OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Swarm and Evolutionary Computation is 53. 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
Editorial Board	189
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	169
Redefined decision variable analysis method for large-scale optimization and its application to feature selection	131
A knee-guided prediction model oriented to population composition structures for dynamic multi-objective evolutionary optimization	131
A global feedback learning-based memetic algorithm for energy-aware scheduling in collaborative heterogeneous flexible job shops	129
A Q-learning based artificial bee colony algorithm for solving surgery scheduling problems with setup time	124
A modified adaptive switching-based many-objective evolutionary algorithm for distributed heterogeneous flowshop scheduling with lot-streaming	117
Dual-individual genetic algorithm: A dual-individual approach for efficient training of multi-layer neural networks	115
Secure key based cloud security utilizing three-way protection with martino homomorphic encryption for preventing unauthorized data access	112
An optimized watermarking scheme based on genetic algorithm and elliptic curve	102
Quantum circuit mapping based on discrete particle swarm optimization and deep reinforcement learning	101
Combining single objective dispatching rules into multi-objective ensembles for the dynamic unrelated machines environment	100
A surrogate-assisted evolutionary algorithm with dual restricted Boltzmann machines and reinforcement learning-based adaptive strategy selection	92
Random projection enhancement: A Novel method for improving performance of surrogate models	88
A multi-objective evolutionary algorithm for feature selection incorporating dominance-based initialization and duplication analysis	88
Efficient search of decision makers’ region of interest by using preference directions in multi-objective coevolutionary algorithm	83
Multifactorial differential evolution enhanced by adaptive Gaussian-mixture-model-based knowledge transfer	83
A coevolutionary algorithm for constrained multi-objective optimization with dynamic relaxation	82
Conditional diffusion with gradient guidance for high-dimensional expensive multi-objective optimization	81
Differential evolution with evolutionary scale adaptation	78
Multi-operator opposition-based learning with the neighborhood structure for numerical optimization problems and its applications	78
A population partition and prediction strategy-based evolutionary algorithm for dynamic multi-objective optimization	78
Two-stage knowledge-driven evolutionary algorithm for distributed green flexible job shop scheduling with type-2 fuzzy processing time	78
A novel particle swarm optimization algorithm with Lévy flight and orthogonal learning	76
Multi-UAV reconnaissance mission planning via deep reinforcement learning with simulated annealing	75

Choice of benchmark optimization problems does matter	71
An improved shuffled frog leaping algorithm based on support vector machine for hybrid flow shop rescheduling with disturbance prediction	71
A two-stage adaptive variable neighborhood search approach for electric vehicle routing problem with fuzzy demand	70
A dueling double deep Q network assisted cooperative dual-population coevolutionary algorithm for multi-objective combined economic and emission dispatch problems	69
A balance-oriented iterative greedy algorithm for the distributed heterogeneous hybrid flow-shop scheduling problem with blocking constraints	68
An adaptive reference vector guided many-objective optimization algorithm based on the pareto front density estimation	67
A Heuristic-Guided Genetic Algorithm for heterogeneous agricultural machinery scheduling with time windows	66
A Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction Search Improved Differential Evolution for large-scale optimization	65
Memory backtracking strategy: An evolutionary updating mechanism for meta-heuristic algorithms	63
Large language models as surrogate models in evolutionary algorithms: A preliminary study	62
Pareto multi-objective optimization for high locality-preserving space-filling curve identification	62
A Generational Difference Vector based Tri-Entropy Structure Optimizer for large-scale multiobjective optimization	62
Swarm intelligence applications for emergency evacuation planning: state of the art, recent developments, and future research opportunities	61
Multi-objective evolutionary algorithms for solving a green multi-item fixed-charge 5D transportation problem under intuitionistic fuzzy uncertainty	60
Differential evolution with bi-strategy co-deployment framework and diversity improvement	59
Welcome from Editor-in-Chief of Swarm and Evolutionary Computation	58
Auxiliary optimization framework based on scaling transformation matrix for large-scale multi-objective problem	58
On the elusivity of dynamic optimisation problems	57
Reinforced steering Evolutionary Markov Chain for high-dimensional feature selection	57
A hybrid estimation of distribution algorithm for agile earth observing satellite task scheduling problem	57
A dual-population-based evolutionary algorithm for multi-objective optimization problems with irregular Pareto fronts	57
A decimal artificial bee colony with elite strategy for the cutting stock problem with irregular items	56
Formulating approximation error as noise in surrogate-assisted multi-objective evolutionary algorithm	56
Decomposition-based dual-population evolutionary algorithm for constrained multi-objective problem	56
A cooperative iterated greedy algorithm for the distributed flowshop group robust scheduling problem with uncertain processing times	55
Dual-self-learning knowledge-based local search approach for lot-streaming flexible job shop scheduling with asynchronous assembly	55
Exploring high-dimensional optimization by sparse and low-rank evolution strategy	54
KDDCP: Kernel density driven cumulative probability-cooperated framework for constrained muti-objective optimization	54
On the representativeness metric of benchmark problems in numerical optimization	53
A bi-objective routing problem for cooperated trucks and drones in river water quality monitoring	53
QACO: An adaptive multi-phase ant colony optimization approach for robust feature selection	53