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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
An analysis of the relative effects of connectivity and coupling interactions on spin networks emulating the D-Wave 2000Q quantum annealer	40
Computational complexity and pragmatic solutions for flexible tile based DNA self-assembly	27
Precise makespan optimization via hybrid genetic algorithm for scientific workflow scheduling problem	19
Gravitationally invariant subspaces in quantum computing	16
The threshold q-gram distance: a simple, efficient, and effective distance measure for genomic sequence comparison	15
Correction: Distinguishing genelet circuit input pulses via a pulse detector	15
Inductive inference of Lindenmayer systems: algorithms and computational complexity	13
Spiking neural P systems: main ideas and results	11
Solitaire of independence	11
Preface	10
A formalization of co-transcriptional splicing as an operation on formal languages	10
Preface	10
Associating parallel automata network dynamics and strictly one-way cellular automata	9
The structural power of reconfigurable circuits in the amoebot model	9
Immersing reaction system specifications in evaluating environments	8
Dividing sum of cycles in the semiring of functional digraphs	7
A multipartite approach for the self-assembly of DNA graph structures	6
Variants of string assembling systems	6
Cellular automata and Kan extensions	6
Simulating and validating virus machines	6
Palindromes in adjacent factor swap of a word	5
Simulation of the abstract Tile Assembly Model using crisscross slats (extended version)	5
Preface	5
Koopman-based data-driven soft artificial life: obtaining rulesets from observed data	5
Spiking neural P systems and their semantics in Haskell	5

Pure reaction automata	5
A membrane computing approach to the generalized Nash equilibrium	4
A quantum walk inspired model for distributed computing on arbitrary graphs	4
Reaction systems with self distinction	4
Modelling and evaluating restricted ESNs on single- and multi-timescale problems	4
GPU simulations of spiking neural P systems on modern web browsers	4
The busy beaver game for reaction systems	4
A reversible system based on hybrid toggle radius-4 cellular automata and its application as a block cipher	4
Optimized P systems for number system conversion based on membrane computing	4
Generalized marked systems	4
Cellular automata simulations of the sintering behavior of ceramics driven by surface energy reduction	3
Algorithms for maximal existential and universal width	3
Programmable single-stranded architectures for computing	3
Deep learning networks with rough-refinement optimization for food quality assessment	3
Self-contained relaxation-based dynamical Ising machines	3
Effect of family noise in diploid cellular automata	3
A survey on learning models of spiking neural membrane systems	3
Reaction mining for reaction systems	3
A roadmap for solving optimization problems with estimation of distribution algorithms	3
Editorial for the special issue on DNA computing and molecular programming	3
Pure and mixed lexicographic-paretian many-objective optimization: state of the art	3
Preface	3
Evolving ensembles of heuristics for the travelling salesman problem	3
On the spectrum between reaction systems and string rewriting	3
Networks of splicing processors: path graph topology simulation	2
An exploration of reversible septenary number-conserving cellular automata: a survey of known methods	2
Synchronization of elementary cellular automata	2
On the complexity of freezing automata networks of bounded pathwidth	2
Solving subset sum and SAT problems by reaction systems	2
Quantitative global analysis of a lane merging strategy for collaborative autonomous vehicles	2
Improving 5 G base station placement through precise rooftop detection using super-resolution diffusion models and satellite image analysis	2
All optical half adder and subtractor using single 2D photonic crystal structure	2
Ranks of functions specified by minimal reaction systems and induced by images of singletons	2
Proving new directed tile complexity lower bounds at temperature 1 by folding between 2D and just-barely 3D self-assembly	2
Ants on the highway	2
Integrated dynamic spiking neural P systems for fault line selection in distribution network	2
A parallel data-structure for modular programming of triangulated computing media.	2
Models to classify the difficulty of genetic algorithms to solve continuous optimization problems	2
Uniform robot relocation is hard in only two directions even without obstacles	2
CA-NN: a cellular automata neural network for handwritten pattern recognition	2
Reaction systems with nondeterministic behaviour	2
On categorical approach to reaction systems	2
Two-stage fine-tuning of HuBERT for multi-label bird species recognition in overlapping acoustic environments	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
Preface	1
Distinguishing genelet circuit input pulses via a pulse detector	1
Asynchronous, finite dynamical systems	1
A framework for monitored dynamic slicing of reaction systems	1
Connections between the minimal neighborhood and the activity value of cellular automata	1

Population diversity and inheritance in genetic programming for symbolic regression	1
Reactamole: functional reactive molecular programming	1
Cellular automata and substitutions in topological spaces defined via edit distances	1
MOEA/D with gradient-enhanced kriging for expensive multiobjective optimization	1
Discrete system phase space modification by vanishing noise	1
Linear cuts in Boolean networks	1
Design of cryptographically suitable lightweight cellular automata based substitution-boxes using reinforcement learning	1
Real-time computing and robust memory with deterministic chemical reaction networks	1
On the power of boundary rule application in membrane computing	1
Handling Sudoku puzzles with irregular learning cellular automata	1
Preface	1
Parallel pairwise operations on data stored in DNA: sorting, XOR, shifting, and searching	1
Self-assembly of patterns in the abstract tile assembly model	1
Solving quantum circuit compilation problem variants through genetic algorithms	1
About reversibility in sP colonies and reaction systems	1
Feature selection algorithm based on P systems	1
A language independent machine learning model for sentiment analysis and toxicity classification in code-mixed data	1
The objective that freed me: a multi-objective local search approach for continuous single-objective optimization	1
Preface	1
Neighbourhood search for energy minimisation in flexible job shops under fuzziness	1
Preface	1
Optimal safe driving dynamics for autonomous interacting vehicles	1