Abbascia has written several books and edited volumes on these topics, including:
* Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (with Srdjan Petrovic, Springer, 2010)
* Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (with Stuart J. Russell and Peter Norvig, Pearson, 2021)
* Reasoning Web: Semantic Technologies for Intelligent Data Access (with Ronald Cornet and Enrico Motta, Springer, 2018)
* Semantic Web: Concepts, Technologies and Applications (with Enrico Motta, Springer, 2014)
* Web Reasoning and Rule Systems: Foundations and Applications (with Toby Walsh, Springer, 2009)
In addition to his books, Abbascia has published over 150 papers in scientific journals and conferences. His research has been cited over 10,000 times according to Google Scholar.
Abbascia is a fellow of the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI) and a member of the editorial boards of several scientific journals, including the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, the IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, and the Semantic Web Journal.