Publications and Presentations

Publications and Presentations

Journals:

Shah Jamal Alam and Bogdan Werth (2008) Studying emergence of clusters in a Bus Passengers' Seating Preference Model, Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, vol. 16, no. 5, Elsevier pp. 593-614

Shah Jamal Alam, Ruth Meyer, Gina Ziervogel and Scott Moss (2007) The Impact of HIV/AIDS in the Context of Socioeconomic Stressors: an Evidence-Driven Approach, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, vol. 10, no. 4 [JASSS Link]

Shah Jamal Alam, Frank Hillebrandt and Michael Schillo (2005) Sociological Implications of Gift Exchange in Multiagent Systems, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation (JASSS), vol. 8, no. 3 [JASSS Link]

Syed Arif Kamal, Syed Firdous and Shah Jamal Alam (2004) An Investigation of Growth Profiles of the Pakistani Children, Int'l Journal of Biology and Biotechnology, vol. 1, no. 4, pp. 709-717

Refereed Papers:

Shah Jamal Alam and Ruth Meyer (2008; forthcoming) Structural Changes in Agent-based Simulations: Representing HIV/AIDS Impact on Social Networks, in Thomas Friemel (ed.) Why Context Matters: Applications of Social Network Analysis, VS Verlag, Weisbaden, Germany

Shah Jamal Alam and Ruth Meyer (2008) Comparing Two Sexual Mixing Schemes for Modelling the Spread of HIV/AIDS, in Proceedings of the Second World Congress on Social Simulation (WCSS’08), Fairfax VA, USA [CPM Report]

Shah Jamal Alam, Ruth Meyer and Emma Norling (2008) A Model for HIV Spread in a South African Village, in Proceedings of the Ninth International Workshop on Multi-Agent Simulations (MABS'08), Estoril, Portugal [CPM Report]

Shah Jamal Alam, Bruce Edmonds and Ruth Meyer (2007) Identifying Structural Changes in Networks Generated from Agent-based Social Simulation Models, in Proceedings of the Tenth Pacific RIM International Workshop on Multi-Agents (PRIMA'07), Bangkok, Thailand [CPM Report]

Shah Jamal Alam and Bogdan Werth (2007) A Bus Passengers' Seating Preference Model, in Papers from the AAAI Fall Symposium: Emergent Agents and Socialities: Social and Organizational Aspects of Intelligence, AAAI Technical Report: FS-07-04 pp. 3-10 [CPM Report]

Shah Jamal Alam and Ruth Meyer (2007) Analyzing Network Evolution in Agent-based Models using Subgraph Characteristics, in Proceedings of the UK Social Networks Conference, London, UK, pp. 86-88 [CPM Report]

Shah Jamal Alam, Ruth Meyer and Emma Norling (2007) Agent-based Model of Impact of Socioeconomic Stressors: A Dynamic Network Perspective, in Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS’07), Hawaii, USA, IFAAMAS pp. 1079-1081 [AAMAS Link]

Shah Jamal Alam, Ruth Meyer and Gina Ziervogel (2006) Modelling Socio-Economic Impact of HIV/AIDS in a South African Village, in Proceedings of the First World Congress on Social Simulation (WCSS'06), vol. 2, Kyoto, Japan, pp. 281-288 [CPM Report]

Shah Jamal Alam and Ruth Meyer (2006) Finding Suitable Analysis Techniques for Agent-based Networks Generated from Social Processes, in Proceedings of Social Network Analysis: Second Forum on Advances and Empirical Applications, Leeds, UK [CPM Report]

Shah Jamal Alam (2005) Understanding the Complexity of an Eastern Family Network, article in Journal of Independent Studies and Research (JISR): Social Sciences and Economics Section, SZABIST, Karachi, Pakistan, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 33-37

Shah Jamal Alam (2002) Evaluating Teachers' Performance Using Genetic Algorithms, in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, vol. 2, IEEE Press pp. 416-421

Syed Arif Kamal, Shah Jamal Alam and Syed Firdous (2002) The NGDS Pilot Project: A software to analyze growth of a child (A Telemedicine Perspective), in Proceedings of theNational Telemedicine Conference, Technology Resource Mobilization Unit (TReMU), MOST, Islamabad, Pakistan

Syed Arif Kamal, Shah Jamal Alam and Syed Firdous (2002) A Precedence Graph for the Physical Examination of Children, in Proceedings of theNational Telemedicine Conference, Technology Resource Mobilization Unit (TReMU), MOST, Islamabad, Pakistan

Shah Jamal Alam, Teachers’ Evaluation with 'Transformation' (2002) in Proceedings of the IEEE Students Conference on Emerging Technologies (ISCON'02) , (Cat. No.02EX581), OPSTech Lahore, Pakistan, vol. 1, IEEE Xplore pp. 8-11

Posters and Miscellaneous Papers (including work in progress):

Scott Moss et al. (2008; in progress) Social policy analysis in conditions of complexity with special reference to land use, CAVES Project Working Paper Del. No. 11

Shah Jamal Alam (work in progress) From Virtual to the Simulated World: Modelling the friendship network in Second Life, poster presentation in Workshop on Simulation and Second Life, in Second Life [abstract]

Shah Jamal Alam (work in progress) Understanding the Marriage Preferences in the Pakistani Urban Middle-Class and its Sociological Implications [abstract]

