Pedro Santos

According to our database, Pedro Santos authored at least 73 papers between 2009 and 2025.

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2025

The Author's Journey - Understanding and Improving the Authoring Process of Theory-Driven Socially Intelligent Agents.

Manuel Guimarães, Joana Campos, Pedro A. Santos, João Dias, Rui Prada

ACM Trans. Interact. Intell. Syst., June, 2025

Playing Hex and Counter Wargames using Reinforcement Learning and Recurrent Neural Networks.

Guilherme Palma, Pedro A. Santos, João Dias

CoRR, February, 2025

Multi-Bellman operator for convergence of <i>Q</i>-learning with linear function approximation.

Diogo S. Carvalho, Pedro A. Santos, Francisco S. Melo

Trans. Mach. Learn. Res., 2025

Centralized training with hybrid execution in multi-agent reinforcement learning via predictive observation imputation.

Pedro P. Santos, Diogo S. Carvalho, Miguel Vasco, Alberto Sardinha, Pedro A. Santos, Ana Paiva, Francisco S. Melo

Artif. Intell., 2025

Reinforcement learning in convergently non-stationary environments: Feudal hierarchies and learned representations.

Diogo S. Carvalho, Pedro A. Santos, Francisco S. Melo

Artif. Intell., 2025

MentalRAG: Developing an Agentic Framework for Therapeutic Support Systems.

Francisco R. E. Silva, Pedro A. Santos, João Dias

Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health, 2025

FlexiDialogue: Integrating Dialogue Trees for Mental Health with Large Language Models.

João Fernandes, Ana Antunes, Joana Campos, João Dias, Pedro A. Santos

Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health, 2025

Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Addressing Consumer Complaints.

David Lima, Pedro A. Santos, João Dias

Proceedings of the Progress in Artificial Intelligence, 2025

LisHAB - A Housing Market Agent-Based Simulation Model.

Miguel Alves, Pedro A. Santos, João Dias

Proceedings of the Progress in Artificial Intelligence, 2025

2024

Centralized Training with Hybrid Execution in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning.

Pedro P. Santos, Diogo S. Carvalho, Miguel Vasco, Alberto Sardinha, Pedro A. Santos, Ana Paiva, Francisco S. Melo

Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 2024

2023

Multi-Bellman operator for convergence of Q-learning with linear function approximation.

Diogo S. Carvalho, Pedro A. Santos, Francisco S. Melo

CoRR, 2023

Building Persuasive Robots with Social Power Strategies.

Mojgan Hashemian, Marta Couto, Samuel Mascarenhas, Ana Paiva, Pedro A. Santos, Rui Prada

CoRR, 2023

GAN-Based Content Generation of Maps for Strategy Games.

Vasco Nunes, João Dias, Pedro A. Santos

CoRR, 2023

Prompting for Socially Intelligent Agents with ChatGPT.

Ana Antunes, Joana Campos, Manuel Guimarães, João Dias, Pedro A. Santos

Proceedings of the 23rd ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, 2023

MHeVA: Mental Health Virtual Assistant for High Education Students.

André Antunes, Manuel Guimarães, Pedro A. Santos, João Dias, Carla Boura, Joana Campos

Proceedings of the 23rd ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, 2023

Dual Critic Conditional Wasserstein GAN for Height-Map Generation.

Nuno Ramos, Pedro Santos, João Dias

Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, 2023

A Semantic Search System for the Supremo Tribunal de Justiça.

Rui Melo, Pedro A. Santos, João Dias

Proceedings of the Progress in Artificial Intelligence, 2023

LeSSE - A Semantic Search Engine Applied to Portuguese Consumer Law.

Nuno Pablo Cordeiro, João Dias, Pedro A. Santos

Proceedings of the Progress in Artificial Intelligence, 2023

Theoretical Remarks on Feudal Hierarchies and Reinforcement Learning.

Diogo S. Carvalho, Francisco S. Melo, Pedro A. Santos

Proceedings of the ECAI 2023 - 26th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, September 30 - October 4, 2023, Kraków, Poland, 2023

2022

FAtiMA Toolkit: Toward an Accessible Tool for the Development of Socio-emotional Agents.

