Germán Darío Obando Bravo

Journal Papers

• S. Chacón, K. Guerrero, G. Obando, and A. Pantoja, “An optimal peer-to-peer market in energy communities: A game-theoretic approach with replicator dynamics,” Sustainable Energy, Grids and Networks, vol. 45, Mar. 2026. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.segan.2025.102114
• E. Benavides, G. Obando, and A. Pantoja, “Integrating distributed optimization algorithms into blockchain for P2P energy trading,” Energy Informatics, vol. 9, Feb. 2026. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s42162-026-00644-7
• V. Gauthier-Umaña, I. Martínez, G. Obando, and J. F. Pérez, “Key recovery attack on PRESENT using an entropy-based neural distinguisher,” Neural Computing and Applications, vol. 38, Abr. 2026. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-026-11973-9
• E. Andrade-Lotero, C. E. Alvarez, and G. Obando, “A paradox in Brian Arthur’s solution to his El Farol Bar problem,” Advances in Complex Systems, vol. 28, Sep. 2025. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1142/S0219525925500146
• S. Chacón, K. Guerrero, G. Obando, and A. Pantoja, “Welfare Optimization in Energy Communities with P2P Markets,” IEEE Latin America Transactions, vol. 23, Ago. 2025. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/TLA.2025.11072495
• G. Obando and A. Pantoja, “A Robust Population Dynamics Model With Carrying Capacity Constraints for Centrally Coordinated Distributed Optimization,” IEEE Access, vol. 13, Jun. 2025. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3578157
• G. Obando, A. Pantoja, S. Chacón, y E. Benavides, “Optimización de costos en un escenario de mercado entre pares multimicrorred con dinámicas de replicadores,” TecnoLógicas, vol. 27, Jul. 2024. DOI: https://doi.org/10.22430/22565337.2992
• G. Obando, J. Martinez-Piazuelo, N. Quijano, and C. Ocampo-Martinez, “Juegos poblacionales y modelos dinámicos de pago: Un nuevo paradigma para control y optimización,” Revista Iberoamericana de Automática e Informática Industrial (RIAI), vol. 21, Abr. 2024. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4995/riai.2024.21215
• G. Obando, A. Pantoja, J. Barco-Jiménez, H. R. Chamorro, E. Caicedo Bravo, and J. A. Aguado, “In-Line Distributed Dispatch of Active and Reactive Power Based on ADMM and Consensus Considering Battery Degradation in Microgrids,” IEEE Access, vol. 11, Feb. 2023. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3248958
• G. Obando, N. Quijano and C. Ocampo-Martinez, “Decentralized Control for Urban Drainage Systems Using Replicator Dynamics,” in IEEE Access, vol. 10, pp. 56740-56762, 2022, DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3177631.
  Available: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9780412
• G. Obando Bravo, “Heterogeneous Multi-Population Evolutionary Dynamics with Migration Constraints”, in IFAC-PapersOnLine, v.53, fasc.2, pp.16852 – 16857, 2020, DOI: 10.1016/j.ifacol.2020.12.1190.
  Available: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacol.2020.12.1190
• G. Obando, J. Barreiro-Gómez, C. Ocampo‐Martínez, & N. Quijano, “Evolutionary‐games approach for distributed predictive control involving resource allocation”, IET Control Theory &Amp; Applications, vol. 13, no. 6, p. 772-782, 2019. DOI: 10.1049/iet-cta.2018.5716.
  Available: https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-cta.2018.5716
• G. Obando, A. Pantoja, and N. Quijano, “Distributed optimization with information-constrained population dynamics”, Journal of the Franklin Institute, vol. 356, no. 1, pp. 209–236, 2019, ISSN: 0016-0032. DOI: 10.1016/j.jfranklin.2018.10.016.
  Available: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016003218306616
• G. Obando, J. Barreiro-Gomez & N. Quijano, “Distributed Population Dynamics: Optimization and Control Applications,” in IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, vol. 47, no. 2, pp. 304-314, Feb. 2017, DOI: 10.1109/TSMC.2016.2523934.
