Aziz Ouaarab

592 total citations · 1 hit paper
6 papers, 349 citations indexed

About

Aziz Ouaarab is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Aziz Ouaarab has authored 6 papers receiving a total of 349 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 3 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 2 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and 2 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. Recurrent topics in Aziz Ouaarab's work include Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms Research (3 papers), Vehicle Routing Optimization Methods (2 papers) and Medical Image Segmentation Techniques (2 papers). Aziz Ouaarab is often cited by papers focused on Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms Research (3 papers), Vehicle Routing Optimization Methods (2 papers) and Medical Image Segmentation Techniques (2 papers). Aziz Ouaarab collaborates with scholars based in Morocco, United Kingdom and Malta. Aziz Ouaarab's co-authors include Belaïd Ahiod and Xin‐She Yang and has published in prestigious journals such as Neural Computing and Applications, International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology and Transactions on Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence.

In The Last Decade

Aziz Ouaarab

5 papers receiving 334 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Discrete cuckoo search algorithm for the travelling salesman problem

2013 327 citations Aziz Ouaarab, Belaïd Ahiod et al. Neural Computing and Applications profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Aziz Ouaarab Morocco	3	194	128	59	53	45	6	349
Mohammed Essaid Riffi Morocco	11	187 1.0×	162 1.3×	52 0.9×	40 0.8×	46 1.0×	37	370
Cyril Fonlupt France	8	218 1.1×	108 0.8×	73 1.2×	32 0.6×	58 1.3×	28	375
Arit Thammano Thailand	11	157 0.8×	155 1.2×	43 0.7×	81 1.5×	55 1.2×	59	392
Julius Beneoluchi Odili Malaysia	10	213 1.1×	92 0.7×	60 1.0×	27 0.5×	51 1.1×	41	402
Abdesslem Layeb Algeria	11	325 1.7×	158 1.2×	125 2.1×	65 1.2×	76 1.7×	41	516
A. J. Umbarkar India	8	162 0.8×	70 0.5×	63 1.1×	32 0.6×	50 1.1×	23	360
Tien-Szu Pan Taiwan	10	143 0.7×	83 0.6×	50 0.8×	96 1.8×	89 2.0×	23	344
Binping Zhao China	5	190 1.0×	42 0.3×	79 1.3×	57 1.1×	49 1.1×	6	356
Mostafa Mahi Iran	5	310 1.6×	232 1.8×	113 1.9×	98 1.8×	70 1.6×	8	464
Ahmet Babalık Türkiye	7	191 1.0×	53 0.4×	114 1.9×	31 0.6×	28 0.6×	17	321

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6 of 6 papers shown

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Ouaarab, Aziz, et al.. (2025). TAU‐EffNetB7 : A Novel Triple Attention U‐Net Approach Using EfficientNetB7 for Enhanced Polyp Segmentation. International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology. 35(4).

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Ouaarab, Aziz, et al.. (2022). Images Segmentation using Deep Learning Algorithms and Metaheuristics. 1–6. 1 indexed citations

3.

Ouaarab, Aziz. (2020). Discrete Cuckoo Search for Combinatorial Optimization. 3 indexed citations

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Ouaarab, Aziz, Belaïd Ahiod, & Xin‐She Yang. (2017). Random Key Cuckoo Search for the Quadratic Assignment Problem. Transactions on Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. 5(4). 1 indexed citations

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Ouaarab, Aziz, et al.. (2014). Discrete Cuckoo Search algorithm for job shop scheduling problem. 1872–1876. 17 indexed citations

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Ouaarab, Aziz, Belaïd Ahiod, & Xin‐She Yang. (2013). Discrete cuckoo search algorithm for the travelling salesman problem. Neural Computing and Applications. 24(7-8). 1659–1669. 327 indexed citations breakdown →

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