Retraction Note to: Soft Computing (2021) 25:10575–10594 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00500-021-05643-2
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. S Lokesh disagrees with this retraction. K. Selvakumar has not explicitly stated whether they agree or disagree with this retraction.
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