ERIKA FILLE TUPAS LEGARA
Associate Professor, Analytics, Information, and Operations Department
Asian Institute of Management
123 Paseo de Roxas Aveune, Makati City, Metro Manila, Philippines
elegara@[Link] | [Link]
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CURRENT POSITION
Associate Professor (July 2017 to present)
Analytics, Information, and Operations Department
Asian Institute of Management
Program Director (July 2017 to present)
Master of Science in Data Science
School of Innovation, Technology, and Entrepreneurship
Asian Institute of Management
Scientist (July 2017 to present)
Analytics, Computing, and Complex Systems (ACCeSs) laboratory
Asian Institute of Management
PREVIOUS POSITIONS
Scientist III (April 2016 to June 2017)
Institute of High Performance Computing
Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC), A*STAR
Scientist II (April 2013 to March 2016)
Institute of High Performance Computing, SERC, A*STAR
Scientist I (May 2012 to March 2013)
Institute of High Performance Computing, SERC, A*STAR
Research Fellow (January 2012 to April 2012)
Singapore Immunology Network, BMSI, A*STAR
Assistant Professor (April 2011 to December 2011)
National Institute of Physics, University of the Philippines Diliman
EXPERTISE
• Complex systems research: Urban Complexity, Computational and Statistical Physics, Agent-Based Modeling and
Simulations, Predictive Analytics, and Complex Network Analysis
• Data science and visualization
• Research problem scoping with various government agencies and industry partners
• Research and project supervision
• Workshop organization
PAST PROJECTS
• Understand and improve the dynamics of commuter traffic in large urban spaces
§ under the Dynamic Mobility Management project of the Fujitsu-A*STAR-SMU Center of Excellence for Sustainable
Urbanization
• Identifying Critical Factors that Affect Water Quality and Distribution
§ with the Manila Water Asia Pacific
• Modeling and understanding various what-if scenarios involving public transportation systems
§ with the Singapore Land Transport Authority
• Complex network analysis of land-use and transport networks across cities
EDUCATION
Doctor of Philosophy in Physics (2008-2011), GWA1: 1.00/1.00
College of Science Most Outstanding Graduate 2011
Edgardo Gomez Excellence in Dissertation Awardee 2011
PhD Physics Most Outstanding Student 2011
National Institute of Physics, University of the Philippines (Diliman Campus)
Topics: complex networks; computational social science; computational physics; framing in media research
Research Advisors: Assoc. Prof. Christopher P. Monterola, Ph. D.
Prof. Caesar A. Saloma, Ph.D.
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General weighted average (GWA). A grade point equivalence of 1.00 (Excellent) is the highest grade point in the Philippines’
grading system, equivalent to 96%-100%.
Santa Fe Institute - Complex Systems Summer School (June 2010)
Santa Fe Institute
St. John’s College, Santa Fe, NM
Research Projects: (1) Evolutionary dynamics of fitness driven walkers on a graph; (2) Gossip Theory; (3) “Word Bang”
– The Evolution of Words and Language
“The program consists of an intensive series of lectures, laboratories, and discussion sessions focusing on foundational
ideas, tools, and current topics in complex systems research”
Master of Science in Physics (2006-2008), GWA: 1.39/1.00
National Institute of Physics, University of the Philippines (Diliman Campus)
Masters Thesis: Dynamics of Networks and Its Social Aspects
Research Advisors: Assoc. Prof. Christopher P. Monterola, Ph. D.
Prof. Caesar A. Saloma, Ph.D.
Cum Laude, Bachelor of Science in Physics (2001-2006)
National Institute of Physics, University of the Philippines (Diliman Campus)
Undergraduate Thesis: Dynamical Model and Strategies for Network Marketing
Research Advisors: Assoc. Prof. Christopher P. Monterola, Ph. D.
Asst. Prof. Marisciel L. Palima, Ph.D.
Prof. Caesar A. Saloma, Ph.D.
