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6 Citations
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AQEA-QAS: An Adaptive Quantum Evolutionary Algorithm for Quantum Architecture Search

  • Yaochong Li,
  • Jing Zhang,
  • Rigui Zhou,
  • Yi Qu and
  • Ruiqing Xu

8 July 2025

Quantum neural networks (QNNs) represent an emerging technology that uses a quantum computer for neural network computations. The QNNs have demonstrated potential advantages over classical neural networks in certain tasks. As a core component of a QN...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantum Information and Quantum Computation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,393 Views
12 Pages

17 September 2022

This paper proposes a quantum-inspired evolutionary algorithm (QiEA) to solve an optimal service-matching task-assignment problem. Our proposed algorithm comes with the advantage of generating always feasible population individuals and, thus, elimina...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,516 Views
16 Pages

An automated design approach using an evolutionary algorithm for the development of quantum cascade lasers (QCLs) is presented. Our algorithmic approach merges computational intelligence techniques with the physics of device structures, representing...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantum Cascade Lasers - Advances and New Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,308 Views
21 Pages

15 August 2022

Parameter calibration is critical for self-localization based on dead reckoning in the control of intelligent vehicles such as autonomous driving. Most traditional calibration methods for robotics control based on dead reckoning rely on data collecti...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
3,268 Views
15 Pages

4 August 2021

Integrated energy systems have become an important research topic in the pursuit of sustainable energy development. This paper examines regional integrated energy systems, presents the typical architecture of regional integrated energy systems, and b...

(This article belongs to the Topic Advances in Energy Market and Power System Modelling and Optimization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,461 Views
14 Pages

31 August 2024

Recent developments in lithium-ion batteries have improved their capacity, which allows them to be used in more applications like power tools. However, they also carry higher risks, such as thermal runaway, which can happen if they are damaged. To ma...

(This article belongs to the Section Battery Modelling, Simulation, Management and Application)
  • Review
  • Open Access
112 Citations
25,254 Views
31 Pages

15 October 2016

Genetic algorithms (GAs) are a class of evolutionary algorithms inspired by Darwinian natural selection. They are popular heuristic optimisation methods based on simulated genetic mechanisms, i.e., mutation, crossover, etc. and population dynamical p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
587 Views
22 Pages

22 July 2026

Quantum neural architecture search (QNAS) has emerged as a promising approach for automatically designing parameterized quantum circuits (PQCs) for near-term quantum machine learning tasks. However, quantum evolutionary algorithm (QEA)-based QNAS met...

(This article belongs to the Section Quantum Information)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,920 Views
21 Pages

Quantum Selection for Genetic Algorithms Applied to Electromagnetic Design Problems

  • Gabriel F. Martinez,
  • Alessandro Niccolai,
  • Eleonora L. Zich and
  • Riccardo E. Zich

18 July 2025

Optimization has always been viewed as a central component of many electrical engineering techniques, where it involves designing a complex system with various constraints and competing objectives. The method described in this work proposes a hybrid...

(This article belongs to the Section Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,161 Views
18 Pages

The selection of the right topology (ansatz) for a Variational Quantum Algorithm (VQA) is a complex task that usually involves deep knowledge of a particular problem. The importance of the selection is greater when we consider the current state of qu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Trends in Computational Intelligence and Applications 2025)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,835 Views
13 Pages

3 January 2023

Recent work on hybrid quantum-classical machine learning systems has demonstrated success in utilizing parameterized quantum circuits (PQCs) to solve the challenging reinforcement learning (RL) tasks, with provable learning advantages over classical...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantum Machine Learning 2022)
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
4,054 Views
17 Pages

Leukocytes Classification for Leukemia Detection Using Quantum Inspired Deep Feature Selection

  • Riaz Ahmad,
  • Muhammad Awais,
  • Nabeela Kausar,
  • Usman Tariq and ,
  • Jae-Hyuk Cha and
  • Jamel Balili
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

27 April 2023

Leukocytes, also referred to as white blood cells (WBCs), are a crucial component of the human immune system. Abnormal proliferation of leukocytes in the bone marrow leads to leukemia, a fatal blood cancer. Classification of various subtypes of WBCs...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence in Cancer Research: Knowledge Representation and Data Perspectives)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,522 Views
12 Pages

The combination and convergence of energy-intensive industries developed by ecological factors based on energy clusters is discussed in this paper. Here, a few models for the prediction of greenhouse effects are used as a single type of modeling. In...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
4,535 Views
15 Pages

Hybrid ABC-BAT for Solving Short-Term Hydrothermal Scheduling Problems

  • Smarajit Ghosh,
  • Manvir Kaur,
  • Suman Bhullar and
  • Vinod Karar

11 February 2019

The main objective of short-term hydrothermal scheduling is the optimal allocation of the hydro and thermal generating units, so that the total cost of thermal plants can be minimized. The time of operation of the functioning units are considered to...

