| 2026 | GECCO | Logistic Loss: A Novel Fitness Function to Increase Generalisation and Performance for Binary Classification. | Jiajun Duan, Miguel Nicolau, Michael O'Neill |
| 2025 | GECCO | On the use of Hinge Loss as a Surrogate Fitness Function with Grammatical Evolution for Parkinson's Disease Classification. | Jiajun Duan, Miguel Nicolau, Michael O'Neill |
| 2025 | GECCO | Evolving to Extinction: a Case Study in Heuristic Search Dynamics. | James McDermott, Kostadin Dimanov Georgiev, Miguel Nicolau |
| 2018 | CEC | Towards Understanding and Refining the General Program Synthesis Benchmark Suite with Genetic Programming. | Stefan Forstenlechner, David Fagan, Miguel Nicolau, Michael O'Neill |
| 2018 | GECCO | Towards effective semantic operators for program synthesis in genetic programming. | Stefan Forstenlechner, David Fagan, Miguel Nicolau, Michael O'Neill |
| 2018 | GECCO | On the effect of function set to the generalisation of symbolic regression models. | Miguel Nicolau, Alexandros Agapitos |
| 2018 | GECCO | A black-box discrete optimization benchmarking (BB-DOB) pipeline survey: taxonomy, evaluation, and ranking. | Ales Zamuda, Miguel Nicolau, Christine Zarges |
| 2018 | PPSN | Extending Program Synthesis Grammars for Grammar-Guided Genetic Programming. | Stefan Forstenlechner, David Fagan, Miguel Nicolau, Michael O'Neill |
| 2017 | EUROGP | A Grammar Design Pattern for Arbitrary Program Synthesis Problems in Genetic Programming. | Stefan Forstenlechner, David Fagan, Miguel Nicolau, Michael O'Neill |
| 2017 | GECCO | Late-acceptance and step-counting hill-climbing GP for anomaly detection. | Van Loi Cao, Miguel Nicolau, James McDermott |
| 2017 | GECCO | Late-acceptance hill-climbing with a grammatical program representation. | James McDermott, Miguel Nicolau |
| 2016 | EUROGP | One-Class Classification for Anomaly Detection with Kernel Density Estimation and Genetic Programming. | Van Loi Cao, Miguel Nicolau, James McDermott |
| 2016 | EUROGP | Grammar Design for Derivation Tree Based Genetic Programming Systems. | Stefan Forstenlechner, Miguel Nicolau, David Fagan, Michael O'Neill |
| 2016 | GECCO | Managing Repetition in Grammar-Based Genetic Programming. | Miguel Nicolau, Michael Fenton |
| 2016 | PPSN | A Hybrid Autoencoder and Density Estimation Model for Anomaly Detection. | Van Loi Cao, Miguel Nicolau, James McDermott |
| 2015 | CEC | Deep evolution of image representations for handwritten digit recognition. | Alexandros Agapitos, Michael O'Neill, Miguel Nicolau, David Fagan, Ahmed Kattan, Anthony Brabazon, Kathleen M. Curran |
| 2015 | CEC | Guidelines for defining benchmark problems in Genetic Programming. | Miguel Nicolau, Alexandros Agapitos, Michael O'Neill, Anthony Brabazon |
| 2015 | GECCO | Introducing Semantic-Clustering Selection in Grammatical Evolution. | Stefan Forstenlechner, Miguel Nicolau, David Fagan, Michael O'Neill |
| 2014 | CEC | An examination of synchronisation in Artificial Gene Regulatory Networks. | Jonathan Byrne, Miguel Nicolau, Anthony Brabazon, Michael O'Neill |
| 2014 | CEC | Wave height quantification using land based seismic data with grammatical evolution. | Sarah Donne, Miguel Nicolau, Christopher J. Bean, Michael O'Neill |
| 2014 | CEC | Experiments in program synthesis with grammatical evolution: A focus on Integer Sorting. | Michael O'Neill, Miguel Nicolau, Alexandros Agapitos |
| 2012 | CEC | Termination in Grammatical Evolution: grammar design, wrapping, and tails. | Miguel Nicolau, Michael O'Neill, Anthony Brabazon |
| 2012 | EUROGP | Grammar Bias and Initialisation in Grammar Based Genetic Programming. | Eoin Murphy, Erik Hemberg, Miguel Nicolau, Michael O'Neill, Anthony Brabazon |
