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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
An analysis of the relative effects of connectivity and coupling interactions on spin networks emulating the D-Wave 2000Q quantum annealer	37
Computational complexity and pragmatic solutions for flexible tile based DNA self-assembly	22
Precise makespan optimization via hybrid genetic algorithm for scientific workflow scheduling problem	17
Gravitationally invariant subspaces in quantum computing	16
The threshold q-gram distance: a simple, efficient, and effective distance measure for genomic sequence comparison	15
Inductive inference of Lindenmayer systems: algorithms and computational complexity	15
Spiking neural P systems: main ideas and results	14
Correction: Distinguishing genelet circuit input pulses via a pulse detector	13
Solitaire of independence	12
Preface	11
Preface	11
Simulating and validating virus machines	10
A formalization of co-transcriptional splicing as an operation on formal languages	10
The structural power of reconfigurable circuits in the amoebot model	10
Dividing sum of cycles in the semiring of functional digraphs	10
Associating parallel automata network dynamics and strictly one-way cellular automata	10
A multipartite approach for the self-assembly of DNA graph structures	9
Pure reaction automata	9
Cellular automata and Kan extensions	9
Modernizing quantum annealing II: genetic algorithms with the inference primitive formalism	9
Variants of string assembling systems	8
Spiking neural P systems and their semantics in Haskell	8
Preface	8
Palindromes in adjacent factor swap of a word	8
Koopman-based data-driven soft artificial life: obtaining rulesets from observed data	6

Simulation of the abstract Tile Assembly Model using crisscross slats (extended version)	6
A reversible system based on hybrid toggle radius-4 cellular automata and its application as a block cipher	6
A membrane computing approach to the generalized Nash equilibrium	5
GPU simulations of spiking neural P systems on modern web browsers	5
Modelling and evaluating restricted ESNs on single- and multi-timescale problems	5
The busy beaver game for reaction systems	5
Optimized P systems for number system conversion based on membrane computing	5
Reaction systems with self distinction	4
A roadmap for solving optimization problems with estimation of distribution algorithms	4
Cellular automata simulations of the sintering behavior of ceramics driven by surface energy reduction	4
Preface	4
Deep learning networks with rough-refinement optimization for food quality assessment	4
Generalized marked systems	4
Editorial for the special issue on DNA computing and molecular programming	4
Reaction mining for reaction systems	4
Programmable single-stranded architectures for computing	4
Evolving ensembles of heuristics for the travelling salesman problem	4
On the spectrum between reaction systems and string rewriting	4
Pure and mixed lexicographic-paretian many-objective optimization: state of the art	4
Algorithms for maximal existential and universal width	4
A survey on learning models of spiking neural membrane systems	4
On categorical approach to reaction systems	3
Proving new directed tile complexity lower bounds at temperature 1 by folding between 2D and just-barely 3D self-assembly	3
All optical half adder and subtractor using single 2D photonic crystal structure	3
Ranks of functions specified by minimal reaction systems and induced by images of singletons	3
On the complexity of freezing automata networks of bounded pathwidth	3
Ants on the highway	3
Networks of splicing processors: path graph topology simulation	3
Synchronization of elementary cellular automata	3
Reaction systems with nondeterministic behaviour	3
Models to classify the difficulty of genetic algorithms to solve continuous optimization problems	3
Quantitative global analysis of a lane merging strategy for collaborative autonomous vehicles	3
CA-NN: a cellular automata neural network for handwritten pattern recognition	3
An exploration of reversible septenary number-conserving cellular automata: a survey of known methods	3
Uniform robot relocation is hard in only two directions even without obstacles	3
Exponential separation between quantum and classical ordered binary decision diagrams, reordering method and hierarchies	3
Improving 5 G base station placement through precise rooftop detection using super-resolution diffusion models and satellite image analysis	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
Real-time computing and robust memory with deterministic chemical reaction networks	2
Solving subset sum and SAT problems by reaction systems	2
Information theoretical properties of a spiking neuron trained with Hebbian and STDP learning rules	2
Connections between the minimal neighborhood and the activity value of cellular automata	2
Preface	2
What’s in a distance? Exploring the interplay between distance measures and internal cluster validity in multi-objective clustering	2
Preface	2
Handling Sudoku puzzles with irregular learning cellular automata	2
The objective that freed me: a multi-objective local search approach for continuous single-objective optimization	2
Self-assembly of patterns in the abstract tile assembly model	1
Parallel pairwise operations on data stored in DNA: sorting, XOR, shifting, and searching	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
Reactamole: functional reactive molecular programming	1
About reversibility in sP colonies and reaction 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
Asynchronous, finite dynamical systems	1
Neighbourhood search for energy minimisation in flexible job shops under fuzziness	1
Estimates of the collective immunity to COVID-19 derived from a stochastic cellular automaton based framework	1
A language independent machine learning model for sentiment analysis and toxicity classification in code-mixed data	1
A general framework for enhancing relaxed Pareto dominance methods in evolutionary many-objective optimization	1
A GIS-aided cellular automata system for monitoring and estimating graph-based spread of epidemics	1
Solving subset sum by spiking neural P systems with astrocytes producing calcium	1
Cellular automata and substitutions in topological spaces defined via edit distances	1
Automatic design of arithmetic operation spiking neural P systems	1
Discrete system phase space modification by vanishing noise	1
Solving quantum circuit compilation problem variants through genetic algorithms	1
Population diversity and inheritance in genetic programming for symbolic regression	1
Preface	1
Feature selection algorithm based on P systems	1
On the power of boundary rule application in membrane computing	1
Preface	1
Distinguishing genelet circuit input pulses via a pulse detector	1
Optimal safe driving dynamics for autonomous interacting vehicles	1