(This article belongs to the Section F: Electrical Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
5,085 Views
14 Pages

29 July 2019

In many complex manufacturing environments, the running equipment must be monitored by Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), which not only requires WSNs to have long service lifetimes, but also to achieve rapid and high-quality transmission of equipment...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Monitoring and Control in the Future Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
4,347 Views
21 Pages

28 May 2021

The knapsack problem is one of the most widely researched NP-complete combinatorial optimization problems and has numerous practical applications. This paper proposes a quantum-inspired differential evolution algorithm with grey wolf optimizer (QDGWO...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Evolutionary Computation 2020)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,023 Views
24 Pages

29 August 2023

The majority of the recent research on text similarity has been focused on machine learning strategies to combat the problem in the educational environment. When the originality of an idea is copied, it increases the difficulty of using a plagiarism...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Quantum Computing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
10,506 Views
27 Pages

This paper starts with an updated review and analyzes recent developments in quantum-inspired algorithms for cybersecurity, with specific attention to possible perspectives of optimization. The enhancement of classical computing capabilities with qua...

(This article belongs to the Section Quantum Electronics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,313 Views
13 Pages

A Comparative Study of the Genetic Deep Learning Image Segmentation Algorithms

  • Wenbo Wang,
  • Muhammad Yousaf,
  • Ding Liu and
  • Ayesha Sohail

21 September 2022

Medical optical imaging, with the aid of the “terahertz tomography”, is a novel medical imaging technique based on the electromagnetic waves. Such advanced imaging techniques strive for the detailed theoretical and computational analysis...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fractional Differential and Fractional Integro-Differential Equations: Qualitative Theory, Numerical Simulations, and Symmetry Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,179 Views
26 Pages

22 August 2023

Recently, a new field that combines metaheuristic algorithms and quantum computing has been created and is being applied to optimization problems in various fields. However, the application of quantum computing-based metaheuristic algorithms to the o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence and Optimization Methods in Construction Industry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,339 Views
19 Pages

12 October 2018

The paper focuses on the opportunity of the application of the quantum-inspired evolutionary algorithm for determining minimal costs of the assignment in the quadratic assignment problem. The idea behind the paper is to present how the algorithm has...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantum Walks and Related Issues)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,734 Views
34 Pages

Development of Evolutionary Systems Based on Quantum Petri Nets

  • Tiberiu Stefan Letia,
  • Elenita Maria Durla-Pasca,
  • Dahlia Al-Janabi and
  • Octavian Petru Cuibus

22 November 2022

Evolutionary systems (ES) include software applications that solve problems using heuristic methods instead of the deterministic ones. The classical computing used for ES development involves random methods to improve different kinds of genomes. The...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,749 Views
23 Pages

With the development of various metaheuristic algorithms, research cases that perform weight optimization of truss structures are steadily progressing. In particular, due to the possibility of developing quantum computers, metaheuristic algorithms co...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Safety and Optimization of Building Structures)
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
4,081 Views
23 Pages

21 August 2020

The particle swarm optimization algorithm (PSO) is not good at dealing with discrete optimization problems, and for the krill herd algorithm (KH), the ability of local search is relatively poor. In this paper, we optimized PSO by quantum behavior and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Evolutionary Computation 2020)
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
6,051 Views
16 Pages

26 October 2016

Hybridizing chaotic evolutionary algorithms with support vector regression (SVR) to improve forecasting accuracy is a hot topic in electricity load forecasting. Trapping at local optima and premature convergence are critical shortcomings of the tabu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Kernel Methods and Hybrid Evolutionary Algorithms in Energy Forecasting)
  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
6,210 Views
16 Pages

31 May 2016

In existing forecasting research papers support vector regression with chaotic mapping function and evolutionary algorithms have shown their advantages in terms of forecasting accuracy improvement. However, for classical particle swarm optimization (...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Kernel Methods and Hybrid Evolutionary Algorithms in Energy Forecasting)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,001 Views
38 Pages

Development of Dynamic System Applications Using Distributed Quantum-Centric Computing

  • Tiberiu Stefan Letia,
  • Camelia Avram,
  • Dahlia Al-Janabi,
  • Ionel Miu and
  • Octavian Cuibus

