OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Swarm and Evolutionary Computation is 47. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Quantum circuit mapping based on discrete particle swarm optimization and deep reinforcement learning	214
Corrigendum to “Optimizing parameters in swarm intelligence using reinforcement learning: An application of Proximal Policy Optimization to the iSOMA algorithm” [Swarm and Evolutionary Computation Vol	207
Editorial Board	145
Differential evolution with evolutionary scale adaptation	131
A partition-based constrained multi-objective evolutionary algorithm	116
A novel particle swarm optimization algorithm with Lévy flight and orthogonal learning	108
Redefined decision variable analysis method for large-scale optimization and its application to feature selection	108
An improved shuffled frog leaping algorithm based on support vector machine for hybrid flow shop rescheduling with disturbance prediction	105
Secure key based cloud security utilizing three-way protection with martino homomorphic encryption for preventing unauthorized data access	97
A modified adaptive switching-based many-objective evolutionary algorithm for distributed heterogeneous flowshop scheduling with lot-streaming	93
Combining single objective dispatching rules into multi-objective ensembles for the dynamic unrelated machines environment	93
Fractional-Order Ant Colony Algorithm: A Fractional Long Term Memory Based Cooperative Learning Approach	88
A Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction Search Improved Differential Evolution for large-scale optimization	88
Efficient search of decision makers’ region of interest by using preference directions in multi-objective coevolutionary algorithm	88
An optimized watermarking scheme based on genetic algorithm and elliptic curve	84
A multi-objective evolutionary algorithm for feature selection incorporating dominance-based initialization and duplication analysis	76
Neighborhood-based particle swarm optimization with discrete crossover for nonlinear equation systems	72
Random projection enhancement: A Novel method for improving performance of surrogate models	71
Memory backtracking strategy: An evolutionary updating mechanism for meta-heuristic algorithms	66
Choice of benchmark optimization problems does matter	65
Large language models as surrogate models in evolutionary algorithms: A preliminary study	63
Multi-operator opposition-based learning with the neighborhood structure for numerical optimization problems and its applications	61
On the impact of linkage learning, gene-pool optimal mixing, and non-redundant encoding on permutation optimization	61
Two-stage knowledge-driven evolutionary algorithm for distributed green flexible job shop scheduling with type-2 fuzzy processing time	61
An adaptive reference vector guided many-objective optimization algorithm based on the pareto front density estimation	60

A dueling double deep Q network assisted cooperative dual-population coevolutionary algorithm for multi-objective combined economic and emission dispatch problems	60
A balance-oriented iterative greedy algorithm for the distributed heterogeneous hybrid flow-shop scheduling problem with blocking constraints	60
A coevolutionary algorithm for constrained multi-objective optimization with dynamic relaxation	60
A surrogate-assisted evolutionary algorithm with dual restricted Boltzmann machines and reinforcement learning-based adaptive strategy selection	59
A Q-learning based artificial bee colony algorithm for solving surgery scheduling problems with setup time	58
Multi-UAV reconnaissance mission planning via deep reinforcement learning with simulated annealing	56
Population-level center-based sampling for meta-heuristic algorithms	55
Exploring high-dimensional optimization by sparse and low-rank evolution strategy	54
A metaheuristic approach for mining gradual patterns	54
DANCE: Distributed co-evolutionary design of velocity controllers for swarm intelligence robots in flocking and entrapping tasks	54
A hybrid optimization algorithm for structural balance model based on influence between nodes and community quality	53
COARSE-EMOA: An indicator-based evolutionary algorithm for solving equality constrained multi-objective optimization problems	53
A Generational Difference Vector based Tri-Entropy Structure Optimizer for large-scale multiobjective optimization	51
A manifold prediction strategy for evolutionary dynamic multiobjective optimization	51
Formulating approximation error as noise in surrogate-assisted multi-objective evolutionary algorithm	49
Dynamic multi-objective optimization algorithm based on incremental Gaussian mixture model	49
A bi-objective routing problem for cooperated trucks and drones in river water quality monitoring	49
Reinforced steering Evolutionary Markov Chain for high-dimensional feature selection	48
On the representativeness metric of benchmark problems in numerical optimization	48
Benchmark problems for large-scale constrained multi-objective optimization with baseline results	47
Industrial activated sludge model identification using hyperparameter-tuned metaheuristics	47
An enhanced estimation of distribution algorithm with problem-specific knowledge for distributed no-wait flowshop group scheduling problems	47