Contact Information


Syed Muhammad Ali Abbas

Centre for Policy Modelling
Manchester Metropolitan University Business School
All Saints Campus, Oxford Road
M15 6BH, Manchester, UK

Phone: 0161 2475089
Email: ali at cfpm dot org,
a dot abbas at mmu dot ac dot uk

Summary

I am a doctoral student at Centre for Policy Modelling, under the supervision of Bruce Edmonds and Emma Norling.
My research interests are:
  • Agent-Based Modelling
  • Social Networking Systems (SNS) - both virtual and real
    • Segregation
    • Diversity
  • Social Network Analysis (SNA)
  • Distributed Systems










Publications


Journal:
  • SMA Abbas (2013) An agent-based model of the development of friendship links within Facebook, Journal of Computational & Mathematical Organization Theory, Springer. [link]
Conferences and Workshops:
  • SMA Abbas (2013) Homophily, Popularity and Randomness: Modelling Growth of Online Social Network, Twelfth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS2013) (accepted). [pdf]
  • SMA Abbas, Shah Jamal Alam and Bruce Edmonds (2013) Validating Social Network Simulations, The 14th International Workshop on Multi-Agent-Based Simulation (MABS), Saint Paul, USA, 6-7th May, 2013 (accepted).
  • 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 (2010) A segregation model of Facebook, 6th UK Social Networks Conference (UK-SNA), Manchester, 2010. [slides]
  • 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]
Technical Reports:
  • Ali Abbas (2011) Ethnic diversity in Facebook, Centre for Policy Modelling (CPM) technical report CPM-11-213.
  • 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, David Hales, Johan Pouwelse, and Dick Epema (2009) A gossip-based distributed social networking system, PDS technical report PDS-2009-001.

Posters:

  • SMA Abbas (2012) Popularity and similarity among friends: An agent-based model for friendship development, European Conference on Complex Systems (ECCS), Brussels, Belgium, 3-7th, September, 2012. [pdf]