About Our Research
- Supporting the social-cybersecurity community by maintaining the webpage social-cybersecurity.org as an information commons.
- Running the IDeaS summer institute.
- Livecasting seminars
- Coordinating a national conference
Current Research Projects:
Coronavirus
Science of Social Cybersecurity
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Kathleen M. Carley (panel member), 2019, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. A Decadal Survey of the Social and Behavioral Sciences: A Research Agenda for Advancing Intelligence Analysis. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. [DOI]
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Kathleen M. Carley, Guido Cervone, Nitin Agarwal, Huan Liu, 2018, “Social Cyber-Security,” In Proceedings of the International Conference SBP-BRiMS 2018, Halil Bisgin, Ayaz Hyder, Chris Dancy, and Robert Thomson (Eds.) July 10-13, 2018 Washington DC, Springer. [DOI]
Social Cyber Forensics
- Bot Hunter
- Beskow, David & Carley, Kathleen M. (2018). Bot Conversations are Different:Leveraging Network Metrics for Bot Detection in Twitter. In Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE/ACM international Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), 825-832. IEEE. [DOI]
- Beskow, David & Carley, Kathleen M. (2018). Introducing Bothunter: A tiered Approach to Detection and Characterizing Automated Activity on Twitter. In Proceedings of the 2018 SBP-BRiMS Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, & Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation, Washington, DC, June 10-13, 2018, Springer., [pdf]
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David M. Beskow and Kathleen M. Carley, “Bot Conversations are Different: Leveraging Network Metrics for Bot Detection in Twitter,” 2018 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), Barcelona, Spain, 2018, pp. 825-832. [DOI]
- David M. Beskow and Kathleen M. Carley, 2019, Social Cybersecurity: An Emerging National Security Requirement, Military Review, March-April2019 [link]
- Meme Hunter
- David M. Beskow, Sumeet Kumar, and Kathleen M. Carley, 2020, The Evolution of Political Memes: Detecting and Characterizing Internet Memes with Multi-Modal Deep Learning, Information Processing & Management Vol. 57, Issue 2. [link]
- Social Media Characterization
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Binxuan Huang and Kathleen M. Carley, 2018, “Location Order Recovery in Trails with Low Temporal Resolution,” IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering. [DOI]
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Binxuan Huang, Yanglan Ou and Kathleen M. Carley, 2018, “Sentiment Classification with Attention-over-Attention Neural Networks,” In Proceedings of the International Conference SBP-BRiMS 2018, Halil Bisgin, Ayaz Hyder, Chris Dancy, and Robert Thomson (Eds.) July 10-13, 2018 Washington DC, Springer. [DOI]
- Binxuan Huang and Kathleen M. Carley, 2019, “A Large-Scale Empirical Study of Geotagging Behavior on Twitter”, In Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), Vancouver, Canada. [DOI]
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Information Threats and Challenges
- BEND
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David M. Beskow and Kathleen M. Carley, 2019, Social Cybersecurity: An Emerging National Security Requirement, Military Review, March-April 2019. [link]
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Intent Identification
- Influence Campaigns in Elections
- Asia Pacific
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Joshua Uyheng and Kathleen M. Carley, 2019, “Characterizing Bot Networks on Twitter: An Empirical Analysis of Contentious Issues in the Asia-Pacific,” In Proceedings of the International Conference SBP-BRiMS 2019, Halil Bisgin, Ayaz Hyder, Chris Dancy, and Robert Thomson (Eds.) July 9-12, 2019 Washington DC, Springer. [DOI]
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- Canada
- Asia Pacific
- Understanding Stance
Indicators and Warnings
- BEND
- David M. Beskow and Kathleen M. Carley, 2019, Social Cybersecurity: An Emerging National Security Requirement, Military Review, March-April 2019. [link]