Samer Al-Khateeb

Books

  1. Robert Thomson, Aravind Hariharan, Scott Renshaw, Samer Al-khateeb, Annetta Burger, Patrick Park, Aryn A. Pyke (Eds.). Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Modeling: 17th International Conference, SBP-BRiMS 2024, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, September 18–20, 2024, Proceedings. Springer Cham, 2024. ISBN: 978-3-031-72240-0. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-72241-7.
  2. Robert Thomson, Samer Al-khateeb, Annetta Burger, Patrick Park, Aryn A. Pyke (Eds.). Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Modeling: 16th International Conference, SBP-BRiMS 2023, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, September 20–22, 2023, Proceedings. Springer Cham, 2023. ISBN: 978-3-031-43128-9. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43129-6.
  3. Samer Al-khateeb and Nitin Agarwal. Deviance in Social Media and Social Cyber Forensics: Uncovering Hidden Relations Using OSINF. Springer. Spring 2019. [Amazon].

Book Chapters & Encyclopedia Articles

  1. Samer Al-khateeb, Rolf T. Wigand, and Nitin Agarwal. Misinformation Campaigns. Applying Motivated Reasoning and Information Manipulation Theory to Understand the Role and Impact of Social Media in the Digital Transformation. In: Die digitale Transformation der Medien (pp. 387-401). Springer Gabler, Wiesbaden.
  2. Katrin Galeano, Rick Galeano, Samer Al-khateeb, and Nitin Agarwal. Chapter 2: Studying the Weaponization of Social Media: Case Studies of Anti-NATO Disinformation Campaigns. In: Tayebi M., Glässer U., Skillicorn D. (eds) Open Source Intelligence and Cyber Crime. Lecture Notes in Social Networks. Springer, Cham. August 01, 2020.
  3. Samer Al-khateeb and Nitin Agarwal. Social Media and Security. In Schintler, Laurie A. and McNeely, Connie L., "Encyclopedia of Big Data" (ISBN: 978-3-319-32001-4). Springer International Publishing, July 2020.
  4. Rick Galeano, Katrin Galeano, Samer Al-khateeb, Nitin Agarwal, and James Turner. Chapter 10: Botnet Evolution During Modern Day Large-Scale Combat Operations. In a seven-book set titled "Large Scale Combat Operations", book titled "Information Operations: Perceptions are Reality". Col. Mark Vertuli (Ed.). Army University Press. October 2018.
  5. Samer Al-khateeb, Muhammad Hussain, and Nitin Agarwal. Chapter 12: Analyzing Deviant Socio-technical Behaviors using Social Network Analysis and Cyber Forensics-based Methodologies. In O. Savas & J. Deng, “Big Data Analytics in Cybersecurity” (ISBN: 978-1-4987-72129). New York, NY: CRC Press, Taylor & Francis.
  6. Samer Al-khateeb, Muhammad Nihal Hussain, and Nitin Agarwal. Leveraging Social Network Analysis and Cyber Forensics Approaches to Study Cyber Propaganda Campaigns. In T. Ozyer and S. Bakshi (Eds.), "Social Network and Surveillance for Society". Lecture Notes in Social Networks, Springer, August 4, 2018.

