SaDE Won "2012 IEEE CIS TEC Outstanding Paper Award"

(Awarded in June 2012 for 2009 IEEE Tr. on Evolutionary Computation Publication. Selected in June 2011)

A. K. Qin, V. L. Huang, and P. N. Suganthan, "Differential evolution algorithm with strategy adaptation for global numerical optimization", IEEE Trans. on Evolutionary Computations, DOI: 10.1109/TEVC.2008.927706, pp. 398-417, April, 2009 (SaDE - Self-adaptive differential Evolution).

SaDE is at 6th position in May 2011 in the "Top-Accessed Articles" List among all TEVC articles published to-date. SaDE is the only IEEE TEVC 2009 article in the top 25 list.

As of June 2011, the top 4 SCI citations among all IEEE TEC articles published in 2009 are:

Qin AK, Huang VL, Suganthan PN, "Differential Evolution Algorithm With Strategy Adaptation for Global Numerical Optimization"
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION   Volume: 13   Issue: 2   Pages: 398-417   Published: APR 2009
Times Cited: 65

Das S, Abraham A, Chakraborty UK, et al., "Differential Evolution Using a Neighborhood-Based Mutation Operator"
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION   Volume: 13   Issue: 3   Pages: 526-553   Published: JUN 2009
Times Cited: 44

Zhang JQ, Sanderson AC, "JADE: Adaptive Differential Evolution With Optional External Archive"
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION   Volume: 13   Issue: 5   Pages: 945-958   Published: OCT 2009
Times Cited: 25

Li H, Zhang QF, "Multiobjective Optimization Problems With Complicated Pareto Sets, MOEA/D and NSGA-II"
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION   Volume: 13   Issue: 2   Pages: 284-302   Published: APR 2009
Times Cited: 14

All four articles are related to differential evolution!