Overview

Hi, I am a Lecturer in City Science & Analytics in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Exeter. Previously, I was affiliated with the Computational Social Science department in GESIS-Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, in Germany.

Administrative Responsibilities

• Director of Global Development, Computer Science (2020-)

Teaching

• ECM1407: Social and Professional Issues of the Information Age
• ECM3420 / ECMM445: Learning from Data

Research Interests

My interests lie in complex systems, human dynamics (including human mobility and face-to-face interaction), and self-organizing mechanisms, particularly in using network science to understand the emergence of social phenomena in cities, such as crime dynamics and social inequality, and to uncover the intricacies that drive the intelligence in swarm intelligence algorithms.

Prospective Students

Highly motivated summer students, undergraduates, self-funded PhD students, and postdoctoral researchers are always welcome to contact me. I am offering to supervise students in the above research areas. If you are interested and have identified a particular funding body, I am also glad to help with the development of your proposal. These links might be useful:

• China Scholarship Council and University of Exeter Full PhD Scholarships
• PhD Studentship opportunities at Exeter
• Postgraduate research in the Computer Science department

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Publications

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2023

• Farokhnejad S, Oliveira M, Ribeiro E, Menezes R. (2023) Using Vector Fields in the Modelling of Movements as Flows: A Case Study with Cattle Trade Networks, Springer Proceedings in Complexity, pages 155-167, DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-28276-8_14.
• Attié M, Pacheco D, Oliveira M. (2023) Getting the Boot? Predicting the Dismissal of Managers in Football, Springer Proceedings in Complexity, pages 132-140, DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-28276-8_12.
• Farokhnejad S, Oliveira M, Ribeiro E, Menezes R. (2023) Using Vector Fields in the Modelling of Movements as Flows, Complex Networks XIV, Springer Nature Switzerland, 155-167, DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-28276-8_14. [PDF]

2022

• Oliveira M, Karimi F, Zens M, Schaible J, Genois M, Strohmaier M. (2022) Group mixing drives inequality in face-to-face gatherings, COMMUNICATIONS PHYSICS, volume 5, no. 1, article no. ARTN 127, DOI:10.1038/s42005-022-00896-1. [PDF]
• Santana C, Oliveira M, Bastos-Filho C, Menezes R. (2022) Beyond exploitation: Measuring the impact of local search in swarm-based memetic algorithms through the interactions of individuals in the population, Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, volume 70, DOI:10.1016/j.swevo.2022.101040.

2021

• Schaible J, Oliveira M, Zens M, Génois M. (2021) Sensing close-range proximity for studying face-to-face interaction, Handbook of Computational Social Science, Volume 1, Routledge, 219-239, DOI:10.4324/9781003024583-17. [PDF]
• Kulshrestha J, Oliveira M, Karaçalık O, Bonnay D, Wagner C. (2021) Web Routineness and Limits of Predictability: Investigating Demographic and Behavioral Differences Using Web Tracking Data, Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, volume 15, pages 327-338, DOI:10.1609/icwsm.v15i1.18064. [PDF]
• Oliveira M. (2021) More crime in cities? On the scaling laws of crime and the inadequacy of per capita rankings—a cross-country study, Crime Science, volume 10, no. 1, DOI:10.1186/s40163-021-00155-8.
• Teixeira AS, Pacheco D, Oliveira M, Barbosa H, Gonçalves B, Menezes R. (2021) Preface, Springer Proceedings in Complexity, DOI:10.1201/9781439821916.fmatt.
• Macedo M, Taw L, Gurrapadi N, Lira RC, Pinheiro D, Oliveira M, Bastos-Filho C, Menezes R. (2021) Fishing for interactions: A network science approach to modeling fish school search, GECCO 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, pages 40-48, DOI:10.1145/3449639.3459327.

2020

• Oliveira M, Pinheiro D, Macedo M, Bastos-Filho C, Menezes R. (2020) Uncovering the social interaction network in swarm intelligence algorithms, Applied Network Science, volume 5, no. 1, article no. 24, DOI:10.1007/s41109-020-00260-8. [PDF]
• Barbosa H, Gomez-Gardenes J, Gonçalves B, Mangioni G, Menezes R, Oliveira M. (2020) Preface.

2019

• Oliveira M, Menezes R. (2019) Spatial concentration and temporal regularities in crime. [PDF]
• Oliveira M, Pinheiro D, Macedo M, Bastos-Filho C, Menezes R. (2019) Uncovering the Social Interaction in Swarm Intelligence with Network Science. [PDF]
• Gurrapadi N, Taw L, Macedo M, Oliveira M, Pinheiro D, Bastos-Filho C, Menezes R. (2019) Modelling the Social Interactions in Ant Colony Optimization, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), volume 11872 LNCS, pages 216-224, DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-33617-2_23.
• Taw L, Gurrapadi N, MacEdo M, Oliveira M, Pinheiro D, Bastos-Filho C, Menezes R. (2019) Characterizing the Social Interactions in the Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm, 2019 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2019 - Proceedings, pages 1243-1250, DOI:10.1109/CEC.2019.8789898.