2 October 2025

Many applications of quantum computers require the classical and quantum implementation of dynamic systems (DSs). These applications comprise interacting quantum and classical tasks. While quantum tasks evolve in the quantum domain, classical tasks b...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Scientific Computing & Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
59 Citations
4,434 Views
19 Pages

31 January 2020

The symbiotic organism search (SOS) algorithm is a promising meta-heuristic evolutionary algorithm. Its excellent quality of global optimization solution has aroused the interest of many researchers. In this work, we not only applied the strategy of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligence Systems and Sensors)
  • Review
  • Open Access
3,156 Views
25 Pages

A Survey on Classical Lattice Algorithms

  • Tongchen Shen and
  • Xiangxue Li

The rapid advancement of quantum computing poses a severe threat to traditional public key cryptosystems. Lattice-based cryptography has emerged as a core candidate for post-quantum cryptography due to its presumed quantum resistance, robust security...

(This article belongs to the Section Cryptography Reviews)
  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
6,342 Views
18 Pages

Hybrid Chaotic Quantum Bat Algorithm with SVR in Electric Load Forecasting

  • Ming-Wei Li,
  • Jing Geng,
  • Shumei Wang and
  • Wei-Chiang Hong

19 December 2017

Hybridizing evolutionary algorithms with a support vector regression (SVR) model to conduct the electric load forecasting has demonstrated the superiorities in forecasting accuracy improvements. The recently proposed bat algorithm (BA), compared with...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Hybrid Advanced Optimization Methods with Evolutionary Computation Techniques in Energy Forecasting)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,057 Views
39 Pages

1 September 2026

The effective resolution of non-deterministic polynomial time hard (NP-hard) combinatorial optimization problems requires a delicate balance between global exploration and local exploitation. While Quantum-Inspired Algorithms (QIAs) leverage principl...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Quantum Computing and Quantum Machine Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,295 Views
20 Pages

16 August 2021

The decomposition-based multi-objective evolutionary algorithm (MOEA/D) has shown remarkable effectiveness in solving multi-objective problems (MOPs). In this paper, we integrate the quantum-behaved particle swarm optimization (QPSO) algorithm with t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Quantum Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
3,804 Views
12 Pages

27 February 2021

Surface roughness is a significant factor in determining the product quality and highly impacts the production price. The ability to predict the surface roughness before production would save the time and resources of the process. This research inves...

  • Review
  • Open Access
897 Views
36 Pages

Systematic Literature Review of Quantum Convolutional Neural Networks and Circuit Optimization

  • Aksultan Mukhanbet,
  • Paulo Trigo,
  • Beimbet Daribayev and
  • Darkhan Akhmed-Zaki

18 June 2026

Quantum convolutional neural networks (QCNNs) are emerging as promising models in quantum machine learning, particularly for image classification and computer vision tasks. Recent developments include hybrid classical–quantum architectures, adv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,067 Views
19 Pages

4 April 2019

The differential evolutionary ( D E ) algorithm is a global optimization algorithm. To explore the convergence implied in the H i l b e r t space with the parameter β of the D E algorithm and the quantum properties of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Evolutionary Computation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,211 Views
23 Pages

4 May 2025

The Quantum Snowflake Algorithm (QSA) is a novel metaheuristic for both continuous and discrete optimization problems, combining collision-based diversity, quantum-inspired tunneling, superposition-based partial solution sharing, and local refinement...

  • Review
  • Open Access
303 Views
48 Pages

10 October 2026

Quantum computer deployment in space remains constrained by demanding hardware, environmental, and communications requirements. This paper reviews the opportunities and challenges of using quantum computing in space systems. It focuses on payload int...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Exclusive Quantum Reports Feature Papers for 2026–2027)
  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,224 Views
39 Pages

Differential Cryptanalysis of Block Ciphers Through the Lens of Symmetry: A Review

  • Lei Zhang,
  • Yvxuan Wu,
  • Yaxuan Wen,
  • Chaoen Xiao and ,
  • Ding Ding and
  • Quanrun Lv
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

19 December 2025

Differential cryptanalysis is a fundamental technique in symmetric-key cryptanalysis. While the existing literature and several surveys have separately addressed classical differential attacks, deep learning-assisted cryptanalysis, and quantum-relate...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications Based on Symmetry in Cryptography and Information Security)
  • Article
  • Open Access
484 Views
12 Pages

We present an evolutionary optimization framework for designing neural architectures for holographic phase prediction in optical tweezer arrays. The framework combines Fourier-transform-based network structures with genetic optimization of layer comp...

