| 2026 | GECCO | QD-LLMs: Quality-Diversity Optimization with LLMs for Generative Design Exploration. | Ariq Koh, Melvin Wong, Jiao Liu, Caishun Chen, Thiago Rios, Stefan Menzel, Yew Soon Ong |
| 2024 | CEC | Prompt Evolutionary Design Optimization with Generative Shape and Vision-Language models. | Melvin Wong, Thiago Rios, Stefan Menzel, Yew Soon Ong |
| 2023 | GECCO | A Novel Generalized Metaheuristic Framework for Dynamic Capacitated Arc Routing Problems. | Hao Tong, Leandro L. Minku, Stefan Menzel, Bernhard Sendhoff, Xin Yao |
| 2022 | CEC | Cooperative Multi-objective Topology Optimization Using Clustering and Metamodeling. | Nivesh Dommaraju, Mariusz Bujny, Stefan Menzel, Markus Olhofer, Fabian Duddeck |
| 2022 | CEC | Benchmarking Dynamic Capacitated Arc Routing Algorithms Using Real-World Traffic Simulation. | Hao Tong, Leandro L. Minku, Stefan Menzel, Bernhard Sendhoff, Xin Yao |
| 2022 | GECCO | What makes the dynamic capacitated Arc routing problem hard to solve: insights from fitness landscape analysis. | Hao Tong, Leandro L. Minku, Stefan Menzel, Bernhard Sendhoff, Xin Yao |
| 2022 | IJCNN | Spatio-Temporal Activity Recognition for Evolutionary Search Behavior Prediction. | Stephen Friess, Peter Tino, Stefan Menzel, Zhao Xu, Bernhard Sendhoff, Xin Yao |
| 2022 | IJCNN | Split-AE: An Autoencoder-based Disentanglement Framework for 3D Shape-to-shape Feature Transfer. | Sneha Saha, Leandro L. Minku, Xin Yao, Bernhard Sendhoff, Stefan Menzel |
| 2022 | PPSN | A Systematic Approach to Analyze the Computational Cost of Robustness in Model-Assisted Robust Optimization. | Sibghat Ullah, Hao Wang, Stefan Menzel, Bernhard Sendhoff, Thomas Bck |
| 2021 | CEC | Exploiting Local Geometric Features in Vehicle Design Optimization with 3D Point Cloud Autoencoders. | Thiago Rios, Bas van Stein, Patricia Wollstadt, Thomas Bck, Bernhard Sendhoff, Stefan Menzel |
| 2021 | CEC | Exploiting Linear Interpolation of Variational Autoencoders for Satisfying Preferences in Evolutionary Design Optimization. | Sneha Saha, Leandro L. Minku, Xin Yao, Bernhard Sendhoff, Stefan Menzel |
| 2021 | DSAA | Improved Automated CASH Optimization with Tree Parzen Estimators for Class Imbalance Problems. | Duc Anh Nguyen, Jiawen Kong, Hao Wang, Stefan Menzel, Bernhard Sendhoff, Anna V. Kononova, Thomas Bck |
| 2021 | GECCO | A hybrid local search framework for the dynamic capacitated arc routing problem. | Hao Tong, Leandro L. Minku, Stefan Menzel, Bernhard Sendhoff, Xin Yao |
| 2021 | GECCO | A new acquisition function for robust Bayesian optimization of unconstrained problems. | Sibghat Ullah, Hao Wang, Stefan Menzel, Bernhard Sendhoff, Thomas Bck |
| 2021 | IJCNN | Artificial Neural Networks as Feature Extractors in Continuous Evolutionary Optimization. | Stephen Friess, Peter Tio, Zhao Xu, Stefan Menzel, Bernhard Sendhoff, Xin Yao |
| 2021 | IWANN | Voxel-Based Three-Dimensional Neural Style Transfer. | Timo Friedrich, Barbara Hammer, Stefan Menzel |
| 2020 | CEC | Representing Experience in Continuous Evolutionary optimisation through Problem-tailored Search Operators. | Stephen Friess, Peter Tio, Stefan Menzel, Bernhard Sendhoff, Xin Yao |
| 2020 | CEC | Computational Study on Effectiveness of Knowledge Transfer in Dynamic Multi-objective Optimization. | Gan Ruan, Leandro L. Minku, Stefan Menzel, Bernhard Sendhoff, Xin Yao |
| 2020 | IJCNN | Feature Visualization for 3D Point Cloud Autoencoders. | Thiago Rios, Bas van Stein, Stefan Menzel, Thomas Bck, Bernhard Sendhoff, Patricia Wollstadt |