Samuel Mascarenhas, Manuel Guimarães, Rui Prada, Pedro A. Santos, João Dias, Ana Paiva

ACM Trans. Interact. Intell. Syst., 2022

ISPO: A Serious Game to train the Interview Skills of Police Officers: ISPO: A Serious Game to train the Interview Skills of Police Officers.

Manuel Guimarães, Rui Prada, Pedro A. Santos, João Dias, Cristina Soeiro, Raquel Guerra, Christina Steiner-Stanitznig, Andrea Molinari

Int. J. Serious Games, 2022

Emergent social NPC interactions in the Social NPCs Skyrim mod and beyond.

Manuel Guimarães, Pedro A. Santos, Arnav Jhala

CoRR, 2022

Towards Explainable Social Agent Authoring tools: A case study on FAtiMA-Toolkit.

Manuel Guimarães, Joana Campos, Pedro A. Santos, João Dias, Rui Prada

CoRR, 2022

State of the Art in Artificial Intelligence applied to the Legal Domain.

João Dias, Pedro A. Santos, Nuno Pablo Cordeiro, Ana Antunes, Bruno Martins, Jorge Baptista, Carlos Gonçalves

CoRR, 2022

Semantic Norm Recognition and its application to Portuguese Law.

Maria Duarte, Pedro A. Santos, João Dias, Jorge Baptista

CoRR, 2022

Emotionally Expressive Motion Controller for Virtual Character Locomotion Animations.

Diogo Gonçalves Silva, Pedro Alexandre Simões dos Santos, João Dias

Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia, 2022

2021

Limited depth bandit-based strategy for Monte Carlo planning in continuous action spaces.

Ricardo Quinteiro, Francisco S. Melo, Pedro A. Santos

CoRR, 2021

FAtiMA Toolkit - Toward an effective and accessible tool for the development of intelligent virtual agents and social robots.

Samuel Mascarenhas, Manuel Guimarães, Pedro A. Santos, João Dias, Rui Prada, Ana Paiva

CoRR, 2021

Persuasive Social Robot Using Reward Power over Repeated Instances of Persuasion.

Mojgan Hashemian, Marta Couto, Samuel Mascarenhas, Ana Paiva, Pedro Alexandre Santos, Rui Prada

Proceedings of the Persuasive Technology - 16th International Conference, 2021

EEG Model: Emotional Episode Generation for Social Sharing of Emotions.

Ana Antunes, Joana Campos, João Dias, Pedro Alexandre Santos, Rui Prada

Proceedings of the IVA '21: ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, 2021

CHARET: Character-centered Approach to Emotion Tracking in Stories.

Diogo S. Carvalho, Joana Campos, Manuel Guimarães, Ana Antunes, João Dias, Pedro A. Santos

Proceedings of the AAMAS '21: 20th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 2021

2020

Artificial intelligence moving serious gaming: Presenting reusable game AI components.

Wim Westera, Rui Prada, Samuel Mascarenhas, Pedro Santos, João Dias, Manuel Guimarães, Konstantinos Georgiadis, Enkhbold Nyamsuren, Kiavash Bahreini, Zerrin Yumak, Chris Christyowidiasmoro, Mihai Dascalu, Gabriel Gutu-Robu, Stefan Ruseti

Educ. Inf. Technol., 2020

Investigating Reward/Punishment Strategies in the Persuasiveness of Social Robots.

Mojgan Hashemian, Marta Couto, Samuel Mascarenhas, Ana Paiva, Pedro Alexandre Santos, Rui Prada

Proceedings of the 29th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2020

A new convergent variant of Q-learning with linear function approximation.

Diogo S. Carvalho, Francisco S. Melo, Pedro Santos

Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 33: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2020, 2020

The Impact of Virtual Reality in the Social Presence of a Virtual Agent.

Manuel Guimarães, Rui Prada, Pedro Alexandre Santos, João Dias, Arnav Jhala, Samuel Mascarenhas

Proceedings of the IVA '20: ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, 2020

The Application of Social Power in Persuasive Social Robots.

