OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Natural Computing is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
An analysis of the relative effects of connectivity and coupling interactions on spin networks emulating the D-Wave 2000Q quantum annealer	36
Precise makespan optimization via hybrid genetic algorithm for scientific workflow scheduling problem	21
Computational complexity and pragmatic solutions for flexible tile based DNA self-assembly	17
Inductive inference of Lindenmayer systems: algorithms and computational complexity	15
Spiking neural P systems: main ideas and results	15
The threshold q-gram distance: a simple, efficient, and effective distance measure for genomic sequence comparison	14
Correction: Distinguishing genelet circuit input pulses via a pulse detector	13
Solitaire of independence	12
Gravitationally invariant subspaces in quantum computing	12
Preface	12
A formalization of co-transcriptional splicing as an operation on formal languages	11
Dividing sum of cycles in the semiring of functional digraphs	10
Preface	10
The structural power of reconfigurable circuits in the amoebot model	10
Associating parallel automata network dynamics and strictly one-way cellular automata	10
Cellular automata and Kan extensions	9
Pure reaction automata	9
Palindromes in adjacent factor swap of a word	9
Simulating and validating virus machines	9
Modernizing quantum annealing II: genetic algorithms with the inference primitive formalism	8
Koopman-based data-driven soft artificial life: obtaining rulesets from observed data	8
Variants of string assembling systems	8
Preface	8
Spiking neural P systems and their semantics in Haskell	8
A multipartite approach for the self-assembly of DNA graph structures	8

A reversible system based on hybrid toggle radius-4 cellular automata and its application as a block cipher	6
Simulation of the abstract Tile Assembly Model using crisscross slats (extended version)	6
The busy beaver game for reaction systems	6
A membrane computing approach to the generalized Nash equilibrium	5
Optimized P systems for number system conversion based on membrane computing	5
Modelling and evaluating restricted ESNs on single- and multi-timescale problems	5
GPU simulations of spiking neural P systems on modern web browsers	5
Programmable single-stranded architectures for computing	4
Generalized marked systems	4
A roadmap for solving optimization problems with estimation of distribution algorithms	4
Pure and mixed lexicographic-paretian many-objective optimization: state of the art	4
A survey on learning models of spiking neural membrane systems	4
Evolving ensembles of heuristics for the travelling salesman problem	4
On the spectrum between reaction systems and string rewriting	4
Editorial for the special issue on DNA computing and molecular programming	4
Algorithms for maximal existential and universal width	4
Preface	4
Reaction systems with self distinction	4
Deep learning networks with rough-refinement optimization for food quality assessment	4
Reaction mining for reaction systems	4
Cellular automata simulations of the sintering behavior of ceramics driven by surface energy reduction	4
Networks of splicing processors: path graph topology simulation	3
An exploration of reversible septenary number-conserving cellular automata: a survey of known methods	3
On categorical approach to reaction systems	3
Models to classify the difficulty of genetic algorithms to solve continuous optimization problems	3
On the complexity of freezing automata networks of bounded pathwidth	3
Proving new directed tile complexity lower bounds at temperature 1 by folding between 2D and just-barely 3D self-assembly	3
CA-NN: a cellular automata neural network for handwritten pattern recognition	3
Reaction systems with nondeterministic behaviour	3
Uniform robot relocation is hard in only two directions even without obstacles	3
Ants on the highway	3
All optical half adder and subtractor using single 2D photonic crystal structure	3
Synchronization of elementary cellular automata	3
Ranks of functions specified by minimal reaction systems and induced by images of singletons	3
Exponential separation between quantum and classical ordered binary decision diagrams, reordering method and hierarchies	3
Quantitative global analysis of a lane merging strategy for collaborative autonomous vehicles	3
Preface	2
Preface	2
What’s in a distance? Exploring the interplay between distance measures and internal cluster validity in multi-objective clustering	2
Information theoretical properties of a spiking neuron trained with Hebbian and STDP learning rules	2
Handling Sudoku puzzles with irregular learning cellular automata	2
On the power of boundary rule application in membrane computing	2
Solving subset sum and SAT problems by reaction systems	2
Improving 5 G base station placement through precise rooftop detection using super-resolution diffusion models and satellite image analysis	2
Real-time computing and robust memory with deterministic chemical reaction networks	2
A general framework for enhancing relaxed Pareto dominance methods in evolutionary many-objective optimization	2
The objective that freed me: a multi-objective local search approach for continuous single-objective optimization	2
A parallel data-structure for modular programming of triangulated computing media.	2
Integrated dynamic spiking neural P systems for fault line selection in distribution network	2
Preface	1

Bio-inspired modelling as a practical tool to manage giant panda population dynamics in captivity	1
Linear cuts in Boolean networks	1
A framework for monitored dynamic slicing of reaction systems	1
Cold dynamics in cellular automata: a tutorial	1
Reactamole: functional reactive molecular programming	1
Distinguishing genelet circuit input pulses via a pulse detector	1
Automatic design of arithmetic operation spiking neural P systems	1
Optimal safe driving dynamics for autonomous interacting vehicles	1
Solving quantum circuit compilation problem variants through genetic algorithms	1
Parallel pairwise operations on data stored in DNA: sorting, XOR, shifting, and searching	1
Population diversity and inheritance in genetic programming for symbolic regression	1
Estimates of the collective immunity to COVID-19 derived from a stochastic cellular automaton based framework	1
Feature selection algorithm based on P systems	1
Solving subset sum by spiking neural P systems with astrocytes producing calcium	1
Asynchronous, finite dynamical systems	1
A frequency-based parent selection for reducing the effect of evaluation time bias in asynchronous parallel multi-objective evolutionary algorithms	1
MOEA/D with gradient-enhanced kriging for expensive multiobjective optimization	1
Design of cryptographically suitable lightweight cellular automata based substitution-boxes using reinforcement learning	1
Discrete system phase space modification by vanishing noise	1
One-dimensional pattern generation by cellular automata	1
Neighbourhood search for energy minimisation in flexible job shops under fuzziness	1
A GIS-aided cellular automata system for monitoring and estimating graph-based spread of epidemics	1
A language independent machine learning model for sentiment analysis and toxicity classification in code-mixed data	1
Preface	1
On convergence of temporally stochastic cellular automata	1
Self-assembly of patterns in the abstract tile assembly model	1
Cellular automata and substitutions in topological spaces defined via edit distances	1
About reversibility in sP colonies and reaction systems	1