| 2020 | IJCNN | Exploring Clinical Time Series Forecasting with Meta-Features in Variational Recurrent Models. | Ullah Ullah, Zhao Xu, Hao Wang, Stefan Menzel, Bernhard Sendhoff, Thomas Bck |
| 2020 | PAKDD | On the Performance of Oversampling Techniques for Class Imbalance Problems. | Jiawen Kong, Thiago Rios, Wojtek Kowalczyk, Stefan Menzel, Thomas Bck |
| 2020 | PPSN | Improving Sampling in Evolution Strategies Through Mixture-Based Distributions Built from Past Problem Instances. | Stephen Friess, Peter Tio, Stefan Menzel, Bernhard Sendhoff, Xin Yao |
| 2020 | PPSN | Improving Imbalanced Classification by Anomaly Detection. | Jiawen Kong, Wojtek Kowalczyk, Stefan Menzel, Thomas Bck |
| 2020 | PPSN | Towards Novel Meta-heuristic Algorithms for Dynamic Capacitated Arc Routing Problems. | Hao Tong, Leandro L. Minku, Stefan Menzel, Bernhard Sendhoff, Xin Yao |
| 2019 | ICDM | Identifying Topological Prototypes using Deep Point Cloud Autoencoder Networks. | Nivesh Dommaraju, Mariusz Bujny, Stefan Menzel, Markus Olhofer, Fabian Duddeck |
| 2019 | ICDM | Learning Time-Series Data of Industrial Design Optimization using Recurrent Neural Networks. | Sneha Saha, Thiago Rios, Stefan Menzel, Bernhard Sendhoff, Thomas Bck, Xin Yao, Zhao Xu, Patricia Wollstadt |
| 2018 | GECCO | Orthogonalization of linear representations for efficient evolutionary design optimization. | Andreas Richter, Stefan Dresselhaus, Stefan Menzel, Mario Botsch |
| 2017 | CEC | Preference-guided adaptation of deformation representations for evolutionary design optimization. | Andreas Richter, Stefan Menzel, Mario Botsch |
| 2017 | EMO | Multi-objective Representation Setups for Deformation-Based Design Optimization. | Andreas Richter, Jascha Achenbach, Stefan Menzel, Mario Botsch |
| 2016 | CEC | Evolvability as a quality criterion for linear deformation representations in evolutionary optimization. | Andreas Richter, Jascha Achenbach, Stefan Menzel, Mario Botsch |
| 2015 | CEC | Evolvability of representations in complex system engineering: A survey. | Andreas Richter, Mario Botsch, Stefan Menzel |
| 2014 | CEC | A cascaded evolutionary multi-objective optimization for solving the unbiased universal electric motor family problem. | Timo Friedrich, Stefan Menzel |
| 2012 | CEC | Evolvability as concept for the optimal design of free-form deformation control volumes. | Henry Lehmann, Stefan Menzel |
| 2012 | CEC | Multi co-objective evolutionary optimization: Cross surrogate augmentation for computationally expensive problems. | Minh Nghia Le, Yew-Soon Ong, Stefan Menzel, Chun-Wei Seah, Bernhard Sendhoff |
| 2012 | ICPRAM | Decomposition of Multimodal Data for Affordance-based Identification of Potential Grasps. | Daniel Dornbusch, Robert Haschke, Stefan Menzel, Heiko Wersing |
| 2011 | CEC | Evolvable free-form deformation control volumes for evolutionary design optimization. | Stefan Menzel |
| 2010 | ESANN | Finding correlations in multimodal data using decomposition approaches. | Daniel Dornbusch, Robert Haschke, Stefan Menzel, Heiko Wersing |
| 2010 | FlAIRS | Correlating Shape and Functional Properties Using Decomposition Approaches. | Daniel Dornbusch, Robert Haschke, Stefan Menzel, Heiko Wersing |
| 2008 | IJCNN | Unsupervised extraction of design components for a 3D parts-based representation. | Zdravko Bozakov, Lars Grning, Stephan Hasler, Heiko Wersing, Stefan Menzel |
| 2006 | PPSN | Direct Manipulation of Free Form Deformation in Evolutionary Design Optimisation. | Stefan Menzel, Markus Olhofer, Bernhard Sendhoff |