CERTIFICATIONS
• A Nanodegree in Deep Learning with Udacity
• A 5-course Executive Data Science Specialization by Johns Hopkins University on Coursera, Coursera Verified
Certificates (license no: D5SVCPWF95EM)
• A 10-course Data Science Specialization (with Distinction) by Johns Hopkins University on Coursera, Coursera Verified
Certificates (license no: PAALPXUBUDWN)
• High Impact Project Management, Project Management Institute (license no: 2340-PRODEC1N)
HONORS AND ACHIEVEMENTS
• 2016 UN Big IDEAS Competition for sustainable cities and urban June 2016
development organized by the UN (Country Prize, team)
• 2013 IEEE SCALE Challenge. First Prize Winner. May 2013
• Edgardo Gomez Awardee for Excellence in Dissertation Research, U.P. April 2011
Diliman (UPD) College of Science
• Most Outstanding PhD Graduate, UPD College of Science April 2011
• PhD Physics Most Outstanding Student, National Institute of Physics April 2011
• Delegate to the 3rd HOPE Meeting in Tokyo, Japan for the Promotion of March 2011
Science in Asia
• Santa Fe Institute - Complex Systems Summer School Scholar June 2010
• 2nd Runner-Up, Scientific Poster Exhibition, 76th Annual Meeting of the March 2009
National Research Council of the Philippines
• 1st Runner-Up, Scientific Poster Exhibition, 75th Annual Meeting of the March 2008
National Research Council of the Philippines
• DOST PCASTRD Scholarship June 2006-March 2008
• Cum Laude, B.S. in Physics April 2006
• DOST‐SEI Undergraduate Scholarship (Merit Scholar) June 2001-March 2006
• Champion, Philippine Math Olympiad Team Category, Region XII 2001
• National Finalist, Philippine Math Olympiad Individual Category 2001
• Champion, DOST Essay Writing Contest Division Level 2001
• National Finalist, National Math Quiz Bee 1997
PEER-REVIEWED (ISI-indexed journals) PUBLICATIONS (20, complete list at the end of this document)
1. EF Legara and C Monterola, "Inferring Passenger Types from Commuter Eigentravel Matrices," Transportmetrica B:
Transport Dynamics, Feb 2017. Doi: 10.1080/21680566.2017.1291377
2. N Hu, EF Legara, GG Hung, KK Lee, and C Monterola, "Impacts of land use and amenities on public transport use,
urban planning and design," Land Use Policy 57, pp. 356–367, 2016.
3. C David, J Ong, and EF Legara, "Tweeting Supertyphoon Haiyan: Evolving functions of Twitter during and after a
disaster event," PLOS ONE 11(3): e0150190, 2016.
4. N Othman, EF Legara, V Selvam, and C Monterola, "A Data-Driven Agent-Based Model of Congestion and Scaling
Dynamics of Rapid Transit Systems," J of Computational Science 10, pp. 338-350, 2015.
5. C Abundo, C Monterola, EF Legara, “Criticality of forcing directions on the fragmentation and resilience of grid
networks,” Nature Scientific Reports 4, No. 6195, 2014.
6. C David, EF Legara, JM Atun, C Monterola, "News Frames of the Population Issue in the Philippines," International
Journal of Communication 8, pp. 1247-1267, 2014.
7. JF Valenzuela, EF Legara, X Fu, RSM Goh, R de Souza, and C Monterola, "A network perspective on the calamity–
induced inaccessibility of communities and the robustness of centralized, landbound relief efforts," Int J of Mod Phys C
25, 1450047, 2014.
8. EF Legara, C Monterola, KK Lee, GG Hung, "Critical capacity, travel time delays and travel time distribution of rapid
mass transit systems," Physica A 406, pp. 100-106 (2014).
9. EF Legara, C. Monterola, and C. David, "Complex Network Tools in Building Expert Systems that Perform Framing
Analysis," Expert Systems With Applications 40, Issue 11, pp 4600–4608, 2013.
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
Erika has published over 40 conference papers, including extended abstracts accepted for presentation. See the
complete list at the end of this document.
