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Researcher

Rui Lopes

Academic position: Assistant Professor
Joining date: 31-12-2008
Roles in IT: Researcher
Thematic Line: Networks and Services
Group: Network Architectures and Protocols – Lx

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Scientific Achievements

  • PhD, Lancaster University, 01-01-2005
  • MSc, Instituto Superior Técnico, 01-01-1996
  • Licenciatura, Instituto Superior Técnico, 01-01-1993
  • ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, 01-01-1997, Associate Professor (Professor Associado)
6Supervision of PhD theses
As Supervisor
5Supervision of MSc theses
As Supervisor
As Co-supervisor
5Books Chapters
  • N. Caldeira, R.J. Lopes, D. Araújo, Attacking and defending: The intrinsic dynamics of the football match, Chapter in, Ecological Dynamics Approach to Football, Routledge, New York, 2026
  • J.P.R. Tamos, R.J. Lopes, D. Araújo, P.P. Passos, Zentralität von Netzwerken, Chapter in, Sportinformatik, Daniel Memmert, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2023
  • C.L. Lemos, H. Coelho, R.J. Lopes, ProtestLab: A Computational Laboratory for Studying Street Protests, Chapter in, Advances in Complex Societal, Environmental and Engineered Systems, Mohamed Nemiche, Mohammad Essaaidi, Springer International Publishing, Cham, Switzerland, 2017
  • D. Araújo, J.P.R. Tamos, R.J. Lopes, Shared affordances guide interpersonal synergies in sport teams, Chapter in, Interpersonal Coordination and Performance in Social Systems, Pedro Passos, Keith Davids, Jia Yi Chow, Taylor & Francis, Oxford, 2016
  • B. Stiller, R.J. Lopes, E. Marta, Pricing and QoS, Chapter in, QUALITY OF FUTURE INTERNET SERVICES, G. Goos, J. Hartmanis, and J. van Leeuwen, Springer, 2003
22Papers in Journals
Early Access
  • N. Pasishnyk, R.J. Lopes, Evaluating SDG Network Models: A Network Science Ontology-Based Framework, Sustainability, Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 100 - 100, December, 2025,
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  • R. Freitas, R.J. Lopes, J. Sarajärvi, A. Volossovitch, Capturing homeostatic behaviour in elite football teams: synchronisation tendencies of cooperative and oppositional dynamics, international journal of data science and analytics, Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. -, November, 2025,
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Published
  • R.S. Santos, J.G. Garganta, R.J. Lopes, K.D. Davids, J. Ribeiro, Capturing meso-level synchronisation tendencies in elite football teams: A novel method for analysing collective organisation in performance, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part P: Journal of Sports Engineering and Technology, Vol., No., pp. -, October, 2025,
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  • R. Freitas, R.J. Lopes, J. Sarajärvi, A. Volossovitch, Elite-level cooperation and opposition dynamics during defensive transitions: Using computer vision data to estimate the pass and dribbling progression conceded, International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching, Vol., No., pp. -, July, 2025,
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  • N. Caldeira, R.J. Lopes, D. Araújo, D. Fernandes, The Finishing Space Value for Shooting Decision-Making in High-Performance Football, Sports, Vol. 12, No. 8, pp. 208 - 208, July, 2024,
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  • N. Caldeira, R.J. Lopes, D. Fernandes, From Optical Tracking to Tactical Performance via Voronoi Diagrams: Team Formation and Players’ Roles Constrain Interpersonal Linkages in High-Level Football, Sensors, Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 273 - 273, January, 2023,
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  • L.R.P. Pereira, R.J. Lopes, J.L. Louçã, D. Araújo, J.P.R. Tamos, The soccer game, bit by bit: An information-theoretic analysis, Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, Vol. 152, No. 1, pp. 111356 - 111356, November, 2021,
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  • J. Matos, R.J. Lopes, Food System Sustainability Metrics: Policies, Quantification, and the Role of Complexity Sciences, Sustainability, Vol. 13, No. 22, pp. 12408 - 12408, November, 2021,
