Full Name: Jorge Paulo Ferreira Simão
Title: PhD, Computer Science
Birthday: 8th of December, 1971
Birthplace: Lisbon
Citizenship: Portugal /EU
e-mail: jsimao_at_dcc.fc..up.pt
Home Page: http://dcc.fc.up.pt/~jsimao

Personal Info

Affiliation

Professor Auxiliar Convidado, Departamento de Ciência de Computadores, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto, since 9/2004

Address


Office Address: Departamento de Ciência de Computadores Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto R. do Campo Alegre, 823 4150-180 Porto Portugal Telefone: (+351) 226078830 Fax: (+351) 22 6003654	Home Address: Rua de Serralves, 539, 2dto., 4150-707, Porto Portugal Phone: +(351) 226 104 030 Celular: +(351) 966 850 710

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science, at the Faculty of Science and Technology, New University of Lisbon. Dissertation title: “Computational Modeling and Simulation of Human Social Behavior and Culture”.
M.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology, New University of Lisbon. Dissertation title: " System Support for Distributed Synchronous Groupware Applications".
Licenciatura (5 years B.Sc.) in Computer Science and Engineering , Faculty of Science and Technology, New University of Lisbon.

Short Biography

Jorge Simão completed his graduate, masters, and Ph.D. degree in computer science and engineering at the Faculty of Sciences and Technology, of the New University of Lisbon (FCT/UNL). His research interests include studying aspects of human (social) behavior at the neuropsychological, behavior, and societal level, and connecting the three levels within a bio-computational and evolutionary framework. He is also interested in biologically informed models of autonomous agents.

Curriculum Vitae:

Current Research Interests

My research interests include studying aspects of human (social) behavior at the neuro-psychological, behavior, and societal level, and connecting the three levels within a bio-computational and evolutionary framework. I'm also interested in biologically informed models of autonomous agents. My area of research can thus be considered at the interception of Situated Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science, Computational Social Science, and Evolutionary Psychology. Below is a list of topics:

Autonoumous Agents and Situated Cognition:

Naturalistic approaches to human psychology
Interactionist-contructivist approaches to Human Development and Cognition
Self-organization and evolution of Biological, Cognitive, and Cultural systems
Neuronal systems: dynamics, self-organization and development
Models of embodiment
Philosophical issues of psychological adaptationism
Computational Models of Human Social Behavior, Culture, and Evolution

Computational social science and evolutionary psychology:

Human mate choice behavior and human mating systems
Dynamics of Human Preferences
Evolution of the human mind, behavior, culture, and social structure
Artificial Life and agent-based modelling
Simulation of Social Phenomena
Computational Models of Human Social Behavior, Culture, and Evolution

Publications

NOTE: Many of the electronic versions are not exact duplicates of the original published versions—the text and figures are the same, but because they may differ in format and page-numbering, please refer to the original published versions for correct page numbers when quoting. Some of the PDF files have bad quality, if possible use the original postscript file.

2004


Jorge Simão, Luís Moniz Pereira, “What's Cool? - Modelling Fashion-like Collective Behavior Emergence from Individual Neuro-psychological Conditioning”, 5th Workshop on Agent-Based Simulation , Lisbon, May, 2004..	Abstract

2003


Jorge Simão, Luís Moniz Pereira, *“Neuro-Psychological Social Theorizing and Simulation with the Computational Multi-Agent System Ethos”, invited paper at Proceedings of the Congresso em Neurociências Cognitivas , Évora, Portugal, 2003.*	Abstract
Jorge Simão, Peter M. Todd, “Emergent Patterns of Mate Choice in Human Populations”, special issue of Journal of Artifical Life , 9(4), 2003.	Abstract
Jorge Simão, Luís Moniz Pereira, “Ethos: A MAS Framework for Modelling Human Social Behavior and Culture”, 4th Workshop on Agent-Based Simulation , Montpellier, April, 2003.	Abstract

2002


Jorge Simão, Peter M. Todd, “Modeling Mate Choice in Monogamous Mating Systems with Courtship”, Journal of Adaptive Behavior , 10(2), 2002.	Abstract
Jorge Simão, Peter M. Todd, “The Self-organizing Nature of Mating Systems”, workshop on Self-Organization, Evolution and Social Behavior , 2002, Monte Verità, Sweden.	Abstract
Jorge Simão, “Tools Evolve: The Artifical Selection and Evolution of Paleolithic Stone Tools”, Commentary on “Thomas Wynn, Archaeology and cognitive evolution”, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 25:4, 2002.	Abstract

2001


Jorge Simão, Peter M. Todd, “A Model of Human Mate Choice with Courtship that Predicts Population Patterns”, in “Advances in Artificial Life, 6th. European Conference, ECAL 2001, Prague, Czech Republic”, Jozef Kelemen, Petr Sosík (Eds.), Springer, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 2159, September 2001.	Abstract

Book reviews


“Rewriting the Meaning of Cognitive Adaptation”, book review of “*The Cultural Origin of Human Cognition”, by Michael Tomasello, Harvard University Press, 1999/2001 --- Journal of Adaptive Behavior* , Volume 09, Issue 02, April 2001.
“School Days”, book review of “*Truth from Trash --- How Learning Makes Sense”, by Chris Thornton, MIT Press, 2000 --- in Connection Science*, vol. 13, n. 2, 2001.

