List of publications

    2021
  • Dynamics of informal risk sharing in collective index insurance
    Fernando P. Santos, Jorge M. Pacheco, Francisco C. Santos and Simon A. Levin
    Nature Sustainability https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-020-00667-2 (2021)
    (link) (full-paper) (blog post @ Springer Nature Sustainability Community)

    • 2020
  • Picky Losers and Carefree Winners Prevail in Collective Risk Dilemmas with Partner Selection
    Fernando P. Santos, Samuel Mascarenhas, Francisco C. Santos, Filipa Correia, Samuel Gomes and Ana Paiva
    Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems 34, 40 (2020)
    (full paper) (pdf)

  • Towards prosocial design: A scoping review of the use of robots and virtual agents to trigger prosocial behaviour
    Raquel Oliveira, Patrícia Arriaga, Fernando P. Santos, Samuel Mascarenhas and Ana Paiva
    Computers in Human Behavior 106547 (2020)
    (full paper)

    • 2019
  • Reward and punishment in climate change dilemmas
    Antonio R. Gois, Fernando P. Santos, Jorge M. Pacheco and Francisco C. Santos
    Scientific Reports 9, 16193(2019)
    (online) (pdf) (blog post by Antonio Gois)

  • Walk the Talk! Exploring (Mis)Alignment of Words and Deeds by Robotic Teammates in a Public Goods Game
    Filipa Correia, Shruti Chandra, Samuel Mascarenhas, Julien Charles-Nicolas, Justin Gally, Diana Lopes, Fernando P. Santos, Francisco C. Santos, Francisco S. Melo, Ana Paiva
    RO-MAN 2019 - 28th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (2019)
    *Winner of The RSJ/KROS Distinguished Interdisciplinary Research Award
    (pdf)

  • Evolution of Collective Fairness in Hybrid Populations of Humans and Agents
    Fernando P. Santos, Jorge M. Pacheco, Ana Paiva and Francisco C. Santos
    AAAI'2019 (2019)
    (pdf)

  • Fairness in Multiplayer Ultimatum Games Through Moderate Responder Selection
    Fernando P. Santos and Daan Bloembergen
    in Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Artificial Life, ALife 2019 (2019)
    (abstract)(pdf)

  • Outcome-based Partner Selection in Collective Risk Dilemmas
    Fernando P. Santos, Samuel Mascarenhas, Francisco C. Santos, Filipa Correia, Samuel Gomes, Ana Paiva
    AAMAS'2019 (2019)
    (pdf) (abstract)

  • For The Record - A Public Goods Game For Exploring Human-Robot Collaboration
    Filipa Correia, Samuel Mascarenhas, Samuel Gomes, Silvia Tulli, Fernando P. Santos, Francisco C. Santos, Rui Prada, Francisco S. Melo and Ana Paiva
    AAMAS'2019 (2019)
    (pdf) (abstract) (video)

  • Moderate Responder Committees Maximize Fairness in (N×M)-Person Ultimatum Games
    Daan Bloembergen and Fernando P. Santos
    ALA'2019, Workshop @ AAMAS'19 (2019)
    (accepted)

    • 2018
  • Social norm complexity and past reputations in the evolution of cooperation
    Fernando P. Santos, Francisco C. Santos, Jorge M.Pacheco
    Nature, vol. 555, pp. 242-245 (2018)
    (abstract) (sharedIt link)
    (news and views by C. Efferson and E. Fehr)
    (Featured on 8-Mar-18 issue cover)
    (Nature blog)

  • Paths to the adoption of electric vehicles: An evolutionary game theoretical approach
    Sara A. Encarnação, Fernando P. Santos, Francisco C. Santos, Jorge M. Pacheco, Juval Portugali, and Vered Blass
    Transportation Research Part B, vol. 113, pp. 24-33, (2018)
    (abstract)

  • Social Norms of Cooperation With Costly Reputation Building
    Fernando P. Santos, Jorge M. Pacheco and Francisco C. Santos
    AAAI'2018 (2018)
    (pdf)

  • Engineering Pro-Sociality with Autonomous Agents
    Ana Paiva, Fernando P. Santos and Francisco C. Santos
    AAAI'2018 (2018)
    *winner of Blue Sky Award sponsored by the Computing Community Consortium (CCC)
    (pdf)

  • Indirect Reciprocity and Costly Assessment in Multiagent Systems (student track)
    Fernando P. Santos, Jorge M. Pacheco and Francisco C. Santos
    AAAI'2018 (2018)
    *selected as a finalist to participate in 3MT presentation contest
    (pdf)

