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Dr. V.V. (Vítor) Vasconcelos

Faculty of Science
Informatics Institute

Visiting address
  • Science Park 900
  • Room number: 6.20
Postal address
  • Postbus 94323
    1090 GH Amsterdam
  • Publications

    2024

    2023

    • Crielaard, L., Quax, R., Sawyer, A. D. M., Vasconcelos, V. V., Nicolaou, M., Stronks, K., & Sloot, P. M. A. (2023). Using network analysis to identify leverage points based on causal loop diagrams leads to false inference. Scientific Reports, 13(1), Article 21046. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-46531-z [details]
    • Tilman, A. R., Vasconcelos, V. V., Akçay, E., & Plotkin, J. B. (2023). The evolution of forecasting for decision-making in dynamic environments. Collective Intelligence, 2(4). Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/26339137231221726
    • Wang, S., Chen, X., Xiao, Z., Szolnoki, A., & Vasconcelos, V. V. (2023). Optimization of institutional incentives for cooperation in structured populations. Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 20(199), Article 20220653. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2022.0653 [details]

    2022

    • Qiu, Z., Espinoza, B., Vasconcelos, V. V., Chen, C., Constantino, S. M., Crabtree, S. A., Yang, L., Vullikanti, A., Chen, J., Weibull, J., Basu, K., Dixit, A., Levin, S. A., & Marathe, M. V. (2022). Understanding the coevolution of mask wearing and epidemics: A network perspective. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119(26), Article e2123355119. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2123355119 [details]
    • Vasconcelos, V. V., Dannenberg, A., & Levin, S. A. (2022). Punishment institutions selected and sustained through voting and learning. Nature Sustainability, 5(7), 578–585. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-022-00877-w [details]
    • Yang, L., Constantino, S. M., Grenfell, B. T., Weber, E. U., Levin, S. A., & Vasconcelos, V. V. (2022). Sociocultural determinants of global mask-wearing behavior. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119(41), Article e2213525119. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2213525119 [details]

    2021

    2020

    • Barfuss, W., Donges, J. F., Vasconcelos, V. V., Kurths, J., & Levin, S. A. (2020). Caring for the future can turn tragedy into comedy for long-term collective action under risk of collapse. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 117(23), 12915-12922. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1916545117
    • McManus, L. C., Vasconcelos, V. V., Levin, S. A., Thompson, D. M., Kleypas, J. A., Castruccio, F. S., Curchitser, E. N., & Watson, J. R. (2020). Extreme temperature events will drive coral decline in the Coral Triangle. Global Change Biology, 26(4), 2120-2133. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14972
    • Vasconcelos, V. V., Hannam, P. M., Levin, S. A., & Pacheco, J. M. (2020). Coalition-structured governance improves cooperation to provide public goods. Scientific Reports, 10, Article 9194. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-65960-8

    2019

    • McManus, L. C., Watson, J. R., Vasconcelos, V. V., & Levin, S. A. (2019). Stability and recovery of coral-algae systems: the importance of recruitment seasonality and grazing influence. Theoretical Ecology, 12(1), 61-72. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12080-018-0388-x
    • Vasconcelos, V. V., Levin, S. A., & Pinheiro, F. L. (2019). Consensus and polarization in competing complex contagion processes. Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 16(155), Article 20190196. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2019.0196

    2018

    • Zhou, L., Wu, B., Vasconcelos, V. V., & Wang, L. (2018). Evolutionary game gynamics driven by heterogeneous self-learning rules. In Proceedings of 2018 IEEE 7th Data Driven Control and Learning Systems Conference, DDCLS 2018 (pp. 825-829). Article 8515931 (Proceedings of 2018 IEEE 7th Data Driven Control and Learning Systems Conference, DDCLS 2018). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/DDCLS.2018.8515931
    • Zhou, L., Wu, B., Vasconcelos, V. V., & Wang, L. (2018). Simple property of heterogeneous aspiration dynamics: Beyond weak selection. Physical Review E, 98(6), Article 062124. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.98.062124

    2017

    • Hannam, P. M., Vasconcelos, V. V., Levin, S. A., & Pacheco, J. M. (2017). Incomplete cooperation and co-benefits: deepening climate cooperation with a proliferation of small agreements. Climatic Change, 144(1), 65-79. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-015-1511-2
    • Vasconcelos, V. V., Santos, F. P., Santos, F. C., & Pacheco, J. M. (2017). Stochastic Dynamics through Hierarchically Embedded Markov Chains. Physical Review Letters, 118(5), Article 058301. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.058301

    2015

    • Pacheco, J. M., Vasconcelos, V. V., Santos, F. C., & Skyrms, B. (2015). Co-evolutionary Dynamics of Collective Action with Signaling for a Quorum. PLoS Computational Biology, 11(2), Article e1004101. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004101
    • Vasconcelos, V. V., Santos, F. C., & Pacheco, J. M. (2015). Cooperation dynamics of polycentric climate governance. Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences, 25(13), 2503-2517. https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218202515400163