Talks, Slides, and Posters


"What's Cool? - Collective Fashion-like Behavior Emerges from Neuro-psychological Conditioning", talk present at the 5th Workshop on Agent-Based Simulation , May 2004. Slides:	PPT
"Ethos: A MAS Framework for Modeling Human Social Behavior and Culture" , talk present at the 4th Workshop on Agent-Based Simulation , April 2003. Slides:
"Rethinking Psychological Adaptationism", talk present at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, April, 2002, and at the Linguistic Department of Endinburg University, Scotland, in July 2002. Slides:
"A Life-History and Environmental Theory of Human Mating", talk at 5th HBES Conference, London, June, 2001. Slides:
*"Computational Evolutionary Psychology: in-silico* Human Sexuality"** , talk at COGS, Sussex/UK, June 12th, 2001.Slides:
"A Model of Human Mate Choice With Courtship that Predicts Relationship Patterns", poster presented at 6th ECAL, September, 2001, Prague. Slides:
"A Model of Human Mate Choice With Courtship that Predicts Relationship Patterns", talk presented at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, March 21th, 2001.Slides:

PhD Thesis


*“Computational Modelling and Simulation of Human Social Behavior and Culture”,* New University of Lisbon, Lisbon, 2003.	(ziped) Abstract

Other Publications


	“Vivência de outra Nação” , Prefácio, ISBN: 972856338 , April, Lisbon, 2001. Non-fictional (cronics) book. Buy at bertrand.pt.

Previous Research Interests

This was the work I've done till I started my PhD.

Distributed Systems, Operating Systems and Computer Networks:

CSCW/Groupware
Replication Semantics and Algorithms
Group Communication and Protocol Engineering
Object Orientation and Distributed Computing Programming Environments

Publications on Previous Research Topics

1999


Nuno M. Preguiça, José Legatheaux Martins, Henrique João L. Domingos, Jorge Simão: "Flexible Data Storage for Mobile Computing ". SAC 1999: 405-407.	Request to first Author

1997


Jorge P. F. Simão, José A. Legatheaux Martins, Henrique J. L. Domingos, Nuno M. R. Preguiça, "Supporting Synchronous Groupware with Peer Object-Groups", Third USENIX Conference on Object-Oriented Technologies, Portland-Oregon, June 1997. Extended version:
Jorge P. F. Simão, Nuno M. R. Preguiça, Henrique J. L. Domingos, José A. Legatheaux Martins, "DAgora: A Flexible, Scalable and Reliable Object-Oriented Groupware Platform", The International Workshop on Object Oriented Groupware Platforms – Fifth European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Lancaster-UK, September 1997.
Henrique J. L. Domingos, José A. Legatheaux Martins, Jorge P. F. Simão, Nuno M. R. Preguiça, "Coordination and Flexible Synchronicity in Large Scale CSCW", in proceedings of CRIWG 97 –- 3rd International Workshop on CSCW, pp.81-90, Ed. Cyted/Ritos and ETSI Madrid, October, 1997.	Request to first Author
Henrique J. L. Domingos, José A. Legatheaux Martins, Jorge P. F. Simão, Nuno M. R. Preguiça, "A Generic Platform and Flexible Object-Group-Oriented Framework to Support Large Scale Collaborative Applications ", proceedings of the 30th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences – Distributed Objects and Platforms Track, vol. 4, January, 1997.	Request to first Author
Henrique João L. Domingos, José Legatheaux Martins, Nuno M. Preguiça, Jorge Simão: "Support for Coordination and Adaptative Synchronicity in Large Scale CSCW", CRIWG 1997: 81-90.	Request to first Author

1996


Henrique J. L. Domingos, José A. Legatheaux Martins, Jorge P. F. Simão, "Building a Flexible Object-Group-Oriented Framework to support Large Scale Cooperative and Adaptive Applications", Advanced Topics Workshop – 2nd USENIX Conference on Object Oriented Technologies and System, Toronto–Canada, June, 1996.	Request to first Author

1995


Jorge P. F. Simão, "Segurança no WWW – Panorâmica do Estado da Arte", National Conference on WWW, Braga-Portugal, June 1995. Extended version:

Teaching

Cognitive Science

Software

Ethos

Ethos is a Java software tool to implement agent-based models for the simulation of human social behavior, dynamics of cultural processes, and emergence social organization.
To Dowload and learn more about Ethos press here .

Other Software (Recently Developed)

The Trivial Reliable Multicast Protocol (TRMP) — A reliable multicast protocol based on a client/server architecture, and an hybrid acknowledgement scheme.

Informal

Activities

Tai Chi Chuan and Zen meditation
Creative Writing