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- 2024
[i1]Petra Saskia Bayerl, Babak Akhgar, Ernesto La Mattina, Barbara Pirillo, Ioana Cotoi, Davide Ariu, Matteo Mauri, Jorge Garcia, Dimitris Kavallieros, Antonia Kardara, Konstantina Karagiorgou:
Strategies to Counter Artificial Intelligence in Law Enforcement: Cross-Country Comparison of Citizens in Greece, Italy and Spain. CoRR abs/2405.19970 (2024)- 2023
- [c63]Petra Saskia Bayerl, Luke Bates, Babak Akhgar:
Securing the Smart City: Patterns of Public Acceptance for Integrated Technological Solutions. ISC2 2023: 1-6 - 2021
- [c62]Eleni-Constantina Davri
, Eleni Darra, Isidoros Monogioudis, Athanasios Grigoriadis, Christos Iliou, Notis Mengidis, Theodora Tsikrika, Stefanos Vrochidis, Adamantini Peratikou, Helen Gibson, Damir Haskovic, Dimitrios Kavallieros, Evangelos Chaskos, Peng Zhao, Stavros Shiaeles, Nick Savage, Babak Akhgar, Xavier J. A. Bellekens, Mohamed Amine Ben Farah:
Cyber Security Certification Programmes. CSR 2021: 428-435 - 2020
- [c61]Dimos Ntioudis, Eleni Kamateri, Georgios Meditskos, Anastasios Karakostas, Florian Huber, Romeo Bratska, Stefanos Vrochidis, Babak Akhgar, Ioannis Kompatsiaris:
Immerse: A Personalized System Addressing the Challenges of Migrant Integration. ICME Workshops 2020: 1-6 - [e3]Angelos Chatzimichail, Michail Feidakis, John Soldatos, Babak Akhgar, George Meditskos, Stefanos Vrochidis:
Proceedings of the Workshop on IOT Infrastructures for Safety in Pervasive Environments (IOT4SAFE 2020) co-located with 17th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2020), Herakleion, Greece, June 2, 2020. CEUR Workshop Proceedings 2686, CEUR-WS.org 2020 [contents]
2010 – 2019
- 2019
- [c60]Sina Pournouri, Shahrzad Zargari, Babak Akhgar:
An Investigation of Using Classification Techniques in Prediction of Type of Targets in Cyber Attacks. ICGS3 2019 - [c59]Panagiotis Mitzias, Efstratios Kontopoulos, James Staite, Tony Day, George Kalpakis, Theodora Tsikrika, Helen Gibson, Stefanos Vrochidis, Babak Akhgar, Ioannis Kompatsiaris:
Deploying Semantic Web Technologies for Information Fusion of Terrorism-related Content and Threat Detection on the Web. WI (Companion) 2019: 193-199 - 2017
- [j16]Mila Gascó, Petra Saskia Bayerl, Sebastian Denef, Babak Akhgar:
What do citizens communicate about during crises? Analyzing twitter use during the 2011 UK riots. Gov. Inf. Q. 34(4): 635-645 (2017) - [j15]Alireza Shahrasbi, Mehdi Shamizanjani, M. H. Alavidoost, Babak Akhgar:
An Aggregated Fuzzy Model for the Selection of a Managed Security Service Provider. Int. J. Inf. Technol. Decis. Mak. 16(3): 625-684 (2017) - [j14]Konstantinos Domdouzis, Babak Akhgar, Simon Andrews, Tony Day:
Identification of Critical Factors in Large Crisis Decision Making Processes Using Computational Tools: The Case of ATHENA. Int. J. Strateg. Inf. Technol. Appl. 8(2): 11-28 (2017) - [c58]Theodora Tsikrika, Babak Akhgar, Vasilis Katos, Stefanos Vrochidis, Pete Burnap, Matthew L. Williams:
1st International Workshop on Search and Mining Terrorist Online Content & Advances in Data Science for Cyber Security and Risk on the Web. WSDM 2017: 823-824 - 2016
- [j13]Konstantinos Domdouzis, Simon Andrews, Babak Akhgar:
Application of a New Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Paradigm on the Design of a Crisis Management Distributed System. Int. J. Distributed Syst. Technol. 7(2): 1-17 (2016) - [j12]Simon Andrews, Helen Gibson, Konstantinos Domdouzis, Babak Akhgar:
