Professor Pete Burnap

2022

• Mohammed, A. S., Reinecke, P., Burnap, P., Rana, O. and Anthi, E. 2022. Cybersecurity challenges in the offshore oil and gas Industry: An Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems (ICPS) perspective. ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems (10.1145/3548691)
• Nunes, M., Burnap, P., Reinecke, P. and Lloyd, K. 2022. Bane or boon: measuring the effect of evasive malware on system call classifiers. Journal of Information Security and Applications 67, article number: 103202. (10.1016/j.jisa.2022.103202)
• Cherdantseva, Y., Burnap, P., Nadjm-Tehrani, S. and Jones, K. 2022. A configurable dependency model of a SCADA system for goal-oriented risk assessment. Applied Sciences 12(10), article number: 4880. (10.3390/app12104880)
• Javed, A., Lakoju, M., Burnap, P. and Rana, O. 2022. Security analytics for real-time forecasting of cyberattacks. Software: Practice and Experience 52(3), pp. 788-804. (10.1002/spe.2822)
• Kayan, H., Nunes, M., Rana, O., Burnap, P. and Perera, C. 2022. Cybersecurity of industrial cyber-physical systems: a review. ACM Computing Surveys (10.1145/3510410)
• Javed, A., Ikwu, R., Burnap, P., Giommoni, L. and Williams, M. 2022. Disrupting drive-by download networks on Twitter.. Social Network Analysis and Mining

2021

• Rhode, M., Burnap, P. and Wedgbury, A. 2021. Real-time malware process detection and automated process killing. Security and Communication Networks 2021, article number: 8933681. (10.1155/2021/8933681)
• Nafees, M. N., Saxena, N. and Burnap, P. 2021. Optimized predictive control for AGC cyber resiliency. Presented at: 2021 ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), Seoul, South Korea, 14-19 November 2021CCS '21: Proceedings of the 2021 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security. ACM pp. 2450-2452., (10.1145/3460120.3485358)
• Anthi, E., Williams, L., Javed, A. and Burnap, P. 2021. Hardening machine learning Denial of Service (DoS) defences against adversarial attacks in IoT smart home networks. Computers and Security 108, article number: 102352. (10.1016/j.cose.2021.102352)
• Lakoju, M., Ajienka, N., Khanesar, M., Burnap, P. and Branson, D. 2021. Unsupervised learning for product use activity recognition: an exploratory study of a “Chatty Device”. Sensors 21(15), article number: 4991. (10.3390/s21154991)
• Radanliev, P. et al. 2021. Dynamic real-time risk analytics of uncontrollable states in complex internet of things systems: cyber risk at the edge. Environment Systems and Decisions 41, pp. 236-247. (10.1007/s10669-020-09792-x)
• Anthi, E., Williams, L., Rhode, M., Burnap, P. and Wedgbury, A. 2021. Adversarial attacks on machine learning cybersecurity defences in industrial control systems. Journal of Information Security and Applications 58, article number: 102717. (10.1016/j.jisa.2020.102717)
• Nafees, M. N., Saxena, N. and Burnap, P. 2021. Specification-based process control attack detection in substation automation. Presented at: 42nd IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2021, Virtual, 23-27 May 2021.
• Aliwa, E., Rana, O., Perera, C. and Burnap, P. 2021. Cyberattacks and countermeasures for in-vehicle networks. ACM Computing Surveys 54(1), article number: 21. (10.1145/3431233)
• Lakoju, M., Javed, A., Rana, O., Burnap, P., Atiba, S. and Cherkaoui, S. 2021. "Chatty Devices” and edge-based activity classification. Discover Internet of Things 1, article number: 5. (10.1007/s43926-021-00004-9)
• Alorainy, W., Burnap, P., Liu, H., Williams, M. and Giommoni, L. 2021. Disrupting networks of hate: Characterising hateful networks and removing critical nodes. Social Network Analysis and Mining 12, article number: 27. (10.1007/s13278-021-00818-z)
• Anthi, E., Williams, L., Burnap, P. and Jones, K. 2021. A three-tiered intrusion detection system for Industrial Control Systems (ICS). Journal of Cybersecurity 7(1), article number: tyab006. (10.1093/cybsec/tyab006)
• Asiri, M., Saxena, N. and Burnap, P. 2021. Investigating usable indicators against cyber-attacks in industrial control systems. Presented at: 17th Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (USENIX Security 2021), Virtual, 08-10 August 2021.
• Alrowaili, Y., Saxena, N. and Burnap, P. 2021. Determining asset criticality in cyber-physical smart grid. Presented at: 26th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2021), Virtual, 04-08 October 2021.

