Duarte Sampaio Belchior de Almeida (A71D-0603-5304)

Curriculum Vitae

Duarte Sampaio Belchior de Almeida

Duarte is a PhD fellow in Information Science and Technology at the Istar-Iscte research center. He completed his BSc. (2018) and MSc. in Computer Science and Management (2021) from Iscte. His main areas of study are geographic information systems (GIS), tourism, agent-based modelling (ABM), and Digital twins (DT). He participated in the Iscte Spots project, a multiplatform mobile application with serious games to show the history of Iscte and the RESETTING European project for sustainable tourism digital transformation and the development of smart tourism toolkits. He has some publications in quality journals and conferences on his main research topics, some related to the projects mentioned above. He has a passion for teaching computer science, with a focus on programming, having taught several curricular units at Iscte as a monitor and invited assistant professor, as well as some modules in the UpSkill initiative, a partnership between IEFP and several universities in the country (including Iscte), and teaching robotics in Colégio Oriente.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Duarte Sampaio Belchior de Almeida

Citation names

Almeida, Duarte
Duarte Sampaio de Almeida
Duarte S. Almeida

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: A71D-0603-5304
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5459-4113

Knowledge fields

Exact Sciences - Computer and Information Sciences

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
English	Upper intermediate (B2)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2021 Concluded	Informática e Gestão (Mestrado) Major in Sem especialização ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal "Dinâmicas de Multidões de Turismo Urbano: Capacidade de Carga e Gémeos Digitais. " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2018 Concluded	Informática e Gestão de Empresas (Licenciatura) ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal	17

Affiliation

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2023 - Current	Invited Assistant (University Teacher)	ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal

2019 - 2021	Tutor (University Teacher)	ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2021 - 2022	Formador (UPSkill)	ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2023 - Current	ISTAR UIDP/04466/2020 UIDB/04466/2020 PhD Student Fellow ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Investigação em Ciências da Informação Tecnologias e Arquitetura, Portugal

Outputs

Publications

Conference paper

Sampaio de Almeida, D.; Simões, R.; Brito e Abreu, F.; Lopes, A.; Inês Boavida-Portugal. "A Carrying Capacity Calculator for Pedestrians Using OpenStreetMap Data: Application to Urban Tourism and Public Spaces". Paper presented in Proceedings of ENTER 2025 International eTourism Conference, Wroclaw, 2025.
Published • 10.1007/978-3-031-83705-0_7
Sampaio de Almeida, D.; Brito e Abreu, F.; Boavida-Portugal, I.. "A Digital Twin for a World Heritage Destination". Paper presented in 2025 IEEE Smart World Congress (SWC), Calgary, Canada, 2025.
Published • 10.1109/SWC65939.2025.00256
Brito e Abreu, F.; Marinheiro, R. N.; Boavida-Portugal, I.; Lopes, A.; Mestre Santos, T.; Sampaio de Almeida, D.; Simões, R.. "A digital transformation approach to scaffold tourism crowding management: pre-factum, on-factum, and post-factum". Paper presented in 2024 Joint International Conference on Digital Arts, Media and Technology with ECTI Northern Section Conference on Electrical, Electronics, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering (ECTI DAMT & NCON), Chiang-mai, Thailand, 2024.
Published • 10.1109/ECTIDAMTNCON60518.2024.10480056
Almeida, J. C. de.; Brito e Abreu, F.; Almeida, D. S. de.. "Cross-platform mobile app development: The IscteSpots experience". Paper presented in 2023 38th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering Workshops (ASEW), Luxembourg, Luxembourg, 2023.
Published • 10.1109/ASEW60602.2023.00006
Reis, J. P. dos.; Brito e Abreu, F.; Carneiro, G. de F.; Almeida, D.. "Scientific workflow management for software quality assessment replication: An open source architecture". Paper presented in Quality of Information and Communications Technology. Communications in Computer and Information Science, Aveiro, Portugal, 2023.
Published • 10.1007/978-3-031-43703-8_1

Journal article

Sampaio de Almeida, D.; Brito e Abreu, F.; Inês Boavida-Portugal. "Agent-based simulation of non-urgent egress from mass events in open public spaces". Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory (2024): 103002-1. https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/simulation-modelling-practice-and-theory.
Published • 10.1016/j.simpat.2024.103002
Brito e Abreu, F.; Sampaio de Almeida, D.. "Capacidade de Carga e Tempo de Evacuação para Eventos nos Espaços Públicos das Cidades". IntelCities 2021 Abril (2021): 1-4. https://intelcities.pt/.
Published • 10.5281/zenodo.4600967

Other

Other output

Digital twins in tourism: a systematic literature review. DSOTT25. 2025. Sampaio de Almeida, D.; Brito e Abreu, F.; Boavida-Portugal, I.. https://www.uc.pt/en/events/dsott/dsott25/.
Social force model simulation of non-urgent egress from mass events in open public spaces with social group behavior. GAMA Days 2024. 2025. Sampaio de Almeida, D.; Brito e Abreu, F.; Boavida-Portugal, I..
An online tool to calculate the tourism carrying capacity. 2nd International Posters & Demos Workshop on Smart Tourism. 2024. Sampaio de Almeida, D.; Simões, R.; Brito e Abreu, F.; Lopes, A.; Boavida-Portugal, I.. https://sites.google.com/iscte-iul.pt/resetting-project/home/events/2nd_posters_demos_workshop.
Simulação baseada em agentes do comportamento de pedestres em saídas não urgentes de eventos de massas. XIV Congresso da Geografia Portuguesa. 2023. Sampaio de Almeida, D.; Brito e Abreu, F.; Boavida-Portugal, I.. https://cgeop.pt/.

Activities

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2024 - 2024	Aprsentação de poster em Ciência 2024 Meeting	Ciência 2024
2023 - 2023	Apresentação de póster no evento Ciencia 2023 Meeting	Ciência 2023

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2024 - Current	Fundamentos de Programação	(Licenciatura)	ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2023/02 - 2023/07	Inteligência Artificial	Informática e Gestão de Empresas (Licenciatura)	ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2021/02 - 2021/07	Algoritmos e Estruturas de Dados (2020)	Engenharia de Telecomunicações e Informática (Licenciatura)	ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2020/02 - 2020/07	Concepção e Desenvolvimento de Sistemas de Informação	Informática e Gestão de Empresas (Licenciatura)	ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal

Distinctions

Award

2018	Prémio de Finalista ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal