1) Artificial Intelligence (Computational Intelligence)

2) Parallel Evolutionary Algorithms and its Applications

3) Internet of Things and Sensor Networks

4) Multiobjective Evolution of Deep Neural Network

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[5] Cao B, Zhao J, Lv Z, et al. Multi-Objective 3D Topology Optimization of Next Generation Wireless Data Center Network via a Parallel Algorithm. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. 2019. DOI:  10.1109/TII.2019.2952565.