Creating corroborated crisis reports from social media data through formal concept analysis. J. Intell. Inf. Syst. 47(2): 287-312 (2016) - [j11]Konstantinos Domdouzis, Babak Akhgar, Simon Andrews, Helen Gibson, Laurence Hirsch:
A social media and crowdsourcing data mining system for crime prevention during and post-crisis situations. J. Syst. Inf. Technol. 18(4): 364-382 (2016) - [c57]Constantinos Orphanides, Babak Akhgar, Petra Saskia Bayerl:
Discovering Knowledge in Online Drug Transactions Using Conceptual Graphs and Formal Concept Analysis. EISIC 2016: 100-103 - 2015
- [j10]Petra Saskia Bayerl, Babak Akhgar:
Surveillance and falsification implications for open source intelligence investigations. Commun. ACM 58(8): 62-69 (2015) - [c56]Babak Akhgar, Helen Gibson:
Processing Social Media Data for Crisis Management in Athena. ICGS3 2015: 3-14 - [c55]Petra Saskia Bayerl, Babak Akhgar:
Online Surveillance Awareness as Impact on Data Validity for Open-Source Intelligence? ICGS3 2015: 15-20 - [c54]Sina Pournouri, Babak Akhgar:
Improving Cyber Situational Awareness Through Data Mining and Predictive Analytic Techniques. ICGS3 2015: 21-34 - [e2]Hamid Jahankhani, Alex Carlile, Babak Akhgar, Amie Taal, Ali G. Hessami, Amin Hosseinian Far:
Global Security, Safety and Sustainability: Tomorrow's Challenges of Cyber Security - 10th International Conference, ICGS3 2015, London, UK, September 15-17, 2015. Proceedings. Communications in Computer and Information Science 534, Springer 2015, ISBN 978-3-319-23275-1 [contents] - 2014
- [j9]Simon Polovina, Simon Andrews, Babak Akhgar, Andrew Staniforth, Dave Fortune:
The EMPRISES pan-European Framework: Monitoring and Combatting Serious Organised Economic Crime. Int. J. Concept. Struct. Smart Appl. 2(2): 76-87 (2014) - [j8]Ben Brewster, Babak Akhgar, Andrew Staniforth, David Waddington, Simon Andrews, Sarah Johnson Mitchell, Kayleigh Johnson:
Towards a model for the integration of knowledge management in law enforcement agencies. Int. J. Electron. Secur. Digit. Forensics 6(1): 1-17 (2014) - [j7]Babak Akhgar, Esmael Salahi Parvin, Mohammad Hussein Sherkat:
Axiomatic agent based architecture for agile decision making in strategic information systems. J. Ambient Intell. Humaniz. Comput. 5(1): 93-104 (2014) - [c53]Ben Brewster, Simon Andrews, Simon Polovina, Laurence Hirsch, Babak Akhgar:
Environmental Scanning and Knowledge Representation for the Detection of Organised Crime Threats. ICCS 2014: 275-280 - [c52]Helen Gibson, Simon Andrews, Konstantinos Domdouzis, Laurence Hirsch, Babak Akhgar:
Combining Big Social Media Data and FCA for Crisis Response. UCC 2014: 690-695 - [c51]Konstantinos Domdouzis, Simon Andrews, Helen Gibson, Babak Akhgar, Laurence Hirsch:
Service-Oriented Design of a Command and Control Intelligence Dashboard for Crisis Management. UCC 2014: 702-707 - 2013
- [j6]Mina Serajian, Babak Akhgar:
Designing a scientific social network site based on a conceptual methodology. J. Syst. Inf. Technol. 15(4): 292-303 (2013) - [c50]Simon Andrews, Babak Akhgar, Simeon J. Yates, Alex W. Stedmon, Laurence Hirsch:
Using Formal Concept Analysis to Detect and Monitor Organised Crime. FQAS 2013: 124-133 - 2012
- [j5]Babak Akhgar, Hatef Rasouli, Iman Raeesi Vanani:
Evaluation of knowledge-based competency in Iranian universities: a practical model. Int. J. Knowl. Learn. 8(3/4): 282-297 (2012) - [c49]F. Tabatabayi, Babak Akhgar, S. M. R. Nasserzadeh, Simeon J. Yates:
Simulating Online Consumer Satisfaction Using Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping. ITNG 2012: 540-547 - 2011
