Dr Alireza Abbasi

Director of Postgraduate Studies & Coordinator of Project Management Programs
School of Engineering and Information Technology
UNSW Canberra Cyber
a.abbasi@unsw.edu.au
+61 2 6268 8058

LOCATION

Room 362, Building 21,
School of Engineering and Information Technology (SEIT)

  • ABOUT
  • PUBLICATIONS

Dr Alireza Abbasi is the Director of Postgraduate Studies at the School of Engineering and IT at UNSW Canberra.

Dr Abbasi’s research aims to enhance better functioning and performance of complex socio-technical systems, which primarily lies in the emerging field of Computational Social Science / Social Computing, leveraging the capacity to collect and analyse data to reveal patterns of individual and group behaviour.

 

Research Student (PhD & Master by Research) Scholarships:

Several types of scholarships are available; however, admission and scholarship applications are highly competitive. A self-assessment tool is available to get a general feel for your competitiveness. You need to meet the English language requirements.

If you are eligible and interested in working on the following (or closely related) topics or keywords, please send me your CV, academic transcripts, the result of the self-assessment, and a research proposal: highlight research Motivation, Research problems, Research Objectives and Questions, a brief Review of the most relevant Literature, your proposed Methodology (discussing your proposed approach to answer the RQs including the type of data you need and how you will get them, techniques, etc.) and Expected Outcome.

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Research Topics:

  • Developing methods for Future Technology Prediction
  • Harnessing Technological Advancement to enhance Community Wellbeing, including: Disaster Management, Public Health Promotion, Transport Management
  • Analysing Dynamics of and on Multilayer Networks
  • Identifying Influential Agents in Evolutionary Networks / Systems
  • Mining and Analysing Social Networks for Business Applications
  • Recommendation Systems for Social Media
  • Developing Novel Techniques for Predicting Project Success
  • Decision Making under Uncertainty
  • Addressing challenges in Resource Levelling and Project Scheduling
  • Information and Knowledge Management System for Project Control and Management
  • Understanding Human Mobility Patterns
  • Developing Models and Tools for Community Resilience

      Research Keywords:

Network Science, Social Network Analysis, Social Computing, Link Prediction, Community Detection, Network Dynamics and Evolution; Collaboration and Coordination Management, Disaster and Emergency Management;

Future Technology Prediction; Social Media Analytics, Data Analytics, Recommendation Systems, Machine Learning, Data Mining, Topic Modelling, Text Mining, Natural Language Processing;  Qualitative and Quantitative Research, Multidisciplinary Research, ICT for Development; Transportation Management, Internet of Things, Smart Cities; Research Evaluation, Informetrics, Scientometrics; Health Informatics;

Project Management, Project Success, Project Outcome, Project Complexity, Project Planning, Project Scheduling, Estimation, Program and Portfolio Management, Benefit Realisation, Risk Analysis and Management, Decision Making, Decision Analytics, Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Sustainability, Performance Management and Evaluation; Business Process Management.

Education:

  • PhD: Faculty of Engineering and IT, the University of Sydney, 2012.
  • MSc: Department of Industrial Engineering, Seoul National University, 2008.
  • BSc: Department of Computer Engineering, Isfahan University of Technology, 2002.
  • Graduate Certificate in University Learning and Teaching, UNSW, 2017.

Teaching:

  • Engineering Management
  • Software Project Management
  • Project Schedule and Budget Control
  • Modelling Project Risks
  • Computer Applications in Project Management
  • Social Network Analysis

Professional Membership:

  • Australian Institute of Project Management (AIPM)
  • Project Management Institute (PMI)
  • Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM)
  • Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
  • IEEE

Books

Abbasi A, 2013, Analyzing Knowledge Creation and Transfer in Academic Communities: using Social Network Analysis, LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, https://www.lap-publishing.com/

