Frankland, C., Pillay, N. (2015) Evolving Game Playing Strategies for Othello. In proceedings of the 2015 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2015), 25-28 May 2015, Sendai, Japan, 1498-1504.
Shaik, MZ, Swart, I, Pillay, N. (2015) Persistent Technical Difficulties Preventing Effective Software Assurance. In proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Cyber and Warfare and Security (ICCWS 2015), 24-25 March 2015, Kruger National Park, South Africa, 295-304.
Ragalo, A., Pillay N. (2014) A Hyper-Heuristic Approach Towards Mitigating Premature Convergence Caused by the Objective Fitness Function in GP. In proceedings of the 14th International Conference on the Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA 2014), 68-75, Okinawa, Japan, 27-29 November 2014.
Dufourq, E. Pillay, N. (2014) Hybridizing Evolutionary Algorithms for Creating Classifier Ensembles. In proceedings of the 6th World Conference on Nature and Biologically Inspired Computing, NaBIC 2014, 84-90, 30 July - 1 August 2014, Porto, Portugal.
Pillay, N. (2014) A Study of the Practical and Tutorial Scheduling Problem. In proceedings of the 10th International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling, 380-396, 26-29 August 2014, York, UK.
Rae, C, Pillay, N. (2014) Investigation into an Evolutionary Algorithm Hyper-Heuristic for the Nurse Rostering Problem. In proceedings of the 10th International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling, 527-532, 26-29 August 2014, York, UK.
Dufourq, E., Pillay, N. Incorporating Adaptive Discretization into Genetic Programming for Data Classification. In proceedings of proceedings of WICT 2013 (Data Mining Track), 127-133, December 2013, Hanoi, Vietnam.
Dufourq, E., Pillay, N. A Comparison of Genetic Programming Representations for Binary Data Classification. In proceedings s of WICT 2013 (Data Mining Track), 134-140, December 2013, Hanoi, Vietnam.
Dufourq, E., Pillay, N. A Preliminary Study on the Reuse of Subtrees within Decision Trees in a Genetic Programming Context for Data Classification. In proceedings of proceedings of WICT 2013 (Data Mining Track), 287-292, December 2013, Hanoi, Vietnam.
Igwe, K., Pillay, N. Automatic Programming Using Genetic Programming. In proceedings of proceedings of WICT 2013 (Nature Inspired Algorithms and their Applications Track), 339-344, December 2013, Hanoi, Vietnam.
Raghavjee, R., Pillay, N. A Study of Genetic Algorithms to Solve the School Timetabling Problem, F. Castro, A. Gelbukh, M.G. Mendoza (Eds.): MICAI 2013, Part II, LNAI 8266, pp. 64-80. Springer, Heidelberg, 2013.
Pillay, N. A Study of Hyper-Heuristics for Hybridizing Search, Advances in Artificial Intelligence - Proceedings of ALEA, 128-139, 9-12 September 2013, Portugal.
Ragalo, A., Pillay, N. A Building Block Conservation and Extension Mechanism for Improved Performance in Symbolic Regression Tree-Based Genetic Programming, in Proceedings of the 4th World Congress on Nature and Biologically Inspired Computing (NaBIC 2012), November 2012, 123-129, IEEE Press.
Raghavjee, R., Pillay, N. A Comparison of Genetic Algorithms and Genetic Programming in Solving School Timetabling Problems, in Proceedings of the 4th World Congress on Nature and Biologically Inspired Computing (NaBIC 2012), November 2012, 98-103, IEEE Press.
Rae, C., Pillay, N. A Preliminary Study into the Use of an Evolutionary Algorithm Hyper-Heuristic to Solve the Nurse Rostering Problem, in Proceedings of the 4th World Congress on Nature and Biologically Inspired Computing (NaBIC 2012), November 2012, 156-161, IEEE Press.
Pillay, N. Hyper-Heuristics for Educational Timetabling, in Proceedings of the international conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT 2012), Oslo, Norway, August 2012, 316-340.
Pillay, N. A Hyper-Heuristic Approach to Solving School Timetabling Problems, in Proceedings of MISTA 2011, Phoenix, Arizona, August 2011, 628-632.
Pillay, N. Evolving Heuristics for the School Timetabling Problem, in Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE Conference on Intelligent Computing and Intelligent Systems (ICIS 2011), Guangzhou, China, November 2011, Vol. 3, 281-286, IEEE Press.