2020

• Al Baghal, T., Sloan, L., Jessop, C., Williams, M. L. and Burnap, P. 2020. Linking Twitter and survey data: the impact of survey mode and demographics on consent rates across three UK studies. Social Science Computer Review 38(5), pp. 517-532. (10.1177/0894439319828011)
• Saxena, N., Hayes, E., Bertino, E., Ojo, P., Choo, K. R. and Burnap, P. 2020. Impact and key challenges of insider threats on organizations and critical businesses. Electronics 9(9), article number: 1460. (10.3390/electronics9091460)
• Javed, A., Burnap, P., Williams, M. L. and Rana, O. F. 2020. Emotions behind drive-by download propagation on Twitter. ACM Transactions on the Web 14(4), article number: 16. (10.1145/3408894)
• Bérubé, M., Tang, T., Fortin, F., Ozlap, S., Williams, M. L. and Burnap, P. 2020. Social media forensics applied to assessment of post–critical incident social reaction: The case of the 2017 Manchester Arena terrorist attack. Forensic Science International 313, article number: 110364. (10.1016/j.forsciint.2020.110364)
• Pratomo, B., Burnap, P. and Theodorakopoulos, G. 2020. BLATTA: early exploit setection on network traffic with recurrent neural networks. Security and Communication Networks 2020, article number: 8826038. (10.1155/2020/8826038)
• Saxena, N., Thomas, I., Gope, P., Burnap, P. and Kumar, N. 2020. PharmaCrypt: blockchain for critical pharmaceutical industry to counterfeit drugs. Computer 53(7), pp. 29-44. (10.1109/MC.2020.2989238)
• Radanliev, P. et al. 2020. Cyber risk at the edge: current and future trends on cyber risk analytics and artificial intelligence in the industrial internet of things and industry 4.0 supply chains. Cybersecurity 3, article number: 13. (10.1186/s42400-020-00052-8)
• Agyepong, E., Cherdantseva, Y., Reinecke, P. and Burnap, P. 2020. Cyber security operations centre concepts and implementation. In: Yaokumah, W. et al. eds. Modern Theories and Practices for Cyber Ethics and Security Compliance. IGI Global, pp. 88-104., (10.4018/978-1-7998-3149-5.ch006)
• Ozalp, S., Williams, M. L., Burnap, P., Liu, H. and Mostafa, M. 2020. Antisemitism on twitter: collective efficacy and the role of community organisations in challenging online hate speech. Social Media and Society 6(2), pp. 1-20. (10.1177/2056305120916850)
• Williams, M. L., Burnap, P., Javed, A., Liu, H. and Ozalp, S. 2020. Hate in the machine: anti-black and anti-Muslim social media posts as predictors of offline racially and religiously aggravated crime. British Journal of Criminology 60(1), pp. 93-117. (10.1093/bjc/azz049)
• Barati, M., Rana, O., Theodorakopoulos, G. and Burnap, P. 2020. Privacy-aware cloud ecosystems and GDPR compliance. Presented at: 2019 7th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud), 26-28 August 2019, Istanbul, Turkey2019 7th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud). IEEE pp. 117., (10.1109/FiCloud.2019.00024)
• Scourfield, J., Evans, R., Colombo, G., Burrows, D., Jacob, N., Williams, M. and Burnap, P. 2020. Are youth suicide memorial sites on Facebook different from those for other sudden deaths?. Death Studies 44(12), pp. 793-801. (10.1080/07481187.2019.1614109)
• Liu, H., Burnap, P., Alorainy, W. and Williams, M. 2020. Scmhl5 at TRAC-2 shared task on aggression identification: bert based ensemble learning approach. Presented at: Second Workshop on Trolling, Aggression and Cyberbullying, Marseille, France, 16 May 2020.
• Agyepong, E., Cherdantseva, Y., Reinecke, P. and Burnap, P. 2020. Challenges and performance metrics for security operations center analysts: a systematic review. Journal of Cyber Security Technology 4(3), pp. 125-152. (10.1080/23742917.2019.1698178)
• Agyepong, E., Cherdantseva, Y., Reinecke, P. and Burnap, P. 2020. Towards a framework for measuring the performance of a security operations center analyst. Presented at: IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Protection of Digital Services (Cyber Security 2020), Dublin, Ireland, 15-17 June 2020.
• Nafees, M. N., Saxena, N., Burnap, P. and Choi, B. J. 2020. Impact of energy consumption attacks on LoRaWAN-enabled devices in industrial context. Presented at: ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2020), Virtual, 9-13 November 2020.
• Nafees, M. N., Saxena, N., Khan, R. and Burnap, P. 2020. Towards distance relay attack discrimination for situational awareness-based anomaly detection. Presented at: Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC 2020), Virtual, 7-11 December 2020.