MEMBER OF SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY/EDITORIAL BOARD (ARTICLE REFEREE)
• Complexity
• Asian Pacific Econophysics Conference series
Member: Scientific advisory board
• Philippine Computing Science Congress (PCSC 2016)
keywords: artificial Iitelligence, affective and emphatic computing, natural language processing, theory and
algorithms, networking and pervasive computing
• Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications (since 2014)
keywords: random systems; fluids, granular and soft matter; dynamical processes; fundamental and general
methods; models; biological, ecological and evolutionary systems; econophysics; other interdisciplinary
applications; other complex systems; networks; systems biology; classical and quantum information
• Modern Physics Letters B (since 2012)
keywords: statistical physics and applied physics
• International Journal of Modern Physics B (since 2012)
keywords: statistical physics and applied physics
• Quantitative Finance (2010)
keywords: mutual funds, empirical finance, statistical methods, monte carlo methods, performance evaluation
• Proceedings of the Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas Congress (since 2007)
keywords: complex networks, social networks, monte carlo methods, statistical physics, computational physics
INVITED / PLENARY TALKS
• Panellist, The Filipina in Business by Global Chamber Manila, CLOCK-IN, Ayala Avenue, Makati, 27 September 2017.
• Panellist, Panel 4: DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGIES: Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Drones, Robots, etc., Arangkada
Philippines Forum, Marriott Grand Ballroom, Manila, 14 September 2017.
• #InspiredByData, Telco and tech with Google, Google Philippines, 12 September 2017.
• “Data Science in Today's World: What it means for the Philippines”, Data Science Philippines Event: Analytics in the
Real-World, Asian Institute of Management, 30 August 2017.
• “Data Science and Advanced Analytics,” Gearing up the regions for Industry 4.0 (Luzon workshop), Crowne Plaza
Hotel, Ortigas Center, Pasig City, 13 August 2017.
• “The role of data science and advanced analytics in industry, academia, and government collaborations”,
Converging Academe-Government- Industry Science and Technology Stakeholders to Accelerate Philippine
Innovation, 36th Annual PAASE Meeting & Symposium, The Manila Hotel, Manila, 14-15 July 2017.
• “Data Science”, DOST's Artificial Intelligence Symposium 2017 (“Moving Forward---Breakthroughs and
Opportunities”), Makati Diamond Residences, 02 June 2017.
• “Big Data and Advanced Analytics”, Inclusive Innovation Conference 2017, The Peninsula Manila, 31 May – 01
June 2017.
• “Data-Driven Urban Systems Modeling towards a Smart City”, Asia-Pacific Econophysics Conference 2016: Big Data
Analysis and Modeling toward Super Smart Society, University of Tokyo, Japan, 24-26 August 2016.
• “Machine Learning and the Smart City,” Humans+Machines, Bonifacio Global City, Taguig, 19 Feb 2016.
• “Big Data Talk,” Big Data in a Nutshell, UP Alumni Association Singapore Oblation Talk, 14 Jan 2016.
• “Understanding and Modeling Urban Transport Systems,” Social Modeling and Simulations + Econophysics
Colloquium 2014. Kobe, Japan. 4-6 November 2014.
• "Complexity in Public Policy: Tools and Applications (Complex Networks and Agent-Based Models: An Overview),"
Managing Complexity from a Public Policy Perspective, Civil Service College, Singapore, 15-16 October 2014.
• "Designing Better Transport for a Liveable Singapore," Towards Large Multiscale Simulations of Complex Socio-
Economic Systems with Heterogeneous Interacting Agents, Winter Workshop 2013. Nanyang Technological
University, Singapore. Invited Talk. 19 November 2013.
• "Understanding Urban Dynamics through Complexity Science," Lee Kuan Yew Center for Innovative Cities Brown
Bag Lunch Series. 28 August 2013.
• "The role of big data and complexity in society,” Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines. 08 August 2013.
• "Understanding Urban Dynamics through Complexity Science," Summer Institute Workshop on Analytics for Business,
Consumer and Social Insights 2013. 05 August 2013.
• "Scalable Complex System Modelling for a Sustainable City," Data Value Chain as a Service. A*STAR Thematic
Strategic Research Programme Workshop. Infuse Theater, Fusionopolis, Singapore. 18 July 2013.
• "Complexity in Nature & Society," Institute of High Performance Computing Student Seminar. Singapore. 02 August
2012.
MENTORING / ADVISING / SUPERVISING
• Supervised Anthony Tan Kok Cheng from Nanyang Technological University during his attachment with the IHPC-
A*STAR under the A*STAR Undergraduate Scholarship scheme, June 02-July 24, 2015.
