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20192026
most citedCSCF: a chaotic sine cosine firefly Algorithm for practical application problems

120 citations

23 papers

eess.IV2026

Comparative Analysis of Deep Learning Architectures for Multi-Disease Classification of Single-Label Chest X-rays

Ali M. Bahram, Saman Muhammad Omer, Hardi M. Mohammed

Chest X-ray imaging remains the primary diagnostic tool for pulmonary and cardiac disorders worldwide, yet its accuracy is hampered by radiologist shortages and inter-observer vari…

q-bio.OT2026

Effect of water soaking and rooting substrates on the rooting development of salakhani pomegranate hardwood cuttings

Iman J. B. Hawrami, M. M. A. Qadir, R. R. Aziz

This study was carried out to evaluated the effects of soaking duration and rooting substrate on the root and shoot development of Salakhani pomegranate hardwood cuttings. The expe…

cs.CV2025★ 1 cited

Validation of Diagnostic Artificial Intelligence Models for Prostate Pathology in a Middle Eastern Cohort

Peshawa J. Muhammad Ali, Navin Vincent, Saman S. Abdulla +8

Background: Artificial intelligence (AI) is improving the efficiency and accuracy of cancer diagnostics. The performance of pathology AI systems has been almost exclusively evaluat…

q-bio.OT2025★ 7 cited

Analysis of the Metabolic Profile and Biological Activity of Hawthorn Species Twigs: Crataegus azarolus and Crataegus monogyna

Hiwa Sheikh Ahmed Qalatobzany, Kadhm Abdullah Muhammad, Djshwar Dhahir Lateef +4

All parts of the hawthorn tree (Crataegus spp.), including fruits, flowers, and leaves, have been used as a source of bioactive compounds. Thus, in this investigation, the twigs of…

cs.LG2025★ 4 cited

Hybrid Deep Learning Model for epileptic seizure classification by using 1D-CNN with multi-head attention mechanism

Mohammed Guhdar, Ramadhan J. Mstafa, Abdulhakeem O. Mohammed

Epilepsy is a prevalent neurological disorder globally, impacting around 50 million people \cite{WHO_epilepsy_50million}. Epileptic seizures result from sudden abnormal electrical…

quant-ph2024★ 8 cited

The Mpemba effect in quantum oscillating and two-level systems

Fardin Kheirandish, Narges Cheraghpour, Adam Moradian

The Empemba effect (ME) is investigated in the context of ubiquitous quantum oscillating and two-level systems (TLS) using a novel approach (DOI 10.1088/1402-4896/ad97f1). Exact re…

nucl-ex2023

Decay Spectroscopy of Eu: Quasiparticle Configurations of Excited States and Structure of = Band-heads in Gd

D. Yates, R. Kruecken, I. Dillmann +45

\noindent \textbf{Background:} Detailed spectroscopy of neutron-rich, heavy, deformed nuclei is of broad interest for nuclear astrophysics and nuclear structure. Nuclei in the r-pr…

cs.SE2023★ 6 cited

Awareness requirement and performance management for adaptive systems: a survey

Tarik A. Rashid, Bryar A. Hassan, Abeer Alsadoon +4

Self-adaptive software can assess and modify its behavior when the assessment indicates that the program is not performing as intended or when improved functionality or performance…

cs.NE2023★ 11 cited

Fitness Dependent Optimizer with Neural Networks for COVID-19 patients

Maryam T. Abdulkhaleq, Tarik A. Rashid, Bryar A. Hassan +4

The Coronavirus, known as COVID-19, which appeared in 2019 in China, has significantly affected global health and become a huge burden on health institutions all over the world. Th…

cs.NE2022★ 37 cited

Harmony Search: Current Studies and Uses on Healthcare Systems

Maryam T. Abdulkhaleq, Tarik A. Rashid, Abeer Alsadoon +13

One of the popular metaheuristic search algorithms is Harmony Search (HS). It has been verified that HS can find solutions to optimization problems due to its balanced exploratory…

eess.IV2022★ 39 cited

An Improved Deep Convolutional Neural Network by Using Hybrid Optimization Algorithms to Detect and Classify Brain Tumor Using Augmented MRI Images

