VICENÇ QUERA
Position: Full Professor
Research team
Antonio Solanas Perez
Full Professor
antonio.solanas (at) ub.edu
Francesc Salvador Beltran
Full Professor
francesc.salvador(a)ub.edu
David Leiva Ureña
Associate Professor
dleivaur (at) ub.edu
Rumen Rumenov Manolov
Assistant Professor
rrumenov13 (at) ub.edu
Ruth Dolado Guivernau
Postdoctoral researcher
ruth.dolado (at) ub.edu
Elisabet Gimeno Rosell
Early stage researcher
egimeno(a)ub.edu
Contact details
Prof. Vicenç Quera
Sub-department of Quantitative Psychology
Faculty of Psychology, Campus Mundet, Passeig de la Vall d’Hebron 171
08035 Barcelona (Spain)
+34 933125088
vquera (at) ub.edu
Research Interests
I work on the analysis of social interaction and the modeling and analysis of collective behavior using a computational approach (agent-based models). I develop algorithms and software for the analysis of behavior sequences, and for the simulation of group behavior, specifically the coordinated collective motion in non- human animal groups and agent-based simulation and observation in social systems of primates.
Current Research Lines
- Behavioral sequence analysis and interaction analysis
- Modeling and simulation of collective behavior
- Social systems in Cercopithecidae
Highlighted publications
· Quera, V., Beltran, F. S., & Gimeno, E. (2016). Modelling the emergence of coordinated collective motion by minimizing dissatisfaction. Mathematical Biosciences, 271, 154-167.
· Quera, V., Beltran, F.S., Givoni, I.E., & Dolado, R. (2013). Determining shoal membership using affinity propagation. Behavioural Brain Research, 241, 38-49.
· Bakeman, R., & Quera, V. (2011). Sequential Analysis and Observational Methods for the Behavioral Sciences. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
· Dolado, R. & Beltran, F.S (2011). Dominance hierarchy and spatial distribution in captive red-capped mangabeys (Cercocebus torquatus torquatus): Testing Hemelrijk’s agent-based model. Interaction Studies, 12 (3), 461-473.
· Quera, V., Beltran, F.S., & Dolado, R. (2010). Flocking behaviour: Agent-based simulation and hierarchical leadership. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 13 (2), 8.