Retraction Note: Multi-criteria-based approach for job scheduling in industry 4.0 in smart cities using fuzzy logic(Soft Computing, (2021), 25, (12059–12074), 10.1007/s00500-021-05765-7)

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. Mohsin Raza agrees with this retraction. Vicente Garcı´a Dı´az disagrees with this retraction. Priyan Malarvizhi Kumar, Gokulnath Chandra Babu, Anandamurugan Selvaraj and Ashish Kr. Luhach have not responded to correspondence from the Publisher about this retraction.