Dr. Francisco C. Santos
Associate ProfessorUniversity of Lisbon, Portugal
Highest Degree
Ph.D. in Computer Science from Universite libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
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- Vasconcelos, V.V., F.P. Santos, F.C. Santos and J.M. Pacheco, 2017. Stochastic dynamics through hierarchically embedded markov chains. Phy. Rev. Lett., Vol. 118. 10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.058301.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - Santos, F.P., J.M. Pacheco, A. Paiva and F.C. Santos, 2017. Structural power and the evolution of collective fairness in social networks. PLoS ONE, 10.1371/journal.pone.0175687.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - Pacheco, J.M., S.V. Segbroeck and F.C. Santos, 2017. Disease spreading in Time-Evolving networked communities. Temp. Network Epidemiol., .
Direct Link | - Santos, F.P., S.A. EncarnaƧao, F.C. Santos, J. Portugali and J.M. Pacheco, 2016. An evolutionary game theoretic approach to multi-sector coordination and Self-Organization. Entropy, Vol: 18 10.3390/e18040152.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - Santos, F.P., J.M. Pacheco and F.C. Santos, 2016. Social norms of cooperation in Small-Scale societies. Plos. Computatinal.Biol., 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004709.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - Santos, F.P., J.M. Pacheco and F.C. Santos, 2016. Evolution of cooperation under indirect reciprocity and arbitrary exploration rates. Sci. Rep., 10.1038/srep37517.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - Santos, F.P., F.C. Santos and J.M. Pacheco, 2016. Social norms of cooperation in Small-Scale Societies. PLoS Comput. Biol., 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004709.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - Pinheiro, F.L., F.C. Santos and J.M. Pacheco, 2016. Linking individual and collective behavior in adaptive social networks. Phy.Rev. Lett., .
Direct Link | - Pacheco, J.M., F.C. Santos and S.A. Levin, 2016. Evolutionary dynamics of collective index insurance. J. Math. Biol., 72: 997-1010.
CrossRef | - EncarnaƧao, S., F.P. Santos, F.C. Santos, V. Blass, J.M. Pacheco and J. Portugali, 2016. 12. Paradigm shifts and the interplay between state, business and civil sectors. R. Soc. Open Sci., 10.1098/rsos.160753 .
CrossRef | Direct Link | - Vasconcelos, V.V., F.C. Santos and J.M. Pacheco, 2015. Cooperation dynamics of polycentric climate governance. Math. Mod. Meth. Appl. Sci., 25: 2503-2517.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - Santos, F.P., F.C. Santos, A. Paiva and J.M. Pacheco, 2015. Evolutionary dynamics of group fairness. J. Theor. Biol., 378: 96-102.
Direct Link | - Pacheco, J.M., V.V. Vasconcelos, F.C. Santos and B. Skyrms, 2015. Co-Evolutionary dynamics of collective action with signaling for a quorum. PLoS Comput. Biol., 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004101.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - Han, T.A., Moniz Pereira, L., F.C. Santos and T. Lenaerts, 2015. Emergence of cooperation via intention recognition, commitment and apology-a research summary. AI Communications, 28: 709-715.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - Han, T.A., F.C. Santos, T. Lenaerts and L.M. Pereira, 2015. Synergy between intention recognition and commitments in cooperation dilemmas. Sci. Rep., 10.1038/srep09312.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - Vasconcelos, V.V., F.C. Santos, J.M. Pacheco and S.A. Levin, 2014. Climate policies under wealth inequality. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA., 111: 2212-2216.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - Pinheiro, F.L., V.V.Vasconcelos, F.C. Santos and J.M. Pacheco, 2014. Evolution of all-or-none strategies in repeated public goods dilemmas. PLoS Comput. Biol., Vol. 10. 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003945.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - Pinheiro, F.L., M.D. Santos, F.C. Santos and J.M. Pacheco, 2014. Origin of peer influence in social networks. Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 112. 10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.098702.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - Pereira, L.M., T.A. Han and F.C. Santos, 2014. Complex Systems of Mindful Entities: On Intention Recognition and Commitment. In: Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Technology, Magnani, L. (Ed.). Springer, Heidelberg, ISBN: 978-3-642-37427-2, pp: 499-525.
- Pacheco, J.M., V.V. Vasconcelos and F.C. Santos, 2014. Climate governance as a complex adaptive system (reply to comments). Phys. Life Rev., 11: 595-597.
