Miqing Li

7.6k total citations · 7 hit papers
105 papers, 5.5k citations indexed

About

Miqing Li is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Computational Theory and Mathematics and Information Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, Miqing Li has authored 105 papers receiving a total of 5.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 71 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 70 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics and 17 papers in Information Systems. Recurrent topics in Miqing Li's work include Advanced Multi-Objective Optimization Algorithms (70 papers), Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms Research (53 papers) and Evolutionary Algorithms and Applications (34 papers). Miqing Li is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Multi-Objective Optimization Algorithms (70 papers), Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms Research (53 papers) and Evolutionary Algorithms and Applications (34 papers). Miqing Li collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, China and United States. Miqing Li's co-authors include Xiaohui Liu, Shengxiang Yang, Xin Yao, Jinhua Zheng, Ke Li, Ran Cheng, Yi Xiang, Yuren Zhou, Zefeng Chen and Yaochu Jin and has published in prestigious journals such as European Journal of Operational Research, ACM Computing Surveys and Information Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Miqing Li

101 papers receiving 5.4k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

A Grid-Based Evolutionary Algorithm for Many-Objective Optimization

2013 726 citations Shengxiang Yang, Miqing Li et al. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation profile →
Shift-Based Density Estimation for Pareto-Based Algorithms in Many-Objective Optimization

2013 566 citations Miqing Li, Shengxiang Yang et al. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation profile →
A benchmark test suite for evolutionary many-objective optimization

2017 375 citations Ran Cheng, Miqing Li et al. profile →
A Vector Angle-Based Evolutionary Algorithm for Unconstrained Many-Objective Optimization

2016 333 citations Yi Xiang, Miqing Li et al. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation profile →
Evolutionary Multi-Objective Workflow Scheduling in Cloud

2015 311 citations Miqing Li, Xiaohui Liu et al. profile →
Stable Matching-Based Selection in Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization

2014 273 citations Miqing Li et al. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation profile →
Quality Evaluation of Solution Sets in Multiobjective Optimisation

2019 229 citations Miqing Li, Xin Yao ACM Computing Surveys profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Miqing Li	3.8k	3.6k	977	771	553	105	5.5k
Antonio J. Nebro	2.0k 0.5×	2.0k 0.6×	356 0.4×	590 0.8×	450 0.8×	82	4.1k
Ke Li	2.9k 0.8×	3.2k 0.9×	669 0.7×	313 0.4×	259 0.5×	230	5.0k
Yuren Zhou	1.5k 0.4×	2.3k 0.6×	319 0.3×	646 0.8×	263 0.5×	123	3.9k
Viviane Grunert da Fonseca	2.0k 0.5×	1.6k 0.4×	441 0.5×	195 0.3×	525 0.9×	5	3.1k
Juan J. Durillo	1.5k 0.4×	1.5k 0.4×	258 0.3×	943 1.2×	274 0.5×	44	3.2k
Daryl Essam	1.3k 0.4×	2.3k 0.6×	485 0.5×	237 0.3×	1.1k 2.0×	197	4.8k
Johannes Bader	1.8k 0.5×	1.6k 0.5×	424 0.4×	209 0.3×	171 0.3×	12	2.5k
Ender Özcan	964 0.3×	2.1k 0.6×	1.4k 1.5×	210 0.3×	1.9k 3.4×	167	4.7k
Edward Tsang	1.2k 0.3×	1.9k 0.5×	975 1.0×	155 0.2×	838 1.5×	149	3.7k

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Li, Miqing, et al.. (2025). How Do Dynamic Events Change the Fitness Landscape of Traveling Salesman Problems?. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation. 29(5). 1463–1474.

Jiang, Chao & Miqing Li. (2025). Multi-Objectivising Acquisition Functions in Bayesian Optimisation. University of Birmingham Research Portal (University of Birmingham). 5(2). 1–33. 1 indexed citations

Bian, Chao, Shi‐Bin Ren, Miqing Li, & Chao Qian. (2025). An Archive Can Bring Provable Speed-ups in Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithms. Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion. 13–14. 1 indexed citations

Bian, Chao, et al.. (2025). Stochastic population update can provably be helpful in multi-objective evolutionary algorithms. Artificial Intelligence. 341. 104308–104308. 2 indexed citations

Zhang, Maorui, et al.. (2024). Improving decomposition-based MOEAs for combinatorial optimisation by intensifying corner weights. Swarm and Evolutionary Computation. 91. 101722–101722. 3 indexed citations

Chen, Tao & Miqing Li. (2024). Adapting Multi-objectivized Software Configuration Tuning. Proceedings of the ACM on software engineering.. 1(FSE). 539–561. 11 indexed citations

Li, Miqing, Hamid Arabnejad, Diana Suleimenova, et al.. (2024). Many-Objective Simulation Optimization for Camp Location Problems in Humanitarian Logistics. Brunel University Research Archive (BURA) (Brunel University London). 100017–100017. 10 indexed citations

Wang, Lingfeng, Jelena Ninić, James Andrews, et al.. (2024). Multi-Objective Optimization for Flexible Building Space Usage. University of Birmingham Research Portal (University of Birmingham). 932–939. 1 indexed citations

Li, Miqing & Tao Chen. (2024). Methodology and Guidelines for Evaluating Multi-objective Search-Based Software Engineering. 707–709.

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Li, Miqing, et al.. (2024). Empirical Comparison between MOEAs and Local Search on Multi-Objective Combinatorial Optimisation Problems. Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. 547–556. 3 indexed citations

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Bian, Chao, et al.. (2023). Stochastic Population Update Can Provably Be Helpful in Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithms. University of Birmingham Research Portal (University of Birmingham). 5513–5521. 22 indexed citations

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Xiang, Yi, Han Huang, Si‐Zhe Li, et al.. (2023). Automated Test Suite Generation for Software Product Lines Based on Quality-Diversity Optimization. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology. 33(2). 1–52. 5 indexed citations

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Zhang, Guofu, et al.. (2022). New Reliability-Driven Bounds for Architecture-Based Multi-Objective Testing Resource Allocation. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. 49(4). 2513–2529.

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Su, Zhaopin, Mengke Li, Guofu Zhang, et al.. (2022). Robust Audio Copy-Move Forgery Detection Using Constant Q Spectral Sketches and GA-SVM. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing. 20(5). 4016–4031. 14 indexed citations

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Gu, Xiaowei, et al.. (2022). Multiobjective Evolutionary Optimization for Prototype-Based Fuzzy Classifiers. IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems. 31(5). 1703–1715. 4 indexed citations

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Su, Zhaopin, Guofu Zhang, Feng Yue, et al.. (2021). Enhanced Constraint Handling for Reliability-Constrained Multiobjective Testing Resource Allocation. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation. 25(3). 537–551. 39 indexed citations

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Wang, Zhehui, Tao Luo, Miqing Li, et al.. (2021). Evolutionary Multi-Objective Model Compression for Deep Neural Networks. IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine. 16(3). 10–21. 12 indexed citations

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Li, Miqing & Xin Yao. (2019). Quality Evaluation of Solution Sets in Multiobjective Optimisation. ACM Computing Surveys. 52(2). 1–38. 229 indexed citations breakdown →

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Cheng, Ran, Miqing Li, Ye Tian, et al.. (2017). Benchmark Functions for the CEC'2017 Competition on Many-Objective Optimization. DMU Open Research Archive (De Montfort University). 26 indexed citations

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Li, Miqing. (2009). Comparison and research of mutation operators in multi-objective evolu-tionary algorithms. Computer Engineering and Applications Journal. 2 indexed citations

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