Everything about Objective-C

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Objective-CA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: A comprehensive survey on NSGA-II for multi-objective optimization and applicationsInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Vom KriegeThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Hierarchical Grouping to Optimize an Objective FunctionCited 18,918 times
5. Go sideways: Cocoa (API)A closely related topic
6. Go sideways: GNUstepA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Hierarchical Grouping to Optimize an Objective Function

  Joe H. Ward · 1963 · Journal of the American Statistical Association · 18,918 citations

• An Evolutionary Many-Objective Optimization Algorithm Using Reference-Point-Based Nondominated Sorting Approach, Part I: Solving Problems With Box Constraints

  Kalyanmoy Deb, Himanshu Jain · 2014 · IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation · 6,964 citations

• Objective Criteria for the Evaluation of Clustering Methods

  William M. Rand · 1971 · Journal of the American Statistical Association · 6,513 citations

• Constructing validity: Basic issues in objective scale development.

  Lee Anna Clark, David Watson · 1995 · Psychological Assessment · 4,642 citations

• Survey of multi-objective optimization methods for engineering

  R.T. Marler, J.S. Arora · 2004 · Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization · 4,089 citations

• Relationship of subjective and objective social status with psychological and physiological functioning: Preliminary data in healthy, White women.

  Nancy E. Adler, Elissa S. Epel, Grace Castellazzo · 2000 · Health Psychology · 4,023 citations

• Determining objective weights in multiple criteria problems: The critic method

  D. Diakoulaki, G. Mavrotas, L. Papayannakis · 1995 · Computers & Operations Research · 3,323 citations

• A new method which gives an objective measure of colonization of roots by vesicular—arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

  T. P. McGONIGLE, M. H. MILLER, D. G. EVANS · 1990 · New Phytologist · 3,251 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• A comprehensive survey on NSGA-II for multi-objective optimization and applications

  Haiping Ma, Yajing Zhang, Shengyi Sun · 2023 · Artificial Intelligence Review · 772 citations

• A Comprehensive Review on Multi-objective Optimization Techniques: Past, Present and Future

  Shubhkirti Sharma, Vijay Kumar · 2022 · Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering · 473 citations

• An enhanced fast non-dominated solution sorting genetic algorithm for multi-objective problems

  Wu Deng, Xiaoxiao Zhang, Yongquan Zhou · 2022 · Information Sciences · 450 citations

• A practical guide to multi-objective reinforcement learning and planning

  Conor F. Hayes, Roxana Rădulescu, Eugenio Bargiacchi · 2022 · Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems · 407 citations

• Balancing Objective Optimization and Constraint Satisfaction in Constrained Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization

  Ye Tian, Yajie Zhang, Yansen Su · 2022 · IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics · 349 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Vom KriegeCarl von Clausewitz · 1835
• C++Paul J. Deitel, Harvey M. Deitel · 1996
• First thing firstStephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill · 1994
• C how to programHarvey M. Deitel, Paul J. Deitel · 1992
• Classical and object-oriented software engineeringStephen R. Schach · 1996
• C++ primer plusStephen Prata · 1995
• Object-oriented Programming with C++E. Balagurusamy · 1997
• Programming in ANSI CE. Balagurusamy · 1994

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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