(This article belongs to the Section Quantum Photonics and Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,680 Views
19 Pages

An Enhanced Tree-Seed Algorithm for Function Optimization and Production Optimization

  • Qingan Zhou,
  • Rong Dai,
  • Guoxiao Zhou,
  • Shenghui Ma and
  • Shunshe Luo

As the fields of engineering, energy, and geology become increasingly complex, decision makers face escalating challenges that require skilled solutions to meet practical production needs. Evolutionary algorithms, inspired by biological evolution, ha...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computer-Aided Biomimetics: 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,009 Views
32 Pages

An Extended Tissue-like P System Based on Membrane Systems and Quantum-Behaved Particle Swarm Optimization for Image Segmentation

  • Lin Wang,
  • Xiyu Liu,
  • Jianhua Qu,
  • Yuzhen Zhao and ,
  • Zhenni Jiang and
  • Ning Wang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

31 January 2022

An extended membrane system using a tissue-like P system with evolutional symport/antiport rules and a promoter/inhibitor, which is based on the evolutionary mechanism of quantum-behaved particle swarm optimization (QPSO) and improved QPSO, named CQP...

(This article belongs to the Topic Bioreactors: Control, Optimization and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,285 Views
21 Pages

23 October 2020

In the era of big data, the size and complexity of the data are increasing especially for those stored in remote locations, and whose difficulty is further increased by the ongoing rapid accumulation of data scale. Real-world optimization problems pr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Optimization in Big Data, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,419 Views
16 Pages

Bilevel Optimization-Based Time-Optimal Path Planning for AUVs

  • Xuliang Yao,
  • Feng Wang,
  • Jingfang Wang and
  • Xiaowei Wang

27 November 2018

Using the bilevel optimization (BIO) scheme, this paper presents a time-optimal path planner for autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) operating in grid-based environments with ocean currents. In this scheme, the upper optimization problem is defined...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mobile Robot Navigation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
4,432 Views
18 Pages

A Quantum-Inspired Ant Colony Optimization Approach for Exploring Routing Gateways in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

  • Jamal Khudair Madhloom,
  • Hussein Najm Abd Ali,
  • Haifaa Ahmed Hasan,
  • Oday Ali Hassen and
  • Saad Mohamed Darwish

28 February 2023

Establishing internet access for mobile ad hoc networks (MANET) is a job that is both vital and complex. MANET is used to build a broad range of applications, both commercial and non-commercial, with the majority of these apps obtaining access to int...

(This article belongs to the Section Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,070 Views
33 Pages

Background: Gastrointestinal (GI) cancers remain a major global health concern, where timely and accurate interpretation of endoscopic findings plays a decisive role in patient outcomes. In recent years, deep learning–based decision support sys...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Medical Image Analysis and Machine Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,888 Views
27 Pages

13 September 2020

As humanity struggles to find a path to resilience amidst global change vagaries, understanding organizing principles of living systems as the pillar for human existence is rapidly growing in importance. However, finding quantitative definitions for...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Evolution and Thermodynamics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,559 Views
16 Pages

8 September 2025

Identifying the most reactive conformation of a molecule is a central challenge in computational chemistry, particularly when reactivity depends on subtle conformational effects. While most conformation search tools aim to find the lowest-energy stru...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,835 Views
16 Pages

7 November 2025

Cyber defense has evolved into an algorithmically intensive discipline where mathematical rigor and adaptive computation underpin the robustness and continuity of digital infrastructures. This review consolidates the algorithmic spectrum that support...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Algorithms for Cyber Defense: From Cryptography to Behavioral Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,680 Views
18 Pages

28 May 2019

Research on fault identification for wind turbines (WTs) is a widespread concern. However, the identification accuracy in existing research is vulnerable to uncertainty in the operation data, and the identification results lack interpretability. In t...

(This article belongs to the Section A3: Wind, Wave and Tidal Energy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,558 Views
16 Pages

Classification of Fungal Pigments by Simulating Their Optical Properties Using Evolutionary Optimization

  • Roman Y. Pishchalnikov,
  • Denis D. Chesalin,
  • Vasiliy A. Kurkov,
  • Andrei P. Razjivin and ,
  • Sergey V. Gudkov,
  • Andrey A. Grishin,
  • Alexey S. Dorokhov and
  • Andrey Yu. Izmailov
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

5 December 2024

Modern developments in data analysis techniques and evolutionary optimization algorithms have made it possible to analyze large amounts of unstructured digital data sets. Based on the differential evolution algorithm and semiclassical quantum simulat...

(This article belongs to the Section E: Applied Mathematics)

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