Books and Edited Books

• P.M.B. Vitanyi, Lindenmayer Systems: Structure, Languages, and Growth Functions. MC-Tract 96, Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam, 1980. (209 pp, corresponds to Ph. D. Thesis of 1978.)

Journal Articles

• R.L. Cilibasi and P.M.B. Vitanyi, Phylogeny of the COVID-19 Virus SARS-CoV-2 by Compression, doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.07.22.216242
• P.M.B. Vitanyi, Information distance in multiples, IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, 57:4(2011), 2451-2456.
• R. Cilibrasi, P.M.B. Vitanyi, A fast quartet tree heuristic for hierarchical clustering, Pattern Recognition, 44 (2011) 662-677.
• S.A. Terwijn, L. Torenvliet, and P.M.B. Vitanyi, Nonapproximability of the Normalized Information Distance, J. Comput. System Sciences, 77:4(2011), 738-742.
• P. Vitanyi, Asshuku ni Motozuita Hanyou na Ruijido Sokuteihou, Surikagaku, No. 519, Sept. 2006, 54--59. (Japanese, translated by O. Watanabe, English title: Universal similarity based on compression.)
• R. Cilibrasi, P.M.B. Vitanyi, Clustering by compression, IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, 51:12(2005), 1523- 1545.
• Ming Li, Xin Chen, Xin Li, Bin Ma, Paul Vitanyi, The similarity metric, IEEE Trans. Inform. Th., 50:12(2004), 3250- 3264.
• H. Diederik, P.P.H. Le Brun, H.W. Frijlink, P.M.B. Vitanyi, M. Weda, D.M. Barends, Drug output of unvented jet nebulizers as a function of time. International Journal of Pharmaceutics, 257:1-2(2003), 33--39.
• P.M.B. Vitanyi and A. Walker, Stable string languages of Lindenmayer systems, Information and Control 37 (1978), 137 - 149.
• G.T. Herman and P.M.B. Vitanyi, Growth functions associated with biological development, American Mathematical Monthly 83 (1976), 1 - 15.
• P.M.B. Vitanyi, On a problem in the collective behavior of automata, Discrete Mathematics 14 (1976), 99 - 101.
• P.M.B. Vitanyi, Context sensitive table Lindenmayer languages and a relation to the LBA problem, Information and Control 33 (1977), 217 - 226.
• P.M.B. Vitanyi, Deterministic Lindenmayer languages, nonterminals and homomorphisms, Theoretical Computer science 2 (1976), 49 - 71.
• P.M.B. Vitanyi, Structure of growth in Lindenmayer systems, Indagationes Mathematicae 35:3 , (1973), 247-253. (is Proc. Koninklijke Nederlandsche Akademie van Wetenschappen, Series A, 76:3(1973).)
• P.M.B. Vitanyi, Sexually reproducing cellular automata, Mathematical Biosciences 18 (1973) 23-54.

Conference Articles

• C. Costa Santos, J. Bernardes, P. Vitanyi, L. Antunes, Clustering fetal heart rate tracings by compression, Proc. 19th IEEE Symp. Computer-Based Medical Systems, 2006, 685-690.
• R. Cilibrasi, P.M.B. Vitanyi, A New Quartet Tree Heuristic for Hierarchical Clustering, EU-PASCAL Statistics and Optimization of Clustering Workshop, 5-6 Juli 2005, London, UK.
• Ming Li, Xin Chen, Xin Li, Bin Ma, Paul Vitanyi, The similarity metric, Proc. 14th ACM-SIAM Symp. Discrete Algorithms (SODA), 2003.
• P.M.B. Vitanyi, Digraphs associated with DOL systems. In: A. Lindenmayer and G. Rozenberg Eds., Automata, Languages, Development. North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1976, 335 - 346.
• P.M.B. Vitanyi, On the size of DOL-languages. In: G. Rozenberg and A. Salomaa Eds., L-Systems, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 15 , Springer Verlag, Berlin, 1974, 78 - 92.
• P.M.B. Vitanyi, Growth of strings in context dependent L-Systems. In: G. Rozenberg and A. Salomaa Eds., L-Systems, Lecture Note in Computer Science 15 , Springer Verlag, Berlin, 1974, 104 - 123.

Book Articles

• P.M.B. Vitanyi, Development, Growth and Time. In: The Book of L, G. Rozenberg and A. Salomaa, Eds., Springer Verlag, Berlin, 1985, 431-444.

Unpublished

• P.M.B. Vitanyi, On Generalized Cellular Automata and Sexually Reproducing Cellular Automata. Masters Thesis, Dept. of Mathematics, Technological University of Delft, 1971. (117 pp.)