- Pacheco, J.M., V.V. Vasconcelos and F.C. Santos, 2014. Climate change governance, cooperation and self-organization. Phys. Life Rev., 11: 573-586.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - Pacheco, J.M., F.C. Santos and D. Dingli, 2014. The ecology of cancer from an evolutionary game theory perspective. Interface Focus, Vol. 4. 10.1098/rsfs.2014.0019.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - Vukov, J., F.L. Pinheiro, F.C. Santos and J.M. Pacheco, 2013. Reward from punishment does not emerge at all costs. PLoS Comput. Biol., Vol. 9. 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002868.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - Vasconcelos, V.V., F.C. Santos and J.M. Pacheco, 2013. A bottom-up institutional approach to cooperative governance of risky commons. Nat. Climate Change, 3: 797-801.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - Santos, F.C. and J.M. Pacheco, 2013. Behavioral Dynamics under Climate Change Dilemmas. In: New Challenges to Philosophy of Science, Andersen, H., D. Dieks, W.J. Gonzalez, M. Weber and G. Wheeler (Eds.). Springer, Dordrecht, ISBN: 978-94-007-5844-5, pp: 113-124.
- Moreira, J.A., J.M. Pacheco and F.C. Santos, 2013. Evolution of collective action in adaptive social structures. Scient. Rep., Vol. 3. 10.1038/srep01521.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - Moreira, J., J. Vukov, C. Sousa, F.C. Santos, A.F. d'Almeida, M.D. Santos and J.M. Pacheco, 2013. Individual memory and the emergence of cooperation. Anim. Behav., 85: 233-239.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - Han, T.A., L.M. Pereira, F.C. Santos and T. Lenaerts, 2013. Good agreements make good friends. Scient. Rep., Vol. 3. 10.1038/srep02695.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - Encarnacao, S., M. Gaudiano, F.C. Santos, J.A. Tenedorio and J.M. Pacheco, 2013. Urban dynamics, fractals and generalized entropy. Entropy, 15: 2679-2697.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - Vukov, J., F.C. Santos and J.M. Pacheco, 2012. Cognitive strategies take advantage of the cooperative potential of heterogeneous networks. New J. Phys., Vol. 14. .
Direct Link | - Van Segbroeck, S., J.M. Pacheco, T. Lenaerts and F.C. Santos, 2012. Emergence of fairness in repeated group interactions. Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 108. 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.158104.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - Santos, M.D., F.L. Pinheiro, F.C. Santos and J.M. Pacheco, 2012. Dynamics of N-person snowdrift games in structured populations. J. Theor. Biol., 315: 81-86.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - Santos, M.D., F.C. Santos and J.M. Pacheco, 2012. Collective Evolutionary Dynamics and Spatial Reciprocity under the N-Person Snowdrift Game. In: Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, Suzuki, J. and T. Nakano (Eds.)., Springer, Germany, pp: 178-188.
- Santos, F.C., V.V. Vasconcelos, M.D. Santos, P.N.B. Neves and J.M. Pacheco, 2012. Evolutionary dynamics of climate change under collective-risk dilemmas. Math. Models Meth. Applied Sci., Vol. 22. 10.1142/S0218202511400045.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - Santos, F.C., F.L. Pinheiro, T. Lenaerts and J.M. Pacheco, 2012. The role of diversity in the evolution of cooperation. J. Theoret. Biol., 299: 88-96.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - Pinheiro, F.L., J.M. Pacheco and F.C. Santos, 2012. From local to global dilemmas in social networks. PloS One, Vol. 7. 10.1371/journal.pone.0032114.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - Pinheiro, F.L., F.C. Santos and J.M. Pacheco, 2012. Tracking the Evolution of Cooperation in Complex Networked Populations. In: Evolutionary Computation, Machine Learning and Data Mining in Bioinformatics, Giacobini, M., L. Vanneschi and W.S. Bush (Eds.)., Springer-Verlag, Germany, pp: 86-96.
- Pinheiro, F.L., F.C. Santos and J.M. Pacheco, 2012. How selection pressure changes the nature of social dilemmas in structured populations. New J. Phys., Vol. 14. .
Direct Link | - Pinheiro, F.L., F.C. Santos and J.M. Pacheco, 2012. Evolutionary Dynamics of Cooperation Under the Distributed Prisoner's Dilemma. In: Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, Suzuki, J. and T. Nakano (Eds.)., Springer, Germany, pp: 523-532.
- Moreira, J., J.M. Pacheco and F.C. Santos, 2012. Evolving the Asymmetry of the Prisoner's Dilemma Game in Adaptive Social Structures. In: Bio-Inspired Models of Network, Information and Computing Systems Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, Suzuki, J. and T. Nakano (Eds.)., Springer, Germany, pp: 205-212.
