Dr. Hugo Fort

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Professor
Institute of Physics

Head of the Complex Systems Group


Bachelor in Physics, 1988. Faculty of Sciences.
Master in Physics, 1990.
PEDECIBA-Faculty of Sciences.
PhD in Physical Sciences, 1994.
Institute of High Energy Physics IFAE, UAB.

Email: hugo@fisica.edu.uy

Phone: 598-02-525-8624 ext 309

Fax: 598-02--525-0580

 

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

 

 

Spatial correlation as leading indicator of catastrophic shifts.

V. Dakos, E. van Nes, R. Donangelo, H. Fort and M. Scheffer

Theoretical Ecology,  (2009).

doi: 10.1007/s12080-009-0060-6

 

Catastrophic Phase Transitions and Early Warnings in a Spatial Ecological Model

A. Fernández and H. Fort

Journal of Statistical Mechanics P09014 (2009)

doi: 10.1088/1742-5468/2009/09/P09014

 

The paradox of the clumps mathematically explained

H. Fort, M. Scheffer and E. van Nes

Theoretical Ecology 2, 171-176 (2009)

doi 10.1007/s12080-009-0040-x

 

 EARLY WARNINGS IN ECOSYSTEMS: COMPARISON BETWEEN DIFFERENT INDICATORS

R. Donangelo, H. Fort, M. Scheffer, E. van Nes and V. Dakos

International Journal of Bifurcations and Chaos, in press

 

A minimal model for the evolution of cooperation through evolving heterogeneous games

H. Fort

Europhysics Letters EPL 81 (2008) 48008, doi:10.1209/0295-5075/81/48008

 

Random mobility and spatial structure often enhance cooperation

E. Sicardi, H. Fort, M. H. Vainstein and J. J. Arenzon.

Journal of Theoretical Biology, v. 255 , p. 240-246, (2008)

 

Evolving Ecological Social Dilemmas: A Spatial Individual-Based Model for the Evolution of Cooperation with a Minimal Number of Parameters

H. Fort

Research Letters in Ecology Volume 2007 (2007) doi:10.1155/2007/18636

 

On Evolutionary Spatial Heterogeneous Games

H. Fort

Physica A 387/7 pp. 1613-1620 (2007)

 

Prisoner's Dilemma cellular automata revisited: evolution of cooperation under environmental pressure

J. Alonso, A. Fernández and H. Fort

Journal of Statistical Mechanics (2006) P06013 (2006).

 

Connectivity effects in a trading model

E. Sicardi, H. Fort and R. Donangelo

Journal of Statistical Mechanics P08005 (2005).

 

Spatial patterns and scale freedom in Prisoner´s Dilemma cellular automata with Pavlovian strategies.

H. Fort and S. Viola

Journal of Statistical Mechanics, P01010 (2005).

 

The Fate of Spatial Dilemmas with Different Fuzzy Measures of Success

H. Fort and N. Pérez

Journal of Arificial Societies and Social Studies JASSS vol. 8 no. 3 (2005).

 

Extended estimator  approach for 2x2 games and its mapping to the Ising model.

D. Ariosa and H. Fort

Physical Review E71 016132 (2005).

 

Economic demography in fuzzy spatial dilemmas and power laws

H. Fort and N. Pérez

European Journal of Physics B44 109-113 (2005).

 

A Model for the Relationship between the interaction Pattern of Ecosystems and

their Fate.

L. Acerenza and H . Fort

Ecological Modeling 184 203-217 (2005).

 

Self-organization in a simple model of adaptive agents playing 2x2 games with

arbitrary payoff.

H. Fort and S. Viola

Physical Review E69, 036110 (2004).

 

Cooperation and Self-Regulation in a Model of Agents Playing different Games.

H. Fort

 Physical Review E68, 0261118 (2003).

 

Cooperation with random interactions and without memory or “tags”

H. Fort

 Journal of Arificial Societies and Social Studies JASS  vol. 6 no. 2, (2003).

 

Exploring the Cooperative Regimes in an Agent-based Model: Indirect Reciprocity vs.Selfish Incentives.

H. Fort

Physica  A326, 286 (2003).

 

A Model for Mutation in Bacterial Populations

R. Donangelo and H. Fort

Physical Review Letters 89,  038101-1  (2002).