Fitness-distance balance (FDB): A new selection method for meta-heuristic search algorithms. - Hamdi Tolga Kahraman; Sefa Aras; Eyüp Gedikli (Knowl. Based Syst., 2020)

Fitness-Distance Balance based adaptive guided differential evolution algorithm for security-constrained optimal power flow problem incorporating renewable energy sources. - Ugur Güvenc; Serhat Duman; Hamdi Tolga Kahraman; Sefa Aras; Mehmet Kati (Appl. Soft Comput., 2021)

Development of a Lévy flight and FDB-based coyote optimization algorithm for global optimization and real-world ACOPF problems. - Serhat Duman; Hamdi Tolga Kahraman; Ugur Güvenc; Sefa Aras (Soft Comput., 2021)

A novel stochastic fractal search algorithm with fitness-Distance balance for global numerical optimization. - Sefa Aras; Eyüp Gedikli; Hamdi Tolga Kahraman (Swarm Evol. Comput., 2021)

Dynamic FDB selection method and its application: modeling and optimizing of directional overcurrent relays coordination. - Hamdi Tolga Kahraman; Hüseyin Bakir; Serhat Duman; Mehmet Kati; Sefa Aras; Ugur Güvenc (Appl. Intell., 2022)

A powerful meta-heuristic search algorithm for solving global optimization and real-world solar photovoltaic parameter estimation problems. - Serhat Duman; Hamdi Tolga Kahraman; Yusuf Sönmez; Ugur Güvenc; Mehmet Kati; Sefa Aras (Eng. Appl. Artif. Intell., 2022)

Development of the Natural Survivor Method (NSM) for designing an updating mechanism in metaheuristic search algorithms. - Hamdi Tolga Kahraman; Mehmet Kati; Sefa Aras; Durdane Ayse Tasci (Eng. Appl. Artif. Intell., 2023)

Fitness-distance balance based artificial ecosystem optimisation to solve transient stability constrained optimal power flow problem. - Yusuf Sönmez; Serhat Duman; Hamdi Tolga Kahraman; Mehmet Kati; Sefa Aras; Ugur Güvenc (J. Exp. Theor. Artif. Intell., 2024)

Dental X-Ray image enhancement using a novel evolutionary optimization algorithm. - Ibrahim Yildirim; Mustafa Hakan Bozkurt; Hamdi Tolga Kahraman; Sefa Aras (Eng. Appl. Artif. Intell., 2025)

Multi-objective CNN optimization: A robust framework for automated model design. - Sefa Aras; Elif Aras; Eyüp Gedikli; Hamdi Tolga Kahraman (Inf. Sci., 2025)

A comprehensive analytical study on meta-heuristic based optimal thresholding using two-stage multi-level image segmentation (TSMIS) approach. - Asuman Günay Yilmaz; Eyüp Gedikli; Sefa Aras; Hamdi Tolga Kahraman (Clust. Comput., 2025)