2018

• Barbosa H, Oliveira M, Pacheco D, Menezes R, Goshal G. (2018) The Influence of the Circadian and Ultradian Rhythms to Human Mobility: Empirical Evidences from Location-Based Check-Ins, First Northeast Regional Conference on Complex Systems (NERCCS).
• Cinelli M, Echegoyen I, Oliveira M, Orellana S, Gili T. (2018) Altered Modularity and Disproportional Integration in Functional Networks are Markers of Abnormal Brain Organization in Schizophrenia. [PDF]
• Elliott D, Tomasini M, Oliveira M, Menezes R. (2018) Tippers and stiffers: An analysis of tipping behavior in taxi trips, 2017 IEEE SmartWorld Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing, Advanced and Trusted Computed, Scalable Computing and Communications, Cloud and Big Data Computing, Internet of People and Smart City Innovation, SmartWorld/SCALCOM/UIC/ATC/CBDCom/IOP/SCI 2017 - Conference Proceedings, pages 1-8, DOI:10.1109/UIC-ATC.2017.8397523.
• Oliveira M, Ribeiro E, Bastos-Filho C, Menezes R. (2018) Spatio-temporal variations in the urban rhythm: the travelling waves of crime, EPJ DATA SCIENCE, volume 7, article no. ARTN 29, DOI:10.1140/epjds/s13688-018-0158-4. [PDF]

2017

• Pacheco DF, Oliveira M, Menezes R. (2017) Using social media to assess neighborhood social disorganization: A case study in the United Kingdom, FLAIRS 2017 - Proceedings of the 30th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, pages 341-346.
• Oliveira M, Pinheiro D, MacEdo M, Bastos-Filho C, Menezes R. (2017) Better exploration-exploitation pace, better swarm: Examining the social interactions, 2017 IEEE Latin American Conference on Computational Intelligence, LA-CCI 2017 - Proceedings, volume 2017-November, pages 1-6, DOI:10.1109/LA-CCI.2017.8285712.
• Oliveira M, Bastos-Filho C, Menezes R. (2017) The scaling of crime concentration in cities, PLOS ONE, volume 12, no. 8, article no. ARTN e0183110, DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0183110. [PDF]

2016

• Oliveira Junior MC, Lacerda MGP, Barboza EA, Cordeiro PRG, Bastos-Filho CJA. (2016) Car Setup Optimization Using Multi-Objective Swarm Algorithms, 10. Congresso Brasileiro de Inteligência Computacional, Anais do 10. Congresso Brasileiro de Inteligência Computacional, DOI:10.21528/cbic2011-26.3. [PDF]
• Oliveira Júnior MC, Bastos-Filho CJA. (2016) Uma Implementação em FPGA de Redes Neurais de Hopfield para Roteamento em Redes de Comunicação, 10. Congresso Brasileiro de Inteligência Computacional, Anais do 10. Congresso Brasileiro de Inteligência Computacional, DOI:10.21528/cbic2011-14.3. [PDF]
• Oliveira M, Pinheiro D, Andrade B, Bastos-Filho C, Menezes R. (2016) Communication diversity in particle swarm optimizers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), volume 9882 LNCS, pages 77-88, DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-44427-7_7.

2015

• Oliveira M, Bastos-Filho CJA, Menezes R. (2015) Using network science to assess particle swarm optimizers, Social Network Analysis and Mining, volume 5, no. 1, pages 1-13, DOI:10.1007/s13278-015-0245-5.
• Oliveira M, Bastos-Filho CJA, Menezes R. (2015) Towards a network-based approach to analyze particle swarm optimizers, IEEE SSCI 2014 - 2014 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence - SIS 2014: 2014 IEEE Symposium on Swarm Intelligence, Proceedings, pages 166-173, DOI:10.1109/SIS.2014.7011791.
• White S, Oliveira M, Menezes R. (2015) The spatial structure of crime in urban environments, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), volume 8852, pages 102-111, DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-15168-7_14.
• Oliveira M, Barbosa-Filho H, Yehle T, White S, Menezes R. (2015) From criminal spheres of familiarity to crime networks, 219-230, DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-16112-9_22.

2014

• Oliveira M, Bastos-Filho C, Menezes R. (2014) Political Social Networks Reveal Strong Party Loyalty in Brazil and Weak Regionalism, CONFERENCE OF THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING, Stanford University.

2013

• Junior MACO, Bastos Filho CJA, Menezes R. (2013) Using Network science to define a dynamic communication topology for particle swarm optimizers, Studies in Computational Intelligence, volume 424, pages 39-47, DOI:10.1007/978-3-642-30287-9_5.
• Oliveira-Jünior MAC, Bastos-Filho CJA, Menezes R. (2013) Assessing particle swarm optimizers using network science metrics, Studies in Computational Intelligence, volume 476, pages 173-184, DOI:10.1007/978-3-642-36844-8_17.

2012

• C. Lins AJC, A. Bastos-Filho CJ, O. Nascimento DN, Oliveira Junior MAC, de Lima-Neto FB. (2012) Analysis of the Performance of the Fish School Search Algorithm Running in Graphic Processing Units, Theory and New Applications of Swarm Intelligence, InTech, DOI:10.5772/30360. [PDF]

2011

• Bastos-Filho CJA, Oliveira MAC, Silva DRC, Santana RA. (2011) Optimizing a routing algorithm based on Hopfield Neural Networks for Graphic Processing Units, 2011 IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computational Intelligence (FOCI 2011), 11th - 15th Apr 2011, 2011 IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computational Intelligence (FOCI), DOI:10.1109/foci.2011.5949470. [PDF]
• Bastos-Filho C, Oliveira M, Nascimento D. (2011) Running Particle Swarm Optimization on Graphic Processing Units, Search Algorithms and Applications, InTech, DOI:10.5772/14694. [PDF]

2010

• Bastos-Filho CJA, Oliveira MAC, Nascimento DNO, Ramos AD. (2010) Impact of the Random Number generator quality on particle swarm optimization algorithm running on graphic processor units, 2010 10th International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS 2010), 23rd - 25th Aug 2010, 2010 10th International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems, DOI:10.1109/his.2010.5601073. [PDF]

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