- [j4]Soroosh Nalchigar, S. M. R. Nasserzadeh, Babak Akhgar:
Simulating strategic information systems planning process using fuzzy cognitive map. Int. J. Bus. Inf. Syst. 8(3): 286-306 (2011) - [j3]Simeon J. Yates, Babak Akhgar, Christopher D. Bates, Lukasz Jopek, Richard Wilson:
A platform for discovering and sharing confidential ballistic crime data. Int. J. Knowl. Web Intell. 2(2/3): 202-218 (2011) - [c48]Mohammad Reza Shahmoradi, Babak Akhgar:
Application Identification of Semantic Web Techniques in KM Systems. ICCS 2011: 383-393 - [c47]Emad Farazmand, Babak Akhgar, Ayoob Mohammadian:
An Evaluation Model for Metamarket Oriented Websites. ICEIS (4) 2011: 147-152 - [e1]Simon Andrews, Simon Polovina, Richard Hill, Babak Akhgar:
Conceptual Structures for Discovering Knowledge - 19th International Conference on Conceptual Structures, ICCS 2011, Derby, UK, July 25-29, 2011. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6828, Springer 2011, ISBN 978-3-642-22687-8 [contents] - 2010
- [c46]Babak Akhgar, Iman Raeesi Vanani, Vahid Oskuee:
Considerations on Collaborative ERP Implementation Planning: A Design Science Approach. IKE 2010: 359-365 - [c45]Vahid Oskuee, Iman Raeesi, Babak Akhgar:
How DSS Development Procedure and Components Can Answer the Requirements of Knowledge Management Development. IKE 2010: 377-382 - [c44]Iman Raeesi, Davood Qorbani, Babak Akhgar:
A Conceptual Model for Measuring the Quality of e-learning through Knowledge Sharing Indicators. IKE 2010: 383-387 - [c43]Ayoub Mohammadian, Kimia Hassanzadeh, Babak Akhgar:
A Framework for Identifying the Factors Affecting on IOS Development Based on System Approach. ITNG 2010: 1267-1268
2000 – 2009
- 2009
- [c42]Babak Akhgar, Fazilatur Rahman, Lukasz Jopek, Jawed I. A. Siddiqi, Sally Atkinson, Alberto Savoldelli, Doris Prato, Secondo Montrucchio, Federico Guella, Brian James, Mike Pinkerton, András Vilmos:
Creating a LOC based Portable Health-care Platform - Using a Universal Mobile NFC Host Environment. HEALTHINF 2009: 38-42 - [c41]Hassan Makhmali, Babak Akhgar, Majid Banaeioskoei:
Value Driven Strategic Knowledge Management: A Research Agenda for an Alternative Perspective of KM. IKE 2009: 567-570 - [c40]Sally Atkinson, Babak Akhgar, Fazilatur Rahman, Jawed I. A. Siddiqi, Mary Holt, Mike Pinkerton, Brian James:
Applied Health Informatics for Diagnosis of Multi-factorial Diseases. IKE 2009: 571-575 - [c39]Jawed I. A. Siddiqi, Babak Akhgar, Fazilatur Rahman, Sally Atkinson, Alberto Savoldelli, Stefano Arici, Paolo Bertele, Brian James, Mike Pinkerton:
Towards an Integrated Platform for Improving Hospital Risk Management. ITNG 2009: 1079-1084 - [c38]Mohammad Hjouj Btoush, Jawed I. A. Siddiqi, Ja'far Alqatawna, Babak Akhgar:
The State of Play in Jordanian E-government Services. ITNG 2009: 1474-1478 - 2008
- [j2]Mehrdad Naderi, Jawed I. A. Siddiqi, Babak Akhgar, Wolfgang Orth, Norbert Meyer, Miika Tuisku, Gregor Pipan:
Towards a Framework for Federated Global Identity Management. Int. J. Netw. Secur. 7(1): 88-99 (2008) - [c37]Sally Atkinson, Babak Akhgar, Jawed I. A. Siddiqi, Alicia Grudz, Alexandra Ihatowicz, Massimo Gulisano, Lorenzo Memeo, Peter Scriven:
MATCH: A Decision Support System for Integration of Biomedical Data. BIOCOMP 2008: 294-297 - [c36]Mohammad Hjouj Btoush, Jawed I. A. Siddiqi, Michael Grimsley, Babak Akhgar, Ja'far Alqatawna:
Comparative Review of e-service Maturity Models: 6I Model. CSREA EEE 2008: 3-9 - [c35]Ja'far Alqatawna, Jawed I. A. Siddiqi, Babak Akhgar, Mohammad Hjouj Btoush:
