OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Swarm and Evolutionary Computation is 44. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	200
Random projection enhancement: A Novel method for improving performance of surrogate models	189
Efficient search of decision makers’ region of interest by using preference directions in multi-objective coevolutionary algorithm	137
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	127
An optimized watermarking scheme based on genetic algorithm and elliptic curve	112
An improved shuffled frog leaping algorithm based on support vector machine for hybrid flow shop rescheduling with disturbance prediction	106
An adaptive reference vector guided many-objective optimization algorithm based on the pareto front density estimation	101
On the impact of linkage learning, gene-pool optimal mixing, and non-redundant encoding on permutation optimization	95
Large language models as surrogate models in evolutionary algorithms: A preliminary study	92
A multi-objective evolutionary algorithm for feature selection incorporating dominance-based initialization and duplication analysis	88
Fractional-Order Ant Colony Algorithm: A Fractional Long Term Memory Based Cooperative Learning Approach	88
A Q-learning based artificial bee colony algorithm for solving surgery scheduling problems with setup time	82
A partition-based constrained multi-objective evolutionary algorithm	79
Combining single objective dispatching rules into multi-objective ensembles for the dynamic unrelated machines environment	79
A balance-oriented iterative greedy algorithm for the distributed heterogeneous hybrid flow-shop scheduling problem with blocking constraints	75
A dueling double deep Q network assisted cooperative dual-population coevolutionary algorithm for multi-objective combined economic and emission dispatch problems	72
A coevolutionary algorithm for constrained multi-objective optimization with dynamic relaxation	69
Redefined decision variable analysis method for large-scale optimization and its application to feature selection	64
A modified adaptive switching-based many-objective evolutionary algorithm for distributed heterogeneous flowshop scheduling with lot-streaming	57
A Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction Search Improved Differential Evolution for large-scale optimization	57
Choice of benchmark optimization problems does matter	56
Neighborhood-based particle swarm optimization with discrete crossover for nonlinear equation systems	55
Two-stage knowledge-driven evolutionary algorithm for distributed green flexible job shop scheduling with type-2 fuzzy processing time	55
Multi-operator opposition-based learning with the neighborhood structure for numerical optimization problems and its applications	55
A novel particle swarm optimization algorithm with Lévy flight and orthogonal learning	54

A surrogate-assisted evolutionary algorithm with dual restricted Boltzmann machines and reinforcement learning-based adaptive strategy selection	54
Differential evolution with evolutionary scale adaptation	53
Quantum circuit mapping based on discrete particle swarm optimization and deep reinforcement learning	53
Memory backtracking strategy: An evolutionary updating mechanism for meta-heuristic algorithms	52
Multi-UAV reconnaissance mission planning via deep reinforcement learning with simulated annealing	51
Population-level center-based sampling for meta-heuristic algorithms	50
DANCE: Distributed co-evolutionary design of velocity controllers for swarm intelligence robots in flocking and entrapping tasks	50
Pareto multi-objective optimization for high locality-preserving space-filling curve identification	50
On the elusivity of dynamic optimisation problems	49
Auxiliary optimization framework based on scaling transformation matrix for large-scale multi-objective problem	48
Decomposition-based dual-population evolutionary algorithm for constrained multi-objective problem	48
A cooperative iterated greedy algorithm for the distributed flowshop group robust scheduling problem with uncertain processing times	47
A hybrid estimation of distribution algorithm for agile earth observing satellite task scheduling problem	47
Swarm intelligence applications for emergency evacuation planning: state of the art, recent developments, and future research opportunities	46
Graph embedding based ant colony optimization for negative influence propagation suppression under cost constraints	45
A decimal artificial bee colony with elite strategy for the cutting stock problem with irregular items	45
KDDCP: Kernel density driven cumulative probability-cooperated framework for constrained muti-objective optimization	45
A hybrid optimization algorithm for structural balance model based on influence between nodes and community quality	44
Reinforced steering Evolutionary Markov Chain for high-dimensional feature selection	44
An enhanced estimation of distribution algorithm with problem-specific knowledge for distributed no-wait flowshop group scheduling problems	44
Exploring high-dimensional optimization by sparse and low-rank evolution strategy	44