Computational replicators: A taxonomy of properties and a preliminary model. - Rafael Silveira Xavier; Leandro Nunes de Castro (NaBIC, 2010)

Bacterial colony: Information processing and computational behavior. - Rafael Silveira Xavier; Nizam Omar; Leandro Nunes de Castro (NaBIC, 2011)

The Grand Challenges in Natural Computing Research: The Quest for a New Science. - Leandro Nunes de Castro; Rafael Silveira Xavier; Rodrigo Pasti; Renato Dourado Maia; Alexandre Szabo; Daniel Gomes Ferrari (Int. J. Nat. Comput. Res., 2011)

Natural Information and Computation: A Proposal Based on Interaction and Decision Making. - Rafael Silveira Xavier; Leandro Nunes de Castro (AAAI Fall Symposia, 2013)

A Bacterial Colony Algorithm for Association Rule Mining. - Danilo Souza da Cunha; Rafael Silveira Xavier; Leandro Nunes de Castro (IDEAL, 2015)

Computação natural metateórica: um arcabouço conceitual para o estudo da computação na natureza. - Rafael Silveira Xavier (2015)

Bacterial Colony Algorithms Applied to Association Rule Mining in Static Data and Streams. - Danilo Souza da Cunha; Rafael Silveira Xavier; Daniel Gomes Ferrari; Leandro Nunes de Castro (PAAMS (Workshops), 2018)

Bacterial colonies as complex adaptive systems. - Danilo Souza da Cunha; Rafael Silveira Xavier; Leandro Nunes de Castro (Nat. Comput., 2018)