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D-Index
41
Citations
11016
World Ranking
8639
National Ranking
20

Best Publications

  • Scale-free networks provide a unifying framework for the emergence of cooperation.

    F. C. Santos;J. M. Pacheco

  • Social diversity promotes the emergence of cooperation in public goods games

    Francisco C. Santos;Marta D. Santos;Jorge M. Pacheco

  • Evolutionary dynamics of social dilemmas in structured heterogeneous populations

    Francisco C. Santos;Jorge M. J.M. Pacheco;Tom Lenaerts

  • Cooperation prevails when individuals adjust their social ties

    Francisco C. Santos;Jorge M. J.M. Pacheco;Tom Lenaerts

  • Graph topology plays a determinant role in the evolution of cooperation

    F.C Santos;J.F Rodrigues;J.M Pacheco

  • Evolutionary dynamics of collective action in N-person stag hunt dilemmas

    Jorge M Pacheco;Francisco C Santos;Max O Souza;Brian Skyrms

  • Risk of collective failure provides an escape from the tragedy of the commons

    Francisco C. Santos;Jorge M. Pacheco

  • Epidemic spreading and cooperation dynamics on homogeneous small-world networks.

    F. C. Santos;J. F. Rodrigues;J. M. Pacheco

  • A new route to the evolution of cooperation.

    F. C. Santos;J. M. Pacheco

  • Evolutionary games in self-organizing populations

    Arne Traulsen;Francisco C. Santos;Jorge M. Pacheco

  • Evolution of cooperation under N-person snowdrift games

    Max O. Souza;Jorge M. Pacheco;Francisco C. Santos

  • Stern-Judging: A Simple, Successful Norm Which Promotes Cooperation under Indirect Reciprocity

    Jorge M. Pacheco;Francisco C. Santos;Fábio Augusto da Costa Carvalho Chalub

  • Reacting differently to adverse ties promotes cooperation in social networks.

    S. Van Segbroeck;S. Van Segbroeck;F. C. Santos;T. Lenaerts;J. M. Pacheco

  • Emergence of Fairness in Repeated Group Interactions

    S. Van Segbroeck;J. M. Pacheco;T. Lenaerts;T. Lenaerts;F. C. Santos

  • Cancer phenotype as the outcome of an evolutionary game between normal and malignant cells

    D. Dingli;Fábio Augusto da Costa Carvalho Chalub;F. C. Santos;S. Van Segbroeck

  • Adaptive contact networks change effective disease infectiousness and dynamics.

    Sven Van Segbroeck;Francisco C. Santos;Jorge Manuel Santos Pacheco

  • Dynamics of N-person snowdrift games in structured populations.

    Marta D. Santos;Flávio L. Pinheiro;Francisco C. Santos;Jorge M. Pacheco

  • Population Structure Induces a Symmetry Breaking Favoring the Emergence of Cooperation

    Jorge M. Pacheco;Jorge M. Pacheco;Flávio L. Pinheiro;Francisco C. Santos;Francisco C. Santos

  • Linking Individual and Collective Behavior in Adaptive Social Networks

    Flavio L. Pinheiro;Flavio L. Pinheiro;Francisco C. Santos;Jorge Manuel Santos Pacheco

  • From local to global dilemmas in social networks.

    Flávio L. Pinheiro;Jorge M. Pacheco;Jorge M. Pacheco;Francisco C. Santos;Francisco C. Santos

  • Co-evolution of pre-play signaling and cooperation.

    Francisco C. Santos;Jorge M. Pacheco;Brian Skyrms

Frequent Co-Authors

Luís Moniz Pereira
Luís Moniz Pereira Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Ana Paiva
Ana Paiva Instituto Superior Técnico
Hugues Bersini
Hugues Bersini Université Libre de Bruxelles
Brian Skyrms
Brian Skyrms University of California, Irvine
Karl Tuyls
Karl Tuyls DeepMind (United Kingdom)
Rémi Munos
Rémi Munos French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation - INRIA
Vito Trianni
Vito Trianni National Research Council (CNR)
Ann Nowé
Ann Nowé Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Marco Dorigo
Marco Dorigo Université Libre de Bruxelles

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