| 2026 | GECCO | Evolutionary Generative AI: Synthesis, Optimization, and Creativity. | Penousal Machado, Joo Correia |
| 2026 | GECCO | Inference-Time Optimization of Prompt Embeddings in Diffusion Models: A Comparison of sep-CMA-ES and Adam. | Domcio Pereira Neto, Penousal Machado, Joo Correia |
| 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 |
| 2025 | GECCO | Evolutionary Art and Design in the Machine Learning Era. | Penousal Machado, Joo Correia |
| 2025 | GECCO | Contribution of Probabilistic Structured Grammatical Evolution to efficient exploration of the search space. A case study in glucose prediction. | Jessica Mgane, Nuno Loureno, J. Ignacio Hidalgo, Penousal Machado |
| 2025 | GECCO | Desire-Driven Selection: An Epigenetic Experiment in Genetic Programming. | Jos Maria Simes, Nuno Loureno, Penousal Machado |
| 2024 | CEC | Towards Evolution of Deep Neural Networks through Contrastive Self-Supervised Learning. | Adriano Vinhas, Joo Correia, Penousal Machado |
| 2024 | EPIA | MI-CCy Quantifier: A Framework for Quantifying Mixed-Initiative Co-creativity in Human-AI Collaborations. | Solange Margarido, Licnio Roque, Penousal Machado, Pedro Martins |
| 2024 | EPIA | Expanding Design Horizons: Evolutionary Tool for Parametric Design Exploration with Interactive and CLIP-Based Evaluation. | Ricardo Sacadura, Lus Gonalo, Tiago Martins, Penousal Machado |
| 2024 | EUROGP | Grammar-Based Evolution of Polyominoes. | Jessica Mgane, Eric Medvet, Nuno Loureno, Penousal Machado |
| 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 |
| 2024 | EvoMUSART | Evaluation Metrics for Automated Typographic Poster Generation. | Srgio M. Rebelo, Juan Julin Merelo, Joo Bicker, Penousal Machado |
| 2024 | GECCO | Exploring Evolutionary Generators within Generative Adversarial Networks. | Francisco Baeta, Joo Correia, Tiago Martins, Penousal Machado |
| 2024 | GECCO | Evolutionary Art and Design in the Machine Learning Era. | Penousal Machado, Joo Correia |
| 2024 | IJCAI | From Pixels to Metal: AI-Empowered Numismatic Art. | Penousal Machado, Tiago Martins, Joo Correia, Lus Esprito Santo, Nuno Loureno, Joo Miguel Cunha, Srgio Rebelo, Pedro Martins, Joo Bicker |
| 2023 | EUROGP | Context Matters: Adaptive Mutation for Grammars. | Pedro Carvalho, Jessica Mgane, Nuno Loureno, Penousal Machado |
| 2023 | EUROGP | All You Need is Sex for Diversity. | Jos Maria Simes, Nuno Loureno, Penousal Machado |
| 2023 | EvoMUSART | EvoDesigner: Aiding the Exploration of Innovative Graphic Design Solutions. | Daniel Lopes, Joo Correia, Penousal Machado |
| 2023 | EvoMUSART | Towards the Evolution of Prompts with MetaPrompter. | Tiago Martins, Joo Miguel Cunha, Joo Correia, Penousal Machado |
| 2023 | EvoMUSART | Using Autoencoders to Generate Skeleton-Based Typography. | Jssica Parente, Lus Gonalo, Tiago Martins, Joo Miguel Cunha, Joo Bicker, Penousal Machado |
| 2023 | GECCO | Exploring Generative Adversarial Networks for Text-to-Image Generation with Evolution Strategies. | Victor Costa, Nuno Loureno, Joo Correia, Penousal Machado |
| 2023 | GECCO | The Influence of Probabilistic Grammars on Evolution. | Jessica Mgane, Nuno Loureno, Penousal Machado, Dirk Schweim |