2019

• Alorainy, W., Burnap, P., Liu, H. and Williams, M. L. 2019. 'The enemy among us': detecting cyber hate speech with threats-based othering language embeddings. ACM Transactions on the Web 13(3), article number: 14. (10.1145/3324997)
• Anthi, E., Williams, L., Malgorzata, S., Theodorakopoulos, G. and Burnap, P. 2019. A supervised intrusion detection system for smart home IoT devices. IEEE Internet of Things 6(5), pp. 9042-9053. (10.1109/JIOT.2019.2926365)
• Nunes, M., Burnap, P., Rana, O., Reinecke, P. and Lloyd, K. 2019. Getting to the root of the problem: A detailed comparison of kernel and user level data for dynamic malware analysis. Journal of Information Security and Applications 48, article number: 102365. (10.1016/j.jisa.2019.102365)
• Williams, M. L., Levi, M., Burnap, P. and Gundur, R. V. 2019. Under the corporate radar: examining insider business cybercrime victimization through an application of routine activities theory. Deviant Behavior 40(9), pp. 1119-1131. (10.1080/01639625.2018.1461786)
• Rhode, M., Tuson, L., Burnap, P. and Jones, K. 2019. LAB to SOC: Robust Features for Dynamic Malware Detection. Presented at: 49th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2019), Portland, OR, USA, 24-27 June 20192019 49th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks – Industry Track. IEEE pp. 13-16., (10.1109/DSN-Industry.2019.00010)
• Javed, A., Burnap, P. and Rana, O. 2019. Prediction of drive-by download attacks on Twitter. Information Processing and Management 56(3), pp. 1133-1145. (10.1016/j.ipm.2018.02.003)
• Liu, H., Burnap, P., Alorainy, W. and Williams, M. L. 2019. Fuzzy multi-task learning for hate speech type identification. Presented at: The Web Conference 2019, San Francisco, CA, USA, 13-17 May 2019WWW '19 The World Wide Web Conference. ACM pp. 3006-3012., (10.1145/3308558.3313546)
• Liu, H., Burnap, P., Alorainy, W. and Williams, M. L. 2019. A fuzzy approach to text classification with two-stage training for ambiguous instances. IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems 6(2), pp. 227-240. (10.1109/TCSS.2019.2892037)
• Scourfield, J., Colombo, G., Burnap, P., Evans, R., Jacob, N., Williams, M. and Caul, S. 2019. The number and characteristics of newspaper and Twitter reports on suicides and road traffic deaths in young people. Archives of Suicide Research 23(3), pp. 507-522. (10.1080/13811118.2018.1479321)
• Procter, R., Webb, H., Jirotka, M., Burnap, P., Housley, W., Edwards, A. and Williams, M. 2019. A study of cyber hate on Twitter with implications for social media governance strategies. [Online]. arXiv. Available at: https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.11732
• Burnap, P. et al. 2019. Chatty factories: a vision for the future of product design and manufacture with IoT. Presented at: Living in the Internet of Things (IoT 2019), London, UK, 1-2 May 2019Living in the Internet of Things (IoT 2019). IET pp. 4 (6 pp.)., (10.1049/cp.2019.0129)
• Aldmour, R., Burnap, P. and Lakoju, M. 2019. Risk assessment methods for converged IoT and SCADA systems: review and recommendations. Presented at: Living in the Internet of Things (IoT 2019), London, UK, 1-2 May 2019Living in the Internet of Things (IoT 2019). IET pp. 5-10., (10.1049/cp.2019.0130)

2018

• Alorainy, W., Burnap, P., Liu, H., Javed, A. and Williams, M. 2018. Suspended accounts: A source of Tweets with disgust and anger emotions for augmenting hate speech data sample. Presented at: International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics, Chengdu, China, 15-18 July 20182018 International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics (ICMLC). IEEE pp. 581-586., (10.1109/ICMLC.2018.8527001)
• Radanliev, P., De Roure, D., Nicolescu, R., Huth, M., Mantilla, R., Cannady, S. and Burnap, P. 2018. Future developments in cyber risk assessment for the internet of things. Computers in Industry 102, pp. 14-22. (10.1016/j.compind.2018.08.002)
• Anthi, E., Ahmad, S., Rana, O., Burnap, P. and Theodorakopoulos, G. 2018. EclipseIoT: A secure and adaptive hub for the Internet of Things. Computers and Security 78, pp. 477-490. (10.1016/j.cose.2018.07.016)
• Rhode, M., Burnap, P. and Jones, K. 2018. Early-stage malware prediction using recurrent neural networks. Computers and Security 77, pp. 578-594. (10.1016/j.cose.2018.05.010)
• Burnap, P., French, R., Turner, F. and Jones, K. 2018. Malware classification using self organising feature maps and machine activity data. Computers and Security 73, pp. 399-410. (10.1016/j.cose.2017.11.016)
• Housley, W. et al. 2018. Interaction and transformation on social media: the case of Twitter campaigns. Social Media and Society 4(1), pp. 1-12. (10.1177/2056305117750721)

