Retraction Note: Applied Intelligence (2021) 52:13497-13519

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10489-021-02913-2

The Editor-in-Chief and the publisher have retracted this article. The article was submitted to be part of a guest-edited issue. An investigation by the publisher found a number of articles, including this one, with a number of concerns, including but not limited to compromised editorial handling and peer review process, inappropriate or irrelevant references or not being in scope of the journal or guest-edited issue. Based on the investigation’s findings the Editor-in-Chief therefore no longer has confidence in the results and conclusions of this article.

K. S. Ravichandran has stated on behalf of all authors that they disagree with this retraction.