| 2023 | GECCO | Biological insights on grammar-structured mutations improve fitness and diversity. | Stefano Tiso, Pedro Carvalho, Nuno Loureno, Penousal Machado |
| 2022 | CEC | Probabilistic Structured Grammatical Evolution. | Jessica Mgane, Nuno Loureno, Penousal Machado |
| 2022 | EUROGP | Evolving Adaptive Neural Network Optimizers for Image Classification. | Pedro Carvalho, Nuno Loureno, Penousal Machado |
| 2022 | GECCO | TGPGAN: towards expression-based generative adversarial networks. | Francisco Baeta, Joo Correia, Tiago Martins, Penousal Machado |
| 2022 | GECCO | Exploring expression-based generative adversarial networks. | Francisco Baeta, Joo Correia, Tiago Martins, Penousal Machado |
| 2022 | GECCO | Co-evolutionary probabilistic structured grammatical evolution. | Jessica Mgane, Nuno Loureno, Penousal Machado |
| 2021 | EUROGP | Probabilistic Grammatical Evolution. | Jessica Mgane, Nuno Loureno, Penousal Machado |
| 2021 | GECCO | Speed benchmarking of genetic programming frameworks. | Francisco Baeta, Joo Correia, Tiago Martins, Penousal Machado |
| 2021 | GECCO | Improved evolution of generative adversarial networks. | Victor Costa, Nuno Loureno, Joo Correia, Penousal Machado |
| 2021 | GECCO | On the exploitation of neuroevolutionary information. | Unai Garciarena, Nuno Loureno, Penousal Machado, Roberto Santana, Alexander Mendiburu |
| 2021 | GECCO | Evolutionary art and design: representation, fitness and interaction. | Penousal Machado |
| 2021 | IV | Visualisation Tool to Support Fraud Detection. | Pedro Silva, Catarina Mas, Evgheni Polisciuc, Penousal Machado |
| 2020 | ArtsIT | Evolutionary Typesetting: An Automatic Approach Towards the Generation of Typographic Posters from Tweets. | Srgio M. Rebelo, Joo Bicker, Penousal Machado |
| 2020 | ECAI | Towards Latent Space Exploration for Classifier Improvement. | Paulo Fernandes, Joo Correia, Penousal Machado |
| 2020 | EUROGP | Incremental Evolution and Development of Deep Artificial Neural Networks. | Filipe Assuno, Nuno Loureno, Bernardete Ribeiro, Penousal Machado |
| 2020 | GECCO | AutoLR: an evolutionary approach to learning rate policies. | Pedro Carvalho, Nuno Loureno, Filipe Assuno, Penousal Machado |
| 2020 | GECCO | Exploring the evolution of GANs through quality diversity. | Victor Costa, Nuno Loureno, Joo Correia, Penousal Machado |
| 2020 | GECCO | Adea - Evolving glyphs for aiding creativity in typeface design. | Daniel Lopes, Joo Correia, Penousal Machado |
| 2020 | IV | Exploring Time-Series Through Force-Directed Timelines. | Antnio Cruz, Joel P. Arrais, Penousal Machado |
| 2020 | IV | VaBank: Visual Analytics for Banking Transactions. | Catarina Mas, Evgheni Polisciuc, Penousal Machado |
| 2020 | IV | Money Leave(s) Portugal: an Aesthetic Exploration of Public Investments. | Pedro Silva, Pedro Martins, Penousal Machado |
| 2019 | EUROGP | Fast DENSER: Efficient Deep NeuroEvolution. | Filipe Assuno, Nuno Loureno, Penousal Machado, Bernardete Ribeiro |
| 2019 | GECCO | Evolutionary data augmentation in deep face detection. | Joo Correia, Tiago Martins, Penousal Machado |
| 2019 | GECCO | COEGAN: evaluating the coevolution effect in generative adversarial networks. | Victor Costa, Nuno Loureno, Joo Correia, Penousal Machado |
| 2019 | ICAART | Evolving Art. | Penousal Machado |