2017

• Williams, M. L., Burnap, P., Sloan, L., Jessop, C. and Lepps, H. 2017. Users' view's of ethics in social media research: informed consent, anonymity and harm. In: Woodfield, K. ed. The Ethics of Online Research., Vol. 2. Advances in Research Ethics and Integrity Emerald Publishing, pp. 27-51., (10.1108/S2398-601820180000002002)
• Williams, M. L., Burnap, P. and Sloan, L. 2017. Towards an ethical framework for publishing Twitter data in social research: taking into account users’ views, online context and algorithmic estimation. Sociology 51(6), pp. 1149-1168. (10.1177/0038038517708140)
• Thomas, L., Long, C., Burnap, P., Wu, J. and Jenkins, N. 2017. Automation of the supplier role in the GB power system using blockchain based smart contracts. CIRED - Open Access Proceedings Journal 2017(1), pp. 2619-2623. (10.1049/oap-cired.2017.0987)
• Burnap, P., Colombo, G., Amery, R., Hodorog, A. and Scourfield, J. 2017. Multi-class machine classification of suicide-related communication on Twitter. Online Social Networks and Media 2, pp. 32-44. (10.1016/j.osnem.2017.08.001)
• Webb, H. et al. 2017. The ethical challenges of publishing Twitter data for research dissemination. Presented at: WebSci'17: ACM Web Science Conference, Troy, NY, USA, 25-28 June 2017Proceedings of the 2017 ACM on Web Science Conference. ACM pp. 339-348., (10.1145/3091478.3091489)
• Baylis, R., Burnap, P., Clatworthy, M. A., Gad, M. A. and Pong, C. K. M. 2017. Private lenders' demand for audit. Journal of Accounting and Economics 64(1), pp. 78-97. (10.1016/j.jacceco.2017.06.001)
• Alsaedi, N., Burnap, P. and Rana, O. 2017. Can we predict a riot? Disruptive event detection using Twitter. ACM Transactions on Internet Technology 17(2), article number: 18. (10.1145/2996183)
• Eden, P., Blyth, A., Jones, K., Soulsby, H., Burnap, P., Cherdantseva, Y. and Stoddart, K. 2017. SCADA system forensic analysis within IIoT. In: Thames, L. and Schaefer, D. eds. Cybersecurity for Industry 4.0: Analysis for Design and Manufacturing. Springer Series in Advanced Manufacturing, pp. 73-101., (10.1007/978-3-319-50660-9_4)
• Burnap, P., Cherdantseva, Y., Blyth, A., Eden, P., Jones, K., Soulsby, H. and Stoddart, K. 2017. Determining and sharing risk data in distributed interdependent systems. IEEE Computer 50(4), pp. 72-79. (10.1109/MC.2017.108)
• Williams, M. L., Burnap, P. and Sloan, L. 2017. Crime sensing with big data: the affordances and limitations of using open-source communications to estimate crime patterns. British Journal of Criminology 57(2), pp. 320-340. (10.1093/bjc/azw031)
• Alsaedi, N., Burnap, P. and Rana, O. F. 2017. Temporal TF-IDF: a high performance approach for event summarization in Twitter. Presented at: IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, Omaha, Nebraska, USA, 13-16 October 20162016 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence. IEEE pp. 515-521., (10.1109/WI.2016.0087)
• Alsaedi, N., Burnap, P. and Rana, O. F. 2017. Sensing real-world events using social media data and a classification-clustering framework. Presented at: IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, Omaha, Nebraska, USA, 13-16 October 20162016 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI). IEEE pp. 216-223., (10.1109/WI.2016.0039)
• Williams, M. L. and Burnap, P. 2017. Detecting crime events using social media. Presented at: Home Office Crime and Policing Analysis Unit Seminar Series, Westminster, London, UK, July, 2017. pp. -.
• Burnap, P. and Williams, M. L. 2017. Classifying and modeling cyber hate speech: research and opportunities for practical intervention. Presented at: 1st International Conference on Cyber Deviance Detection (CyberDD) in conjunction with 10th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2017), Cambridge, UK, 10 Feb 2017.
• Williams, M. L. and Burnap, P. 2017. Social data science & criminology: machine classification and modelling of cyberhate in online social networks. Presented at: Cambridge Institute of Criminology Seminar Series, University of Cambridge, UK, 9 February 2017.
• Williams, M. L. and Burnap, P. 2017. Data science solutions for detecting and monitoring Brexit related online hate speech. Presented at: UK Government Data Science Community Interest Workshop, ONS Data Science Campus, Newport, Wales, UK, 4 September 2017.
• Williams, M. and Burnap, P. 2017. Online extremism and hate speech: definition, measurement & regulation. Presented at: Internet Leadership Academy, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, UK, 26 September 2017.

2016

• Scourfield, J. B. et al. 2016. The response in Twitter to an assisted suicide in a television soap opera. Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention 37(5), pp. 392-395. (10.1027/0227-5910/a000377)
• Eden, P., Blyth, A., Burnap, P., Cherdantseva, Y., Jones, K., Soulsby, H. and Stoddart, K. 2016. Forensic readiness for SCADA/ICS incident response. Presented at: 4th International Symposium for ICS & SCADA Cyber Security Research, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, UK, 23-25 August 2016.
• Burnap, P. and Williams, M. L. 2016. Computational human and cyber security analytics for government and policy. Presented at: Data Science and Government Conference, Oxford, UK, 22 June 2016.
• Webb, H. et al. 2016. Digital wildfires: propagation, verification, regulation, and responsible innovation. ACM Transactions on Information Systems 34(3), article number: 15. (10.1145/2893478)
• Williams, M. L. and Burnap, P. 2016. Cyberhate on social media in the aftermath of Woolwich: a case study in computational criminology and big data. British Journal of Criminology 56(2), pp. 211-238. (10.1093/bjc/azv059)
• Alsaedi, N., Burnap, P. and Rana, O. F. 2016. Sensing real-world events using Arabic Twitter posts. Presented at: International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), Cologne, Germany, 17-20 May 2016Proceedings of the Tenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2016). AAAI pp. 515-518.
• Alsaedi, N., Burnap, P. and Rana, O. F. 2016. Automatic summarization of real world events using Twitter. Presented at: International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), Cologne, Germany, 17-20 May 2016Proceedings of the Tenth International AAAI Confe. AAAI pp. 511-514.
• Awan, M. S. K., Burnap, P. and Rana, O. F. 2016. Identifying cyber risk hotspots: A framework for measuring temporal variance in computer network risk. Computers and Security 57, pp. 31-46. (10.1016/j.cose.2015.11.003)
• Burnap, P., Gibson, R., Sloan, L., Southern, R. and Williams, M. L. 2016. 140 characters to victory?: Using Twitter to predict the UK 2015 General Election. Electoral Studies 41, pp. 230-233. (10.1016/j.electstud.2015.11.017)
• Conejero, J., Rana, O. F., Burnap, P., Morgan, J., Caminero, B. and Carrión, C. 2016. Analysing Hadoop power consumption and impact on application QoS. Future Generation Computer Systems 55, pp. 213-223. (10.1016/j.future.2015.03.009)
• Cherdantseva, Y., Burnap, P., Blyth, A., Eden, P., Jones, K., Soulsby, H. and Stoddart, K. 2016. A review of cyber security risk assessment methods for SCADA systems. Computers and Security 56, pp. 1-27. (10.1016/j.cose.2015.09.009)
• Burnap, P. and Williams, M. L. 2016. Us and them: identifying cyber hate on Twitter across multiple protected characteristics. EPJ Data Science 5, article number: 11. (10.1140/epjds/s13688-016-0072-6)

