• SMA Abbas (2013) An agent-based model of the development of friendship links within Facebook, Journal of Computational & Mathematical Organization Theory, Springer. [link]

• 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]

• 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]