Mojgan Hashemian, Samuel Mascarenhas, Marta Couto, Ana Paiva, Pedro Alexandre Santos, Rui Prada

Proceedings of the Companion of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2020

Persuasive Social Robots using Reward/Coercion Strategies.

Mojgan Hashemian, Marta Couto, Samuel Mascarenhas, Ana Paiva, Pedro Alexandre Santos, Rui Prada

Proceedings of the Companion of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2020

Equilibrium Propagation for Complete Directed Neural Networks.

Matilde Tristany, Sérgio Pequito, Pedro A. Santos, Mário A. T. Figueiredo

Proceedings of the 28th European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, 2020

2019

Effects of Human vs. Computer-Controlled Characters and Social Identity Cues on Enjoyment.

Jorge Peña, Jannath Ghaznavi, Nicholas Brody, Rui Prada, Carlos Martinho, Pedro Alexandre Santos, Hugo Damas, Joana Dimas

J. Media Psychol. Theor. Methods Appl., 2019

Mathematics Trails: Shallow and Deep Gamification.

Iwan Gurjanow, Miguel Oliveira, Joerg Zender, Pedro Alexandre Santos, Matthias Ludwig

Int. J. Serious Games, 2019

The Power to Persuade: a study of Social Power in Human-Robot Interaction.

Mojgan Hashemian, Ana Paiva, Samuel Mascarenhas, Pedro Alexandre Santos, Rui Prada

Proceedings of the 28th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2019

A model for socially intelligent merchants.

Miguel Oliveira, Pedro Alexandre Santos

Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, 2019

From caveman to gentleman: a CiF-based social interaction model applied to conan exiles.

Luís Morais, João Dias, Pedro Alexandre Santos

Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, 2019

An Adaptive and Transferable Dialog Management System for Social Aware Task Execution.

Antonio Capela, Samuel Mascarenhas, Pedro Alexandre Santos, Manuel Lopes

Proceedings of the Progress in Artificial Intelligence, 2019

Social Power in Human-Robot Interaction: Towards More Persuasive Robots.

Mojgan Hashemian, Ana Paiva, Samuel Mascarenhas, Pedro Alexandre Santos, Rui Prada

Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems, 2019

An Accessible Toolkit for the Creation of Socio-EmotionalAgents.

Manuel Guimarães, Samuel Mascarenhas, Rui Prada, Pedro Alexandre Santos, João Dias

Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems, 2019

Inferring Emotions from Touching Patterns.

Mojgan Hashemian, Rui Prada, Pedro Alexandre Santos, João Dias, Samuel Mascarenhas

Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, 2019

2018

Introduction to the GaLA Conf 2018 Special Issue.

Pedro Alexandre Santos, Remco C. Veltkamp, João Dias

Int. J. Serious Games, 2018

Enhancing Social Believability of Virtual Agents using Social Power Dynamics.

Mojgan Hashemian, Rui Prada, Pedro Alexandre Santos, Samuel Mascarenhas

Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, 2018

Shallow and Deep Gamification in Mathematics Trails.

Iwan Gurjanow, Miguel Oliveira, Joerg Zender, Pedro Alexandre Santos, Matthias Ludwig

Proceedings of the Games and Learning Alliance - 7th International Conference, 2018

Rich and Poor: Simulating Social Policies to Build a Fairer Society.

Diogo Costa, José Soares, Pedro Santos

Proceedings of the Advances in Social Simulation - Looking in the Mirror, 2018

A Virtual Agent Toolkit for Serious Games Developers.

Samuel Mascarenhas, Manuel Guimarães, Rui Prada, João Dias, Pedro Alexandre Santos, Kam Star, Ben Hirsh, Ellis Spice, Rob Kommeren

Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games, 2018

2017

Approximation sequences to operators on Banach spaces: a rich approach.

Helena Mascarenhas, Pedro Alexandre Santos, Markus Seidel

J. Lond. Math. Soc., 2017

Monte Carlo tree search experiments in hearthstone.