    2014

    • Pacheco, J. M., Vasconcelos, V. V., & Santos, F. C. (2014). Climate change governance, cooperation and self-organization. Physics of Life Reviews, 11(4), 573-586. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2014.02.003
    • Pinheiro, F. L., Vasconcelos, V. V., Santos, F. C., & Pacheco, J. M. (2014). Evolution of All-or-None Strategies in Repeated Public Goods Dilemmas. PLoS Computational Biology, 10(11). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003945
    • Vasconcelos, V. V., Santos, F. C., Pacheco, J. M., & Levin, S. A. (2014). Climate policies under wealth inequality. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 111(6), 2212-2216. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1323479111

    2013

    • Pinheiro, F. L., Vasconcelos, V., Santos, F. C., & Pacheco, J. M. (2013). Self-organized game dynamics in complex networks. In Proceedings of the 12th European Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems: Advances in Artificial Life, ECAL 2013 (pp. 61-62). (Proceedings of the 12th European Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems: Advances in Artificial Life, ECAL 2013). MIT Press Journals. https://doi.org/10.7551/978-0-262-31709-2-ch010
    • Vasconcelos, V. V., Pinheiro, F. L., Santos, F. C., & Pacheco, J. M. (2013). Bootstrapping back the climate with self-organization. In Proceedings of the 12th European Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems: Advances in Artificial Life, ECAL 2013 (pp. 182-183). (Proceedings of the 12th European Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems: Advances in Artificial Life, ECAL 2013). MIT Press Journals. https://doi.org/10.7551/978-0-262-31709-2-ch027
    • Vasconcelos, V. V., Santos, F. C., & Pacheco, J. M. (2013). A bottom-up institutional approach to cooperative governance of risky commons. Nature Climate Change, 3(9), 797-801. https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate1927

    2012

    • Santos, F. C., Vasconcelos, V. V., Santos, M. D., Neves, P. N. B., & Pacheco, J. M. (2012). Evolutionary dynamics of climate change under collective-risk dilemmas. Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences, 22(SUPPL.1), Article 1140004. https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218202511400045

    2011

    • Vasconcelos, V. V., Raischel, F., Haase, M., Peinke, J., Wächter, M., Lind, P. G., & Kleinhans, D. (2011). Principal axes for stochastic dynamics. Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics, 84(3), Article 031103. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.84.031103

    2023

    • Terpstra, S. (Author), Darcie Marquitti, F. M. (Author), & Vasconcelos, V. V. (Author). (2023). Model Implementation of: Adaptive Foraging of Pollinators Fosters Gradual Tipping under Resource Competition and Rapid Environmental Change. Software, Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8268437

    2021

    2020

    2019

    2014

    • Pacheco, J. M., Vasconcelos, V. V., & Santos, F. C. (2014). Climate governance as a complex adaptive system: Reply to comments on "Climate change governance, cooperation and self-organization". Physics of Life Reviews, 11(4), 595-597. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2014.10.003

    2022

    2021

    2023

    2022

    2021

    • den Nijs, K., Hofstede, G. J., & Vasconcelos, V. V. (2021). Differences in sociality may heavily influence resource sharing success. Poster session presented at Social Simulation Conference 2021, Krakow , Poland.

    2019

    Prize / grant

    • Vasconcelos, V. V. (2022). How can we best act upon contextual factors that influence mental health in lower socio-economic groups? Insights offered by system dynamics methodologies.
    • Vasconcelos, V. V. (2022). Decision-making in changing environments: behavioral models to predict management outcomes.
    • Vasconcelos, V. (2020). Bragança Gil Prize. https://www.spf.pt/news/prmio-fernando-bragana-gil-2020-atribudo-a-vtor-v-vasconcelos

    Media appearance

    Talk / presentation

    • Châtel, B. (speaker), Vasconcelos, V. V. (speaker) & Quax, R. (speaker) (25-4-2023). Alone in the crowd: a computational social network model uncovering the clustering mechanisms of loneliness, 14th International Conference on Complex Networks, CompleNet 2023, Aveiro. https://complenet23.weebly.com/program.html
    • Vasconcelos, V. V. (speaker), Mittal, D. (speaker) & Pinheiro, F. L. (speaker) (2-1-2023). The influence of social networks in heterogeneous and variable environments, 14th International Conference on Complex Networks, CompleNet 2023, Aveiro. https://complenet23.weebly.com/program.html
    • Vasconcelos, V. V. (invited speaker) & Pascoal Dos Santos, F. (invited speaker) (1-3-2022). Seminario de Economía y Complejidad, Centro de Investigaciones Interdisciplinarias en Ciencias y Humanidades, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM). https://www.ceiich.unam.mx/0/60EncAno.php?ano=2022

