Retraction Note: Optimization analysis of sport pattern driven by machine learning and multi-agent(Neural Computing and Applications, (2020), 33, (1067-1077), 10.1007/s00521-020-05022-2)

The Editor-in-Chief and the publisher have retracted this article. This article was submitted to be part of a guestedited issue. An investigation concluded that the editorial process of this guest-edited issue was compromised by a third party and that the peer review process has been manipulated. Based on the investigation’s findings, the Editor-in-Chief therefore no longer has confidence in the results and conclusions of this article. Chen Dong has not responded to correspondence regarding this retraction. We were unable to contact the authors due to the mail bonus. The Publisher has not been able to obtain the current email addresses for Hao Wang and Yuming Fu.