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  • H. Almeida, R.J. Lopes, J. Martins, S. Eloy, Unfolding the dynamical structure of Lisbon’s public space: space syntax and micromobility data, Applied Network Science, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 1 - 21, June, 2021,
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  • L.R.P. Pereira, R.J. Lopes, J.L. Louçã, Community identity in a temporal network: A taxonomy proposal, Ecological Complexity, Vol. 45, No. 1, pp. 100904 - 100904, January, 2021,
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  • S. Moro, R.J. Lopes, J. Esmerado, M. Botelho, Service quality in airport hotel chains through the lens of online reviewers, Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, Vol. 56, No. 102193, pp. 102193 - 102193, September, 2020,
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  • D. Carrilho, M. Couceiro Couceiro, J. B. Brito, P. Figueiredo, R.J. Lopes, D. Araújo, Using Optical Tracking System Data to Measure Team Synergic Behavior: Synchronization of Player-Ball-Goal Angles in a Football Match, Sensors, Vol. 20, No. 17, pp. 4990 - 4990, September, 2020,
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  • J.P.R. Tamos, R.J. Lopes, D. Araújo, Interactions between soccer teams reveal both design and emergence: Cooperation, competition and Zipf-Mandelbrot regularity, Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, Vol. 137, No. 109872, pp. 1 - 7, August, 2020,
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  • J. Ribeiro, P. S. Silva, K.D. Davids, D. Araújo, J.P.R. Tamos, R.J. Lopes, J.G. Garganta, A multilevel hypernetworks approach to capture properties of team synergies at higher complexity levels, European Journal of Sport Science, Vol. 20, No. 10, pp. 1 - 11, February, 2020,
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  • J. Ribeiro, R.J. Lopes, P. S. Silva, D. Araújo, D. Barreira, K.D. Davids, J.P.R. Tamos, J. Maia, J.G. Garganta, A multilevel hypernetworks approach to capture meso-level synchronisation processes in football, Journal of Sports Sciences, Vol. 38, No. 5, pp. 494 - 502, December, 2019,
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  • L.R.P. Pereira, R.J. Lopes, J.L. Louçã, Syntgen: a system to generate temporal networks with user-specified topology, Journal of Complex Networks, Vol. 4, No. 0, pp. 1 - 26, October, 2019 | BibTex
  • J.R. Ribeiro, K.D. Davids, D. Araújo, P. S. Silva, J.P.R. Tamos, R.J. Lopes, J.G. Garganta, The Role of Hypernetworks as a Multilevel Methodology for Modelling and Understanding Dynamics of Team Sports Performance, Sports Medicine, Vol. 49, No. 9, pp. 1337 - 1344, April, 2019,
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  • J.P.R. Tamos, R.J. Lopes, D. Araújo, What’s Next in Complex Networks? Capturing the Concept of Attacking Play in Invasive Team Sports, Sports Medicine, Vol. 48, No. 1, pp. 17 - 28, January, 2018,
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  • J.P.R. Tamos, R.J. Lopes, P. Marques, D. Araújo, Hypernetworks Reveal Compound Variables That Capture Cooperative and Competitive Interactions in a Soccer Match, Frontiers in Psychology, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 1379 - 1391, August, 2017 | BibTex
  • C.L. Lemos, R.J. Lopes, H. Coelho, On Legitimacy Feedback Mechanisms in Agent-Based Modeling of Civil Violence, International Journal of Intelligent Systems, Vol. 31, No. 2, pp. 107 - 127, February, 2016,
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  • S.B. Buchinger, R.J. Lopes, S.J. Jumisko-Pyykkö, H.Z. Zepernick, Guest editorial: Advances in tools, techniques and practices for multimedia QoE, Multimedia Tools and Applications, Vol. 74, No. 2, pp. 319 - 322, January, 2015 | BibTex
  • R.J. Lopes, A.T. Lindsay, D.H. Hutchison, The utility of MPEG-7 systems in audio-visual applications with multiple streams, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 16 - 25, January, 2003,
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20Papers in Conferences
