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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Verification and computation in restricted Tile Automata	46
An analysis of the relative effects of connectivity and coupling interactions on spin networks emulating the D-Wave 2000Q quantum annealer	31
On the generative capacity of matrix insertion-deletion systems of small sum-norm	14
Computational complexity and pragmatic solutions for flexible tile based DNA self-assembly	11
Precise makespan optimization via hybrid genetic algorithm for scientific workflow scheduling problem	11
Gravitationally invariant subspaces in quantum computing	10
Correction: Distinguishing genelet circuit input pulses via a pulse detector	9
Inductive inference of lindenmayer systems: algorithms and computational complexity	9
Spiking neural P systems: main ideas and results	9
Preface	8
Preface	8
Preface	8
Solitaire of independence	8
Population-induced phase transitions and the verification of chemical reaction networks	8
Associating parallel automata network dynamics and strictly one-way cellular automata	8
Simulating and validating virus machines	7
The structural power of reconfigurable circuits in the amoebot model	7
A formalization of co-transcriptional splicing as an operation on formal languages	7
Modernizing quantum annealing II: genetic algorithms with the inference primitive formalism	6
Pure reaction automata	6
Cellular automata and Kan extensions	6
Spiking neural P systems and their semantics in Haskell	6
Preface	5
Koopman-based data-driven soft artificial life: obtaining rulesets from observed data	5
Palindromes in adjacent factor swap of a word	5

Variants of string assembling systems	5
The busy beaver game for reaction systems	4
A membrane computing approach to the generalized Nash equilibrium	4
Evolving ensembles of heuristics for the travelling salesman problem	4
GPU simulations of spiking neural P systems on modern web browsers	4
Modelling and evaluating restricted ESNs on single- and multi-timescale problems	4
On the computational power of swarm automata using agents with position information	4
A reversible system based on hybrid toggle radius-4 cellular automata and its application as a block cipher	4
Turning machines: a simple algorithmic model for molecular robotics	4
Reaction systems with self distinction	3
Cellular automata simulations of the sintering behavior of ceramics driven by surface energy reduction	3
A survey on learning models of spiking neural membrane systems	3
Programmable single-stranded architectures for computing	3
Synchronization of elementary cellular automata	3
All optical half adder and subtractor using single 2D photonic crystal structure	3
CA-NN: a cellular automata neural network for handwritten pattern recognition	3
Deep learning networks with rough-refinement optimization for food quality assessment	3
A roadmap for solving optimization problems with estimation of distribution algorithms	3
Algorithms for maximal existential and universal width	3
Pure and mixed lexicographic-paretian many-objective optimization: state of the art	3
MRT-lattice Boltzmann hybrid model for the double diffusive mixed convection with thermodiffusion effect	3
An exploration of reversible septenary number-conserving cellular automata: a survey of known methods	3
Proving new directed tile complexity lower bounds at temperature 1 by folding between 2D and just-barely 3D self-assembly	3
On the spectrum between reaction systems and string rewriting	3
ALCH: An imperative language for chemical reaction network-controlled tile assembly	3
Reaction mining for reaction systems	3
Editorial for the special issue on DNA computing and molecular programming	3
Ranks of functions specified by minimal reaction systems and induced by images of singletons	3
Preface	3
Networks of splicing processors: path graph topology simulation	3
On categorical approach to reaction systems	2
Integrated dynamic spiking neural P systems for fault line selection in distribution network	2
Solving subset sum and SAT problems by reaction systems	2
Models to classify the difficulty of genetic algorithms to solve continuous optimization problems	2
Exponential separation between quantum and classical ordered binary decision diagrams, reordering method and hierarchies	2
What’s in a distance? Exploring the interplay between distance measures and internal cluster validity in multi-objective clustering	2
Quantitative global analysis of a lane merging strategy for collaborative autonomous vehicles	2
Reaction systems with nondeterministic behaviour	2
Uniform robot relocation is hard in only two directions even without obstacles	2
Ants on the highway	2
A parallel data-structure for modular programming of triangulated computing media.	2
Handling Sudoku puzzles with irregular learning cellular automata	1
Improving 5 G base station placement through precise rooftop detection using super-resolution diffusion models and satellite image analysis	1
Preface	1
Cold dynamics in cellular automata: a tutorial	1
Reactamole: functional reactive molecular programming	1
Population diversity and inheritance in genetic programming for symbolic regression	1
Neighbourhood search for energy minimisation in flexible job shops under fuzziness	1
A framework for monitored dynamic slicing of reaction systems	1
On the power of boundary rule application in membrane computing	1

Information theoretical properties of a spiking neuron trained with Hebbian and STDP learning rules	1
Feature selection algorithm based on P systems	1
Parallel pairwise operations on data stored in DNA: sorting, XOR, shifting, and searching	1
Solving subset sum by spiking neural P systems with astrocytes producing calcium	1
Estimates of the collective immunity to COVID-19 derived from a stochastic cellular automaton based framework	1
Bio-inspired modelling as a practical tool to manage giant panda population dynamics in captivity	1
A general framework for enhancing relaxed Pareto dominance methods in evolutionary many-objective optimization	1
Preface	1
The objective that freed me: a multi-objective local search approach for continuous single-objective optimization	1
Real-time computing and robust memory with deterministic chemical reaction networks	1
On the right combination of altruism and randomness in the motion of homogeneous distributed autonomous agents	1
Preface	1
One-dimensional pattern generation by cellular automata	1
On the predictability of the abelian sandpile model	1
Linear cuts in Boolean networks	1
A GIS-aided cellular automata system for monitoring and estimating graph-based spread of epidemics	1