2015

• Burnap, P., Colombo, G. and Scourfield, J. B. 2015. Machine classification and analysis of suicide-related communication on Twitter. Presented at: 26th ACM Conference on Hypertext & Social Media, Cyprus, 1-4 September 2015HT '15- Proceedings of the 26th ACM Conference on Hypertext & Social Media. Association for Computing Machinery pp. 75-84.
• Webb, H. et al. 2015. Digital wildfires: hyper-connectivity, havoc, and a global ethos to govern social media. Computers and Society 45(3), pp. 193-201.
• Burnap, P., Javed, A., Rana, O. F. and Awan, M. 2015. Real-time classification of malicious URLs on Twitter using Machine Activity Data. Presented at: IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), Paris, France, 25-27 August 2015. ACM
• Alsaedi, N., Burnap, P. and Rana, O. F. 2015. Identifying disruptive events from social media to enhance situational awareness. Presented at: IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), Paris, France, 24-27 August 2015ASONAM '15 Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining. ACM pp. 934-941., (10.1145/2808797.2808879)
• Williams, M. L. and Burnap, P. 2015. Combating cyber-hate on social media throughcounter-speech. Presented at: Symposium on Anti-Muslim Hate Crime, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, 16 June 2015.
• Burnap, P. and Williams, M. L. 2015. Cyber hate speech on Twitter: An application of machine classification and statistical modeling for policy and decision making. Policy & Internet 7(2), pp. 223-242. (10.1002/poi3.85)
• Burnap, P. et al. 2015. Detecting tension in online communities with computational Twitter analysis. Technological Forecasting & Social Change 95, pp. 96-108. (10.1016/j.techfore.2013.04.013)
• Burnap, P. and Williams, M. L. 2015. Plenary: Computational & social security analytics using Big Data. Presented at: International Conference on Computational Social Science, Helsinki, Finland, 8-11 June 2015.
• Williams, M. L. and Burnap, P. 2015. Using big social data and real-time analytics to inform policy. Presented at: Policy-Making in the Big Data Era: Opportunities and Challenges, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, 15-17 June 2015.
• Alsaedi, N. and Burnap, P. 2015. Arabic event detection in social media. Presented at: 16th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, Cairo, Egypt, 14-20 April 2015 Presented at Gelbukh, A. ed.Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing: 16th International Conference, CICLing 2015, Cairo, Egypt, April 14-20, 2015, Proceedings, Part I, Vol. 9041. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Springer Verlag pp. 384-401., (10.1007/978-3-319-18111-0_29)
• Burnap, P. and Williams, M. L. 2015. Cyber hate speech on Twitter: an application of machine classification and statistical modeling for policy and decision making. Presented at: ICWSM Workshop on Religion and Social Media, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, 26 May 2015.
• Williams, M. L. and Burnap, P. 2015. Cyber-hate on social media in the aftermath of Woolwich. Presented at: Government Hate Crime Seminar, London, UK, 11 March 2015.
• Sloan, L., Morgan, J., Burnap, P. and Williams, M. 2015. Who tweets? Deriving the demographic characteristics of age, occupation and social class from Twitter user meta-data. PLoS ONE 10(3), article number: e0115545. (10.1371/journal.pone.0115545)
• Colombo, G. B., Burnap, P., Hodorog, A. and Scourfield, J. B. 2015. Analysing the connectivity and communication of suicidal users on Twitter. Computer Communications 73(B), pp. 291-300. (10.1016/j.comcom.2015.07.018)
• Williams, M. L. and Burnap, P. 2015. Economic and Social Research Council Trans-Atlantic Platform Workshop. Presented at: Digital Scholarship in the Social Sciences and Humanities: New Forms of Data for Research, Washington DC, USA, 28-29 Jan 2015.
• Burnap, P. et al. 2015. COSMOS: Towards an integrated and scalable service for analysing social media on demand. International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems 30(2), pp. 80-100. (10.1080/17445760.2014.902057)
• Burnap, P., Gibson, R., Sloan, L., Southern, R. and Williams, M. L. 2015. 140 characters to victory?: Using Twitter to predict the UK 2015 General Election. Working paper. Cardiff University.
• Al Said, T., Rana, O. F. and Burnap, P. 2015. VMInformant: an instrumented virtual machine to support trustworthy cloud computing. International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking 8(3), pp. 222-234., article number: IJHPCN080303. (10.1504/IJHPCN.2015.071257)
• Awan, M. S. K., AlGhamdi, M., AlMotiri, S., Burnap, P. and Rana, O. F. 2015. A classification framework for distinct cyber-attacks based on occurrence patterns. Presented at: The 9th International Conference on Security of Information and Networks, Soch, Russia, 8-10 September 2015Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Security of Information and Networks. ACM pp. 165-168., (10.1145/2799979.2800037)
• Awan, M. S., Burnap, P. and Rana, O. F. 2015. Estimating risk boundaries for persistent and stealthy cyber-attacks. Presented at: 22nd ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, Denver Colorado, USA, 12-16 October 2015SafeConfig '15 Proceedings of the 2015 Workshop on Automated Decision Making for Active Cyber Defense. ACM pp. 15-20., (10.1145/2809826.2809830)
• Eden, P., Blyth, A., Burnap, P., Cherdantseva, Y., Jones, K., Hugh, S. and Kristan, S. 2015. A cyber forensic taxonomy for SCADA systems in critical infrastructure. Presented at: The 10th International Conference on Critical Information Infrastructures Security 2015 (CRITIS 2015), Berlin, Germany, 5-7 October 2015.
• Eden, P., Blyth, A., Burnap, P., Jones, K. and Stoddart, K. 2015. A forensic taxonomy of SCADA systems and approach to incident response. Presented at: The 3rd International Symposium for ICS and SCADA Cyber Security Research 2015 (ICS-CSR 2015), Ingolstadt, Germany, 17 - 18 September 2015. , (10.14236/ewic/ICS2015.5)
• Awan, M. S. K., Burnap, P., Rana, O. F. and Javed, A. 2015. Continuous monitoring and assessment of cybersecurity risks in large computing infrastructures. Presented at: 2015 IEEE 7th International Symposium on Cyberspace Safety and Security (CSS), 2015 IEEE 12th International Conferen on Embedded Software and Systems (ICESS), 2015 IEEE 17th International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC, New York City, NY, USA, 24-26 August 2015High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC), 2015 IEEE 7th International Symposium on Cyberspace Safety and Security (CSS), 2015 IEEE 12th International Conferen on Embedded Software and Systems (ICESS), 2015 IEEE 17th International Conference on. IEEE pp. 1442-1447., (10.1109/HPCC-CSS-ICESS.2015.224)
• Awan, M., Burnap, P. and Rana, O. F. 2015. An empirical risk management framework for monitoring network security. Presented at: IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology; Ubiquitous Computing and Communications; Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing; Pervasive Intelligence and Computing (CIT/IUCC/DASC/PICOM),, Liverpool, UK, 26-28 October 2015Computer and Information Technology; Ubiquitous Computing and Communications; Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing; Pervasive Intelligence and Computing (CIT/IUCC/DASC/PICOM), 2015 IEEE International Conference on. IEEE pp. 1764-1771., (10.1109/CIT/IUCC/DASC/PICOM.2015.266)
• Rahulamathavan, Y., Rajarajan, M., Rana, O. F., Awan, M., Burnap, P. and Das, S. K. 2015. Assessing data breach risk in cloud systems. Presented at: 7th International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom), Vancouver, BC, Canada, 30 Nov-3 Dec 20152015 IEEE 7th International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom). IEEE pp. 363-370., (10.1109/CloudCom.2015.58)