  • R. Rocha, R.J. Lopes, Assessing and Visualizing Principles of Play in Soccer, International Conference on Sport Sciences Research and Technology Support icSports, Marbella, Spain, October, 2025,
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  • P. Fidalgo, R.J. Lopes, Star-Bridge: a topological multidimensional subgraph analysis to detect fraudulent nodes and rings in telecom networks, IEEE International Conference on Big Data, Osaka, Japan, Vol., pp. -, December, 2022,
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  • H. Muacho, R. Ribeiro, R.J. Lopes, The Elusive Features of Success in Soccer Passes: A Machine Learning Perspective, INSTICC International Congress on Sport Sciences Research and Technology Support icSports, La Valetta, Malta, Vol., pp. 110 - 116, October, 2022,
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  • G. Silva, R. Ribeiro, R.J. Lopes, “How Was the Match?”: Semantic Similarity between Electronic Media Commentary and Work Domain Analysis Key Phrases, INSTICC International Congress on Sport Sciences Research and Technology Support icSports, Conference online, Vol. 1, pp. 144 - 150, October, 2021,
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  • N. B. Coelho, F. A. Monteiro, R.J. Lopes, Self-adapting Linear Network Coding Emulation, International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications ISNCC, Istanbul, Turkey, Vol., pp. 1 - 7, June, 2019,
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  • L.R.P. Pereira, R.J. Lopes, J.L. Louçã, A Taxonomy of Community Lifecycle Events in Temporal Networks, World Conference on Complex Systems - WCCS, Ouarzazate, Morocco, April, 2019,
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  • B. Barros, C. S. Serrão, R.J. Lopes, Distributed Crowd-based Annotation of Soccer Games using Mobile Devices, INSTICC International Congress on Sport Sciences Research and Technology Support icSports, Seville, Spain, Vol., pp. 40 - 48, September, 2018,
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  • J.C. Calado, P. Santana, R.J. Lopes, A Unity-Based Framework for Sound Transmission and Perception in Video Games, Encontro Português de Computação Gráfica e Interação EPCGI, Guimarães, Portugal, October, 2017 | BibTex
  • J.P.R. Tamos, R.J. Lopes, P. Marques, D. Araújo, Hypernetworks: Capturing the Multilayers of Cooperative and Competitive Interactions in Soccer, Complex Systems in Sport, International Congress Linking Theory and Practice, Barcelona, Spain, October, 2017,
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  • C.L. Lemos, R.J. Lopes, H. Coelho, Quantitative Measures of Crowd Patterns in Agent- Based Models of Street Protests, World Conference on Complex Systems - WCCS, Marrakesh, Morocco, November, 2015,
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  • C.L. Lemos, R.J. Lopes, H. Coelho, Analysis of the Decision Rule in Epstein's Agent-Based Model of Civil Violence, World Conference on Complex Systems - WCCS, Marrakesh, Morocco, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 6, November, 2015,
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  • C.L. Lemos, H. Coelho, R.J. Lopes, Network Influence Effects in Agent-Based Modelling of Civil Violence, European Social Simulation Association Conference of the European Social Simulation Association ESSA, Groningen, Netherlands, Vol. 1, pp. -, September, 2015,
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  • C.L. Lemos, R.J. Lopes, H. Coelho, Quantitative measures of emergent properties in Agent-Based models of street protests and violent confrontation, Brazilian Workshop on Social Simulation - BWSS, São Paulo, Brazil, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 5, November, 2014 | BibTex
  • C.L. Lemos, H. Coelho, R.J. Lopes, An Agent-Based Model of Civil Violence with Imprisonment Delay and Legitimacy Feedback, World Conference on Complex Systems - WCCS, Agadir, Morocco, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 4, November, 2014 | BibTex
  • C.L. Lemos, H. Coelho, R.J. Lopes, Agent-Based modeling of protests and violent confrontation: a micro-situational, multi-player, contextual rule-based approach, World Congress on Social Simulation - WCSS, São Paulo, Brazil, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 4, November, 2014 | BibTex