Book Chapters

Abbasi A; Hossain L, 2013, 'Hybrid Centrality Measures for Binary and Weighted Networks', in Menezes R; Evsukoff A; González MC (ed.), Complex Networks, edn. Studies in Computational Intelligence, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 1 - 13, 10.1007/978-3-642-30287-9_1

Abbasi A; Hossain L, 2011, 'Investigating attachment behavior of nodes during evolution of a complex social network: A case of a scientific collaboration network', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), edn. PART 2, pp. 256 - 264, 10.1007/978-3-642-23863-5_26

Abbasi A; Altmann J, 2010, 'A social network system for analyzing publication activities of researchers', in Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, pp. 49 - 61, 10.1007/978-3-642-14481-3_5

Journal articles

Danesh D; Ryan MJ; Abbasi A, 2018, 'Multi-criteria decision-making methods for project portfolio management: A literature review', International Journal of Management and Decision Making, vol. 17, pp. 75 - 94, 10.1504/IJMDM.2018.088813

Hammad MW; Abbasi A; Ryan MJ, 2018, 'Developing a Novel Framework to Manage Schedule Contingency Using Theory of Constraints and Earned Schedule Method', Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, vol. 144, 10.1061/(ASCE)CO.1943-7862.0001178

Ghaemi Rad T; Sadeghi-Niaraki A; Abbasi A; Choi SM, 2018, 'A methodological framework for assessment of ubiquitous cities using ANP and DEMATEL methods', Sustainable Cities and Society, vol. 37, pp. 608 - 618, 10.1016/j.scs.2017.11.024

Abbasi A; Sadeghi-Niaraki A; Jalili M; Choi S-M, 2018, 'Enhancing response coordination through the assessment of response network structural dynamics.', PLoS One, vol. 13, pp. e0191130 - e0191130, 10.1371/journal.pone.0191130

Abbas K; Shang M; Abbasi A; Luo X; Xu JJ; Zhang YX, 2018, 'Popularity and Novelty Dynamics in Evolving Networks', Scientific Reports, vol. 8, 10.1038/s41598-018-24456-2

Abbasi A; Jaafari A, 2018, 'Project management research and industry-focused innovations', Journal of Modern Project Management, vol. 6, pp. 60 - 68, 10.19255/JMPM01606

Najmi A; Rashidi TH; Abbasi A; Travis Waller S, 2017, 'Reviewing the transport domain: an evolutionary bibliometrics and network analysis', Scientometrics, vol. 110, pp. 843 - 865, 10.1007/s11192-016-2171-3

Rashidi TH; Abbasi A; Maghrebi M; Hasan S; Waller TS, 2017, 'Exploring the capacity of social media data for modelling travel behaviour: Opportunities and challenges', Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, vol. 75, pp. 197 - 211, 10.1016/j.trc.2016.12.008

Abbas K; Shang M; Luo X; Abbasi A, 2017, 'Emerging trends in evolving networks: Recent behaviour dominant and non-dominant model', Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, vol. 484, pp. 506 - 515, 10.1016/j.physa.2017.04.156

Danesh D; Ryan MJ; Abbasi A, 2017, 'A systematic comparison of multi-criteria decision making methods for the improvement of project portfolio management in complex organisations', International Journal of Management and Decision Making, vol. 16, pp. 280 - 320, 10.1504/IJMDM.2017.085638

Danesh D; Ryan MJ; Abbasi A, 2017, 'A Novel Integrated Strategic Portfolio Decision-Making Model', International Journal of Strategic Decision Sciences, vol. 8, pp. 1 - 44, 10.4018/IJSDS.2017070101

Abbasi A, 2016, 'A longitudinal analysis of link formation on collaboration networks', Journal of Informetrics, vol. 10, pp. 685 - 692, 10.1016/j.joi.2016.05.001

Abbasi A; Kapucu N, 2016, 'A longitudinal study of evolving networks in response to natural disaster', Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, vol. 22, pp. 47 - 70, 10.1007/s10588-015-9196-7

