Nuno David

Nuno David is a professor at Instituto de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa (ISCTE), Lisbon, Portugal. He teaches the disciplines of object-oriented programming and of social systems simulation in the Department of Information Science and Technology of ISCTE. His interests include the methodology and philosophy of computer science, the ontology and epistemology of artificial societies and social simulation, and in particular, the implications of interdisciplinary computer-based approaches for social theory and for computer science methodologies. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Lisbon.

ISCTE - Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa
Av. das Forças Armadas
Portugal
1649-026 Lisboa

Email: Nuno.David@iscte.pt
Web: http://www.iscte.pt/~nmcd

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Jaime Simão Sichman

Jaime Simão Sichman is an Associate Professor at Polytechnic School, University of São Paulo, Brazil. He has a BSc and MSc from University of São Paulo and a PhD from Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, France.

Intelligent Techniques Laboratory (LTI)
Computer Engineering Department (PCS)
University of Sao Paulo (USP)
av. Prof. Luciano Gualberto 158 tv. 3
Sao Paulo SP Brazil
05508-900

Email: jaime.sichman@poli.usp.br
Web: http://www.pcs.usp.br/~jaime

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Helder Coelho

Helder Coelho is a Professor of computer science (artificial intelligence) at the University of Lisbon. He has a BSc and MSc from the IST (Technical University of Lisbon) and a PhD from Edinburgh University, UK. He has also a degree of Informatics Expert from the National Laboratory for Civil Engineering, Lisbon.

Faculdade de Ciencias
Bloco C5
Piso 1
Campo Grande
Lisboa, Portugal
1749-016

Email: hcoelho@di.fc.ul.pt
Web: http://www.di.fc.ul/~hcoelho