  • Local Wealth Redistribution Promotes Cooperation in Multiagent Systems
    Flávio L. Pinheiro, Fernando P. Santos
    AAMAS'2018 (2018)
    (abstract)

  • Human cooperation and the complexity of moral codes
    Fernando P. Santos, Jorge M. Pacheco, and Francisco C. Santos
    Proc. of ALIFE 2018: The 2018 Conference on Artificial Life July 2018, (30) 614-615, MIT press (2018)
    (pdf)

  • Multiplayer Ultimatum Games and Collective Fairness in Networked Communities
    Fernando P. Santos, Jorge M. Pacheco, Ana Paiva, and Francisco C. Santos
    Proc. of ALIFE 2018: The 2018 Conference on Artificial Life July 2018, (30) 286-287, MIT press (2018)
    (pdf)

  • Fairness in multiplayer ultimatum games through degree-based role assignment
    Andreia Sofia Teixeira, Francisco C. Santos, Alexandre P. Francisco and Fernando P. Santos
    Proc. International Conference on Complex Networks and their Applications 2018 (extended abstract), Dec., 2018
    (extended abstract)

    • 2017
  • Structural power and the evolution of collective fairness in social networks
    Fernando P. Santos, Jorge M. Pacheco, Ana Paiva, Francisco C. Santos
    PLOS ONE 12 (4), e0175687 (2017).
    (abstract) (pdf)

  • Stochastic Dynamics through Hierarchically Embedded Markov Chains
    Vítor V. Vasconcelos, Fernando P. Santos, Francisco C. Santos and Jorge M. Pacheco
    Physical Review Letters 118, 058301 (2017).
    (abstract) (pdf)

  • Social Norms of Cooperation in Multiagent Systems (Doctoral Consortium)
    Fernando P. Santos
    in Proceedings of the 2017 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2017), pp. 1859-1861, IFAAMAS (2017)
    (abstract)

  • The Role of Execution Errors in Populations of Ultimatum Bargaining Agents
    Fernando P. Santos, Jorge M. Pacheco, Ana Paiva and Francisco C. Santos
    Conflict Resolution in Decision Making: Second International Workshop, COREDEMA 2016
    The Hague, The Netherlands, August 29-30, 2016
    Revised Selected Papers, pg. 36--50, Springer International Publishing (2017)
    (abstract)

    • 2016
  • Paradigm shifts and the interplay between state, business and civil sectors
    Sara Encarnação, Fernando P. Santos, Francisco C. Santos, Vered Blass, Jorge M. Pacheco and Juval Portugali
    Royal Society Open Science 3 160753 (2016).
    (abstract) (pdf)

  • Evolution of cooperation under indirect reciprocity and arbitrary exploration rates
     Fernando P. Santos, Jorge M. Pacheco and Francisco C. Santos
    Scientific Reports 6: 37517 (2016).
    (abstract) (pdf)

  • Social norms of cooperation in small-scale societies
     Fernando P. Santos, Francisco C. Santos, and Jorge M. Pacheco
    PLoS Computational Biology 12(1): e1004709 (2016).
    (abstract) (pdf)
    * cover of Jan/2016 issue

  • Dynamics of Fairness in Groups of Autonomous Learning Agents
     Fernando P. Santos, Francisco C. Santos, Francisco S. Melo, Ana Paiva and Jorge M. Pacheco
    Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Volume 10002 of the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science pp 107-126 (2016).
    (abstract) (pdf)
    * best paper award at ALA 2016

  • An evolutionary game theoretic approach to multi-sector coordination and self-organization
    Fernando P. Santos, Sara Encarnação, Francisco C. Santos, Juval Portugali and Jorge M. Pacheco
    Entropy, 18(4), 152 (2016).
    (abstract) (pdf)

  • Execution errors enable the evolution of fairness in the Ultimatum Game
    Fernando P. Santos, Francisco C. Santos, Ana Paiva and Jorge M. Pacheco
    in Proceedings of the 22st European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2016)
    (online) (pdf)

  • Cooperation and reputation in primitive societies
    Fernando P. Santos, Francisco C. Santos and Jorge M. Pacheco
    in Proceedings of 15th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems (ALIFE XV), July 2016.
    (online)(pdf)

  • Learning to be fair in multiplayer ultimatum games
    Fernando P. Santos, Francisco C. Santos, Francisco S. Melo, Ana Paiva and Jorge M. Pacheco
    in Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2016), pp. 1381-1382, IFAAMAS, 2016.
    (abstract) (pdf)

