Extremal Optimization: Methods derived from Co-Evolution. - Stefan Boettcher; Allon G. Percus (GECCO, 1999)

Optimizing through Co-evolutionary Avalanches. - Stefan Boettcher; Allon G. Percus; Michelangelo Grigni (PPSN, 2000)

Nature's way of optimizing. - Stefan Boettcher; Allon G. Percus (Artif. Intell., 2000)

Extremal optimization: heuristics via coevolutionary avalanches. - Stefan Boettcher (Comput. Sci. Eng., 2000)

Efficient Local Search Near Phase Transitions in CombinatorialOptimization. - Stefan Boettcher (Graphs, Morphisms and Statistical Physics, 2001)

Extremal Optimization for Graph Partitioning - Stefan Boettcher; Allon G. Percus (CoRR, 2001)

Jamming Model for the Extremal Optimization Heuristic - Stefan Boettcher; Michelangelo Grigni (CoRR, 2001)

Extremal Optimization: an Evolutionary Local-Search Algorithm - Stefan Boettcher; Allon G. Percus (CoRR, 2002)

Evolutionary local-search with external optimization. - Stefan Boettcher (Neural Parallel Sci. Comput., 2002)

Optimization with extremal dynamics. - Stefan Boettcher; Allon G. Percus (Complex., 2003)

Spines of Random Constraint Satisfaction Problems: Definition and Impact on Computational Complexity. - Stefan Boettcher; Gabriel Istrate; Allon G. Percus (AI&M, 2004)

Self-organizing Dynamics for Optimization. - Stefan Boettcher (International Conference on Computational Science (2), 2005)

Spines of random constraint satisfaction problems: definition and connection with computational complexity. - Gabriel Istrate; Stefan Boettcher; Allon G. Percus (Ann. Math. Artif. Intell., 2005)

Analysis of the Karmarkar-Karp Differencing Algorithm - Stefan Boettcher; Stephan Mertens (CoRR, 2008)

The Peculiar Phase Structure of Random Graph Bisection - Allon G. Percus; Gabriel Istrate; Bruno Gonçalves; Robert Z. Sumi; Stefan Boettcher (CoRR, 2008)

Evolutionary Dynamics of Extremal Optimization. - Stefan Boettcher (LION, 2009)

Conjecture on the maximum cut and bisection width in random regular graphs - Lenka Zdeborová; Stefan Boettcher (CoRR, 2009)

Optimization of transport protocols with path-length constraints in complex networks - José J. Ramasco; Marta S. de la Lama; Eduardo Lopez; Stefan Boettcher (CoRR, 2010)

Quantum search algorithms on hierarchical networks. - Franklin de Lima Marquezino; Renato Portugal; Stefan Boettcher (ITW, 2011)

Renormalization of Spectra for Network Laplacian as Applied to Synchronization. - Stefan Boettcher (SITIS, 2012)

Jamming in hierarchical networks. - Xiang Cheng 002; Stefan Boettcher (Comput. Phys. Commun., 2015)

Moments of coinless quantum walks on lattices. - Raqueline Azevedo Medeiros Santos; Renato Portugal; Stefan Boettcher (Quantum Inf. Process., 2015)

Determining the Efficiency of Quantum Search Algorithms with the Renormalization Group. - Stefan Boettcher; Shanshan Li; Tharso D. Fernandes; Renato Portugal (CoRR, 2017)

Analysis of the Relation between Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) and the Spin Glass Ground-State Problem. - Stefan Boettcher (CoRR, 2019)

Inability of a graph neural network heuristic to outperform greedy algorithms in solving combinatorial optimization problems like Max-Cut. - Stefan Boettcher (CoRR, 2022)

Deep reinforced learning heuristic tested on spin-glass ground states: The larger picture. - Stefan Boettcher (CoRR, 2023)

Inability of a graph neural network heuristic to outperform greedy algorithms in solving combinatorial optimization problems. - Stefan Boettcher (Nat. Mac. Intell., 2023)