Journal Articles

  1. Rich G Johnson, Samer Al-khateeb, Kyran Cupido, Mohammed Madouh, and Miles Romney. Cheating or Fair Competition? A Structuration Analysis of Social Media Responses to Lia Thomas’ NCAA Swimming Championship. Communication & Sport journal, 0 (0), Published April 8, 2025. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/21674795251330304.
  2. Rebecca Murray, Bridget Orr, Samer Al-khateeb, and Nitin Agarwal. Constructing A Multi-Theoretical Framework for Mob Modeling. The Social Network Analysis and Mining journal, Volume 15 article number 33, Published April 4, 2025. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13278-025-01449-4.
  3. Jack Burright and Samer Al-khateeb. A Comparative Analysis of the Ethics of Gene Editing: ChatGPT vs. Google Bard. The Journal of Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory (CMOT), Published September 24, 2024. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10588-024-09392-z.
  4. Samer Al-khateeb, Jack Burright, and Nitin Agarwal. Evaluating Collective Action Theory-based Model to Simulate Mobs. The Social Network Analysis and Mining journal, Volume 14 article number 127, Published July 02, 2024. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13278-024-01284-z.
  5. Eric Wiebelhaus-Brahm, Samer Al-khateeb, Nitin Agarwal, Kiran Kumar Bandeli, Rita Chowdhury, Muhammad Nihal Hussain, Adewale Obadimu, and Oluwaseun Walter. Social Media Justice and Peacebuilding Mobilization for Syria. The Midsouth Political Science Review (MPSR) Journal, volume 23, issue 1, pages 1-42. March 2024.
  6. Rich G. Johnson, Samer Al-khateeb, Ali Forbes, and Kyran Cupido. Targeted social media harassment: A comparative analysis of toxicity directed at men and women sports reporters. Communication & Sport, 12(3), 443-465. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/21674795231213330.
  7. Samer Al-khateeb and Nitin Agarwal. Flash mob: a multidisciplinary review. Social Network Analysis and Mining 11.1 (2021): 1-18. (SNAM).
  8. Samer Al-khateeb and Nitin Agarwal. Social Cyber Forensics: Leveraging Open Source Information and Social Network Analysis to Advance Cyber Security Informatics. Journal of Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory (CMOT). July 19, 2019.
  9. Esther Ledelle Mead, Muhammad Nihal Hussain, Mohammad Nooman, Samer Al-khateeb, and Nitin Agarwal. Voices from Venezuela: Examining blogs to study the socio-politico-economic crisis and consequent emigration. IARIA International Journal on Advances in Internet Technology, Vol. 11, No. 1-2, 2018.
  10. Nitin Agarwal, Samer Al-khateeb, Rick Galeano, and Rebecca Goolsby. Examining The Use Of Botnets And Their Evolution In Propaganda Dissemination. Journal of Defence Strategic Communications, Vol. 2. No. 2, pp. 87-112. 2017.
  11. Samer Al-khateeb, Kevin J Conlan, Nitin Agarwal, Ibrahim Baggili and Frank Breitinger. Exploring Deviant Hacker Networks (DHN) On Social Media Platforms. Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law, Vol. 11. No. 2, pp. 7-20. 2016. Also, presented at the Eighth EAI International Conference on Digital Forensics & Cyber Crime (ICDF2C 2016), September 28-30, 2016, New York City, USA.
  12. Samer Al-khateeb and Nitin Agarwal. Understanding Strategic Information Maneuvers in Network Media to Advance Cyber Operations: A Case Study Analyzing pro-Russian Separatists’ Cyber Information Operations in Crimean Water Crisis. Journal on Baltic Security, Vol. 2, Issue 1, pp. 6-27, 2016. Also, presented at the 9th International Lesson Learned Conference (ILLC 2015), June 1-4, 2015, Tartu, Estonia.
  13. Samer Al-khateeb and Nitin Agarwal. Developing a Conceptual Framework For Modeling Deviant Cyber Flash Mob: A Socio-Computational Approach Leveraging Hypergraph Constructs. Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law, Vol. 9. No. 2, pp. 113-127. 2014. Also, presented at The 6th International Conference on Digital Forensics & Cyber Crime, September 18-19, 2014, New Haven, United States.

