| 2023 | ICML | On Heterogeneous Treatment Effects in Heterogeneous Causal Graphs. | Richard A. Watson, Hengrui Cai, Xinming An, Samuel A. McLean, Rui Song |
| 2017 | GECCO | How to get more from your model: the role of constructive selection in estimation of distribution algorithms. | J. R. Caldwell, Richard A. Watson |
| 2014 | ALIFE | The Origin of Culture: Selective Conditions for Horizontal Information Transfer. | Miguel Gonzalez, Richard A. Watson, Jason Noble, Seth Bullock |
| 2014 | ALIFE | Pre-Template Metabolic Replicators: Genotype-Phenotype Decoupling as a Route to Evolvability. | William Hurndall, Richard A. Watson, Markus Brede |
| 2014 | ALIFE | Ecosystem Memory Is Emergent from Local-Level Natural Selection. | Daniel Power, Ers Szathmry, Richard A. Watson |
| 2014 | GECCO | Solving building block problems using generative grammar. | Chris R. Cox, Richard A. Watson |
| 2014 | PPSN | Inferring and Exploiting Problem Structure with Schema Grammar. | Chris R. Cox, Richard A. Watson |
| 2012 | ALIFE | Is Evolution by Natural Selection the Algorithm of Biological Evolution? | Richard A. Watson |
| 2010 | ALIFE | If You Can't Be With the One You Love, Love the One You're With - How Individual Habituation of Agent Interactions Improves Global Utility. | Adam P. Davies, Richard A. Watson, Rob Mills, Christopher L. Buckley, Jason Noble |
| 2010 | ALIFE | Selection Pressures for a Theory-of-Mind Faculty in Artificial Agents. | Jason Noble, Tom Hebbron, Johannes van der Horst, Rob Mills, Simon T. Powers, Richard A. Watson |
| 2010 | ALIFE | Systems Aikido - A Novel Approach to Managing Natural Systems. | Alexandra S. Penn, Richard A. Watson, Alexander Kraaijeveld, Jeremy Webb |
| 2010 | ALIFE | Associative Memory in Gene Regulation Networks. | Richard A. Watson, Christopher L. Buckley, Rob Mills, Adam P. Davies |
| 2010 | ALIFE | Adaptation without Natural Selection. | Richard A. Watson, Rob Mills, Christopher L. Buckley, Simon T. Powers, Alexandra S. Penn, Adam P. Davies, Jason Noble, Seth Bullock |
| 2008 | ALIFE | How epigenetic evolution can guide genetic evolution. | Graeme Groom, Rob Mills, Richard A. Watson |
| 2008 | ALIFE | Solving the division of labour problem using stigmergy and evolved heterogeneity. | Emyr James, Jason Noble, Richard A. Watson |
| 2008 | ALIFE | Adaptive units of selection can evolve complexes that are provably unevolvable under fixed units of selection. | Rob Mills, Richard A. Watson |
| 2008 | ALIFE | Mechanisms for the initiation of multicellularity in bacterial biofilms. | Alexandra S. Penn, Richard A. Watson, Simon T. Powers, Jeremy Webb, Alexander Kraaijeveld, Tim Conibear, Zoe Bigg |
| 2008 | ALIFE | The Efficacy of Group Selection is Increased by Coexistence Dynamics within Groups. | Simon T. Powers, Alexandra S. Penn, Richard A. Watson |
| 2008 | ALIFE | The group selection debate and ALife - weak altruism, strong altruism, and inclusive fitness. | Simon T. Powers, Richard A. Watson |
| 2008 | ALIFE | Can individual selection favour significant higher-level selection? | Richard A. Watson, Rob Mills, Alexandra S. Penn, Simon T. Powers |
| 2007 | GECCO | Variable discrimination of crossover versus mutation using parameterized modular structure. | Rob Mills, Richard A. Watson |
| 2007 | GECCO | Preliminary investigations into the evolution of cooperative strategies in a minimally spatial model. | Simon T. Powers, Richard A. Watson |
| 2007 | GECCO | A building-block royal road where crossover is provably essential. | Richard A. Watson, Thomas Jansen |
| 2005 | CEC | Multidimensional epistasis and the advantage of sex. | Richard A. Watson, John Wakeley |
| 2005 | GECCO | On the complexity of hierarchical problem solving. | Edwin D. de Jong, Richard A. Watson, Dirk Thierens |
| 2005 | GECCO | A generator for hierarchical problems. | Edwin D. de Jong, Richard A. Watson, Dirk Thierens |
| 2004 | PPSN | Hierarchical Genetic Algorithms. | Edwin D. de Jong, Dirk Thierens, Richard A. Watson |
| 2004 | PPSN | A Simple Two-Module Problem to Exemplify Building-Block Assembly Under Crossover. | Richard A. Watson |
| 2002 | PPSN | On the Utility of Redundant Encodings in Mutation-Based Evolutionary Search. | Joshua D. Knowles, Richard A. Watson |
| 2001 | EMO | Reducing Local Optima in Single-Objective Problems by Multi-objectivization. | Joshua D. Knowles, Richard A. Watson, David Corne |
| 2000 | CEC | Co-evolutionary dynamics on a deformable landscape. | Marc Ebner, Richard A. Watson, Jason Alexander |
| 2000 | FOGA | Analysis of recombinative algorithms on a non-separable building-block problem. | Richard A. Watson |
| 2000 | GECCO | Recombination Without Respect: Schema Combination and Disruption in Genetic Algorithm Grossover. | Richard A. Watson, Jordan B. Pollack |
| 2000 | PPSN | Symbiotic Combination as an Alternative to Sexual Recombination in Genetic Algorithms. | Richard A. Watson, Jordan B. Pollack |
| 1999 | CEC | Embodied evolution: embodying an evolutionary algorithm in a population of robots. | Richard A. Watson, Sevan G. Ficiei, Jordan B. Pollack |
| 1999 | CEC | Hierarchically consistent test problems for genetic algorithms. | Richard A. Watson, Jordan B. Pollack |
| 1998 | PPSN | Modeling Building-Block Interdependency. | Richard A. Watson, Gregory Hornby, Jordan B. Pollack |