  Available: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7419636
• G. Obando, N. Quijano & N. Rakoto–Ravalontsalama. “A centre–free approach for resource allocation with lower bounds,” in International Journal of Control, vol. 90, no. 9, pp. 1830-1845, 2017.
  Available: https://doi.org/10.1080/00207179.2016.1225167
• G. Obando, N. Quijano, C. Ocampo-Martinez, J. Barreiro-Gomez, A. Pantoja and E. Mojica-Nava, “The Role of Population Games and Evolutionary Dynamics in Distributed Control Systems: The Advantages of Evolutionary Game Theory,” in IEEE Control Systems Magazine, vol. 37, no. 1, pp. 70-97, Feb. 2017, DOI: 10.1109/MCS.2016.2621479.
  Available: https://doi.org/10.1109/MCS.2016.2621479
• German Obando, Jorge Poveda, & Nicanor Quijano. “Replicator dynamics under perturbations and time delays,” in Mathematics of Control, Signals, and Systems, vol. 28, no. 3, p.1 – 32, 2016. DOI: 10.1007/s00498-016-0170-9
  Available: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00498-016-0170-9
• G. Obando, A. Pantoja and N. Quijano, “Building Temperature Control Based on Population Dynamics,” in IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 404-412, Jan. 2014, DOI: 10.1109/TCST.2013.2252175.
  Available: https://doi.org/10.1109/TCST.2013.2252175

Conference Papers/Presentations

• S. Melo, G. Obando, and A. Pantoja, “Performance and Sensitivity of Replicator Dynamics in the Optimization of Interconnected Microgrids,” in 2025 IEEE 7th Colombian Conference on Automatic Control (CCAC), Pereira, Colombia, Oct. 2025.
• S. Chacón, K. Guerrero, G. Obando, and A. Pantoja, “Energy Community Management Using Replicator Dynamics and Lagrangian Relaxations,” in 2025 IEEE 7th Colombian Conference on Automatic Control (CCAC), Pereira, Colombia, Oct. 2025.
• E. Benavides, G. Obando, and A. Pantoja, “Optimal Energy Dispatch Integrating Replicator Dynamics and Blockchain,” in 2025 IEEE 7th Colombian Conference on Automatic Control (CCAC), Pereira, Colombia, Oct. 2025.
• J. B. Medina, A. Pantoja, G. Obando, and W. Achicanoy, “An Open-Source Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Framework for Energy Markets Simulation,” en III Congreso Internacional de Electrónica Aplicada CIEA 2025, Pasto, Colombia, Sep. 2025.
• J. Rosero, W. Pinta, and G. Obando, “Diseño de un Método para la Interpretabilidad de Redes Neuronales Clasificadoras de Imágenes,” en III Congreso Internacional de Electrónica Aplicada CIEA 2025, Pasto, Colombia, Sep. 2025.
• S. Chacón, K. Guerrero, G. Obando, and A. Pantoja, “Evaluating Individual and Community-Based Utility Functions for Energy Demand Response,” in 2024 IEEE URUCON, Montevideo, Uruguay, Nov. 2024.
• G. D. Obando Bravo, A. D. Pantoja Bucheli, y E. Benavides, “Implementación de una tecnología con BLOCKCHAIN en mercados energéticos,” en 7° Congreso Internacional de Ingenierías, Tulcán, Ecuador, Oct. 2024.
• G. D. Obando Bravo, A. D. Pantoja Bucheli, y S. Melo, “Aplicación de Dinámicas Poblacionales para la Gestión Energética en Microrredes Interconectadas,” en 7° Congreso Internacional de Ingenierías, Tulcán, Ecuador, Oct. 2024.
• G. D. Obando Bravo, A. D. Pantoja Bucheli, S. Chacón, y K. Guerrero, “Maximización del bienestar de comunidades energéticas en mercados P2P,” en 7° Congreso Internacional de Ingenierías, Tulcán, Ecuador, Oct. 2024.
• D. Rambaut y G. Obando, “Emulación de un Controlador MPC usando Inteligencia Artificial,” en 2023 1er Congreso de Electrónica e Informática Aplicada, Pasto, Colombia, Oct. 2023.