Pillay, N. A Study of Noise Operators in the Developmental Approach for the Examination Timetabling Problem, in Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE Conference on Intelligent Computing and Intelligent Systems (ICIS 2011), Guangzhou, China, November 2011, Vol. 3, 534-538, IEEE Press.
Pillay, N. Evolving Hyper-Heuristics for a Highly Constrained Examination Timetabling Problem, in Proceedings of PATAT 2010, Belfast, UK, August 2010, 336-346.
Pillay, N. An Overview of School Timetabling, in Proceedings of PATAT 2010, Belfast, UK, August 2010, 321-335.
Raghavjee, R., Pillay, N. Using Genetic Algorithms to Solve the South African School Timetabling Problem, in Proceedings of NaBIC '10, Kitakyushu, Japan, December 2010, 293-299.
Els, R., Pillay, N. An Evolutionary Algorithm Hyper-Heuristic for Producing Feasible Timetables for the Curriculum-Based University Course Timetabling Problem, in Proceedings of NaBIC '10, Kitakyushu, Japan, December 2010, 468-473.
Pillay N., Evolving Hyper-Heuristics for the Uncapacitated Examination Timetabling Problem, in proceedings of the Multidisciplinary International Conference on Scheduling 2009 (MISTA 2009), Dublin, August 2009, 409-422.
Raghavjee R., Pillay N., Evolving Solutions to the School Timetabling Problem, in Proceedings of NaBIC ‘09 (World Conference on Nature and Biologically Inspired Computing), Coimbatore, India, December 2009, 1524-1527, IEEE Press.
Naidoo A., Pillay N., Evolving Finite Acceptors for Regular Languages, in Neves et al., New Trends in Artificial Intelligence, APPIA, 2007, 193 206.
Pillay N., An Investigation into Using Genetic Programming as a Means of Inducing Solutions to Novice Procedural Programming Problems, in the Proceedings of GECCO 2005, eds. Hans-Georg Beyer, Washington DC, June 2005, 1781 - 1782.
Reinhardt T., Pillay N., An Analysis of Spreadsheet Errors made by Computer Literacy Students, in Proceedings of ICALT 2004, Joensuu, Finland, September 2004, 852-853.
Pillay N., Evolving Solutions to ASCII Graphics Programming Problems in Intelligent Programming Tutors, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Applied Artificial Intelligence, Kolhapur, India, 2003, 236 - 243, TMRF.
Pillay N., Using Genetic Programming for the Induction of Novice Procedural Programming Solution Algorithms, in ACM Proceedings of the 2002 Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC2002), Madrid, Spain, March 2002, 578-584, ACM Press.
Pillay N., A Genetic Programming System for the Induction of Novice Programming Problems in Intelligent Programming Tutors, in Proceedings of Intech' 2001: 2nd International Conference on Intelligent Technologies, ed. T. Thitipong, Assumption University, Bangkok, November 2001,180-192.
Pillay N., Solving Programming Problems in Intelligent Programming Tutors for Teaching the Object-Oriented Programming Paradigm, in Proceedings of IWALT 2000: International Workshop on Advanced Learning Technologies, eds. Kinshuk, Jesshope C., Okamoto T., IEEE Computer Society, December 2000, 145-148.
Pillay N., Using Conceptual Graphs to Represent Object-Oriented Problem Domains in an Intelligent Programming Tutor, in Development and Practice of AI Techniques, proceedings of the ICAI 99 (International Conference on Artificial Intelligence) , editor D. Sha, Durban, South Africa, September 1999.
Pillay N., Representing Mathematical Functions in Application Domains of Object-Oriented Programming Problems, in Development and Practice of AI Techniques, proceedings of the ICAI ‘99 (International Conference on Artificial Intelligence), editor D. Sha, Durban, South Africa, September 1999.
Spear R.J., Pillay N., Using a Bulletin Board System for Collaborative, Cross-Cultural Learning, in selected papers from the 9th International Conference on College Teaching and Learning, editor J.A. Chambers, Florida Community College at Jacksonville, April 1998, 143-149.
Pillay N., Developing a Computer Mediated Communications System for Novice Computer Users Studying at a Distance, in the Proceedings of the Eighth National Conference on Teaching and Learning Using the World-Wide Web, Florida, USA, April 1997.
Pillay N., Dempster R., The Evaluation of a Computer Based Electronic Communications Facility as an Aid in the Instruction of Distance Education Courses, in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Assisted Education and Training in Developing Countries, Midrand, October 1994.