Retraction Note to: Soft Computing (2021) 27:3367–3388 10.1007/s00500-021-06012-9
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 Rabin Chakrabortty, Subodh Chandra Pal, Asish Saha, Paramita Roy, Ayan Mondal, Indrajit Chowdhuri, Ali P. Yunus and Mehebub Sahana, disagree with this retraction. Authors Manoranjan Ghosh, Alireza Arabameri, Biswajeet Pradhan, Phuong Thao Thi Ngo, Sadhan Malik and Biswajit Das have not responded to correspondence regarding this retraction.
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