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20182026
most citedIntelligent OLSR Routing Protocol Optimization for VANETs

201 citations · 718 across the 30 of their papers we have counts for

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32 papers

cs.LG2026

Population-Based Multi-Objective Training of Discriminators for Semi-Supervised GANs

Francisco Sedeño, Francisco Chicano, Jamal Toutouh

Semi-supervised generative adversarial networks (SSL-GANs) can exploit large unlabeled datasets while retaining a classifier in the discriminator, but their training is often unsta…

cs.NE2026

Robust Multi-Objective Optimization for Bicycle Rebalancing in Shared Mobility Systems

Diego Daniel Pedroza-Perez, Gabriel Luque, Sergio Nesmachnow +1

Dock-based bike-sharing systems exhibit spatial imbalances between bicycle supply and user demand, often addressed through overnight truck-based rebalancing. This work studies stat…

cs.NE2025★ 2 cited

Adversarial attacks to image classification systems using evolutionary algorithms

Sergio Nesmachnow, Jamal Toutouh

Image classification currently faces significant security challenges due to adversarial attacks, which consist of intentional alterations designed to deceive classification models…

cs.NE2025

Guiding Evolutionary AutoEncoder Training with Activation-Based Pruning Operators

Steven Jorgensen, Erik Hemberg, Jamal Toutouh +1

This study explores a novel approach to neural network pruning using evolutionary computation, focusing on simultaneously pruning the encoder and decoder of an autoencoder. We intr…

cs.NE2025

Generate more than one child in your co-evolutionary semi-supervised learning GAN

Francisco Sedeño, Jamal Toutouh, Francisco Chicano

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are very useful methods to address semi-supervised learning (SSL) datasets, thanks to their ability to generate samples similar to real data.…

cs.NI2025★ 19 cited

Performance Analysis of Optimized VANET Protocols in Real World Tests

Jamal Toutouh, Enrique Alba

Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) provide the communications required to deploy Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). In the current state of the art in this field there is a…

cs.NE2025★ 10 cited

Evolutionary Power-Aware Routing in VANETs using Monte-Carlo Simulation

J. Toutouh, S. Nesmachnow, E. Alba

This work addresses the reduction of power consumption of the AODV routing protocol in vehicular networks as an optimization problem. Nowadays, network designers focus on energy-aw…

cs.NI2025★ 26 cited

Light commodity devices for building vehicular ad hoc networks: An experimental study

Jamal Toutouh, Enrique Alba

Vehicular communication networks represent both an opportunity and a challenge for providing smart mobility services by using a hybrid solution that relies on cellular connectivity…

cs.NI2025★ 18 cited

QoS-Aware Radio Access Technology (RAT) Selection in Hybrid Vehicular Networks

Zeeshan Hameed Mir, Jamal Toutouh, Fethi Filali +1

The increasing number of wireless communication technologies and standards bring immense opportunities and challenges to provide seamless connectivity in Hybrid Vehicular Networks…

cs.NE2025★ 29 cited

Infrastructure Deployment in Vehicular Communication Networks Using a Parallel Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithm

Renzo Massobrio, Jamal Toutouh, Sergio Nesmachniw +1

This article describes the application of a multiobjective evolutionary algorithm for locating roadside infrastructure for vehicular communication networks over realistic urban are…

cs.NE2025★ 26 cited

A swarm algorithm for collaborative traffic in vehicular networks

Jamal Toutouh, Enrique Alba

Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) allow vehicles to exchange warning messages with each other. These specific kinds of networks help reduce hazardous traffic situations and improv…

cs.NE2025★ 59 cited

Fast energy-aware OLSR routing in VANETs by means of a parallel evolutionary algorithm

Jamal Toutouh, Sergio Nesmachnow, Enrique Alba

This work tackles the problem of reducing the power consumption of the OLSR routing protocol in vehicular networks. Nowadays, energy-aware and green communication protocols are imp…

cs.NE2025★ 22 cited

Parallel multi-objective metaheuristics for smart communications in vehicular networks

Jamal Toutouh, Enrique Alba

This article analyzes the use of two parallel multi-objective soft computing algorithms to automatically search for high-quality settings of the Ad hoc On Demand Vector routing pro…

cs.NE2025★ 201 cited

Intelligent OLSR Routing Protocol Optimization for VANETs

Jamal Toutouh, José García-Nieto, Enrique Alba

Recent advances in wireless technologies have given rise to the emergence of vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs). In such networks, the limited coverage of WiFi and the high mobilit…

cs.NE2025★ 39 cited

Automatic tuning of communication protocols for vehicular ad hoc networks using metaheuristics

José García-Nieto, Jamal Toutouh, Enrique Alba

The emerging field of vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) deals with a set of communicating vehicles which are able to spontaneously interconnect without any pre-existing infrastruc…

cs.CV2022★ 4 cited

Evolutionary latent space search for driving human portrait generation

Benjamín Machín, Sergio Nesmachnow, Jamal Toutouh

This article presents an evolutionary approach for synthetic human portraits generation based on the latent space exploration of a generative adversarial network. The idea is to pr…

cs.NE2021

Citizen centric optimal electric vehicle charging stations locations in a full city: case of Malaga

Christian Cintrano, Jamal Toutouh, Enrique Alba

This article presents the problem of locating electric vehicle (EV) charging stations in a city by defining the Electric Vehicle Charging Stations Locations (EV-CSL) problem. The i…

cs.NE2021★ 2 cited

Reliable and Fast Recurrent Neural Network Architecture Optimization

Andrés Camero, Jamal Toutouh, Enrique Alba

This article introduces Random Error Sampling-based Neuroevolution (RESN), a novel automatic method to optimize recurrent neural network architectures. RESN combines an evolutionar…

cs.LG2021

Fostering Diversity in Spatial Evolutionary Generative Adversarial Networks

Jamal Toutouh, Erik Hemberg, Una-May O'Reilly

Generative adversary networks (GANs) suffer from training pathologies such as instability and mode collapse, which mainly arise from a lack of diversity in their adversarial intera…

cs.OH2021★ 73 cited

Exact and heuristic approaches for multi-objective garbage accumulation points location in real scenarios

Diego Gabriel Rossit, Jamal Toutouh, Sergio Nesmachnow

Municipal solid waste management is a major challenge for nowadays urban societies, because it accounts for a large proportion of public budget and, when mishandled, it can lead to…

cs.NE2021

Signal Propagation in a Gradient-Based and Evolutionary Learning System

Jamal Toutouh, Una-May O'Reilly

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) exhibit training pathologies that can lead to convergence-related degenerative behaviors, whereas spatially-distributed, coevolutionary algor…

cs.NE2020

Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks to Model Urban Outdoor Air Pollution

Jamal Toutouh

This is a relevant problem because the design of most cities prioritizes the use of motorized vehicles, which has degraded air quality in recent years, having a negative effect on…

cs.NE2020

Analyzing the Components of Distributed Coevolutionary GAN Training

Jamal Toutouh, Erik Hemberg, Una-May O'Reilly

Distributed coevolutionary Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) training has empirically shown success in overcoming GAN training pathologies. This is mainly due to diversity maint…

cs.CR2020★ 41 cited

Adversarial Genetic Programming for Cyber Security: A Rising Application Domain Where GP Matters

Una-May O'Reilly, Jamal Toutouh, Marcos Pertierra +5

Cyber security adversaries and engagements are ubiquitous and ceaseless. We delineate Adversarial Genetic Programming for Cyber Security, a research topic that, by means of genetic…