    Others

    • Vasconcelos, V. V. (organiser), Roy, D. (organiser), Krueger, E. (organiser), Pinheiro, F. L. (organiser), Stewart, A. J. (organiser), Garibay, V. (organiser), Teixeira, A. (organiser), Leng, Y. (organiser), Lees, M. (member of programme committee), Kawakatsu, M. (member of programme committee), Nespeca, V. (member of programme committee), Mittal, D. (member of programme committee), Dignum, E. (member of programme committee), Mengesha, I. (member of programme committee), Alpalhão, N. (member of programme committee), Candia, C. (member of programme committee) & Pilatti, G. (member of programme committee) (3-7-2023 - 5-7-2023). Computational Social Complexity Track at ICCS 2023, Prague. Thematic Track at the International Conference on Computational Social Science 2023 (organising a conference, workshop, ...). https://sites.google.com/view/cscx-track-2023/
    • Vasconcelos, V. V. (participant), Mittal, D. (participant) & Châtel, B. (participant) (25-4-2023 - 28-4-2023). Complenet 2023, Aveiro. The International Conference on Complex Networks (CompleNet) brings together researchers and practitioners from diverse disciplines working on areas (…) (participating in a conference, workshop, ...). https://complenet.weebly.com/
    • Darcie Marquitti, F. (organiser), Vasconcelos, V. V. (participant), McManus, L. C. (participant), Weitz, J. S. (participant) & Beckett, S. J. (participant) (27-2-2023 - 3-3-2023). Serrapilheira/ICTP-SAIFR Training Program in Quantitative Ecology, São Paulo. The Serrapilheira/ICTP-SAIFR Training Program in Quantitative Ecology from January 9 – March 3, 2023 will train young scientists studying at (…) (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Hazeleger, W. (organiser), Eyring, V. (organiser), Finkenauer, C. (organiser), Lees, M. (organiser), Stevens, B. (organiser) & Vasconcelos, V. V. (participant) (13-2-2023 - 16-2-2023). Lorentz Center Workshop "Digital Twin Earth", Leiden. A Digital Twin of the earth constitutes a new paradigm in weather and climate research and applications. The twin(s) explores climate futures (…) (participating in a conference, workshop, ...). https://www.lorentzcenter.nl/digital-twin-earth.html
    • Taylor, B. (organiser), Liao, W. (organiser) & Vasconcelos, V. (participant) (7-4-2022 - 8-4-2022). Radcliffe Exploratory Seminar Program, Harvard. Forest resilience (how forests respond to natural and man-made disturbances) can dramatically influence biodiversity conservation, carbon capture, (…) (participating in a conference, workshop, ...). https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/opportunities-for-researchers/2022-exploratory-seminars/reimagining-forest-resilience-through-the-lens-of-…
    • Vasconcelos, V. (organiser), Darcie Marquitti, F. (organiser), McManus, L. C. (organiser), Ong, T. W. (organiser), Krueger, E. (participant), Pascoal Dos Santos, F. (participant), Sloot, P. M. A. (participant), Liao, W. (participant), Taylor, B. (participant), Pinheiro, F. L. (participant), Junquera, V. (participant), Watson, J. (participant), Mittal, D. (participant), Yang, L. (participant), Aguiar, M. (participant), Campos, A. (participant), Dutta, P. (participant), Jovanelly, K. (participant), Kong, J. (participant), … Zhan, Q. (participant) (27-3-2022 - 1-4-2022). BIRS Workshop, Banff. The Banff International Research Station will host the "Rate-induced Transitions in Networked Systems " workshop in Banff from March 27 to April 1, (…) (organising a conference, workshop, ...). https://www.birs.ca/events/2022/5-day-workshops/22w5067
    • den Nijs, K. (participant), Hofstede, G. (participant) & Vasconcelos, V. (participant) (28-10-2021). Conference on Complex Systems 2021, Lyon. Presentation at satellite: AMETHYST: gAME THeorY in complex SysTems (participating in a conference, workshop, ...). https://amethyst2021.weebly.com/

    2023

    • Vasconcelos, V. V., Ong, T. W., McManus, L. C., Yang, L. & Su, C. (26-1-2023). Heron Island Satellite Imagery Classified Benthic Data and Coral Halo Analyses and Models. Universiteit van Amsterdam. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8335656

    2021

    • Vasconcelos, V. V., Constantino, S. M., Dannenberg, A., Lumkowsky, M., Weber, E. & Levin, S. (2021). Replication Data for: Segregation and Clustering of Preferences Erode Socially Beneficial Coordination. Harvard Dataverse. https://doi.org/10.7910/dvn/pmn61r
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