PhDCS.

An international doctoral program jointly proposed by the Lisbon University Institute and the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon. On-line and on-site.

A MOOC by Jeffrey Johnson.
Research by Luís Ramada Pereira (PhDCS): time consecutive slices of a dynamic network as generated by Syntgen.
Research by António Fonseca (PhDCS) - Caste in the news: a computational analysis of Indian newspapers .
Research by Harvey Sánchez-Restrepo (PhDCS) - Inequality in Learning Outcomes and Educational Deprivation .

Concluded Doctoral Thesis and Master Dissertations

Dissipative structures and the relation between individual and collective aspects of social behavior

Article by Thomas Weber (PhDCS researcher) /Systems Research & Behavioral Science, First published: 04 January 2021, Wiley Online Library /Access

Community identity in a temporal network: A taxonomy proposal

Article by Luís Ramada Pereira (PhDCS researcher) /Ecological Complexity, Volume 45, January 2021, Ed. Elsevier /Access

Should the Internet be private? Ownership and control of information on the Internet

Article by António Fonseca (PhDCS faculty) /Medium, 16 December 2020 / Access

Wuleta Lemma, PhDCS researcher, is the 2020 Web Summit PITCH winner

PITCH was held on Web Summit 2020, bringing together 700 startups. Wuleta Lemma won the competition with the Ethiopian startup Lalibela Global-Networks which digitises hospital management processes in Africa. /More here

COVID-19: Pandemics, Modelling, and Policy

An Online Course proposed by Jeffrey Johnson (vice-president of the UNESCO UniTwin Complex Systems Digital Campus and regularly invited at PhDCS) / Future Learn /Access

Covid-19 and Computation for Policy

Article by Jeffrey Johnson, Peter Denning, Kemal Delic, and Jane Bromley /Ubiquity, Volume 2020 Issue October, Ed. ACM /Access
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Ongoing research

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Andreia Pereira

Adherence to the Screening of Diabetic Retinopathy: an Agent Based Simulation Model
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Harvey Restrepo

Inequality in Learning Outcomes and Educational Deprivation
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Helena Almeida

The many faces of the city: spatiotemporal dynamics and urban limits
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Luis Ramada Pereira

Community detection and evolution in temporal networks
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Tiago Santos

The digital transformation of the public sphere
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Thomas Weber

Dissipative Structures and the Micro-Macro Relation in Society
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Filipe Dias

On the Thermodynamics of Information Processing: From Information Geometry to Souriau’s Theory of Heat
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João Sequeira

Transition from endemic behavior to eradication of malaria due to combined drug therapies: an agent-model approach
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Guido Willemsen

On the applicability of agent-based organization structures with intensive and continuous (group) dialectics