Dr. Kashif Zia

PERSONAL INFORMATION
Name Dr. Kashif Zia
Email kashif5095@gmail.com
Phone 051-9260002 Ext - 436
Research Area Multi-agent Systems: Models and Simulation, Models for Socio-Technical Systems (Cognitive and Social Aspects), Complex Adaptive Systems High Performance Computing: Very Large scale simulations, City / region scale modeling with GIS support
Number of Publications 40
 
AFFILIATIONS
Designation Assistant Professor
Department Software Enfineering
University Bahria University Islamabad Campus
 
QUALIFICATION
DEGREE PASSING YEAR MAJORS UNIVERSITY
PhD 2013 Pervasive Computing Johannes Kelper University, Linz, Austria
MSc. 2001 Computer Science University of Arid Agriculture, Rawalpindi
B.E. 1999 Mining Engineering UET Lahore
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
DESIGNATION FROM TO ORGANIZATION
Assistant Professor 2013-07-01 2014-08-25 Comsats Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad, Pakistan
Lecturer 2005-08-01 2013-06-30 Comsats Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad, Pakistan
Lecturer 2004-08-01 2005-06-30 Government College University, Lahore, Pakistan
PUBLICATIONS
1 Quantifying the Interplay of Emotions and Rationality in Herding: A Game- Theoretic Simulation Study (Kashif Zia, Alois Ferscha, Ahmad Din and Umar Farooq), Sage's Adaptive Behavior (ISI indexed), April 2016 issue. IF = 0.859
2 Impact of ICT-Mediated Collective Awareness on Urban Mobility (Kashif Zia, Ahmad Din, Khurram Shahzad, Awais Majeed and Alois Ferscha), Springer's Complex Adaptive System Modeling (ISI indexed), to be published.
3 Combining simulation techniques for the testing of anger-reduction technology (A. Riener, M. Fullerton, C. Maag, Kashif Zia, ...), IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems (ISI indexed), Editors: Ellen Bass, IEEE Computer Society, Volume 44, Issue 4, 2014. IF = 1.982
4 Understanding the Role of Emotions in Group Dynamics in Emergency Situa- tions (Alexei Sharpanskykh, Kashif Zia), LNCS Transactions on Computational Collective Intelligence , August 2014.
5 An Agent-Based Parallel Geo-Simulation of Urban Mobility during City-scale Evacuation (Kashif Zia, Andreas Riener, Katayoun Farrahi, Alois Ferscha), In Sage's Simu- lation: Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation (ISI indexed), October 2013 vol. 89 no. 10, pages: 1184-1214, IF = 0.81
6 City Scale Evacuation Simulation: A High-Performance Multi-Agent Simulation Framework (Kashif Zia, Alois Ferscha), In Co-evolution of Intelligent Socio-technical Systems (Evangelia Mitleton-Kelly, ed.), Springer, pages 239{293, 2013.
7 Trac ow harmonization in expressway merging (Andreas Riener, Kashif Zia, Alois Ferscha, Cristina Beltran Ruiz, Juan Jesus Minguez Rubio), In Personal and Ubiquitous Com- puting (ISI indexed), Springer, 17.3 (2013) pages: 519{532, IF = 1.616
8 Potential of Social Modelling in Socio-Technical Systems (Alois Ferscha, Kashif Zia, Andreas Riener, Alexei Sharpanskykh), In Procedia Computer Science, Elsevier, volume 7, pp. 235-237, 2011.
9 LifeBelt: Crowd Evacuation Based on Vibro-Tactile Guidance (Alois Ferscha, Kashif Zia), In IEEE Pervasive Computing (ISI indexed), volume 9, pp. 33-42, 2010, IF = 2.189.
10 Parallel and Distributed Simulation of Large-Scale Cognitive Agents (Zia, Kashif, et al.), In (Advances on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. Springer Berlin Heidelberg), 324-328, 2013.
11 Agent Perception Modeling for Movement in Crowds (Katayoun Farrahi, Kashif Zia, Alexei Sharpanskykh, Alois Ferscha, Lev Muchnik), In (Springer, ed.), 2013.
12 Collective Attention through Public Displays (Alois Ferscha, Kashif Zia, Benedikt Gol- lan), In Proceeding of SASO 2012: Sixth IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems Lyon, France; 10-14 September 2012, 2012.
13 A New Opportunity to Urban Evacuation Analysis: Very Large Scale Simulations of Social Agent Systems in Repast HPC (Kashif Zia, Andreas Riener, Katayoun Farrahi, Alois Ferscha), In 26th ACM/IEEE/SCS Workshop on Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation (PADS 2012), Zhangjiajie, China { July
14 Emotional Decision Making in Large Crowds (Alexei Sharpanskykh, Kashif Zia), In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi- Agent Systems, PAAMS'12, Springer Verlag, pp. 10, 2012.
15 Evacuation Simulation based on Cognitive Decision making model in a Socio- Technical System (Kashif Zia, Andreas Riener, Alois Ferscha, Alexei Sharpanskykh), In 15th International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications (DS-RT 2011), Salford, UK, IEEE CS Press, pp. 10, 2011.
16 Comparing Parallel Simulation of Social Agents using Cilk and OpenCL (Dominik Moser, Andreas Riener, Kashif Zia, Alois Ferscha), In 15th International Symposium on Dis- tributed Simulation and Real Time Applications (DS-RT 2011), Salford, UK, IEEE CS Press, pp. 10, 2011.
