Retraction Note to: J Intell Manuf (2019) 30:1247–1257 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10845-017-1306-6

The Editor-in-Chief has retracted this article (Mansouri et al. 2019) because validity of the content of this article cannot be verified. This article showed evidence of authorship manipulation. None of the authors agree to this retraction.