2014

• Williams, M. and Burnap, P. L. 2014. Human security analytics. Presented at: Web Science Trust Web Science Summer School, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Malaysia, 8-12 December 2014.
• Burnap, P. and Williams, M. L. 2014. Big social data analysis panel. Presented at: Web Science Trust Web Science Summer School, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Malaysia, 8-12 December 2014.
• Williams, M. L. and Burnap, P. 2014. Hate speech, tension monitoring and social media. Presented at: Wales Hate Crime Criminal Justice Board, Cardiff, Wales, 23 July 2014. pp. -.
• Sloan, L., Williams, M. L. and Burnap, P. 2014. Deriving demographic variables from twitter data. Presented at: Office for National Statistics Big Data Project Workshop, Titchfield, England, 21 July 2014. pp. -.
• Burnap, P., Rana, O. F., Pauran, N. and Bowen, P. J. 2014. Towards real-time probabilistic risk assessment by sensing disruptive events from streamed news feeds. Presented at: 8th IEEE International Conference on Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems (CISIS 2014), Birmingham City University, Birmingham, UK., 2-4 July 2014. pp. -.
• Burnap, P. et al. 2014. Tweeting the terror: modelling the social media reaction to the Woolwich terrorist attack. Social Network Analysis and Mining 4, article number: 206. (10.1007/s13278-014-0206-4)
• Alsaedi, N., Burnap, P. and Rana, O. F. 2014. A combined classification-clustering framework for identifying disruptive events. Presented at: ASE SocialCom Conference, Stanford University, CA., USA, May 27-21 2014.
• Housley, W. et al. 2014. Big and broad social data and the sociological imagination: a collaborative response. Big Data & Society 1(2) (10.1177/2053951714545135)
• Burnap, P. and Williams, M. L. 2014. Hate speech, machine classification and statistical modelling of information flows on Twitter: interpretation and communication for policy decision making. Presented at: Internet, Policy & Politics, Oxford, UK, 26 September 2014.
• Rahulamathavan, Y., Pawar, P. S., Burnap, P., Rajarajan, M., Rana, O. F. and Spanoudakis, G. 2014. Analysing security requirements in cloud-based service level agreements. Presented at: SIN '14 The 7th International Conference on Security of Information and Networks, Glasgow, 9 - 11 September 2014Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Security of Information and Networks. New York, NY: ACM pp. 73-77., (10.1145/2659651.2659735)

