Soft Computing
Last updated ISSN 1432-7643
Soft Computing is published by Springer Science+Business Media in decision sciences. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $3,190.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Soft Computing concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Multi-Criteria Decision Making
- Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms Research
- Rough Sets and Fuzzy Logic
- Fuzzy Systems and Optimization
- Advanced Algebra and Logic
- Evolutionary Algorithms and Applications
- Advanced Multi-Objective Optimization Algorithms
- Fuzzy Logic and Control Systems
- Neural Networks and Applications
- Optimization and Mathematical Programming
Key facts
| Publisher | Springer Science+Business Media |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1432-7643, 1433-7479 |
| Subject area | Decision Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $3,190 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus |
| Articles published | 11,264 |
| Publishing since | 1997 |
| Journal website | www.springer.com/journal/500 |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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