- Han, T.A., L.M. Pereira and F.C. Santos, 2012. Corpus-based intention recognition in cooperation dilemmas. Artif. Life, 18: 365-383.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - Encarnacao, S., M. Gaudiano, F.C. Santos, J.A. Tenedorio and J.M. Pacheco, 2012. Fractal cartography of urban areas. Scient. Rep., Vol. 2. 10.1038/srep00527.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - Vukov, J., F.C. Santos and J.M. Pacheco, 2011. Incipient cognition solves the spatial reciprocity conundrum of cooperation. PLoS One, Vol. 6. 10.1371/journal.pone.0017939.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - Vukov, J., F.C. Santos and J.M. Pacheco, 2011. Escaping the tragedy of the commons via directed investments. J. Theoret. Biol., 287: 37-41.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - Van Segbroeck, S., F.C. Santos, T. Lenaerts and J.M. Pacheco, 2011. Selection pressure transforms the nature of social dilemmas in adaptive networks. New J. Phys., Vol. 13. .
Direct Link | - Santos, F.C., J.M. Pacheco and B. Skyrms, 2011. Co-evolution of pre-play signaling and cooperation. J. Theoret. Biol., 274: 30-35.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - Santos, F.C. and J.M. Pacheco, 2011. Risk of collective failure provides an escape from the tragedy of the commons. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 108: 10421-10425.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - Pinheiro, F.L., J.A. Moreira, M.D. Santos, F.C. Santos and J.M. Pacheco, 2011. Evolution of social diversity under the distributed prisoner's dilemma. Int. J. Auton. Adapt. Commun. Syst. (In Press). .
- Pacheco, J.M., F.C. Santos, M.O. Souza and B. Skyrms, 2011. Evolutionary Dynamics of Collective Action. In: Advances in Artificial Life, Lenaerts, T., M. Giacobini, H. Bersini, P. Bourgine, M. Dorigo and R. Doursat (Eds.)., MIT Press, USA.
- Pacheco, J.M. and F.C. Santos, 2011. The Messianic Effect of Pathological Altruism. In: Pathological Altruism, Oakley, B., A. Knafo, G. Madhavan and D.S. Wilson (Eds.)., Oxford University Press, USA.
- Anh, H.T., L.M. Pereira and F.C. Santos, 2011. Intention recognition promotes the emergence of cooperation. Adapt. Behav., 19: 264-279.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - Ampatzis, C., F.C. Santos, V. Trianni and E. Tuci, 2011. To Grip or Not to Grip? Evolving Role Allocation and Internal Conflict in Autonomous Robots. In: Advances in Artificial Life: Darwin Meets von Neumann, Kampis, G., I. Karsai and E. Szathmary (Eds.)., Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany, pp: 205-212.
- Almeida, A.F., J.A. Moreira, M.D. Santos, J. Vukov, F.C. Santos, C. Sousa and J.M. Pacheco, 2011. Evolution of social diversity under the distributed prisoner's dilemma. Folia Primatol., 82: 372-372.
- Van Segbroeck, S., S. de Jong, A Nowe, F.C. Santos and T. Lenaerts, 2010. Learning to coordinate in complex networks. Adapt. Behav., 18: 416-427.
CrossRef | - Van Segbroeck, S., F.C. Santos, J.M. Pacheco and T. Lenaerts, 2010. Coevolution of cooperation, response to adverse social ties and network structure. Games, 1: 317-337.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - Van Segbroeck, S., F.C. Santos and J.M. Pacheco, 2010. Adaptive contact networks change effective disease infectiousness and dynamics. PLoS Comput. Biol., Vol. 6. 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000895.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - Hart, E., H. Bersini and F. Santos, 2010. Structure versus function: A topological perspective on immune networks. Natural Comput., 9: 603-624.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - Van Segbroeck, S., F.C. Santos, T. Lenaerts and J.M. Pacheco, 2009. Adaptive Social Networks with Behavioral Diversity. In: Advances in Artificial Life: Darwin Meets von Neumann, Kampis, G., I. Karsai and E. Szathmary (Eds.)., Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany, pp: 434-441.
- Van Segbroeck, S., F.C. Santos, A. Traulsen, T. Lenaerts and J.M. Pacheco, 2009. Evolution of Cooperation in Adaptive Social Networks. In: Handbook on Biological Networks, Boccaletti, S., V. Latora and Y. Moreno (Eds.)., World Scientific Publishing Company, Singapore, pp: 373-392.
- Traulsen, A., F.C. Santos and J.M. Pacheco, 2009. Evolutionary Games in Self-Organizing Populations. In: Adaptive Networks: Theory, Models and Applications, Gross, T. and H. Sayama (Eds.)., Springer, New York, pp: 253-266.
