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Citing DESDEO

Have you found DESDEO useful in your work? While DESDEO is free and open-source, we still appreciate if its users could cite us when applicable!

DESDEO has been developed over several years and has been described in more than one publication. To make sure you cite the most appropriate reference, please follow the guidance below.

Which reference should I cite?

  • The modern DESDEO framework (this software). A dedicated software paper describing the current version of DESDEO is being prepared for the Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS). Once it is published, it will be the preferred reference and this page (and the CITATION.cff file) will be updated accordingly.
  • Until the JOSS paper is available, please cite the IEEE Access (2021) paper given below as the general reference for DESDEO.

About the earlier publications

Two earlier publications are associated with DESDEO:

  • The IEEE Access (2021) paper documents an earlier (legacy) version of the framework. It is currently the recommended general reference until the JOSS paper is published.
  • The 2018 book chapter "DESDEO: An Open Framework for Interactive Multiobjective Optimization" by Ojalehto and Miettinen (doi:10.1007/978-3-319-99304-1_3) proposes the open framework for interactive multiobjective optimization that motivated DESDEO, rather than describing the current software.
@article{misitano2021desdeo,
  title={DESDEO: The modular and open source framework for interactive multiobjective optimization},
  author={Misitano, Giovanni and Saini, Bhupinder Singh and Afsar, Bekir and Shavazipour, Babooshka and Miettinen, Kaisa},
  journal={IEEE Access},
  volume={9},
  pages={148277--148295},
  year={2021},
  publisher={IEEE},
  doi={10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3123825}
}

You can also obtain machine-readable citation metadata from the CITATION.cff file in the root of the repository. GitHub uses this file to provide a ready-to-use "Cite this repository" button.