JORGE SIMÃO
Personal Data
Full Name: Jorge Paulo Ferreira Simão
Birthday: 8th of December, 1971
Citizenship: Portugal/EU
e-mail: jsimao@di.fct.unl.pt
Home Page: http://centria.fct.unl.pt/~jsimao
Office Address:
Dept. Informática
Faculdade de Ciências e
Tecnologia
Universidade Nova de Lisboa
2829-516 Monte Caparica
Portugal
Home Address:
Av. 1 de Maio,
N 101, 4o Esq.
Fogueteiro
2840 Amora
Portugal
Home Address:
Phone: +(351) 212 948 536
Fax: +(351) 21 294 8541
Phone: +(351) 210 812 096
Celular: +(351) 966 850 710
Fax: +(351) 21 212 4306
Education
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Currently finishing my Ph.D. program in Computer Science and Engineering (Computational
Social Science), at the Faculty of Science and Technology, New University of Lisbon (4 year
dissertation). Including, 1 year at the Anthropology Dept. of the University of Coimbra, for 1 year, and
a 2 years resident collaboration in the Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition, at the Max Planck
Institute for Human Development in Berlin. Dissertation title: “Computational Modelling and
Simulation of Human Social Behavior and Culture”.
M.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology, New University of
Lisbon (1 year course + 2 year dissertation), December 1998. GPA/MAX: 18/20 (first year course);
Rank: 1st/15; top classification in the M.Sc. dissertation. Dissertation title: "System Support for
Distributed Synchronous Groupware Applications".
B.Sc. (Licenciatura) in Computer Science and Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology,
New University of Lisbon (5 years course). GPA/MAX: 18/20; Rank: 1st/83.
Current Research Interests
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 strucuture
 Artificial Life and agent-based modelling
 Simulation of Social Phenomena
Situated Cognition and Adaptationism:
 Naturalistic approaches to human psychology
 Philosophical issues of psychological adaptationism
 Interactionist-contructivist approaches to Human Development and Cognition
 Self-organization and the evolution of Biological, Cognitive, and Cultural systems
 Neuronal systems: dynamics, self-organization and development.
Previous Research Interests
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
Teaching and Professional Experience
Teaching Experience
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Computer Networks (1 semester) – lecturer
Computer Networks (1 semester) – teaching assistantship
C++ Programming (1 semester) – teaching assistantship
Digital Systems (2 semesters) – teaching assistantship
Introduction to Computers and Programming (1 semester) – teaching assistantship
Professional Experience
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Unix Network System Administration (4 months)
Awards/Scholarships
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Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition, Max Planck Institute for Human Development,
Berlin, 1 ¼ year research collaboration Scholarship (Ph.D. extension) to work in
“Computational modelling of human mate choice”.
National Science Foundation (JNICT), 4 years scholarship for a Ph.D. in Computer Science
and Engineering.
National Science Foundation (JNICT), scholarship for a 2 year MSc. in Computer Science
and Engineering.
Publications
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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.
Jorge Simão, Peter M. Todd, “Modeling Mate Choice in Monogamous Mating Systems with
Courtship”, Journal of Adaptive Behavior, 10(2), 2002.
Jorge Simão, Peter M. Todd, “The Self-organizing Nature of Mating Systems”, workshop on SelfOrganization, Evolution and Social Behavior, 2002, Monte Verità, Sweden.
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.
Jorge Simão, Peter M. Todd, “Emergent Patterns of Mate Choice in Human Populations”, special
issue of Journal of Artifical Life , (to appear), 2003.
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.
Jorge Simão, Luís Moniz Pereira, “What's Cool? --- Collective Fashion-like Behavior Emerges
from Neuro-psychological Conditioning”, submitted.
Jorge Simão, Luís Moniz Pereira, “Social Theory Building with the Ethos Multi-Agent Simulation
Framework: A Preliminary Evaluation”, submitted.
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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.
Publications on Previous Research Topics
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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.
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.
Jorge P. F. Simão, "Segurança no WWW – Panorâmica do Estado da Arte", National Conference
on WWW, Braga-Portugal, June 1995.
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.
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.
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.
Nuno M. Preguiça, José Legatheaux Martins, Henrique João L. Domingos, Jorge Simão: "Flexible
Data Storage for Mobile Computing". SAC, 405-407, 1999.
Book reviews
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“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.
“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, 2001.
Other Communications
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“Socio-Structural Factors Predict Relationship's Stability”, Conference of the Human Behavior
and Evolution Society, UCL, London, June, 2001.
“From Mate Preferences to Mating System: Testing the Scope of Evoked Culture”, Conference of
the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, New Jersey, 2002. (Skipped due to the lack of funds)
Article Review Collaborations
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Journal of Adaptive Behavior
VIII Conference on Artificial Life
Other Publications
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“Vivência de outra Nação”, Prefácio, April, Lisbon, 2001 --- Non-fictional book.
Recent Software Developed
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Ethos – A Java software tool to implement agent-based models for the simulation of human social
behavior and culture.
Several agent-based models of human mate choice, for monogamous mating systems with courtship and
serial monogamy mating systems.
Several agent-based models of dynamics of cultural evolution.
The Trivial Reliable Multicast Protocol (TRMP) — A reliable multicast protocol based on a
client/server architecture, and an hybrid acknowledgement scheme.
Object-oriented platform to support synchronous groupware, written in Java, including: a session and
object management framework; a group-protocol implementation and composition framework; a set
stackable group-protocols. This is part of the DÁgora groupware platform, which also includes support
for asynchronous groupware.
Visits
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Visit to the Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition (ABC) group at the Max Planck Institute for
Human Development in Berlin, from September 2000 to July 2002. Work in collaboration with Peter
M. Todd on computational models of human mate choice.
Visit to the Computer Science Department, at the University of Michigan, from February 1998 to
August 1998. Collaboration with Prof. Atul Prakash in the Distview/Corona project — a synchronous
collaborative system. Integration of TRMP with the Corona server.
Other Notes
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Solid background in computer engineering, computer science and AI.
Solid background in Behavior Ecology, Human Evolution, and Evolutionary Psychology.
High experience in agent-based modelling of human behavior and social phenomena.
High experience in distributed computing systems development.
High programming experience in many different languages.
Some experience in robotic programming.