Publications

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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. Samer Al-khateeb and Nitin Agarwal. Flash mob: a multidisciplinary review. Social Network Analysis and Mining 11.1 (2021): 1-18. (SNAM).
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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).
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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).
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. 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. 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).
  2. 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).
  3. 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)
  4. 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)
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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)