Muaz A. Niazi is Chief Scientific Officer (Professor) at COMSATS Islamabad, Pakistan. His areas of research interest are in the Modeling, Simulation, and Engineering of Complex Adaptive Systems using various techniques such as agent-based and complex network based approaches. He also has an interest and experience in distributed pervasive/mobile application development. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of two journals and a senior member of the IEEE.

• Part I: Modeling and simulationChapter 1: Modeling and simulation: the essence and increasing importanceChapter 2: Flexible modeling with SimioChapter 3: A simulation environment for cybersecurity attack analysis based on network traffic logs Part II: Surveys and reviewsChapter 4: Demand-response management in smart grid: a survey and future directionsChapter 5: Applications of multi-agent systems in smart grid: a survey and taxonomyChapter 6: Shortest path models for scale-free network topologies: literature review and cross comparisons Part III: Case studies and moreChapter 7: Accurate modeling ofVoIP traffic in modern communicationChapter 8: Exploratory and validated agent-based modeling levels case study: Internet of ThingsChapter 9: Descriptive agent-based modeling of the "Chord" P2P protocolChapter 10: Descriptive agent-based modeling of Kademlia peer-to-peer protocolChapter 11: Descriptive agent-based modeling of the "BitTorrent" P2P protocolChapter 12: Social networks - a scientometric visual survey