• Supervised Ma Linlu from Nanyang Technological University during her vacation attachment with the IHPC-A*STAR,
June 02-August 14, 2015.
• Supervised Xin Chen from Nanyang Technological University during her internship at the IHPC-A*STAR, June 04-August
08, 2012.
• Supervised Watacharachai Buranapinyo from King Mongkut's Universiy of Technology Thonburi, Thailand during his
internship at the IHPC-A*STAR, May 17-June 29, 2012
• Co-adviser of Dr. Christopher P. Monterola to Ms. Cheryl S. Abundo (BS Applied Physics, UPD, 2011)
• Co-adviser of Dr. Jose Perico Esguerra to the UP Astronomical Society (2009-2011).
PRESS COVERAGE
Featured Research
• Mapping a tool to guide rescuers in disaster zones, David Ee, The Straits Times, (April 30, 2014).
• Researchers propose network-based evaluation tool to assess relief operations feasibility, Science Daily, (April 16,
2014).
• Media Framing in the Philippines, An Interview with The Global Lab.
• Network Science To Aid Disaster Relief Operations, Alan Aw, Asian Scientist, (April 29, 2014).
General Interest
• C David and EF Legara, “How much of our country will we lose to political dynasties in 2016?” [Link]
Thought Leaders, Oct. 20, 2015.
• EF Legara, "Thinking through pyramid-like business schemes," The Phil. Star, STAR SCIENCE, Feb 07, 2013.
• EF Legara, "Complexity and the Philippine Society (Part I)," The Phil. Star, STAR SCIENCE, June 07, 2012.
• EF Legara, "Complexity and the Philippine Society (Part II)," The Phil. Star, STAR SCIENCE, June 14, 2012.
• EF Legara, "Spark of Hope," Philippine Daily Inquirer, Youngblood (Opinion / Columns), Sept. 04, 2008.
News/Feature/Other Articles (online)
• "Magnitude and Direction: Ingredients in helping the Philippines" in the Brain Gain Network, Published Oct 18, 2010.
• "Making Complexity Science Sound Easy and Doable" in the Brain Gain Network, Published on October 11, 2010.
• M Capistrano, "Econophysics in the Philippines", Posted on 08:14 AM, December 28, 2009.
CONFERENCES/TRAININGS/WORKSHOPS/LECTURES/SEMINARS ATTENDED
• Speaker, “Scalable complex System modeling for Sustainable city,” DVCaaS Workshop, INFUSE Theater,
Fusionopolis, Singapore. July 18, 2013.
• Presentor, “Scalable complex System modeling for Sustainable city,” 13th IEEE/ACM Symposium on Cluster, Cloud,
and Grid Computing (CCGrid 2013), TU Delft, The Netherlands, May 2013.
• Lecturer, “Complexity Science and Big Data,” talk for ACS Independent students, 02 Nov 2012.
• Roundtable Discussion with Professors John Holland, Brian Arthur, Geoffrey West, Steve Lansing and Peter Sloot, Civil
Service College. November 01, 2012.
• Lecturer, “Complexity in Nature and Society,” IHPC Student Seminar on Complex Systems, Aug 02, 2012.
• Five Propositions for Sustainable Future Cities, Future Cities Laboratory, World Cities Summit 2012, Sands Expo &
Convention Center, Singapore. July 04, 2012.
• Mobile Data Mining: Analysing Real-Time Streams on Mobile Devices by S Krishnaswamy, School of Information
Systems, Singapore Management University. May 04, 2012
• Lecture on "Evolution, Economics and the Origin of Wealth" by E Beinhocker. April 19, 2012
• PSE-Bloomberg Conference: Eye on the Philippines, Bloomberg LP, Singapore. March 15, 2012.
• Web Science and Open Data Workshop, INFUSE Theatre, Fusionopolis, Singapore. March 12, 2012.
• More is Different, Nanyang Executive Centre, Nanyang Technology University, Singapore. February 26-29, 2012.
• European Conference on Complex Systems, Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria. September 2011
• Distinguished Speaker, 8th Natl Youth Congress, School of Economics, U.P. Diliman, QC, Philippines. August 2011.