| 2018 | ArtsIT | Evolving Virtual Ecology. | Gloriya Gostyaeva, Penousal Machado, Tiago Martins |
| 2018 | ArtsIT | Interactive Evolution of Swarms for the Visualisation of Consumptions. | Catarina Mas, Nuno Loureno, Penousal Machado |
| 2018 | CEC | Automatic Evolution of AutoEncoders for Compressed Representations. | Filipe Assuno, David Sereno, Nuno Loureno, Penousal Machado, Bernardete Ribeiro |
| 2018 | EUROGP | Using GP Is NEAT: Evolving Compositional Pattern Production Functions. | Filipe Assuno, Nuno Loureno, Penousal Machado, Bernardete Ribeiro |
| 2018 | EUROGP | Evolving the Topology of Large Scale Deep Neural Networks. | Filipe Assuno, Nuno Loureno, Penousal Machado, Bernardete Ribeiro |
| 2018 | IV | Interactive Network Visualization of Gene Expression Time-Series Data. | Antnio Cruz, Joel P. Arrais, Penousal Machado |
| 2018 | IV | The Many-Faced Plot: Strategy for Automatic Glyph Generation. | Joo Miguel Cunha, Evgheni Polisciuc, Pedro Martins, Penousal Machado |
| 2018 | IV | Olhos Music Fest _Branding. | Daniel Lopes, Pedro Martins, Penousal Machado |
| 2018 | IV | Consumption as a Rhythm: A Multimodal Experiment on the Representation of Time-Series. | Catarina Mas, Pedro Martins, Penousal Machado |
| 2018 | IV | Radial Calendar of Consumption. | Catarina Mas, Penousal Machado |
| 2018 | IV | MixMash: A Visualisation System for Musical Mashup Creation. | Catarina Mas, Ana Rodrigues, Gilberto Bernardes, Penousal Machado |
| 2017 | CEC | Automatic generation of neural networks with structured Grammatical Evolution. | Filipe Assuno, Nuno Loureno, Penousal Machado, Bernardete Ribeiro |
| 2017 | GECCO | On the role of aesthetics in genetic algorithms applied to graph drawing. | Evgheni Polisciuc, Antnio Cruz, Penousal Machado, Joel P. Arrais |
| 2016 | GECCO | Evotype: From Shapes to Glyphs. | Tiago Martins, Joo Correia, Ernesto Costa, Penousal Machado |
| 2016 | SIGGRAPH | Hexagonal gridded maps and information layers: a novel approach for the exploration and analysis of retail data. | Evgheni Polisciuc, Catarina Mas, Filipe Assuno, Penousal Machado |
| 2015 | EPIA | Sound Visualization Through a Swarm of Fireflies. | Ana Rodrigues, Penousal Machado, Pedro Martins, Amlcar Cardoso |
| 2015 | GECCO | ELICIT: Evolutionary Computation Visualization. | Antnio Cruz, Penousal Machado, Filipe Assuno, Antnio Leito |
| 2015 | ICCBR | Generation of Concept-Representative Symbols. | Joo Miguel Cunha, Pedro Martins, Amlcar Cardoso, Penousal Machado |
| 2015 | IJCAI | Evolving Families of Shapes. | Filipe Assuno, Joo Correia, Pedro Martins, Penousal Machado |
| 2015 | IJCAI | Swarm Systems in the Visualization of Consumption Patterns. | Catarina Mas, Pedro Cruz, Pedro Martins, Penousal Machado |
| 2015 | IJCAI | Evolving Ambiguous Images. | Penousal Machado, Adriano Vinhas, Joo Correia, Anik Ekrt |
| 2015 | IDC | A Distributed Approach to Computational Creativity. | Amlcar Cardoso, Pedro Martins, Filipe Assuno, Joo Correia, Penousal Machado |
| 2014 | GECCO | Semantic aware methods for evolutionary art. | Penousal Machado, Joo Correia |
| 2013 | CEC | A self-adaptive Mate Choice model for Symbolic Regression. | Antnio Leito, Jos Carlos Neves, Penousal Machado |
