I am a doctoral student at Centre for Policy Modelling, under the supervision of Bruce Edmonds and Emma Norling.
My research interests are:
My research interests are:
- Agent-Based Modelling
- Social Networking Systems (SNS) - both virtual and real
- Segregation
- Diversity
- Social Network Analysis (SNA)
- Distributed Systems
Publications
Conferences and Workshops:
Conferences and Workshops:
- SMA Abbas, Johan Pouwelse, Dick Epema and Henk Sips (2009) A gossip-based distributed social networking system, Proceedings Wetice 2009, pp. 93-98, IEEE CS Press. [DOI]
- Ali Abbas (2010) A segregation model of Facebook, 6th UK Social Networks Conference (UK-SNA), Manchester, 2010. [slides]
- SMA Abbas (2011) An agent-based model of the development of friendship links within Facebook, 7th European Social Simulation Association Conference (ESSA), Montpellier, France, 19-23, September, 2011. [pdf]
- Ali Abbas, David Hales, Johan Pouwelse, and Dick Epema (2009) A gossip-based distributed social networking system, PDS technical report PDS-2009-001.
- Ali Abbas (2011) An agent-based model of the development of friendship links within Facebook, Centre for Policy Modelling (CPM) technical report CPM-11-212.
- Ali Abbas (2011) Ethnic diversity in Facebook, Centre for Policy Modelling (CPM) technical report CPM-11-213.