Retraction Note to: Soft Computing (2021) 27:3229–3244 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00500-020-05503-5


The Editor-in-Chief and the publisher have retracted this article. The article was submitted to be part of a guest-edited issue. An investigation by the publisher found a number of articles, including this one, with a number of concerns, including but not limited to compromised editorial handling and peer review process, inappropriate or irrelevant references or not being in scope of the journal or guest-edited issue. Based on the investigation's findings the Editor-in-Chief therefore no longer has confidence in the results and conclusions of this article.


Authors Tao Han and Magda Moura de Almeida Porto have not responded to correspondence regarding this retraction. The Publisher has not been able to obtain a current email address for authors Francisco Nauber Bernardo Gois, Ramsés Oliveira and Luan Rocha Prates.