• Keynote Speaker Commencement Address, 20th Commencement Exercise, Cotabato City, Philippines. March 2011.
• Plenary Speaker, 28th Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas Congress, Marikina City, Philippines. October 2010.
• Presentor, 2010 MSP National Convention, National Mathematics Congress, Cebu City. May 2010.
• Presentor, 22nd - 29th Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas Congress. October 2004-2011.
• Joomla Development Training, Computational Science Research Center. May 2008.
• Presentor , Symposium of the Mathematical Aspects of Computer Science. October 2006.
• Teaching Effectiveness Course, U.P. Diliman QC, Philippines. May 2006.
UNIVERSITY TEACHING EXPERIENCE
• Assistant Professor 5 April 2011 – May 2012
• University Instructor 7 June 2008 – May 2011
• Science, Technology, and Society (Guest Lecturer on Complexity Science)
• Physics 10 (Physics and Astronomy for the Pedestrians)
• Physics 191 (Experimental Physics 1)
• Physics 73 (Elementary Physics 3)
• Physics 71.1-73.1 (Elementary Laboratory Physics 1-3)
• University Instructor 3 June 2006 – May 2008
• Physics 73 (Elementary Physics 3)
• Physics 71 (Elementary Physics 1)
• Physics 73.1 (Elementary Laboratory Physics 3)
• Physics 71.1 (Elementary Laboratory Physics 1)
AFFILIATIONS / MEMBERSHIPS
• National Research Council of the Philippines since 2008
• Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas since 2006
o elected Junior Councilor October 2010-2012
• Instrumentation Physics Laboratory since 2004
• U.P. Astronomical Society since 2004
o Associate Member (2006 – present)
o Education and Research Cluster member (2004-2005)
o Resource Cluster Coordinator (2005-2006)
• U.P. Physics Association since 2002
o Academic Committee Member
OTHER PROFESSIONAL / EXTRA-CURRICULAR EXPERIENCES
• Website Administrator June 2006 – January 2012
National Institute of Physics, U.P. Diliman
• Systems Administrator Nov 2004 – Oct 2006
Instrumentation Physics Laboratory, NIP, U.P. Diliman
• Student Assistant May 2005, October 2005
Computational Science Research Center
• Workshop Lecturer / Facilitator 2005 – 2007
Innovascience, Inc. (for Physics Appreciation)
WORKSHOPS FACILITATED
• Alternative Classes Week. Complex Systems - Granular Materials and Networks, Miriam College, Quezon City
(September 2007)
• “Ang Cute ng Mundo ng Complexity Science,” Special Topics
with Dr. Christopher P. Monterola, Anthony Longjas, and Dr. Johnrob Bantang,
24th SPP Congress (October 2006)
• Dep-Ed Physics Workshop. Constellations. (May 04, 2006)
• Workshop on Complexity. A Different Kind of Science, Ateneo de Manila University,
Quezon City (May 27, 2006)
• Workshop on Science Investigatory Projects, De La Salle University, Taft, Manila City (May 20, 2006)
• Workshop on Environmental Science and Chemistry, De La Salle University, Taft, Manila City (April 22, 2006)
• Science Camp, TGI Pavilion, Baliuag, Bulacan (February 25‐26, 2006)
• Science Fair, De La Salle High School Antipolo (September 30, 2005)
• Science Fair, Muntinlupa Science High School (September 24, 2005)
• Science Camp, Nature Discovery Park, Tagaytay City (July 30‐31, 2005)
COMPLETE PUBLICATIONS LIST
PEER-REVIEWED (ISI-indexed journals) PUBLICATIONS
1. EF Legara and C Monterola, "Inferring Passenger Types from Commuter Eigentravel Matrices," Transportmetrica B:
Transport Dynamics, Feb 2017. Doi: 10.1080/21680566.2017.1291377
2. N Hu, EF Legara, GG Hung, KK Lee, and C Monterola, "Impacts of land use and amenities on public transport use, urban
planning and design," Land Use Policy 57, pp. 356–367, 2016.