- Souza, M.O., J.M. Pacheco and F.C. Santos, 2009. Evolution of cooperation under N-person snowdrift games. J. Theor. Biol., 260: 581-588.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - Segbroeck, S., F.C. Santos, T. Lenaerts and J.M. Pacheco, 2009. Reacting differently to adverse ties promotes cooperation in social networks. Phys. Rev. lett. Vol. 102. 10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.058105.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - Pacheco, J.M., F.L. Pinheiro and F.C. Santos, 2009. Population structure induces a symmetry breaking favoring the emergence of cooperation. PLoS Comput. Biol., Vol. 5. 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000596.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - Gutierrez, A., A. Campo, F.C. Santos, F. Monasterio-Huelin and M. Dorigo, 2009. Social odometry: Imitation based odometry in collective robotics. Int. J. Adv. Rob. Syst., 6: 129-136.
Direct Link | - Dingli, D., F.A.C.C. Chalub, F.C. Santos, S. Segbroeck, and J.M. Pacheco, 2009. Reply: Evolutionary game theory: Lessons and limitations, a cancer perspective. Br. J. Cancer, 101: 2062-2063.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - Dingli, D., F.A.C.C. Chalub, F.C. Santos, S. Segbroeck and J.M. Pacheco, 2009. Cancer phenotype as the outcome of an evolutionary game between normal and malignant cells. Br. J. Cancer, 101: 1130-1136.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - Segbroeck, S., F.C. Santos, A. Nowe, J.M. Pacheco and T. Lenaerts, 2008. The evolution of prompt reaction to adverse ties. BMC Evol. Biol. Vol. 8. 10.1186/1471-2148-8-287.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - Santos, F.C., M.D. Santos and J.M. Pacheco, 2008. Social diversity promotes the emergence of cooperation in public goods games. Nature, 454: 213-216.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - Pacheco, J.M., F.C. Santos and F.A.C.C. Chalub, 2007. Evolution of norms in a multi-level selection model of conflict and cooperation. Electron. J. Theor. Phys., 4: 157-172.
Direct Link | - Hart, E., H. Bersini and F.C. Santos, 2007. How affinity influences tolerance in an idiotypic network. J. Theor. Biol., 249: 422-436.
CrossRef | PubMed | Direct Link | - Santos, F.C., J.M. Pacheco and T. Lenaerts, 2006. Cooperation prevails when individuals adjust their social ties. PLoS Comput. Biol., Vol. 2. 10.1371/journal.pcbi.0020140.
CrossRef | PubMed | Direct Link | - Santos, F.C., J.M. Pacheco and T. Lenaerts, 2006. Evolutionary dynamics of social dilemmas in structured heterogeneous populations. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA., 103: 3490-3494.
CrossRef | PubMed | Direct Link | - Santos, F.C., J.F. Rodrigues and J.M. Pacheco, 2006. Graph topology plays a determinant role in the evolution of cooperation. Proc. R. Soc. B: Biol. Sci., 273: 51-55.
CrossRef | PubMed | Direct Link | - Santos, F.C. and J.M. Pacheco, 2006. A new route to the evolution of cooperation. J. Evol. Biol., 19: 726-733.
CrossRef | PubMed | Direct Link | - Pacheco, J.M., F.C. Santos and F.A.C.C. Chalub, 2006. Stern-judging: A simple, successful norm which promotes cooperation under indirect reciprocity. PLoS Comput. Biol., Vol. 2, No. 12. 10.1371/journal.pcbi.0020178.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - Chalub, F.A.C.C., F.C. Santos and J.M. Pacheco, 2006. The evolution of norms. J. Theor. Biol., 241: 233-240.
CrossRef | PubMed | Direct Link | - Bersini, H., T. Lenaerts and F.C. Santos, 2006. Growing biological networks: Beyond the gene-duplication model. J. Theor. Biol., 241: 488-505.
CrossRef | PubMed | Direct Link | - Santos, F.C., J.F. Rodrigues and J.M. Pacheco, 2005. Epidemic spreading and cooperation dynamics on homogeneous small-world networks. Phys. Rev. E, Vol. 72. 10.1103/PhysRevE.72.056128.
CrossRef | PubMed | Direct Link | - Santos, F.C. and J.M. Pacheco, 2005. Scale-free networks provide a unifying framework for the emergence of cooperation. Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 95, No. 9. 10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.098104.
CrossRef | PubMed | Direct Link | - Bento, L. and F.C. Santos, 2005. Neutrino helicity asymmetries in leptogenesis. Phys. Rev. D, Vol. 71. 10.1103/PhysRevD.71.096001.
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