• S. Chacón, E. Benavides, A. Pantoja, y G. Obando, “Optimización de Costos en Transacciones de Energía Multi-Región Mediante Replicadores Dinámicos con Restricciones,” en 2023 1er Congreso de Electrónica e Informática Aplicada, Pasto, Colombia, Oct. 2023.
• S. Melo, A. Pantoja, y G. Obando, “Despacho óptimo de potencia activa en microrredes: Una revisión de la literatura,” en 2023 1er Congreso de Electrónica e Informática Aplicada, Pasto, Colombia, Oct. 2023.
• I. Martínez, V. López, D. Rambaut, G. Obando, V. Gauthier Umaña, and J. F. Pérez, “Recent Advances in Machine Learning for Differential Cryptanalysis,” in 2023 17th Colombian Conference on Computing, Medellín, Colombia, Ago. 2023.
• H. Chamorro, M. Arrieta-Paternina, A. Guel-Cortez, G. Obando, V. Sood, and I. Kamwa, “Power systems coherency representation and identification as particles,” in 2022 International Conference on Smart Systems and Technologies (SST), Osijek, Croacia, Oct. 2022.
• J. Martínez-Piazuelo, G. Obando, N. Quijano, y C. Ocampo-Martínez, “Distribución dinámica de recursos vía juegos poblacionales y modelos dinámicos de pago,” en 2022 XLIII Jornadas de Automática, Logroño, España, Sep. 2022.
• G. Obando, A. Pantoja, J. Barreiro-Gomez and H. Tembine, “Heterogeneous multi-population evolutionary dynamics with migration constraints”, English (US), IFAC-PapersOnLine, vol. 53, no. 2, pp. 16 852 16 857, 2020, ISSN: 2405-8963. doi: 10.1016/j.ifacol.2020.12.1190.
  Available: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacol.2020.12.1190
• G. Obando, J. Barreiro-Gomez and N. Quijano, “A class of population dynamics for reaching epsilon-equilibria: Engineering applications,” 2016 American Control Conference (ACC), Boston, MA, USA, 2016, pp. 4713-4718, doi: 10.1109/ACC.2016.7526098.
  Available: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7526098
• J. Barreiro-Gomez, G. Obando, G. Riaño-Briceño, N. Quijano and C. Ocampo-Martinez, “Decentralized Control for Urban Drainage Systems via population dynamics: Bogotá case study,” 2015 European Control Conference (ECC), Linz, Austria, 2015, pp. 2426-2431, doi: 10.1109/ECC.2015.7330902.
  Available: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7330902
• G. Obando, N. Quijano and N. Rakoto-Ravalontsalama, “Distributed resource allocation over stochastic networks: An application in smart grids,” 2015 IEEE 2nd Colombian Conference on Automatic Control (CCAC), Manizales, Colombia, 2015, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/CCAC.2015.7345195.
  Available: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7345195
• Available: G. Obando, N. Quijano and N. Rakoto-Ravalontsalama, “Distributed resource allocation over stochastic networks: An application in smart grids,” 2015 IEEE 2nd Colombian Conference on Automatic Control (CCAC), Manizales, Colombia, 2015, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/CCAC.2015.7345195.
  Available: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7345195
• G. Obando, N. Quijano and N. Rakoto-Ravalontsalama, “Distributed building temperature control with power constraints,” 2014 European Control Conference (ECC), Strasbourg, France, 2014, pp. 2857-1862, doi: 10.1109/ECC.2014.6862330.
  Available: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6862330
• G. D. Obando, N. Quijano and A. D. Pantoja, “Population dynamics applied to building energy efficiency,” 2011 50th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference, Orlando, FL, USA, 2011, pp. 4777-4782, doi: 10.1109/CDC.2011.6160406.
  Available: https://doi.org/10.1109/CDC.2011.6160406
• G. Obando, A. D. Pantoja, and N. Quijano, “Evolutionary game theory applied to building temperature control”, 2010 8TH IFAC SYMPOSIUM ON NONLINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS NOLCOS, Bologna, Italia, September, 2010, pp. 1140–1145.
  Available: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=rW24M8UAAAAJ&hl=es#:~:text=Evolutionary%20game%20theory%20applied%20to%20building%20temperature%20control