3. C David, J Ong, and EF Legara, "Tweeting Supertyphoon Haiyan: Evolving functions of Twitter during and after a disaster
event," PLOS ONE 11(3): e0150190, 2016.
4. H-Y Xu, S-H Kuo, G Li, EF Legara, D Zhao, and C Monterola, "Generalized Cross Entropy Method for Estimating Joint
Distribution from Incomplete Information," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 453, pp. 162-172 (2016).
5. C David and EF Legara, "How Voters Combine Candidates on the Ballot: the Case of the Philippine Senatorial
Elections," Int J of Public Opinion Research, 2015.
6. EF Legara, KK Lee, GG Hung, and C Monteorla, "Mechanism-based model of a mass rapid transit system: A
perspective," Int J Mod Phys Conf Series 36, 1560011, 2015.
7. N Othman, EF Legara, V Selvam, and C Monterola, "A Data-Driven Agent-Based Model of Congestion and Scaling
Dynamics of Rapid Transit Systems," J of Computational Science 10, pp. 338-350, 2015.
8. C Abundo, C Monterola, EF Legara, “Criticality of forcing directions on the fragmentation and resilience of grid
networks,” Nature Scientific Reports 4, No. 6195, 2014.
9. JF Valenzuela, C Monterola, EF Legara, X Fu, and SM Goh, "On Centripetal Flows of Entities in Scale--Free Networks with
Nodes of Finite Capability," Complexity 21, Issue 1, pp. 283-295, 2015.
10. C David, EF Legara, JM Atun, C Monterola, "News Frames of the Population Issue in the Philippines," International Journal
of Communication 8, pp. 1247-1267, 2014.
11. NB Othman, EF Legara, V Selvam, and C Monterola, "Simulating Congestion Dynamics of Train Rapid Transit using Smart
Card Data," Procedia Computer Science 29, pp. 1610-1620, 2014.
12. JF Valenzuela, EF Legara, X Fu, RSM Goh, R de Souza, and C Monterola, "A network perspective on the calamity–
induced inaccessibility of communities and the robustness of centralized, landbound relief efforts," Int J of Mod Phys C
25, 1450047, 2014.
13. EF Legara, C Monterola, KK Lee, GG Hung, "Critical capacity, travel time delays and travel time distribution of rapid
mass transit systems," Physica A 406, pp. 100-106 (2014).
14. EF Legara, C. Monterola, and C. David, "Complex Network Tools in Building Expert Systems that Perform Framing
Analysis," Expert Systems With Applications 40, Issue 11, pp 4600–4608, 2013.
15. C David, EF Legara, JM Atun, and C Monterola, "Finding Frames: Comparing Two Methods of Frame Analysis,"
Communication Methods and Measures 5, Issue 4, pp. 329-351, 2011.
16. A Longjas, EF Legara, and C Monterola, "Power law mapping in human area perception", Int J of Mod Phys C 22 (5),
pp. 495-503, 2011.
17. EF Legara, C Monterola, C and Abundo, "Ranking of predictor variables based on effect size criterion provides an
accurate means of automatically classifying opinion column articles", Physica A 390 (1), pp 110-119, 2011.
18. I Crisologo, R Batac, A Longjas, EF Legara and C Monterola, "A procedure for generating a random number sequence
using seven individuals", Intl J of Mod Phys C 21 (5), pp. 567-581, 2010.
19. EF Legara, C Monterola, C David, and JM Atun, "News Framing of Population and Family Planning Issues via Syntactic
Network Analysis", Intl J of Mod Phys C 21, Issue: 1, pp. 51-65. 2010.
20. EF Legara, A Longjas, R Batac, "Competition in a social structure," Intl J of Mod Phys C 20 (1), pp 1-7, 2009.
21. EF Legara, C Monterola, DE Juanico, M Litong-Palima, C. Saloma, "Earning potential in multilevel marketing enterprises,"
Physica A 387, pp 4889-4895, 2008.
