E. Mathias, L. Darrell Whitley |
| 1991 | ISSRE | Prediction of software reliability using neural networks. | Nachimuthu Karunanithi, Yashwant K. Malaiya, L. Darrell Whitley |
| 1990 | FOGA | Fundamental Principles of Deception in Genetic Search. | L. Darrell Whitley |
| 1990 | MICRO | Motivation and framework for using genetic algorithms for microcode compaction. | Steven J. Beaty, L. Darrell Whitley, Gearold Johnson |
| 1990 | PPSN | Optimization Using Distributed Genetic Algorithms. | Timothy Starkweather, L. Darrell Whitley, Keith E. Mathias |