  • J. Matos, R.J. Lopes, Y. M. Merali, Market Opportunities, Customer Desires and Purchasing, European College of Sports Science - ECSS, Bruxelas, Belgium, Vol. -, pp. - - -, September, 2012,
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  • J.M. Sousa, R.J. Lopes, A distributed management architecture for large scale clouds: Concepts, design, implementation and evaluation, CETC- Conf. on Electronics, Telecommunications and Computers, Lisbon, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 4, December, 2011,
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  • E.R. Eduardo, R.J. Lopes, Assessing the integration of ontology tools in content network architectures, Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Lisbon, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 4, April, 2011,
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  • T. Gonçalves, R.J. Lopes, P. Nunes, Using metadata in video quality assessment based on the structural similarity (SSIM) index metric, International Workshop on Quality of Experience for Multimedia Content Sharing - QoEMCS, Tampere, Finland, Vol. -, pp. - - -, June, 2010,
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  • E.R. Eduardo, R.J. Lopes, An architecture for the provision of content networks based on IMS, metadata, presence and P2P technologies, ACM Workshop on Middleware for next-generation converged networks and applications - MNCNA, Newport Beach, United States, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 4, November, 2007,
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1Awards
  • C.L. Lemos, R.J. Lopes, H. Coelho, Quantitative Measures of Crowd Patterns in Agent- Based Models of Street Protests, Best PhD student paper, 01-09-2015
16Conference Committees
  • Mosharaka International Conf. on Communications, Networking and Information Technology - Mosharaka, Technical Programme Committee, 2012
  • International Workshop on Quality of Experience for Multimedia Content Sharing - QoEMCS, 2012
  • IEEE International Conf. on Networks, Technical Programme Committee, 2012
  • Mosharaka International Conf. on Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing - M-WCMC, Technical Programme Committee, 2012
  • IEEE International Conf. on Networks, Technical Programme Committee, 2011
  • Conf. on Electronics, Telecommunications and Computers - CETC, Technical Programme Committee, 2011
  • European Conf. on Complex Systems - ECCS, Technical Programme Committee, 2011
  • International Conf. on Computer and Communication Technology - ICCCT, Technical Programme Committee, 2011
  • Mosharaka International Conf. on Computing and Artificial Intelligence - MIC-CAI, Technical Programme Committee, 2011
  • EuroITV, Technical Programme Committee, 2011
  • International Workshop on Quality of Experience for Multimedia Content Sharing - QoEMCS, Organizing Committee, 2011
  • Conf. Ibérica de Sistemas e Tecnologias de Informação - CISTI, Technical Programme Committee, 2011
  • Conf. Ibérica de Sistemas e Tecnologias de Informação - CISTI, Scientific Committee, 2010
  • European Conf. on Complex Systems - ECCS, Scientific Committee, 2010
  • Future 4G mobile networks, Organizing Committee, 2010
  • International Workshop on Quality of Experience for Multimedia Content Sharing - QoEMCS, Organizing Committee, 2010
1Refereeing Journals
  • Eurasip Journal on Advances in Signal Processing
    2015, 1 review(s);
7Refereeing Conferences
  • Mosharaka International Conf. on Communications, Networking and Information Technology - Mosharaka
    2011, 1 review(s); 2010, 1 review(s);
  • Conf. Ibérica de Sistemas e Tecnologias de Informação - CISTI
    2011, 1 review(s); 2010, 1 review(s);
  • European Conf. on Complex Systems - ECCS
    2010, 1 review(s);
  • Vehicular Technology Conference: VTC-Spring
    2011, 1 review(s);
  • International Workshop on Quality of Experience for Multimedia Content Sharing - QoEMCS
    2012, 1 review(s); 2011, 1 review(s);
  • Mosharaka International Conf. on Communications, Computers and Applications
    2011, 1 review(s);
  • IEEE International Conf. on Networks
    2012, 1 review(s);

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