Hammad MW; Abbasi A; Ryan MJ, 2016, 'Allocation and Management of Cost Contingency in Projects', Journal of Management in Engineering, vol. 32, 10.1061/(ASCE)ME.1943-5479.0000447

Danesh D; Ryan MJ; Abbasi A, 2015, 'Using Analytic Hierarchy Process as a Decision-Making Tool in Project Portfolio Management', International Journal of Social, Behavioral, Educational, Economic, Business and Industrial Engineering, vol. 9, pp. 3770 - 3780, http://www.waset.org/publications/10003073

Abbasi A, 2014, 'Link formation pattern during emergency response network dynamics', Natural Hazards, vol. 71, pp. 1957 - 1969, 10.1007/s11069-013-0988-0

Abbasi A; Wigand RT; Hossain L, 2014, 'Measuring social capital through network analysis and its influence on individual performance', Library and Information Science Research, vol. 36, pp. 66 - 73, 10.1016/j.lisr.2013.08.001

Abbasi A, 2013, 'h-Type hybrid centrality measures for weighted networks', Scientometrics, vol. 96, pp. 633 - 640, 10.1007/s11192-013-0959-y

Abbasi A; Jaafari A, 2013, 'Research impact and scholars' geographical diversity', JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, vol. 7, pp. 683 - 692, 10.1016/j.joi.2013.04.004

Abbasi A; Owen C; Hamra J; Hossain L, 2013, 'Social connectedness and adaptive team coordination during fire events', Fire Safety Journal, vol. 59, pp. 30 - 36, 10.1016/j.firesaf.2013.03.016

Hamra J; Hossain L; Owen C; Abbasi A, 2012, 'Effects of networks on learning during emergency events', Disaster Prevention and Management, vol. 21, pp. 584 - 598, 10.1108/09653561211278716

Uddin S; Hossain L; Abbasi A; Rasmussen K, 2012, 'Trend and efficiency analysis of co-authorship network', Scientometrics, vol. 90, pp. 687 - 699, 10.1007/s11192-011-0511-x

Abbasi A; Kapucu N, 2012, 'Structural dynamics of organizations during the evolution of interorganizational networks in disaster response', Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, vol. 9, 10.1515/1547-7355.1975

Abbasi A; Chung KSK; Hossain L, 2012, 'Egocentric analysis of co-authorship network structure, position and performance', Information Processing and Management, vol. 48, pp. 671 - 679, 10.1016/j.ipm.2011.09.001

Abbasi A; Uddin S; Hossain L, 2012, 'Socioeconomic analysis of patient-centric networks: Effects of patients and hospitals' characteristics and network structure on hospitalization costs', European Journal of Health Economics, vol. 13, pp. 267 - 276, 10.1007/s10198-011-0303-5

Abbasi A; Hossain L; Leydesdorff L, 2012, 'Betweenness centrality as a driver of preferential attachment in the evolution of research collaboration networks', Journal of Informetrics, vol. 6, pp. 403 - 412, 10.1016/j.joi.2012.01.002

Abbasi A; Hossain L; Uddin S; Rasmussen KJR, 2011, 'Evolutionary dynamics of scientific collaboration networks: Multi-levels and cross-time analysis', Scientometrics, vol. 89, pp. 687 - 710, 10.1007/s11192-011-0463-1

Abbasi A; Altmann J; Hossain L, 2011, 'Identifying the effects of co-authorship networks on the performance of scholars: A correlation and regression analysis of performance measures and social network analysis measures', Journal of Informetrics, vol. 5, pp. 594 - 607, 10.1016/j.joi.2011.05.007

Abbasi A; Altmann J; Hwang J, 2010, 'Evaluating scholars based on their academic collaboration activities: Two indices, the RC-index and the CC-index, for quantifying collaboration activities of researchers and scientific communities', Scientometrics, vol. 83, pp. 1 - 13, 10.1007/s11192-009-0139-2