2013

• Sloan, L., Morgan, J., Housley, W., Williams, M. L., Edwards, A. M., Burnap, P. and Rana, O. F. 2013. Knowing the Tweeters: Deriving sociologically relevant demographics from Twitter. Sociological Research Online 18(3), article number: 7. (10.5153/sro.3001)
• Conejero, J., Rana, O. F., Burnap, P., Morgan, J., Carrion, C. and Caminero, B. 2013. Characterising the power consumption of Hadoop Clouds: A social media analysis case study. Presented at: CLOSER 2013: 3rd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science, Aachen, Germany, 8-10 May 2013. , (10.5220/0004373502330243)
• Burnap, P., Avis, N. J. and Rana, O. F. 2013. Making sense of self-reported socially significant data using computational methods. International Journal of Social Research Methodology 16(3), pp. 215-230. (10.1080/13645579.2013.774174)
• Williams, M. L. et al. 2013. Policing cyber-neighbourhoods: Tension monitoring and social media networks. Policing and Society 23(4), pp. 461-481. (10.1080/10439463.2013.780225)
• Conejero, J., Burnap, P., Rana, O. F. and Morgan, J. 2013. Scaling archived social media data analysis using a hadoop cloud. Presented at: IEEE 6th International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD), Santa Clara, CA, USA, 27 June - 2 July 2013. IEEE
• Williams, M. L., Procter, R., Housley, W., Edwards, A. M., Burnap, P., Sloan, L. and Voss, A. 2013. Collaborative online social media observatory. Presented at: COSMOS Launch, London, England, 2013.
• Housley, W., Williams, M. L., Burnap, P. and Procter, R. 2013. COSMOS: theory, method and data. Presented at: Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick, Warwick, UK, 2013.
• Sloan, L., Rob, P., Williams, M. L., Housley, W., Edwards, A. M., Burnap, P. and Rana, O. F. 2013. The Collaborative Online Social Media Observatory. Presented at: ESRC Seminar Series: New Social Media, New Social Science? Blurring the Boundaries: One Year On, London, UK, 2013.
• Sloan, L., Williams, M. L., Burnap, P., Housley, W., Edwards, A. M. and Rana, O. F. 2013. Using social media with survey data. Presented at: ESRC Seminar Series: New Social Media, New Social Science?, London, UK, 2013.
• Burnap, P. et al. 2013. Collaborative online social media observatory. Presented at: Web Observatory Launch, Royal Society, London, UK, 2013.
• Rob, P. et al. 2013. Enabling social media research through citizen social science. Presented at: 13th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Paphos, Cyprus, 21-25 September 2013.
• Burnap, P., Williams, M. L., Housley, W., Edwards, A. M., Sloan, L. and Rana, O. F. 2013. Detecting tension in social media. Presented at: Third International Conference on Social Computing and its Applications, Karlsruhe, Germany, 30 Sept - 2 Oct 2013.

2012

• Burnap, P., Spasic, I., Gray, W. A., Hilton, J. C., Rana, O. F. and Elwyn, G. 2012. Protecting patient privacy in distributed collaborative healthcare environments by retaining access control of shared information. Presented at: 2012 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS), Denver, CO, USA, 21-25 May 2012 Presented at Smari, W. W. and Charles, F. eds.2012 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS), Vol. 14. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE pp. 490-497., (10.1109/CTS.2012.6261095)
• Spasic, I., Burnap, P., Greenwood, M. and Arribas-Ayllon, M. 2012. A naïve Bayes approach to classifying topics in suicide notes. Biomedical Informatics Insights 5(Supp 1), pp. 87-97. (10.4137/BII.S8945)
• Burnap, P. et al. 2012. Working paper 153: social media analysis, Twitter and the London Olympics 2012 [working paper]. Working paper. Cardiff: School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University. Available at: http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/socsi/resources/Working%20Paper%20153%20-%20Burnap%20et%20al.%20(2013)%20Social%20Media%20Analysis,%20Twitter%20and%20the%20London%20Olympics%202012%20-%20A%20Research%20Note.pdf
• Williams, M. L., Housley, W., Edwards, A. M., Burnap, P., Rana, O. F. and Avis, N. 2012. Computational and transformational social science. Presented at: Digital Social Research Experts Meeting, Keble College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, 2012.
• Housley, W., Edwards, A. M., Williams, M. L., Burnap, P., Rana, O. F. and Avis, N. 2012. Supporting empirical digital social research for the social sciences. Presented at: Digital Research 2012 Conference, St Catherines College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, 2012.
• Williams, M. L., Burnap, P., Housley, W., Edwards, A. M., Rana, O. F. and Avis, N. 2012. Treating social media as data: computational sociological Methods, data analysis and the Cardiff online social media Observatory. Presented at: NCRM, Research Methods Festival, St Catherine's College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, 2012.
• Williams, M. D., Housley, W., Edwards, A. M., Williams, M. L., Burnap, P., Rana, O. F. and Avis, N. 2012. Computational social science and methodological innovation: surrogacy, augmentation or reorientation. Presented at: ESRC Seminar Series: Blurring the boundaries: New social media, new social science?, London, UK, 2012.
• Edwards, A. M., Williams, M. L., Housley, W., Burnap, P., Rana, O. F. and Avis, N. 2012. Mining tension and cohesion using the Cardiff Online Social Media Observatory. Presented at: NCRM, Research Methods Festival,St Catherine's College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, 2012.
• Burnap, P. et al. 2012. Social media analysis, Twitter and the London Olympics (a research note). Working paper. Cardiff: Cardiff University.