| 2013 | GECCO | Self-adaptive mate choice for cluster geometry optimization. | Antnio Leito, Penousal Machado |
| 2013 | SIGGRAPH | Musical flocks. | Ruslan Kamolov, Penousal Machado, Pedro Cruz |
| 2013 | SIGGRAPH | Visualizing the flow of users on a wireless network. | Ruslan Kamolov, Penousal Machado, Pedro Cruz |
| 2013 | SIGGRAPH | The garden of virtual delights: virtual fauna for a botanical garden. | Tiago Martins, Penousal Machado, Artur Rebelo |
| 2013 | SIGGRAPH | Visualizing urban mobility. | Evgheni Polisciuc, Ana Alves, Carlos Bento, Penousal Machado |
| 2012 | CEC | Enhancing cluster geometry optimization with Island Models. | Antnio Leito, Francisco Baptista Pereira, Penousal Machado |
| 2012 | EUROGP | Improving Face Detection. | Penousal Machado, Joo Correia, Juan Romero |
| 2012 | GECCO | Improving haar cascade classifiers through the synthesis of new training examples. | Joo Correia, Penousal Machado, Juan Romero |
| 2012 | GECCO | Photogrowth: non-photorealistic renderings through ant paintings. | Penousal Machado, Lus Pereira |
| 2012 | SIGGRAPH | Graphic narratives: generative book covers. | Lgia Duro, Penousal Machado, Artur Rebelo |
| 2011 | EUROGP | Evolving Fitness Functions for Mating Selection. | Penousal Machado, Antnio Leito |
| 2011 | SIGGRAPH | Visualizing the circulatory problems of Lisbon. | Pedro Cruz, Penousal Machado |
| 2011 | SIGGRAPH | Abstract ocean waves. | Lgia Duro, Pedro Cruz, Penousal Machado |
| 2010 | SIGGRAPH | Visualizing empires decline. | Pedro Cruz, Penousal Machado |
| 2009 | IJCCI | Simulating Artist and Critic Dynamics - An Agent-based Application of an Evolutionary Art System. | Gary Greenfield, Penousal Machado |
| 2007 | AAAI | A Corpus-Based Hybrid Approach to Music Analysis and Composition. | Bill Z. Manaris, Patrick Roos, Penousal Machado, Dwight Krehbiel, Luca Pellicoro, Juan Romero |
| 2005 | FlAIRS | Artificial Inmune System Based Art. | Juan Romero, Estanislao Sanmartn, Penousal Machado, Antonino Santos |
| 2004 | EUROGP | On the Evolution of Evolutionary Algorithms. | Jorge Tavares, Penousal Machado, Amlcar Cardoso, Francisco Baptista Pereira, Ernesto Costa |
| 2003 | EPIA | Computational Creativity. | Amlcar Cardoso, Penousal Machado |
| 2003 | SAC | On the Influence of GVR in Vehicle Routing. | Jorge Tavares, Francisco Baptista Pereira, Penousal Machado, Ernesto Costa |
| 2002 | GECCO | Vehicle Routing Problem: Doing It The Evolutionary Way. | Penousal Machado, Jorge Tavares, Francisco Baptista Pereira, Ernesto Costa |
| 2000 | CEC | Too busy to learn [individual learning interaction with evolutionary algorithm in Busy Beaver problem]. | Francisco Baptista Pereira, Penousal Machado, Ernesto Costa, Amlcar Cardoso, Alberto Ochoa-Rodrguez, Roberto Santana, Marta Soto |
| 2000 | GECCO | Probabilistic Evolution and the Busy Beaver Problem. | Roberto Santana, Alberto Ochoa-Rodrguez, Marta Soto, Francisco Baptista Pereira, Penousal Machado, Ernesto Costa, Amlcar Cardoso |
| 1999 | EUROGP | Busy Beaver - The Influence of Representation. | Penousal Machado, Francisco Baptista Pereira, Amlcar Cardoso, Ernesto Costa |
| 1995 | EPIA | On the Role of Splitting and Merging Past Cases for Generation of a New Solution. | Carlos Bento, Penousal Machado, Ernesto Costa |