Shko M. Qader, Bryar A. Hassan, Tarik A. Rashid

Automated brain tumor detection is becoming a highly considerable medical diagnosis research. In recent medical diagnoses, detection and classification are highly considered to emp…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 23 cited

Solving the tension in Gravity through Bayesian Machine Learning

Muhsin Aljaf, Emilio Elizalde, Martiros Khurshudyan +2

Bayesian Machine Learning~(BML) and strong lensing time delay~(SLTD) techniques are used in order to tackle the tension in gravity. The power of BML relies on employ…

quant-ph2022★ 1 cited

On quantum states generated from interacting oscillators

Haqi Ismael Shareef, Fardin Kheirandish

In this paper, we study the quantum states generated from two and three linearly interacting quantum harmonic oscillators. We consider the possibility that one of the oscillators b…

cs.NE2022★ 71 cited

Current Studies and Applications of Shuffled Frog Leaping Algorithm: A Review

Bestan B. Maaroof, Tarik A. Rashid, Jaza M. Abdulla +5

Shuffled Frog Leaping Algorithm (SFLA) is one of the most widespread algorithms. It was developed by Eusuff and Lansey in 2006. SFLA is a population-based metaheuristic algorithm t…

cs.NE2021★ 54 cited

A Novel Cluster Detection of COVID-19 Patients and Medical Disease Conditions Using Improved Evolutionary Clustering Algorithm Star

Bryar A. Hassan, Tarik A. Rashid, Hozan K. Hamarashid

With the increasing number of samples, the manual clustering of COVID-19 and medical disease data samples becomes time-consuming and requires highly skilled labour. Recently, sever…

cs.AI2021★ 55 cited

Formal context reduction in deriving concept hierarchies from corpora using adaptive evolutionary clustering algorithm star

Bryar A. Hassan, Tarik A. Rashid, Seyedali Mirjalili

It is beneficial to automate the process of deriving concept hierarchies from corpora since a manual construction of concept hierarchies is typically a time-consuming and resource-…

cs.NE2021★ 20 cited

Dynamic Cat Swarm Optimization Algorithm for Backboard Wiring Problem

Aram Ahmed, Tarik A. Rashid, Soran Saeed

This paper presents a powerful swarm intelligence meta-heuristic optimization algorithm called Dynamic Cat Swarm Optimization. The formulation is through modifying the existing Cat…

cs.IR2021★ 37 cited

Evaluating e-Government Services in Kurdistan Institution for Strategic Studies and Scientific Research Using the EGOVSAT Model

Bryar A. Hassan, Aram M. Ahmed, Soran A. Saeed +1

Office automation is an initiative used to digitally deliver services to citizens, private and public sectors. It is used to digitally collect, store, create, and manipulate office…

cs.NE2021★ 36 cited

Performance evaluation results of evolutionary clustering algorithm star for clustering heterogeneous datasets

Bryar A. Hassan, TarikA. Rashid, Seyedali Mirjalili

This article presents the data used to evaluate the performance of evolutionary clustering algorithm star (ECA*) compared to five traditional and modern clustering algorithms. Two…

cs.LG2021★ 73 cited

A Multi-disciplinary Ensemble Algorithm for Clustering Heterogeneous Datasets

Bryar A. Hassan, Tarik A. Rashid

Clustering is a commonly used method for exploring and analysing data where the primary objective is to categorise observations into similar clusters. In recent decades, several al…

cs.NE2020★ 120 cited

CSCF: a chaotic sine cosine firefly Algorithm for practical application problems

Bryar A. Hassan

Recently, numerous meta-heuristic based approaches are deliberated to reduce the computational complexities of several existing approaches that include tricky derivations, very lar…

gr-qc2020★ 9 cited

Assessing the foundation and applicability of some dark energy fluid models in the Dirac-Born-Infeld framework

Muhsin Aljaf, Daniele Gregoris, Martiros Khurshudyan

In this paper, we will deepen the understanding of some fluid models proposed by other authors for the description of dark energy. Specifically, we will show that the so-called (Mo…

cs.NE2019★ 75 cited

Operational Framework for Recent Advances in Backtracking Search Optimisation Algorithm: A Systematic Review and Performance Evaluation

Bryar A. Hassan, Tarik A. Rashid

The experiments conducted in previous studies demonstrated the successful performance of BSA and its non-sensitivity toward the several types of optimisation problems. This success…