Conference Proceedings

  1. Samer Al-khateeb, Jack Burright, Steven L. Fernandes, and Nitin Agarwal Analyzing and Predicting Meetup Mobs Outcome Via Statistical Analysis and Deep Learning. The 17th International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling & Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation. September 18-21, 2024. Hybrid. Carnegie Mellon University, USA. http://sbp-brims.org/2024/.
  2. Samer Al-khateeb, Jack Burright, Nitin Agarwal, and Rebecca Murray. An Agent-Based Model of Mobs Using Theoretical Constructs of Collective Action. The 2023 Annual Modeling and Simulation Conference (ANNSIM 2023). May 23 - 26, 2023. Mohawk College, Ontario, Canada.
  3. Samer Al-khateeb and Nitin Agarwal. Studying Simulated Mobs Using Monte Carlo Method and the Theory of Collective Action. The Modelling and Simulation of Social-Behavioral Phenomena in Creative Societies (MSBC 2022). September 21-23, 2022. Vilnius, Lithuania. The conference proceedings appeared online on May 26, 2023.
  4. Samer Al-khateeb Dapping into the Fediverse: Analyzing What's Trending on Mastodon Social . International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling and Prediction, and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (SBP-BRiMS 2022), September 20-23, 2022, hybrid, Pennsylvania, USA.
  5. Samer Al-khateeb, Madelyn Anderson, and Nitin Agarwal. Studying the Role of Social Bots During Cyber Flash Mobs . International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling and Prediction, and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (SBP-BRiMS 2021), July 06-09, 2021, virtual, USA.
  6. Mustafa Alassad, Billy Spann, Samer Al-Khateeb, and Nitin Agarwal. Using Computational Social Science Techniques to Identify Coordinated Cyber Threats to Smart City Networks . 1st Joint International Conference on Design and Construction of Smart City Components, December 17-19, 2019, Cairo, Egypt. (JIC Smart Cities 2019) pp 316-326. First Online: 24 January 2021.
  7. Julia Thee, Izzat Alsmadi, and Samer Al-Khateeb. Pro-ISIS Tweets Analysis Using Machine Learning Techniques . Workshop on Deviant Activities on Social Media, in conjunction with 2020 IEEE Conference on BigData (IEEE BigData 2020) December 10-13, 2020, Atlanta, GA, USA.
  8. Thomas Marcoux, Nitin Agarwal, Obadimu Adewale, Muhammad Nihal Hussain, Katrin Kania Galeano, and Samer Al-khateeb. Understanding Information Operations using YouTubeTracker . IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'19 Companion), October 14–17, 2019, Thessaloniki, Greece.
  9. Adewale Obadimu, Esther Mead, Samer Al-Khateeb, and Nitin Agarwal A Comparative Analysis of Facebook and Twitter Bots. Southern Association for Information Systems (SAIS). SAIS 2019 Proceedings. 25.
  10. Muhammad Nihal Hussain, Kiran Kumar Bandeli, Serpil Tokdemir, Samer Al-khateeb, and Nitin Agarwal. Understanding Digital Ethnography: Socio-computational Analysis of Trending YouTube Videos. The Eighth International Conference on Social Media Technologies, Communication, and Informatics (SOTICS 2018), October 14-18, 2018, Nice, France. (Won Best Paper Award).
  11. Muhammad Nihal Hussain, Samer Al-khateeb, Serpil Tokdemir, and Nitin Agarwal. Analyzing Disinformation and Crowd Manipulation Tactics on YouTube. The 2018 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), August 28-31, 2018, Barcelona, Spain.
  12. Tuja Khaund, Kiran Kumar Bandeli, Muhammad Nihal Hussain, Adewale Obadimu, Samer Al-khateeb, and Nitin Agarwal Analyzing Social and Communication Network Structures of Social Bots and Humans. The 2018 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), August 28-31, 2018, Barcelona, Spain.