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS/PRESENTATIONS
1. C Abundo, EF Legara, C Monteorla, and LY Chew, "Coupling Network Structure and Land Use in Modelling
Transportation Travel Demand", 2016 Conference on Complex Systems, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2. N Huynh, E Makarov, EF Legara, C Monterola and LY Chew, "Spatial Patterns in Urban Systems", 2016 Conference
on Complex Systems, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
3. C Monterola, C Abundo, and EF Legara, "Power law distribution of networks’ lifetime in the presence of
deformation memory", 2015 Conference on Complex Systems, Phoenix, Arizona, USA, September 2015.
4. EF Legara and C Monterola, "Identifying Passenger Type from Travel Routine," 2015 Conference on Complex
Systems, Phoenix, Arizona, USA, September 2015.
5. N Huynh, EF Legara, and C Monterola, "A dynamical model of twitter activity profiles," Proceedings of 26th ACM
Conference on Hypertext and Social Media, Accepted: May 2015.
6. C David, EF Legara, and J Ong, "Twitter’s Functions in Disaster Relief and Recovery," 65th Annual Conference of the
International Communication Association, 21-25 May 2015.
7. C David and EF Legara, "Candidate Set Selection and Its Correlates: Philippine Senatorial Elections," 65th Annual
Conference of the International Communication Association, 21-25 May 2015.
8. C David, EF Legara, and J Ong, "Tweeting Supertyphoon Yolanda: Evolving Functions of Twitter During and After a
Disaster Event," 65th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, 21-25 May 2015.
9. EF Legara, N Othman, GG Hung, and C Monterola, “Absence of a dominant transit route drives asymmetry in the
route paths of commuter,” 2014 European Conference on Complex Systems, IMT Lucca, Italy, 12-26 September
2014.
10. C Abundo, EF Legara, LY Chew, C Monterola, “Urban Land Use as a Means of Modelling Travel Demand in
Transport Networks,” 2014 European Conference on Complex Systems, IMT Lucca, Italy, 12-26 September 2014.
11. N Othman, EF Legara, GG Hung, C Monterola, “Efficacy of using travel distance in inferring the regions of influence
in multimodal transfer patterns,” 2014 European Conference on Complex Systems, IMT Lucca, Italy, 12-26
September 2014.
12. JF Valenzuela, EF Legara, C Monterola, et al., “Network-based evaluation of relief operations in disaster-struck
regions,” 2014 European Conference on Complex Systems, IMT Lucca, Italy, 12-26 September 2014.
13. S Lu, X Li, L Wang, H Kasim, H Palit, T Hung, EF Legara, G Lee, “A Dynamic Hybrid Resource Provisioning Approach
for Running Large-scale Computational Applications on Cloud Spot and On-demand Instances," 2nd IEEE
international workshop of scalable computing for big data analytics (SC-BDA), in conjunction with the 19th IEEE
International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS), Dec 15, 2013.
14. EF Legara, C Monterola, T Hung and G Lee, "Cascade of travel duration delays in a rapid transport system," 2013
European Conference on Complex Systems, World Trade Center Barcelona, 16-20 September 2013.
15. C Monterola, EF Legara, P Di, G Lee and T Hung, "Non-invasive procedure to probe the route choices of
commuters in rail transit systems," 2013 European Conference on Complex Systems, World Trade Center Barcelona,
16-20 September 2013.
16. H Kasim, T Hung, EF Legara, C Monterola, et al., “Scalable complex System modeling for Sustainable city (S3)”, in
13th IEEE/ACM Symposium on Cluster, Cloud, and Grid Computing (CCGrid 2013), TU Delft, The Netherlands, May
2013.
17. C Abundo, C Monterola, and EF Legara, “Criticality of Forcing Directions on the Clustering, Fragmentation and
Resilience of Grid Networks”, in ECCS’12 Brussels, September 2012.
18. EF Legara, V Narang, SY Wong, et al., “Modeling of Lymph Node and Activation of T-Cells: recent trends and a
workable complex systems solution”, in ECCS’12 Brussels, September 2012.
19. EF Legara, C Monterola, C David, and JM Atun, “Network Analysis in Media Framing Research”, in ECCS’11 Vienna,
September 2011.
20. C David, EF Legara, JM Atun, and C Monterola, "Finding frames: A comparison of two methods applied to news
analysis of Philippine population policy coverage," in Communication @ the Center at the 61st Annual ICA
Conference, May 2011.
