Retraction Note: Soft Computing (2019) 23:2799–2812 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00500-019-03827-


The Editor in Chief and the Publisher have retracted this article. This article was submitted to be part of a guest-edited issue. An investigation concluded that the editorial process of this guest-edited issue was compromised by a third party and that the peer review process has been manipulated. Based on the investigation's findings the Editor in Chief therefore no longer has confidence in the results and conclusions of this article. Daming Li and Zhiming Cai have not responded to correspondence from the Publisher about this retraction. The Publisher has not been able to obtain a current email address for Lianbing Deng and Xiang Yao.