  13. Tuja Khaund, Samer Al-khateeb, Serpil Tokdemir, and Nitin Agarwal Analyzing Social Bots and their Coordination during Natural Disasters. International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling and Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (SBP-BRiMS 2018), July 10-13, 2018, Washington D.C., USA.
  14. Muhammad Nihal Hussain, Kiran Kumar Bandeli, Samer Al-khateeb, and Nitin Agarwal. Analyzing Shift in Narratives Regarding Migrants in Europe via Blogosphere. Proceedings of the International Workshop on Narrative Extraction from Texts (Text2Story 2018) co-located with the 40th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR). Volume 2077, pp 33-40. Grenoble, France. March 26- 29, 2018.
  15. Esther Ledelle Mead, Muhammad Nihal Hussain, Mohammad Nooman, Samer Al-khateeb, and Nitin Agarwal. Assessing Situation Awareness through Blogosphere: A Case Study on Venezuelan Socio-Political Crisis and the Migrant Influx. The Seventh International Conference on Social Media Technologies, Communication, and Informatics (SOTICS 2017). October 8 - 12, 2017 - Athens, Greece. (Won Best Paper Award).
  16. Samer Al-khateeb, Muhammad Nihal Hussain, and Nitin Agarwal. Social Cyber Forensics Approach to Study Twitter's and Blogs' Influence on Propaganda Campaigns. International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling and Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (SBP-BRiMS 2017), July 5 - 8, 2017, Washington D.C., USA.
  17. Muhammad Nihal Hussain, Adewale Obadimu, Kiran Kumar Bandeli, Mohammad Nooman, Samer Al-khateeb, and Nitin Agarwal. A Framework for Blog Data Collection: Challenges and Opportunities. The IARIA International Symposium on Designing, Validating, and Using Datasets (DATASETS 2017), June 25 - 29, 2017, Venice, Italy.
  18. Samer Al-khateeb and Nitin Agarwal. The Rise & Fall of #NoBackDoor on Twitter: the Apple vs. FBI Case. In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Foundations of Open Source Intelligence and Security Informatics (FOSINT-SI 2016) co-located with the 2016 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2016), August 19-20, 2016, San Francisco, California, USA.
  19. Samer Al-khateeb and Nitin Agarwal. Examining Botnet Behaviors for Propaganda Dissemination: A Case Study of ISIL's Beheading Videos-based Propaganda. In Proceedings of the Behavior Analysis, Modeling, and Steering (BEAMS 2015) co-located with the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2015), November 14-17, 2015, Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA.
  20. Samer Al-khateeb, Engin Mendi, and Coskun Bayrak. A Comparative Analysis of Digital Filtering for Seismic Signals from Adana, Van, and Bingol Earthquakes in Turkey. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Processing and Control Engineering (ICIPCE-2015), April 15-17, 2015, Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Russia.
  21. Samer Al-khateeb and Nitin Agarwal. Analyzing Deviant Cyber Flash Mobs of ISIL on Twitter. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, and Prediction (SBP15), March 31 April 3, 2015, UCDC Center, Washington DC, USA.
  22. Samer Al-khateeb and Nitin Agarwal. Analyzing Flash Mobs in Cybernetic Space and the Imminent Security Threats: A Collective Action based Theoretical Perspective on Emerging Sociotechnical Behaviors. In Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium 2015 on Socio-technical Behavior Mining: From Data to Decisions, AAAI Spring 2015 Symposium on Socio-Technical Behavior Mining, March 23-25, 2015, Palo Alto, California, USA.
  23. Samer Al-khateeb and Nitin Agarwal. Modeling Flash Mobs in Cybernetic Space: Evaluating Threats from Emerging Socio-Technical Behaviors to Human Security. In Proceedings of the IEEE Joint Intelligence and Security Informatics Conference (JISIC 2014), September 24-26, 2014, Hague, Netherlands.