Altmann J; Abbasi A; Hwang J, 2009, 'Evaluating the productivity of researchers and their communities: The RP-Index and the CP-Index', International Journal of Computer Science and Applications, vol. 6, pp. 104 - 118

Abbasi A; Niaraki AS; Dehkordi BM, 2008, 'A review of ICT status and development strategy plan in Iran', International Journal of Education and Development using ICT, vol. 4

Abbasi A, 2007, 'E-commerce development in Iran', Webology, vol. 4

Conference Papers

Robinson B; Abbasi A; Ryan M, 2018, 'Analytical Observations of Work Breakdown Structure Parameters', in Systems Engineering / Test and Evaluation Conference, Systems Engineering / Test and Evaluation Conference, Sydney, presented at Systems Engineering / Test and Evaluation Conference, Sydney, 30 April - 01 May 2018

Thiele B; Abbasi A; Ryan M, 2018, 'A Standardised Data Set to Support Research on Earned Value and Earned Schedule Management Techniques', in Systems Engineering / Test and Evaluation Conference, Systems Engineering / Test and Evaluation Conference, Sydney, presented at Systems Engineering / Test and Evaluation Conference, Sydney, 30 April - 01 May 2018

Hammad M; Abbasi A; Ryan M, 2018, 'Developing a Delay Analysis System to Predict the Change in the Critical Path using Variance Based Sensitivity Analysis', in Systems Engineering / Test and Evaluation Conference, Systems Engineering / Test and Evaluation Conference, Sydney, presented at Systems Engineering / Test and Evaluation Conference, Sydney, 30 April - 01 May 2018

Slay PGR; Abbasi A; Imran A; Lee CK, 2017, 'Failure of public sector programs; A Framework to manage success criteria', in Failure of public sector programs; A Framework to manage success criteria, Project and Program Management Symposium 2017, UNSW Canberra at the Australian Defence Force Academy, presented at Project and Program Management Symposium 2017, UNSW Canberra at the Australian Defence Force Academy, 02 - 04 May 2017, http://www.pgcs.org.au/library/2017-archive/

Hammad MW; Abbasi A; Ryan MJ, 2016, 'A new method of cost contingency management', in IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, pp. 38 - 42, presented at , 10.1109/IEEM.2015.7385604

Maghrebi M; Abbasi A; Waller ST, 2016, 'Transportation application of social media: Travel mode extraction', in IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Proceedings, ITSC, pp. 1648 - 1653, presented at , 10.1109/ITSC.2016.7795779

Hammad M; Abbasi A; Ryan MJ, 2016, 'Predicting the Change in Critical Path', in Predicting the Change in Critical Path, 10th International Conference on Project Management (ProMAC 2016), Gold Coast, Australia, presented at 10th International Conference on Project Management (ProMAC 2016), Gold Coast, Australia, 16 - 19 November 2016

Maghrebi M; Abbasi A; Rashidi TH; Waller ST, 2015, 'Complementing Travel Diary Surveys with Twitter Data: Application of Text Mining Techniques on Activity Location, Type and Time', in IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Proceedings, ITSC, pp. 208 - 213, presented at , 10.1109/ITSC.2015.43

Abbasi A; Jaafari A, 2015, 'Evolution of Project Management as a Scientific Discipline', in Evolution of Project Management as a Scientific Discipline, 9th International Conference on Project Management (ProMAC 2015), Sapporo, Japan, presented at 9th International Conference on Project Management (ProMAC 2015), Sapporo, Japan, 14 - 17 October 2015

Abbasi A; Rashidi TH; Maghrebi M; Waller ST, 2015, 'Utilising location based social media in travel survey methods: Bringing twitter data into the play', in Proceedings of the 8th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Location-Based Social Networks, LBSN 2015 - Held in Conjunction with ACM SIGSPATIAL 2015, presented at , 10.1145/2830657.2830660

Abbasi A, 2015, 'Reviewing academic social network mining applications', in International Conference on ICT Convergence 2015: Innovations Toward the IoT, 5G, and Smart Media Era, ICTC 2015, pp. 503 - 508, presented at , 10.1109/ICTC.2015.7354596