Andre Santos, Pedro Alexandre Santos, Francisco S. Melo

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games, 2017

CiF-CK: An architecture for social NPCS in commercial games.

Manuel Guimarães, Pedro Santos, Arnav Jhala

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games, 2017

Prom Week Meets Skyrim.

Manuel Guimarães, Pedro Santos, Arnav Jhala

Proceedings of the 16th Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems, 2017

Prom Week Meets Skyrim: Developing a Social Agent Architecture in a Commercial Game.

Manuel Guimarães, Pedro Santos, Arnav Jhala

Proceedings of the 16th Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems, 2017

2016

Integrating social power into the decision-making of cognitive agents.

Gonçalo Duarte Garcia Pereira, Rui Prada, Pedro Alexandre Santos

Artif. Intell., 2016

2015

Social Theatre: Showcasing Social Power Aware Agents.

Gonçalo Duarte Garcia Pereira, Rui Prada, Pedro Alexandre Santos

Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 2015

Exploring Social Power Intelligent Behavior.

Gonçalo Duarte Garcia Pereira, Rui Prada, Pedro Alexandre Santos

Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 2015

Towards Social Power Intelligent Agents.

Gonçalo Duarte Garcia Pereira, Rui Prada, Pedro Alexandre Santos

Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 2015

2014

Finite section approximations in an algebra of convolution, multiplication and flip operators on L^P(R).

Steffen Roch, Pedro Alexandre Santos

J. Approx. Theory, 2014

Improving Learning in Business Simulations with an Agent-Based Approach.

Márcia Baptista, Carlos Roque Martinho, Francisco Lima, Pedro Alexandre Santos, Helmut Prendinger

J. Artif. Soc. Soc. Simul., 2014

2013

A Serious Game Based on a Public Goods Experiment.

Márcia Baptista, Hugo Damas, Joana Dimas, Guilherme Raimundo, Rui Prada, Carlos Martinho, Pedro Alexandre Santos, Jorge F. Peña

Proceedings of the International Conference on Social Computing, SocialCom 2013, 2013

Conceptualizing Social Power for Agents.

Gonçalo Duarte Garcia Pereira, Rui Prada, Pedro Alexandre Santos

Proceedings of the Intelligent Virtual Agents - 13th International Conference, 2013

A Business Simulation with an Agent-Based Deliberative Model of Consumer Behaviour.

Márcia Baptista, Carlos Martinho, Francisco Lima, Pedro Alexandre Santos, Helmut Prendinger

Proceedings of the Games and Learning Alliance - Second International Conference, 2013

Bases of social power for agents.

Gonçalo Duarte Garcia Pereira, Rui Prada, Pedro Alexandre Santos

Proceedings of the International conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 2013

2012

The role of social identity, rationality and anticipation in believable agents.

Rui Prada, Guilherme Raimundo, Joana Dimas, Carlos Martinho, Jorge F. Peña, Márcia Baptista, Pedro Alexandre Santos, Luís L. Ribeiro

Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 2012

2011

AI for Massive Multiplayer Online Strategy Games.

Alexandre Miguel Barata, Pedro Alexandre Santos, Rui Prada

Proceedings of the Seventh AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, 2011

A Game Prototype with Emotional Contagion.

Gonçalo Duarte Garcia Pereira, Joana Dimas, Rui Prada, Pedro Alexandre Santos, Ana Paiva

Proceedings of the Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, 2011

A Generic Emotional Contagion Computational Model.

Gonçalo Duarte Garcia Pereira, Joana Dimas, Rui Prada, Pedro Alexandre Santos, Ana Paiva

Proceedings of the Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, 2011

"I'm happy if you are happy.": a model for emotional contagion in game characters.

Joana Dimas, Gonçalo Duarte Garcia Pereira, Pedro Alexandre Santos, Rui Prada, Ana Paiva

Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology, 2011

2009

Self-adapting dynamically generated maps for turn-based strategic multiplayer browser games.

Gonçalo Duarte Garcia Pereira, Pedro Alexandre Santos, Rui Prada

Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology, 2009