21. C David, EF Legara, JM Atun, and C Monterola , "News Frames of the Population Issue in the Philippines: Do They
Reflect Strategic Frames of Message Sources?," 60th Annual ICA Conference, Singapore, Suntec Singapore
International Convention and Exhibition Centre, 22-26 June 2010.
22. EF Legara, C Monterola, C David, and JM Atun, "Topology of Surrounding Concepts in Frames: A Complex Network
Approach," Plenary Presentation. Proceedings of the 28th SPP Congress (2010). (Plenary Speaker)
23. C Abundo, EF Legara, C Monterola, "Dependency of a Network's Resilience to Forcing Directions", Proceedings of
the 28th SPP Congress (2010).
24. A Longjas, I Crisologo, R Batac, EF Legara, and C Monterola, "Simultaneous Visual And Auditory Cues Enhance
Human Random Number Generation", Proceedings of the 28th SPP Congress (2010).
25. EF Legara, C Monterola, and C Abundo, "Opinion column articles author attribution: an effect-size criterion
approach," Proceedings of the 27th SPP Congress (2009).
26. A Presbitero, EF Legara, and C Monterola, "Global community structure allows emergence of cooperation in spatial
prisoner’s dilemma," Proceedings of the 27th SPP Congress (2009).
27. C Abundo, EF Legara, and C Monterola, "Pressure Loading Leading to Failure of Edges in a Grid Network,"
Proceedings of the 27th SPP Congress (2009).
28. EF Legara, A Longjas, and R Batac, "An Analaytic Approach to Competition Dynamics," Proceedings of the 26th
SPP Congress (2008).
29. EF Legara, C Monterola, and J Tugaff, "Targeted versus random schemes in family planning information spreading,"
Proceedings of the 26th SPP Congress (2008).
30. EF Legara, I Crisologo, A Longjas, and C Monterola, "Dual scaling law in human area perception of concentric
circles," Proceedings of the 26th SPP Congress (2008).
31. EF Legara, C Monterola, C David, and JM Atun, "News framing of population and family planning issues via
semantic network analysis," Proceedings of the 26th SPP Congress (2008).
32. EF Legara, A Presbitero, C Monterola, and J Tugaff, "Random and targeted course deletions in curriculum network,"
Proceedings of the 26th SPP Congress (2008).
33. A Longjas, I Crisologo, C Monterola, and EF Legara, "A procedure for generating a random number sequence
using at least seven individuals," Proceedings of the 26th SPP Congress (2008).
34. EF Legara, DE Juanico, C Monterola, and C Saloma, “Growth and Robustness of Multilevel Marketing Company,”
Proceedings of the 25th SPP Congress (2007).
35. EF Legara and A Longjas, “Modeling the Dynamics of Competition Between Telecommunications Companies,”
Proceedings of the 25th SPP Congress (2007).
36. EF Legara, C Monterola, M Litong‐Palima, and C Saloma, “Preferential Attachment Model of Multilevel Marketing”
Proceedings of the 24th SPP Congress, ISSN 1656‐2666 Vol. 3, 2006.
37. SD Separa and EF Legara, “Scientific Collaboration in the SPP Physics Congress in 2001‐2005,” Proceedings of the
24th SPP Congress, ISSN 1656‐2666 Vol. 3, 2006.
38. EF Legara, C Monterola, M Litong‐Palima, and C Saloma, “Dynamical Model and Strategies for Network
Marketing” Symposium of the Mathematical Aspects of Computer Science, 2006.
39. EF Legara, M Litong‐Palima, C Saloma, “Robustness of Multilevel Network Marketing Plans Under Influenced
Quitting,” Proceedings of the 23rd SPP Congress, ISSN 1656‐2666 Vol. 2, 2005.
40. JA Balista, EF Legara, J Escay, “Population’s Response to Depth Ambiguity: Patterns in Angle Dependence,”
Proceedings of the 23rd SPP Congress, ISSN 1656‐2666 Vol. 2, 2005
41. EF Legara, M Litong‐Palima, C Saloma, “Behavior of an Evolving Business Network in a Social Network,”
Proceedings of the 22nd SPP Congress, ISSN 1656‐2666 Vol. 1, 2004.