2010

• Alsalamah, S., Hilton, J. C. and Burnap, P. 2010. Towards information sharing in virtual organisations: The development of an icon-based information control model. Presented at: The UK All Hands Meeting (AHM), Cardiff, UK, 13- 16 September 2010.

2009

• Burnap, P. and Hilton, J. C. 2009. Self protecting data for de-perimeterised information sharing. Presented at: Third International Conference on Digital Society ICDS '09, Cancun, Mexico, 1-7 February 2009Digital Society, 2009. ICDS '09. Third International Conference on. IEEE pp. 65-70., (10.1109/ICDS.2009.41)

2008

• Burnap, P. and Hilton, J. C. 2008. Information assurance for collaborative working in deperimeterised environments. Presented at: UK e-Science All Hands Meeting, Edinburgh, UK, 8-11 September 2008.

2006

• Gray, W. A., Burnap, P., Miles, J. C. and Pahwa, J. S. 2006. MDSSF - A Federated Architecture for Product Procurement. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4080, pp. 812-821. (10.1007/11827405_79)
• Pahwa, J. S., Burnap, P., Gray, W. A. and Miles, J. C. 2006. MDSSF- A federated architecture for product procurement. Presented at: 17th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA '06), Krakov, Poland.

2005

• Burnap, P. et al. 2005. Worldwide messaging support for high performance real-time collaboration. Presented at: 4th UK e-Science Programme All Hands Meeting, Nottingham, UK, 19-22 September 2005 Presented at Cox, S. J. and Walker, D. W. eds.Proceedings of the 4th UK e-Science Programme All Hands Meeting. Swindon: EPSRC pp. 395.
• Burnap, P., Gray, W. A., Miles, J. C. and Rana, O. F. 2005. A service oriented infrastructure to facilitate trust in collaborative working. Presented at: 4th UK e-Science Programme All Hands Meeting, Nottingham, UK, 19-22 September 2005 Presented at Cox, S. J. and Walker, D. W. eds.Proceedings of the 4th UK e-Science Programme All Hands Meeting. Swindon: EPSRC pp. 346.
• Rana, O. F., Hilton, J. C., Joita, L., Burnap, P., Pahwa, J. S., Miles, J. C. and Gray, W. A. 2005. Secure virtual organisations: Protocols and requirements. Presented at: Information Security Solutions Europe (ISSE) 2005 - The Independent European ICT Security Conference and Exhibition, Budapest, Hungary, 27-29 September 2005 Presented at Paulus, S., Pohlmann, N. and Reimer, H. eds.ISSE 2005 - Securing Electronic Business Processes: Highlights of the Information Security Solutions Europe 2005 Conference. Berlin: Springer pp. 422-432.
• Burnap, P., Pahwa, J. S., Joita, L., Gray, W. . A., Rana, O. . F. and Miles, J. C. 2005. Grid based E-procurement. Proceedings of the ASCE, pp. 1-11. (10.1061/40794(179)156)

2004

• Joita, L., Pahwa, J. S., Burnap, P., Gray, W. A., Rana, O. F. and Miles, J. C. 2004. Supporting collaborative virtual organisations in the construction industry via the grid. Presented at: UK e-Science all Hands Meeting (AHM2004), Nottingham, UK, 31 August - 3 September 2004 Presented at Cox, S. J. ed.Proceedings of the 4th UK e-Science Programme All Hands Meeting. Swindon: EPSRC
• Joita, L., Rana, O., Burnap, P., Pahwa, J. S., Gray, W. A. and Miles, J. C. 2004. A grid-enabled security framework for collaborative virtual organisations. Presented at: 5th IFIP Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises (PRO-VE), Toulouse, France, 22-27 August 2004.
• Miles, J. C., Joita, L., Pahwa, J. S., Burnap, P., Gray, W. A. and Rana, O. F. 2004. Collaborative engineering Virtual Teams in a Grid Environment Supporting Consortia in the Construction Industry. Presented at: 10th International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering (ICCCBE), Weimar, Germany, 2-4 June 2004.
• Pahwa, J. S., Burnap, P., Joita, L., Gray, W. A., Rana, O. F. and Miles, J. C. 2004. Creating a virtual distributed database - data definition and search model for collaborative virtual teams in the construction industry. Presented at: Proceedings 21st Annual British National Conference on Databases (BNCOD2004), Edinburgh, UK.
• Burnap, P., Joita, L., Pahwa, J. S., Gray, W. A., Rana, O. F. and Miles, J. C. 2004. Security user and data management for collaborative virtual teams in a grid environment supporting consortia in the construction industry. Presented at: Proceedings of the Workshop on Requirements Capture for Collaboration in e-Science, Edinburgh, UK. pp. 54-60.
• Joita, L., Rana, O. F., Burnap, P., Pahwa, J. S., Gray, W. A. and Miles, J. C. 2004. A grid enabled security framework for collaborative virtual organisations. Presented at: Proceedings of Virtual Enterprises and Collaborative Networks IFIP 18th World Computer congressTC5/WG5.5 5th Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises, Toulouse, UK. pp. 22-27.