Summary
Babak is Professor of Informatics and Director of CENTRIC at Sheffield Hallam University and Fellow of the British Computer Society. He graduated from Sheffield Hallam University in Software Engineering, and later gained considerable commercial experience as a Strategy Analyst and Methodology Director for several companies. He consolidated this experience by obtaining a Masters degree (with distinction) in Information Systems in Management and a PhD in Information Systems. Babak has more than 100 referred publications in international journals and conferences on information systems with specific focus on knowledge management (KM).
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About
He is member of editorial boards of three international journals, and chair and programme committee member of several international conferences. He has extensive and hands-on experience in development, management and execution of KM projects and large international security initiatives (e.g. combating terrorism and organised crime, cyber security, public order and cross cultural ideology polarisation). He has co-edited two recent books on intelligence management – Intelligence Management: Knowledge Driven Frameworks for Combating Terrorism and Organised Crime, and Strategic Intelligence Management: National Security Imperatives and Information and Communications Technologies.
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Research
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Publications
AKHGAR, Babak and WELLS, Douglas (2018). Critical success factors for OSINT Driven Situational Awareness. European Law Enforcement Research Bulletin, 18.
SCHEITHAUER, Herbert, LEUSCHNER, Vincenz, BÖCKLER, Nils, AKHGAR, Babak and NITSCH, Holger (2018). Developmental Pathways towards Violent Left-, Right-Wing, Islamist Extremism and Radicalization. International Journal of Developmental Science, 12 (1-2), 1-4.
GASCÓ, Mila, BAYERL, Petra Saskia, DENEF, Sebastian and AKHGAR, Babak (2017). What do citizens communicate about during crises? Analyzing twitter use during the 2011 UK riots. Government Information Quarterly, 34 (4), 635 - 645.
SAUNDERS, Jonathan, GIBSON, Helen, LEITAO, Roxanne and AKHGAR, Babak (2017). AUGGMED: developing multiplayer serious games technology to enhance first responder training. In: Proceedings Estonian Academy of Security Sciences, 16 : From Research to Security Union. Estonian Academy of Security Sciences, 223-253.
AKHGAR, Babak, BERTRAND, Piere, CHANANOULI, Christina, DAY, Tony, GIBSON, Helen, KAVALLIEROS, Dimitrios, KOMPASTSIARIS, Ioannis, KYRIAKOU, Eva, LEVENTAKIS, George, LISSARIS, Euthimios, MILLE, Simon, TSIKRIKA, Theodora, VROCHIDIS, Stefanos and WILLIAMSON, Una (2017). TENSOR: retrieval and analysis of heterogeneous online content for terrorist activity recognition. In: Proceedings Estonian Academy of Security Sciences, 16 : From Research to Security Union. Estonian Academy of Security Sciences, 33-82.
DASTBAZ, M, ARABINA, H and AKHGAR, Babak, eds. (2017). Technology for smart futures. Springer International.
SHAHRASBI, Alireza, SHAMIZANJANI, Mehdi, ALAVIDOOST, M. H. and AKHGAR, Babak (2017). An aggregated fuzzy model for the selection of a managed security service provider. International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making, 16 (3), p. 625.
DOMDOUZIS, Konstantinos, AKHGAR, Babak, ANDREWS, Simon and DAY, Tony (2017). Identification of Critical Factors in Large Crisis Decision Making Processes using Computational Tools: The case of ATHENA. International Journal of Strategic Information Technology and Applications (IJSITA), 8 (2).
AS'AD, As'ad M., KHAZAEI, Babak, AKHGAR, Babak and ALQATAWNA, Ja'far (2017). Importance of service integration in e-government implementations. In: The 7th International Conference on Information and Communication Systems, Irbid, Kingdom of Jordan, 5-7 April 2016. (In Press)
BAHK, Chi, BAPTISTA, Lucas, WINOKUR, Carly, COLODZIN, Robin and DOMDOUZIS, Konstantinos (2017). The ATHENA Mobile Application. In: AKHGAR, Babak, STANIFORTH, Andrew and WADDINGTON, David, (eds.) Application of Social Media in Crisis Management. Transactions on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence . Springer International Publishing, 97-113.
ORPHANIDES, Constantinos, AKHGAR, Babak and BAYER, Petra Saskia (2017). Discovering Knowledge in Online Drug Transactions Using Conceptual Graphs and Formal Concept Analysis. In: 2016 European Intelligence and Security Informatics Conference (EISIC). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 100-103.
TSIKRIKA, Theodora, AKHGAR, Babak, KATOS, Vasilis, VROCHIDIS, Stefanos, BURNAP, Pete and WILLIAMS, Matthew L. (2017). 1st International Workshop on Search and Mining Terrorist Online Content & Advances in Data Science for Cyber Security and Risk on the Web. In: WSDM 2017: Tenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining. ACM, 823-824.
