RETRACTION: C. Lu and S. Chen, “Distributed Scheduling Strategy of Virtual Power Plant Using the Particle Swarm Optimization Neural Network under Blockchain Background,” Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/3222249.
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Sijie Chen stated that they were unaware of the submission and did not contribute to the study.
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