Abedin B; Babar A; Abbasi A, 2014, 'Characterization of the use of social media in natural disasters: A systematic review', in Proceedings - 4th IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Cloud Computing, BDCloud 2014 with the 7th IEEE International Conference on Social Computing and Networking, SocialCom 2014 and the 4th, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., Sydney, pp. 449 - 454, presented at Big Data and Cloud Computing (BdCloud), 2014 Big Data and Cloud Computing (BdCloud), Sydney, 03 - 05 December 2014, 10.1109/BDCloud.2014.17

Abbasi A, 2014, 'Understanding the evolutionary dynamics and adaptation of complex networks', in Proceedings of 2014 IEEE International Conference on Behavioral, Economic, Socio-Cultural Computing, BESC 2014, presented at , 10.1109/BESC.2014.7059516

Jaafari A; Abbasi A, 2013, 'Governance in Project and Program Management', in ProMAC 2013 Proceedings, 7th International Conference on Project Management (ProMAC 2013), Hanoi, Vietnam, presented at 7th International Conference on Project Management (ProMAC 2013), Hanoi, Vietnam, 06 - 09 November 2013

Abbasi A; Kenneth Chung KS, 2013, 'Collaborative innovative networks: Influence and performance', in Proceedings of ISSI 2013 - 14th International Society of Scientometrics and Informetrics Conference, pp. 328 - 338, presented at

Abbasi A; Hossain L; Owen C, 2013, 'Investigating preferential attachment behavior over the evolution of disaster response networks', in Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, pp. 739 - 747, presented at , 10.1109/HICSS.2013.364

Abbasi A; Hossain L, 2013, 'Hybrid centrality measures for binary and weighted networks', in Studies in Computational Intelligence, pp. 1 - 7, presented at , 10.1007/978-3-642-30287-9_1

Abbasi A; Hossain L; Owen C, 2012, 'Exploring the relationship between research impact and collaborations for information science', in Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, pp. 774 - 780, presented at , 10.1109/HICSS.2012.664

Abbasi A; Hossain L, 2011, 'Analyzing Academic Communities' Collaboration and Performance', in IKE 2011: International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering, Las Vegas, NV, USA, pp. 75 - 82, presented at , Las Vegas, NV, USA, 18 - 21 July 2011

Hamra J; Hossain L; Abbasi A; Owen C, 2011, 'The Influence of Social Networks on Learning in Disasters', in GITMA 2011: 12th Global Information Technology Management Association World Conference, Las Vegas, NV, USA, pp. 63 - 70, presented at , Las Vegas, NV, USA, 05 - 07 July 2011

Abbasi A; Altmann J, 2011, 'On the correlation between research performance and social network analysis measures applied to research collaboration networks', in Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, presented at , 10.1109/HICSS.2011.325

Abbasi A; Uddin S; Hossain L, 2011, 'Social structure of patient-centric networks and delivery of cost effective healthcare services', in 17th Americas Conference on Information Systems 2011, AMCIS 2011, pp. 1406 - 1413, presented at

Abbasi A; Hossain L; Hamra J; Owen C, 2010, 'Social networks perspective of firefighters' adaptive behaviour and coordination among them', in Proceedings - 2010 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Green Computing and Communications, GreenCom 2010, 2010 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Cyber, Physical and Social Computing, CPSCom 2010, pp. 819 - 824, presented at , 10.1109/GreenCom-CPSCom.2010.57

Hwang J; Abbasi A, 2008, 'Research issues in web mining for academic social network systems', in Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering, IKE 2008, pp. 560 - 566, presented at

Abbasi A, 2008, 'A strategic plan for E-commerce development in Iran', in Proceedings - 3rd International Conference on Convergence and Hybrid Information Technology, ICCIT 2008, pp. 32 - 41, presented at , 10.1109/ICCIT.2008.399