Emma Norling, Bruce Edmonds and Shah Jamal Alam (2006) Complexity in Socially-Inspired Simulation, poster presentation at the EPSRC NANIA Project Summer Meeting, Ambleside - Lake District, UK [Poster]

Shah Jamal Alam (2006) Towards better socioeconomic policies in the Sub-Saharan region, poster presentation at the ESRC Research Methods Festival, Oxford, UK

Shah Jamal Alam (2006) Complex Networks and Agent-based Social Networks, 9th Doctoral Symposium Proceedings, MMU Business School, March 2006, Manchester, UK, pp. 1-21. Earlier draft accessible as Centre for Policy Modelling Discussion Papers Series, CPM Report 06-168, MMU [CPM Report]

Shah Jamal Alam (2005) Gift Exchange (Social Delegation) in a Market-based Multiagent System, poster presentation at the SRC, co-located at the SIGCSE 2005, St. Louis, USA

Mareike Florax, Shah Jamal Alam and Joaquim Silva (2005) The Contiguity Effect / The Split-Attention Principle, Workshop at the Seminar: Current Cognitive Approaches to Media-Based Learning, VDU Kaleidoscope, Tübingen, Germany

Shah Jamal Alam and Frank Hillebrandt (2004) Studying Gift Exchange in a Multiagent System, poster presentation at Jahrestreffen des DFG-Schwerpunktprogramms "Sozionik", Seeon, Germany

Syed Arif Kamal, Shah Jamal Alam and Syed Firdous (2002) The NGDS Pilot Project: Aiming at the Future of Pakistan, the Aga Khan University National Sciences Research Symposium: Early Childhood Care and Development, Karachi, Pakistan, abstract # 13, p. 26 (presentation CD compiled by the organizers)

Syed Arif Kamal, Shah Jamal Alam and Syed Firdous (2002) The NGDS Pilot Project: Dealing with a complex system, poster presentation, International Conference on Complexity Sciences and Health Care, The Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan

Syed Arif Kamal, Shah Jamal Alam and Syed Firdous (2002) An Influence Graph for the Physical Examination of Children, poster presentation, International Conference on Complexity Sciences and Health Care, The Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan

Theses:

Shah Jamal Alam, Ramification of Gift-Exchange Mechanism in a Multiagent System Environment, Master Thesis (Computer Science), Fachrichtung Infromatik, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany

Shah Jamal Alam, Teachers’ Evaluation using Genetic Algorithms, BS Thesis (Computer Science), Department of Computer Science, University of Karachi, Karachi, Pakistan

Presentations/Talks:

Shah Jamal Alam, “Modelling HIV/AIDS Spread in Sub-Saharan Africa”, talk at the Manchester Complexity Seminar, Manchester, UK, April 2008.

Shah Jamal Alam, “Detecting Community Structures using Probabilistic Mixture Models: Work by Newman and Leicht”, talk at the Manchester Complexity Seminar, Manchester, UK, October 2007.

Shah Jamal Alam, “Comparing Changes in Networks during a Simulation Run”, presentation at the Workshop: Ucinet/ Netdraw Applications in Social Science, Innovation & Sustainability Studies, Brunel University Business School, London, UK, June 2007.

Shah Jamal Alam, “Bus Passengers’ Seating Preference: A (Simple) Agent-based Model”, talk at the Manchester Complexity Seminar, Manchester, UK, May 2007.

Shah Jamal Alam and Ruth Meyer, “Network Signatures in Agent-based Social Simulation Models”, presentation at the bi-annual workshop of the CAVES Project meeting, International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Schloss Laxenburg, Austria, March 2007.

Shah Jamal Alam, “Motif Analysis in Complex Networks – I”, talk at the Manchester Complexity Seminar, Manchester, UK, October 2006.

Shah Jamal Alam, “Finding suitable metrics for networks that could result from social processes”, talk at the Manchester Complexity Seminars, Manchester, UK, May 2006.

Lee-Ann Small, Claudia Zehnpfund and Shah Jamal Alam, "Social Networks Analysis: Theory and Modelling", presentation at the bi-annual workshop of the CAVES Project meeting, Aberdeen, UK, March 2006.

Shah Jamal Alam and Scott Moss, "Dynamic Social Network Analysis and Statistical Signatures", presentation at the bi-annual workshop of the CAVES Project meeting, Uniwersytet Wroclawski, Wroclaw, Poland, September 2005.

Shah Jamal Alam, "Agent-Based Social Simulation", talk at the ACM Student Chapter, University of Karachi, Karachi, Pakistan, July 2005.

Shah Jamal Alam, "A contribution to the field of Socionics", invited talk at the Intelligent Learning Environments Group, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Saarbrücken, Germany, September 2004.

Shah Jamal Alam, "Social-Net Project of the Everyday Computing Lab", Georgia Tech (USA), in partial fulfilment of Computer Science Seminar: Instrumented Spaces, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany, June 2003.

Shah Jamal Alam, "Geometric Fit of Protein and Ligands", in partial fulfilment of Bioinformatics Seminar: Role of Protein-Protein and DNA Interactions, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany, November 2002.

Shah Jamal Alam, "In memory of Dijkstra", presentation at the ACM Student Chapter, University of Karachi, Karachi, Pakistan, February 2002.

Syed Arif Kamal, Syed Firdous and Shah Jamal Alam, "The NGDS Pilot Project: Aiming at the Future of Pakistan", presentation at the Aga Khan University Nationals Sciences Research Symposium: Early Childhood Care and Development, The Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan, October 2001.