Towards Holistic Approaches to Secure e-Business: A Critical Review. CSREA EEE 2008: 245-251 - [c34]Ja'far Alqatawna, Jawed I. A. Siddiqi, Babak Akhgar, Mohammad Hjouj Btoush:
A Holistic Framework for Secure e-Business. CSREA EEE 2008: 257-263 - [c33]Babak Akhgar, Fazilatur Rahman, Lukasz Jopek, Jawed I. A. Siddiqi, Sally Atkinson, Alberto Salvodeli, Doris Prato, Secondo Montrucchio, Federico Guella, András Vilmos:
Establishing Mobile NFC Payment Systems and Future Prospect. IKE 2008: 404-410 - [c32]Babak Akhgar, Fazilatur Rahman, Lukasz Jopek, Jawed I. A. Siddiqi, Sally Atkinson, Alberto Salvodeli, Doris Prato, Secondo Montrucchio, Federico Guella, Brian James, Mike Pinkerton, András Vilmos:
Leveraging StoLPaN host environment for Portable Diagnostic Health-Care Platform. IKE 2008: 411-416 - [c31]Jawed I. A. Siddiqi, Babak Akhgar, Alicja Gruzdz, Ghasem Zaefarian, Aleksandra Ihnatowicz:
Automated Diagnosis System to Support Colon Cancer Treatment: MATCH. ITNG 2008: 201-205 - [c30]Charilaos Tsivopoulos, Jawed I. A. Siddiqi, Babak Akhgar, Shahram Rahimi, Morvarid Bassir:
An Overlay Discovery Algorithm towards a Pure Distributed Communication System. ITNG 2008: 212-217 - [c29]Mohammad Hjouj Btoush, Jawed I. A. Siddiqi, Babak Akhgar, Ziad Dawahdeh:
Observations on Compressing Text Files of Varying Length. ITNG 2008: 224-228 - 2007
- [c28]Ghasem Zaefarian, Jawed I. A. Siddiqi, Babak Akhgar, Alicja Gruzdz, Aleksandra Ihnatowicz:
Requirements and System Architecture for a Decision Support System for the treatment of Colorectal Cancer. BIOCOMP 2007: 256-262 - [c27]Babak Akhgar, Jawed I. A. Siddiqi, Alicja Gruzdz, Aleksandra Ihnatowicz, Ghasem Zaefarian:
An Ontologically Driven Decision Support System for Colorectal Caner Treatment: Data Relevance and Model Integration. BIOCOMP 2007: 263-268 - [c26]Nazaraf Shah, Rahat Iqbal, Anne E. James, Jawed I. A. Siddiqi, Babak Akhgar:
Ontological Model for Exception Management in Open Multi-Agent Systems. CSCWD 2007: 366-371 - [c25]Jawed I. A. Siddiqi, Babak Akhgar, Fazilatur Rahman, Nazaraf Shah, Nahum Korda, Raphael Attias, Norbert Benamou, Maria Teresa Andrade, Yehudit Judy Dori, Boas Hashavia:
Collaborative access through semantically enhanced distributed & diversified cultural content. CTS 2007: 406-413 - [c24]Nazaraf Shah, Jawed I. A. Siddiqi, Babak Akhgar:
An Intelligent Agent Based Approach to MOSAICA's Pedagogical Framework. ICEIS (4) 2007: 219-226 - [c23]Jawed I. A. Siddiqi, Babak Akhgar, Nazaraf Shah, Fazilatur Rahman, Nahum Korda, Raphael Attias, Maria Teresa Andrade, Yehudit Judy Dori, Boas Hashavia, Norbert Benamou:
A System for Semantically Enhanced, Multifaceted, Collaborative Access: Requirements and Architecture. ITNG 2007: 1051-1056 - [c22]Babak Akhgar, Jawed I. A. Siddiqi, Fazilatur Rahman, Nazaraf Shah, Nahum Korda, Raphael Attias, Norbert Benamou, Maria Teresa Andrade, Yehudit Judy Dori, Boas Hashavia:
Semantic Modeling of Digital Multimedia. MSA 2007: 3-9 - [c21]Jawed I. A. Siddiqi, Zulaiha Ali Othman, Nazaraf Shah, Babak Akhgar:
Multi-Agent System Engineering: A Methodology and Software Abstractions for Designing Agent Based Systems. Software Engineering Research and Practice 2007: 254-260 - 2006
- [j1]Nazaraf Shah, Nick Godwin, Babak Akhgar, Jawed I. A. Siddiqi:
Evaluating Performance and Accuracy of a Sentinel-Based Exception Diagnosis Approach for P2P Agent Systems. J. Interconnect. Networks 7(4): 493-506 (2006) - [c20]Rahat Iqbal, Nazaraf Shah, Anne E. James, Babak Akhgar, Muhammad Younas, Kuo-Ming Chao:
