Faculty Member, Faculdade de Letras
Professor Auxiliar
Thesis Title: Comportamentos Morais e Estruturas Sociais: a paróquia de Soure no Antigo Regime (1680-1720)
About
My full name is Joaquim Manuel Costa Ramos de Carvalho, and I am a professor at the University of Coimbra (http://www.uc.pt), Portugal, where I belong to the History Group of the Faculty of Letters.
I am also a member of the CISUC Research Centre of the University of Coimbra (http://www.cisuc.uc.pt/). In the CISUC I am part of the ECOS group that focuses on Evolution and Complex Systems (http://cisuc.dei.uc.pt/ecos/).
My scientific interests include agent based modeling of historical processes, network analysis, micro-history, and self-organization in social phenomena. These topics are related in different ways to the consideration of human societies as complex adaptive systems, in the sense defined by John Holland in Hiden Order.
My current projects include:
TimeLink: a database system micro-history that I have been developing for longer than I would like to confess. Originally known as MHK (Micro_History with Kleio), TimeLink has been undergoing a slow but significant evolution due to some unexpected funding oportunities. See http://timelink.fl.uc.pt/?lang=en
Mater: Models of Territorial Self Organization (The acronym makes sense only in Portuguese). This project created an multi-agent simulation of how a population occupies a territory. It shows how simple rules produce complex patterns of evolution. See http://sites.google.com/site/materecos/
Religion and Philosophy - This is a thematic work group inside the biggest six framework programme network of excelence in the Humanities: CLIOHRES.net. I lead a fantastic group of researchers from different European countries to reflect on the role of Religion, Mythology and Rituals in the development of identities. We have been publishing a book a year with our findings for the last three years. Stressing but fun. See http://www.cliohres.net
Dyncoop.net This is a new project for me. It is part of European Science Foundation’s EUROCORES (European Collaborative Research) Scheme’s program “The Evolution of Cooperation and Trading”. See Jack Owens page for more information: http://idahostate.academia.edu/JBJackOwens
For older projects see: http://eden.dei.uc.pt/~joaquim/homepage/projects/index.html
My teaching activity is currently centred on Computing and the Humanities, covering many of the different facets of the field, the most relevant of which is the direction of a European Master Programme on European Heritage, Digital Media and the Information Society (http://www.euromachs.net).
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