    • 2015
  • Evolutionary dynamics of group fairness
    Fernando P. Santos, Francisco C. Santos, Ana Paiva and Jorge M. Pacheco
    Journal of Theoretical Biology 378 96-102 (2015).
    (abstract) (pdf)

  • The evolutionary perks of being irrational
    Fernando P. Santos, Francisco C. Santos and Ana Paiva
    in Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2015), pp. 1847-1848, IFAAMAS, 2015.
    (abstract) (pdf)





    • Dissertations

    Dynamics of Reputation and the Self-organization of Cooperation
    Fernando P. Santos
    PhD Thesis, Instituto Superion Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, 2018
    Jury: Seth Bullock (U Bristol, UK), Ernesto Costa (U Coimbra, Portugal), Alexandre Francisco (IST, U Lisboa, Portugal), Carles Sierra (IIIA CSIC, Barcelona, Spain)
    (link)
    *2018 Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award by IFAAMAS
    *Best Doctoral Thesis in Artificial Intelligence 2017-2018 by Associação Portuguesa para a Inteligencia Artificial


    The evolution of fairness under N-Person Ultimatum Games
    Fernando P. Santos
    MSc dissertation, Instituto Superion Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, 2013
    (link)



    Early (attempts of) research & seminar reports @ TUDelft (2012)

  • From Precedence Constraint Posting to Partial Order Schedules: An Evaluation Of Algorithms
     Fernando P. Santos and Pedro Tiple
    IN4027, Seminar Algorithms

  • Co-evolutionary predator and prey: the emergence of complex strategies through genetic optimization of network weights
    Fernando P. Santos
    IN4015, Seminar Neural Networks

  • Emergent Emotions in a Social Context
     Esther Schreuders, Fernando Santos and Joris Albeda
    IN4188, Seminar Affective Computing

  • Combining k-means and PCA: a new approach to improve predictions in recommender systems
     Lynn Aders and Fernando P. Santos
    SPM4424, Fundamentals of Business Intelligence

Supervision

  • Henrique Fonseca (2018, MSc Student, co-supervision with F.C. Santos)
  • Manuel Galamba (2018, MSc Student, co-supervision with F.C. Santos)
  • António Miguel Góis (2018, MSc Student, co-supervision with F.C. Santos and J.M. Pacheco)
  • Pedro Souto (2018, MSc Student, co-supervision with F.C. Santos)
  • João Angelo dos Santos (2018, MSc Student, co-supervision with F.C. Santos)
  • Diogo Abreu (2018, MSc Student, co-supervision with F.C. Santos)
  • Pedro Dias (2017, MSc Student, co-supervision with F.C. Santos)
  • Carina Antunes (2016, MSc Student, co-supervision with F.C. Santos)
  • Hugo Salgado Braz (2016, MSc Student, co-supervision with F.C. Santos)
  • Mateus Cordeiro (2016, MSc Student, co-supervision with F.C. Santos)
  • Francisco Pedro Durão (2015, MSc Student, co-supervision with F.C. Santos)
  • Volodymyr Balytskyy (2014, MSc Student, co-supervision with F.C. Santos)

About me

I am Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Princeton University, under the supervision of Simon A. Levin and supported by a James S. McDonnell Foundation Fellowship.

I completed my PhD (2018) at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST, Lisboa) under the supervision of Francisco C. Santos, Jorge M. Pacheco and Ana Paiva (Summa Cum Laude, 2018 Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award (by IFAAMAS), Best Doctoral Thesis in Artificial Intelligence 2017-2018 (by Associação Portuguesa para a Inteligencia Artificial) and 2018 INESC-ID best PhD Student award). I completed an MSc in Computer Science (2013) at IST, with a semester as exchange student at TU Delft. I worked as a research assistant at GAIPS (INESC-ID ) and as a member of the ATP-Group . I served as teaching assistant at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of IST, lecturing practical classes of Introduction to Algorithms and Data Structures (Spring 2016, Spring 2017) and Object Oriented Programming (Fall 2014, Fall 2015, Fall 2016, Fall 2017).

My research work is focused on the development of computational models to simulate and understand collective dynamics, specifically in what concerns the evolution of non-trivial behaviors such as cooperation and fairness. At the moment, I am concerned with 1) the role played by social norms and reputation systems in the evolution of cooperation; 2) the emergence of fairness in games involving groups and 3) the dynamics of strategic interactions that involve multiple sectors of a society.

From January to March 2017 I was a visiting student at Université Libre de Bruxelles, working under the supervision of Tom Lenearts (Machine Learning Group).

From March to July 2017 I was a visiting student research collaborator (VSRC) at Princeton University, working under the supervision of Simon A. Levin (Levin Lab, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology).

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