| 2021 | SPIRE | Extracting the Sparse Longest Common Prefix Array from the Suffix Binary Search Tree. | Tomohiro I, Robert W. Irving, Dominik Kppl, Lorna Love |
| 2016 | SAGT | The Stable Roommates Problem with Short Lists. | gnes Cseh, Robert W. Irving, David F. Manlove |
| 2014 | IWOCA | Profile-Based Optimal Matchings in the Student/Project Allocation Problem. | Augustine Kwanashie, Robert W. Irving, David F. Manlove, Colin T. S. Sng |
| 2010 | CIAC | Popular Matchings in the Marriage and Roommates Problems. | Pter Bir, Robert W. Irving, David F. Manlove |
| 2009 | COCOON | Popular Matchings: Structure and Algorithms. | Eric McDermid, Robert W. Irving |
| 2007 | COCOON | An 8/5-Approximation Algorithm for a Hard Variant of Stable Marriage. | Robert W. Irving, David F. Manlove |
| 2005 | SODA | Popular matchings. | David J. Abraham, Robert W. Irving, Telikepalli Kavitha, Kurt Mehlhorn |
| 2004 | SODA | Rank-maximal matchings. | Robert W. Irving, Telikepalli Kavitha, Kurt Mehlhorn, Dimitrios Michail, Katarzyna E. Paluch |
| 2003 | ISAAC | The Student-Project Allocation Problem. | David J. Abraham, Robert W. Irving, David F. Manlove |
| 2003 | STACS | Strong Stability in the Hospitals/Residents Problem. | Robert W. Irving, David F. Manlove, Sandy Scott |
| 2001 | CP | A Constraint Programming Approach to the Stable Marriage Problem. | Ian P. Gent, Robert W. Irving, David F. Manlove, Patrick Prosser, Barbara M. Smith |
| 2001 | VLDB | A Database Index to Large Biological Sequences. | Ela Hunt, Malcolm P. Atkinson, Robert W. Irving |
| 1998 | ESA | Matching Medical Students to Pairs of Hospitals: A New Variation on a Well-Known Theme. | Robert W. Irving |
| 1994 | CPM | Maximal Common Subsequences and Minimal Common Supersequences. | Robert W. Irving, Campbell Fraser |
| 1993 | CPM | On the Worst-Case Behaviour of Some Approximation Algorithms for the Shortest Common Supersequence of k Strings. | Robert W. Irving, Campbell Fraser |
| 1992 | CPM | Two Algorithms for the Longest Common Subsequence of Three (or More) Strings. | Robert W. Irving, Campbell Fraser |