Critical evaluation of sine cosine algorithm and a few recommendations. - Qamar Askari; Irfan Younas; Mehreen Saeed (GECCO Companion, 2020)

Heap-based optimizer inspired by corporate rank hierarchy for global optimization. - Qamar Askari; Mehreen Saeed; Irfan Younas (Expert Syst. Appl., 2020)

Political Optimizer: A novel socio-inspired meta-heuristic for global optimization. - Qamar Askari; Irfan Younas; Mehreen Saeed (Knowl. Based Syst., 2020)

Improved political optimizer for complex landscapes and engineering optimization problems. - Qamar Askari; Irfan Younas (Expert Syst. Appl., 2021)

Political Optimizer Based Feedforward Neural Network for Classification and Function Approximation. - Qamar Askari; Irfan Younas (Neural Process. Lett., 2021)

Emphasizing the importance of shift invariance in metaheuristics by using whale optimization algorithm as a test bed. - Qamar Askari; Irfan Younas; Mehreen Saeed (Soft Comput., 2021)