| 2012 | EUROGP | Evolving Interpolating Models of Net Ecosystem CO2 Exchange Using Grammatical Evolution. | Miguel Nicolau, Matthew Saunders, Michael O'Neill, Bruce Osborne, Anthony Brabazon |
| 2012 | GECCO | Towards adaptive mutation in grammatical evolution. | David Fagan, Erik Hemberg, Miguel Nicolau, Michael O'Neill, Sen McGarraghy |
| 2012 | GECCO | Comparing methods for module identification in grammatical evolution. | John Mark Swafford, Miguel Nicolau, Erik Hemberg, Michael O'Neill, Anthony Brabazon |
| 2012 | PPSN | Differential Gene Expression with Tree-Adjunct Grammars. | Eoin Murphy, Miguel Nicolau, Erik Hemberg, Michael O'Neill, Anthony Brabazon |
| 2012 | PPSN | Applying Genetic Regulatory Networks to Index Trading. | Miguel Nicolau, Michael O'Neill, Anthony Brabazon |
| 2011 | EUROGP | Investigation of the Performance of Different Mapping Orders for GE on the Max Problem. | David Fagan, Miguel Nicolau, Erik Hemberg, Michael O'Neill, Anthony Brabazon, Sen McGarraghy |
| 2011 | EUROGP | Exploring Grammatical Modification with Modules in Grammatical Evolution. | John Mark Swafford, Michael O'Neill, Miguel Nicolau, Anthony Brabazon |
| 2011 | GECCO | Dynamic ant: introducing a new benchmark for genetic programming in dynamic environments. | David Fagan, Miguel Nicolau, Erik Hemberg, Michael O'Neill, Anthony Brabazon |
| 2011 | GECCO | Dynamic environments can speed up evolution with genetic programming. | Michael O'Neill, Miguel Nicolau, Anthony Brabazon |
| 2011 | GECCO | A non-destructive grammar modification approach to modularity in grammatical evolution. | John Mark Swafford, Erik Hemberg, Michael O'Neill, Miguel Nicolau, Anthony Brabazon |
| 2010 | CEC | Investigating mapping order in piGE. | David Fagan, Miguel Nicolau, Michael O'Neill, Edgar Galvn Lpez, Anthony Brabazon, Sen McGarraghy |
| 2010 | EUROGP | Evolving Genes to Balance a Pole. | Miguel Nicolau, Marc Schoenauer, Wolfgang Banzhaf |
| 2009 | GECCO | Application of a simple binary genetic algorithm to a noiseless testbed benchmark. | Miguel Nicolau |
| 2009 | GECCO | Evolving specific network statistical properties using a gene regulatory network model. | Miguel Nicolau, Marc Schoenauer |
| 2008 | CEC | Evolving scale-free topologies using a Gene Regulatory Network model. | Miguel Nicolau, Marc Schoenauer |
| 2006 | CEC | Introducing Grammar Based Extensions for Grammatical Evolution. | Miguel Nicolau, Ian Dempsey |
| 2006 | CEC | Genetic Operators and Sequencing in the GAuGE System. | Miguel Nicolau, Conor Ryan |
| 2006 | EUROGP | Solving Sudoku with the GAuGE System. | Miguel Nicolau, Conor Ryan |
| 2005 | EUROGP | Zero Is ot a Four Letter Word: Studies in the Evolution of Language. | Christopher R. Stephens, Miguel Nicolau, Conor Ryan |
| 2004 | EUROGP | Efficient Crossover in the GAuGE System. | Miguel Nicolau, Conor Ryan |
| 2004 | GECCO | Crossover, Population Dynamics, and Convergence in the GAuGE System. | Miguel Nicolau, Conor Ryan |
| 2004 | GECCO | pi-Grammatical Evolution. | Michael O'Neill, Anthony Brabazon, Miguel Nicolau, Sen McGarraghy, Peter B. Keenan |
| 2003 | EUROGP | How Functional Dependency Adapts to Salience Hierarchy in the GAuGE System. | Miguel Nicolau, Conor Ryan |
| 2003 | GECCO | On the Avoidance of Fruitless Wraps in Grammatical Evolution. | Conor Ryan, Maarten Keijzer, Miguel Nicolau |
| 2002 | EUROGP | Genetic Algorithms Using Grammatical Evolution. | Conor Ryan, Miguel Nicolau, Michael O'Neill |
| 2002 | GECCO | LINKGAUGE: Tackling Hard Deceptive Problems With A New Linkage Learning Genetic Algorithm. | Miguel Nicolau, Conor Ryan |