Developing Ubiquitous Collaborating Multi-Agent Systems Based on QoS Requirements. CSCWD (Selected Papers) 2006: 43-52 - [c19]Jawed I. A. Siddiqi, Babak Akhgar, Tom Gamble, Ghasem Zaefarian:
A Framework For Increasing Participation In e-Government. CSREA EEE 2006: 60-66 - [c18]Babak Akhgar, Jawed I. A. Siddiqi:
E-Business Strategy Formulation: An Object Oriented Approach. CSREA EEE 2006: 97-103 - [c17]Babak Akhgar, Wolfgang Orth, Norbert Meyer, Miika Tuisku, Gregor Pipan, Mario López Gallego, José Alberto García, Maurizio Cecchi, Jean-Noël Colin:
Secure Mobile and Wireless Communication Services for Collaborative Virtual Gaming. CTS 2006: 363-369 - [c16]Yury A. Zagorulko, Jawed I. A. Siddiqi, Babak Akhgar, Olesya Borovikova:
A Knowledge Portal for Cultural Information Resources: Towards an Architecture. Ershov Memorial Conference 2006: 487-494 - [c15]Jawed I. A. Siddiqi, Babak Akhgar, Mehrdad Naderi, Wolfgang Orth, Norbert Meyer, Miika Tuisku, Gregor Pipan:
Federated Global Identity Management: Research Agenda and Outcomes. GCA 2006: 38-44 - [c14]Jawed I. A. Siddiqi, Babak Akhgar, Mehrdad Naderi, Wolfgang Orth, Norbert Meyer, Miika Tuisku, Gregor Pipan:
Federated Global Identity Management: Towards a Framework. GCA 2006: 45-51 - [c13]Jawed I. A. Siddiqi, Babak Akhgar, Tim Wise:
A Framework for the Implementation of a Customer Relationship Management Strategy in Retail Sector. IKE 2006: 244-249 - [c12]Jawed I. A. Siddiqi, Babak Akhgar, Mehrdad Naderi, Wolfgang Orth, Norbert Meyer, Miika Tuisku, Gregor Pipan, Mario López Gallego, José Alberto García, Maurizio Cecchi, Jean-Noël Colin:
Secure ICT Services for Mobile and Wireless Communications: A Federated Global Identity Management Framework. ITNG 2006: 351-357 - 2004
- [c11]Babak Akhgar, Nahum Korda, Jawed I. A. Siddiqi, Mehrdad Naderi:
Towards Grid Enabled Information Retrieval. ICWI 2004: 421-428 - [c10]Jawed I. A. Siddiqi, Babak Akhgar, Mehrdad Naderi, Mark Straw:
Web Services Deployment: Road Map & Challenges. ICWI 2004: 437-443 - 2002
- [c9]Babak Akhgar, Jawed I. A. Siddiqi, Mehrdad Naderi:
Strategie Tool for Assessment of the Supply and Demand Relationship between ASPs and SMEs for Competitive Advantage. EurAsia-ICT 2002: 667-676 - [c8]Jawed I. A. Siddiqi, Babak Akhgar, Guy Aked:
Investment Appraisal and Business Benefits for E-Enterprises. ICWI 2002: 271-275 - [c7]Babak Akhgar, Jawed I. A. Siddiqi, Khalid Hafeez, James Stevenson:
A Logical Architecture for E-Knowledge Management. ICMLA 2002: 180-186 - [c6]Babak Akhgar, Mehrdad Naderi, Innes Ritchie, Jawed I. A. Siddiqi, Khalid Hafeez:
The Role of Middleware in Information Systems Strategy. ICMLA 2002: 256-262 - [c5]Samir Al-Khayatt, Siraj A. Shaikh, Babak Akhgar, Jawed I. A. Siddiqi:
Performance of Multimedia Applications with IPSec Tunneling. ITCC 2002: 134-138 - [c4]Samir Al-Khayatt, Siraj A. Shaikh, Babak Akhgar, Jawed I. A. Siddiqi:
A Study of Encrypted, Tunneling Models in Virtual Private Networks. ITCC 2002: 139-143 - [c3]Jawed I. A. Siddiqi, Babak Akhgar, Carl Davies, Samir Al-Khayatt:
E-Commerce: Continuous Growth or Leveling Out? ITCC 2002: 491-497 - [c2]Babak Akhgar, Jawed I. A. Siddiqi, Samir Al-Khayatt:
Strategic exploitation of ERP for E-Business. ITCC 2002: 498-503 - 2001
- [c1]Babak Akhgar, Jawed I. A. Siddiqi:
A Framework for the Delivery of Web-centric Knowledge Management Applications. International Conference on Internet Computing (1) 2001: 47-54
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