17 Grouping behaviour in AmI-enabled crowd evacuation (Alexei Sharpanskykh, Kashif Zia), In Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Ambient Intelligence, ISAmI'10, Springer Verlag, 2011.
18 Reduction of Driver Stress Using AmI Technology While Driving in Motorway Merging Sections (Kashif Zia, Andreas Riener, Alois Ferscha), In First International Joint Conference on Ambient Intelligence (AmI-10), November 10-12, 2010, Malaga, Spain (B. de Ruyter et al., ed.), Springer-Verlag, LNCS, pp.
19 Scenario Based Modeling for Very Large Scale Simulations (Kashif Zia, Alois Fer- scha, Andreas Riener, Martin Wirz, Daniel Roggen, Kamil Kloch, Paul Lukowicz), In 14th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications (DS-RT 2010), Fairfax, VA USA., IEEE Computer
20 AmI technology helps to sustain speed while merging: A data driven simulation study on Madrid motorway ring M30 (Andreas Riener, Kashif Zia, Alois Ferscha, Cristina Beltran Ruiz, Juan Jesus Minguez Rubio), In 14th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications
21 Pervasive Computing in the Large: The SOCIONICAL Approach (Kashif Zia, Alois Ferscha, Andreas Riener, Martin Wirz, Daniel Roggen, Kamil Kloch, Paul Lukowicz), In Adjunct Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Pervasive Computing, Helsinki, Finland, May 2010., pp. 6, 2010.
22 Self-Organized Togetherness in a Crowd Group (Kashif Zia, Sajjad A. Madani, Alois Ferscha), In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Frontiers of Information Tech- nology (FIT 2009), ACM Publications, 2009.
23 On the Eciency of LifeBelt based Crowd Evacuation (Alois Ferscha, Kashif Zia), In 13th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Ap- plications (DS-RT 2009), October 25-28, Singapore, IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 8, 2009.
24 A Simulation Study of Exit Choice based on E ective Throughput of an Exit Area in a Multi-Exit Evacuation Situation (Kashif Zia, Alois Ferscha), In 13th IEEE/ACM In- ternational Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications (DS-RT 2009), October 25-28, Singapore, IEEE Computer Socie
25 LifeBelt: Silent Directional Guidance for Crowd Evacuation (Alois Ferscha, Kashif Zia), In Proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC'09), Sept 4-7 2009, Linz, Austria, IEEE Computer Society Press, 2009.
26 Self-organized Evacuation Based on LifeBelt (Kashif Zia, Alois Ferscha), In Proceed- ings of the 4th International Workshop, IWSOS 2009, Zurich, Switzerland, December, 2009, Springer-Verlag, 2009.
27 Spatial Self-organization in Networks of Things (Kashif Zia, Alois Ferscha), In Proceed- ings of the 3rd International Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems (IWSOS 2008), Springer- Verlag, 2008.
28 Future context-aware pervasive learning environment: smart Campus (Muhammad Taimoor Khan, Kashif Zia), In International conference on integration of information technol- ogy in science education, 2007.
29 Integrating Context-aware Pervasive Environments (Muhammad Taimoor Khan, Kashif Zia, Nadeem Daudpota, SA Hussain, Najma Taimoor), In Emerging Technologies, 2006. ICET'06. International Conference on, pp. 683-688, 2006.
30 PLP{A Packet Loss Prevention Technique for Partitioned MANETs using Location- Based Multicast (LBM) Algorithms (Asad Hussain, Kashif Zia, Umar Farooq, Sajjad Ahmed), In National Conference on Emerging Technologies, pp. 6, 2004.
31 An Extended Topology for Zone-Based Location Aware Dynamic Sensor Networks (SA Hussain, U Farooq, K Zia, M Akhlaq), In National Conference on Emerging Technologies, pp. 1, 2004.
32 Dynamic contention window for quality of service in IEEE 802.11 networks (SA Hussain, K Zia, MT Khan, S Ahmad, U Farooq), In National Conference on Emerging Tech- nologies, pp. 12, 2004.
33 Packet Loss Prevention Technique for Partitioned Mobile Ad hoc Networks using Location-Based Multicast Algorithms (Asad Hussain, Kashif Zia, Umar Farooq, Sajjad Ahmed), In 2nd International Workshop on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT-2004), pp. 6, 2004.
34 Zone Based Location Aware Dynamic Sensor Networks (ZOLA-DSN) (Asad Hus- sain, Umar Farooq, Kashif Zia, Muhammad Akhlaq), In 2nd International Workshop on Fron- tiers of Information Technology (FIT-2004), pp. 1, 2004.
35 QoS aware interpiconet scheduling in Bluetooth Scatternet (QIPS) (Nazir, Babar, and Kashif Zia), Emerging Technologies, 2007. ICET 2007. International Conference on. IEEE, 2007.
36 few in local conferences
37 Conditions of Depleting Offender Behavior in Volunteering Dilemma: An Agent-Based Simulation Study (Kashif Zia, Momina Shaheen, Umar Farooq, Shahid Nazir), The 14th International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior 23-26 August 2016, Aberystwyth, UK. {Indexed Conference Procceding}
38 Zoofishan Zareen, Muzna Zafar, Kashif Zia, Alois Ferscha, Conditions Facilitating the Aversion of Unpopular Norms: An Agent-Based Simulation Study, EUROSIM 2016, 12 - 16 September 2016, Oulu Finland The 9th Eurosim Congress on Modelling and Simulation, Accepted