The human use of information-I: Signal detection for the case of the signal known exactly. - Wilson P. Tanner; John A. Swets (Trans. IRE Prof. Group Inf. Theory, 1954)

The human use of information-III: Decision-making in signal detection and recognition situations involving multiple alternatives. - John A. Swets; Theodore G. Birdsall (IRE Trans. Inf. Theory, 1956)

Sound learning: an application of a computer to automated teaching. - John A. Swets (Commun. ACM, 1961)

The ABC's of BBN: From Acoustics to Behavioral Sciences to Computers. - John A. Swets (IEEE Ann. Hist. Comput., 2005)