Conference Presentations & Posters

  1. Own McGrath, Luke Zacher, and Samer Al-khateeb. Mobs Simulator: A Multi-theoretical Stochastic Agent-based Modeling Tool to Study Mobs Outcome & Mobbers Behaviors. Presented at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR 2025), April 7-9, 2025, Pittsburgh, PA, USA (Poster).
    • The poster was also presented during the Creighton University Research Week on April 1-2, 2025, at the Ahmanson Ballroom - Mike and Josie Harper Center. It was also presented at the CSDJ Department Showcase Night (Poster, not peer-reviewed).
  2. Samer Al-khateeb and Nitin Agarwal. Mobs Simulation Guided by Social Science-Based Multi-Theoretical Framework presented at the 33rd European Conference on Operational Research June 30 - July 03, 2024, at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Copenhagen, Denmark (Online abstract and oral presentation).
  3. Christopher He and Samer Al-khateeb. Analyzing How the Public Views Generative AI on X. Presented during the Creighton University 20th Annual Honors Day on Wednesday, April 10, 2024, from 2-5 on the 4th floor of Harper Center (Poster, not peer-reviewed).
  4. Rebecca Murray, Bridget A Orr, Jack R Burright, and Samer Al-khateeb Multi-Theoretical Framework for Mob Modeling. The 2023 American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. November 15-18, 2023. (Online Abstract & Poster – peer-reviewed).
    • The poster was also presented during the St. Albert/University Day on March 26-27, 2024, at the Ahmanson Ballroom - Mike and Josie Harper Center (Poster, not peer-reviewed).
  5. Samer Al-khateeb, Rebecca Murray, and Nitin Agarwal A Multi-Theoretical Network for Mobs Modeling submitted to the “2023 Basic Research Art of Science Showcase” organized by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), September 28, 2023 (Poster, not peer-reviewed).
  6. Jack Burright and Samer Al-khateeb. A Comparative Analysis of the Ethics of Gene Editing: ChatGPT vs. Google Bard. We submitted a poster to the SBP-BRiMS2023 grand data challenge, and it was accepted and presented at the conference on September 20-22, 2023, in Pittsburgh, PA, USA (Poster, peer-reviewed).
  7. Moe Madouh, Rich Johnson, Samer Al-khateeb, Kyran Cupido, and Miles Romney. Inspiration, fairness, cheating, and transphobia: An analysis of tweets about Lia Thomas’ NCAA swimming championship. The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC2023), August 7-10, 2023, Washington, D.C., USA (Conference Presentation).
  8. Rich Johnson, Samer Al-khateeb, Ali Forbes, and Kyran Cupido. Targeted Twitter harassment: A comparative analysis of toxicity toward male and female sports reporters. The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC2023)), August 7-10, 2023, Washington, D.C., USA (Conference Presentation).
  9. Tessa Gaynor and Samer Al-khateeb. Analyzing the Twitter Chatter about the Gender Wage Gap Issue . The poster was presented during the Creighton University Honors Day on Wednesday, April 12, 2023, from 2-5 on the 4th floor of Harper Center (Poster, not peer-reviewed).
  10. Jack Burright and Samer Al-khateeb. Utilizing NetLogo to Simulate Mobs: An Agent-based Modeling Approach . The 2023 National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR 2023), April 13-15, 2023, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, USA (Poster).
  11. Madelyn Anderson and Samer Al-khateeb. Studying the Role of Social Bots During Cyber Flash Mobs presented at the 2022 CURAS Research and Scholarship Fair on Monday, January 31, 2022, at Skutt Student Center (Poster, not peer-reviewed).
    • The poster was also presented during the Creighton University Honors Day on Wednesday, April 13, 2022, from 2-5 on the 4th floor of Harper Center (Poster, not peer-reviewed).
  12. Samer Al-khateeb. Designing and Implementing a Data Repository for Cyber Flash Mobs the St. Albert Day(Creighton University Research Day) on April 20-22, 2021 (Presentation).
  13. Samer Al-khateeb and Nitin Agarwal. Socio-computational Approaches for Cyber Threat Analysis. INFORMS 2019 Annual Meeting. October 20-23, 2019, Seattle Washington, USA. (Presentation).
  14. Tuja Khaund , Billy Spann , Richard Young , Samer Al-khateeb, and Nitin Agarwal. Blog Farm Detection Using Social Network Analysis and Social Cyber Forensics Informed Methodologies . International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling and Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (SBP-BRiMS 2019), July 9-12, 2019, Washington D.C., USA. (Poster).
  15. Samer Al-khateeb, Muhammad Nihal Hussain, and Nitin Agarwal. When Citizen Journalism Goes Rogue: A Case Study of Anti-West Misinformation Campaigns During the 2014 Russian-Ukraine Conflict. The 5th International Conference on Bridging Gaps: Where is the Critic in Television Journalism?, Centre for Media and Celebrity Studies (CMCS), CUNY School of Journalism, August 31 – September 1, 2017, New York City, USA. (Presentation).
  16. Samer Al-khateeb, Muhammad Nihal Hussain, and Nitin Agarwal. Leveraging Social Network Analysis & Cyber Forensics Approaches to Study Cyber Propaganda Campaigns. The 1st North American Social Networks Conference of the International Network For Social Network Analysis (NASN 2017), July 26 - 30, Washington DC, USA.
  17. Rick Galeano, Nitin Agarwal, and Samer Al-khateeb. Botnets and Propaganda Dissemination. The 1st North American Social Networks Conference of the International Network For Social Network Analysis (NASN 2017), July 26-30, 2017, Washington DC, USA.
  18. Kiran Kumar Bandeli, Muhammad Nihal Hussain, Samer Al-khateeb, and Nitin Agarwal. Towards Developing Methodology to Stem the Tide of Fake News. International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling & Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (SBP-BRiMS 2017) (Challenge Track), July 5 - 8, 2017, Washington D.C., USA.
  19. Muhammad Nihal Hussain, Kiran Bandeli, Mohammad Nooman, Samer Al-khateeb, Nitin Agarwal. Analyzing the Voices during European Migrant Crisis in Blogosphere. The 2nd International Workshop on Event Analytics using Social Media Data associated with The 11th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2017), May 15-18, 2017, Montreal, Canada.
  20. Samer Al-khateeb, Muhammad Nihal Hussain, and Nitin Agarwal. Exploring ISIL Cyber Network Activities: Evolution, Means, and Strategies. In the 36th International Sunbelt Social Network Conference (Sunbelt XXXVI) organized by the International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA), April 5-10, 2016, Newport Beach, California. (Presentation).