2026 Enrique Alba: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	72	1677	1626	17	17	558	20972

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D-Index

World Ranking

Current World Ranking

National Ranking

Current National Ranking

Publications

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Computer Science

1677

1626

558

20972

Research.com Recognitions

2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Spain Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Computer Science in Spain Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Spain Leader Award

Overview

Enrique Alba is affiliated with the University of Malaga in Spain. Their research primarily focuses on fields within Computer Science and Engineering.

Their recent publications include:

Parallel Genetic Algorithms, 2020, ACM Computing Surveys
Software systems from smart city vendors, 2020, Cities
A better understanding on traffic light scheduling: New cellular GAs and new in-depth analysis of solutions, 2020, Journal of Computational Science
Using metaheuristics for the location of bicycle stations, 2020, Expert Systems with Applications
Dynamic and adaptive fault-tolerant asynchronous federated learning using volunteer edge devices, 2022, Future Generation Computer Systems

Frequent coauthors include:

Gabriel Luque
Francisco Chicano
Zakaria Abdelmoiz Dahi
Christian Cintrano
José Ángel Morell

Their work has been published predominantly in these venues:

Applied Soft Computing
arXiv (Cornell University)
Future Generation Computer Systems
ACM Computing Surveys
Cities

Enrique Alba's research spans several subfields, notably:

Artificial Intelligence
Control and Systems Engineering
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Computational Theory and Mathematics
Computer Networks and Communications

They have explored a variety of research topics, including:

Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms Research
Advanced Multi-Objective Optimization Algorithms
Traffic control and management
Transportation and Mobility Innovations
Transportation Planning and Optimization
Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data
IoT and Edge/Fog Computing

Best Publications

Parallelism and evolutionary algorithms

E. Alba;M. Tomassini

1150
Citations
Parallel Metaheuristics: A New Class of Algorithms

Enrique Alba

863
Citations
SMPSO: A new PSO-based metaheuristic for multi-objective optimization

A.J. Nebro;J.J. Durillo;J. Garcia-Nieto;C.A. Coello Coello

791
Citations
The exploration/exploitation tradeoff in dynamic cellular genetic algorithms

E. Alba;B. Dorronsoro

564
Citations
A survey of parallel distributed genetic algorithms

Enrique Alba;José M. Troya

503
Citations
Cellular genetic algorithms

Enrique Alba

474
Citations
Smart City and information technology: A review

Andrés Camero;Enrique Alba

434
Citations
MOCell: A cellular genetic algorithm for multiobjective optimization

Antonio J. Nebro;Juan J. Durillo;Francisco Luna;Bernabé Dorronsoro

415
Citations
AbYSS: Adapting Scatter Search to Multiobjective Optimization

Antonio J. Nebro;Francisco Luna;Enrique Alba;BernabÉ Dorronsoro

371
Citations
Parallel metaheuristics: recent advances and new trends

Enrique Alba;Gabriel Luque;Sergio Nesmachnow

370
Citations
Software project management with GAs

Enrique Alba;J. Francisco Chicano

362
Citations
MOCell: A cellular genetic algorithm for multiobjective optimization

Unknown

355
Citations
The jMetal framework for multi-objective optimization: Design and architecture

Juan J. Durillo;Antonio J. Nebro;Enrique Alba

349
Citations
Gene selection in cancer classification using PSO/SVM and GA/SVM hybrid algorithms

E. Alba;J. Garcia-Nieto;L. Jourdan;E.-G. Talbi

320
Citations
Intelligent OLSR Routing Protocol Optimization for VANETs

J. Toutouh;J. Garcia-Nieto;E. Alba

261
Citations
Parallel Genetic Algorithms: Theory and Real World Applications

Gabriel Luque;Enrique Alba

250
Citations
Two hybrid wrapper-filter feature selection algorithms applied to high-dimensional microarray experiments

Javier Apolloni;Guillermo Leguizamón;Enrique Alba

244
Citations
Parallel evolutionary algorithms can achieve super-linear performance

Enrique Alba

241
Citations
Analyzing synchronous and asynchronous parallel distributed genetic algorithms

Enrique Alba;José M. Troya

238
Citations
Multi-Objective Particle Swarm Optimizers: An Experimental Comparison

Juan J. Durillo;José García-Nieto;Antonio J. Nebro;Carlos A. Coello

235
Citations
MALLBA: a library of skeletons for combinatorial optimisation

E. Alba;F. Almeida;M. Blesa;J. Cabeza

216
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Antonio J. Nebro University of Malaga

José M. Troya University of Malaga

Juan J. Durillo Leibniz Supercomputing Centre

El-Ghazali Talbi University of Lille

Pascal Bouvry University of Luxembourg

Carlos A. Coello Coello CINVESTAV

Marco Tomassini University of Lausanne

Fatos Xhafa Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

Christian Blum Spanish National Research Council

Alexander Egyed Johannes Kepler University of Linz

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