GIBSON, Helen, AKHGAR, Babak, HAJIRASOULIHA, Iman, GARCIA, Reyes, OZDEMIR, Zuhal and PILAKOUTAS, Kypros (2016). A situational awareness framework for improving earthquake response, recovery and resilience. In: 16th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Santiago, Chile, 9-13 January 2017. (In Press)
AKHGAR, Babak and BREWSTER, Benjamin, eds. (2016). Combatting cybercrime and cyberterrorism: challenges, trends and priorities. Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications . Springer.
WELLS, Douglas, BREWSTER, Benjamin and AKHGAR, Babak (2016). Challenges priorities and policies: mapping the research requirements of cybercrime and cyberterrorism stakeholders. In: AKHGAR, Babak and BREWSTER, Benjamin, (eds.) Combatting cybercrime and cyberterrorism : challenges, trends and priorities. Advanced sciences and technologies for security applications . Cham, Springer International Publishing, 39-51.
AKHGAR, Babak, CHORAŚ, Michał, BREWSTER, Benjamin, BOSCO, Francesca, VERMEERSCH, Elise, LUDA, Vittoria, PUCHALSKI, Damian and WELLS, Douglas (2016). Consolidated taxonomy and research roadmap for cybercrime and cyberterrorism. In: AKHGAR, Babak and BREWSTER, Benjamin, (eds.) Combatting cybercrime and cyberterrorism : challenges, trends and priorities. Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications . Cham, Springer International Publishing, 295-321.
ANDREWS, Simon, GIBSON, Helen, DOMDOUZIS, Konstantinos and AKHGAR, Babak (2016). Creating corroborated crisis reports from social media data through formal concept analysis. Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, 47, 287-312.
ASA'D, Asa'd M., KHAZAEI, Babak, AKHGAR, Babak and ALQATAWNA, Ja'far (2016). Towards service integration in electronic government implementations. In: International Conference on Business Management, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 25-26 Mar 2016.. (In Press)
POURNOURI, S., AKHGAR, Babak and BAYERL, P. S. (2016). Cyber attacks analysis using decision tree technique for improving cyber situational awareness. In: JAHANKHANI, Hamid, CARLILE, Alex, EMM, David, HOSSEINIAN-FAR, Amin, BROWN, Guy, SEXTON, Graham and JAMAL, Arshad, (eds.) Global security, safety and sustainability : the security challenges of the connected world. Communications in computer and information science (630). Springer, 155-172.
AKHGAR, Babak and GIBSON, Helen (2015). Processing social media data for crisis management in Athena. In: JAHANKHANI, Hamid, CARLILE, Alex, AKHGAR, Babak, TAAL, Amie, HESSAMI, Ali G. and HOSSEINIAN-FAR, Amin, (eds.) Global Security, Safety and Sustainability: Tomorrow's Challenges of Cyber Security. Communications in Computer and Information Science (534). Springer, 3-14.
GIBSON, Helen, AKHGAR, Babak and DOMDOUZIS, Konstantinos (2015). Using Social Media for Crisis Response : The ATHENA System. In: MESQUITA, Anabela and PERES, Paula, (eds.) ECSM 2015 2nd European Conference on Social Media Porto Portugal. Academic Conferences and Publishing International Limited.
AKHGAR, Babak, TAFAGHODI, Ashkan and DOMDOUZIS, Konstantinos (2015). Cloud Computing, Sustainability, and Risk. In: DASTBAZ, Mohamed, PATTINSON, Colin and AKHGAR, Babak, (eds.) Green Information Technology. Morgan Kaufman, 295-311.
BREWSTER, Benjamin, KEMP, Benn, GALAHBAKHTIARI, Sarah and AKHGAR, Babak (2015). Cybercrime: attack motivations and implications for big data and national security. In: AKHGAR, Babak, SAATHOFF, Gregory B., ARABNIA, Hamid R., HILL, Richard, STANIFORTH, Andrew and BAYERL, Petra Saskia, (eds.) Application of big data for national security: a practitioners guide to emerging technologies. Oxford, Butterworth Heinemann (Elsevier), 108-129.
ANDREWS, Simon, POLOVINA, Simon, AKHGAR, Babak, STANIFORTH, Andrew, FORTUNE, David and STEDMAN, Alex (2015). Tackling financial and economic crime through strategic intelligence management. In: STEDMAN, Alex and LAWSON, Glyn, (eds.) Hostile intent and counter-terrorism: human factors theory and application. Human factors in defence . Ashgate, 161-176.
DOMDOUZIS, Konstantinos, ANDREWS, Simon, GIBSON, Helen, AKHGAR, Babak and HIRSCH, Laurence (2014). Service-Oriented Design of a Command and Control Intelligence Dashboard for Crisis Management. In: Big Data, Intelligence Management and Analytics Workshop (BDIMA 2014), 7th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2014), London, 8-11 December 2014.
BAYERL, Petra Saskia, AKHGAR, Babak, BREWSTER, Benjamin, DOMDOUZIS, Konstantinos and GIBSON, Helen (2014). Social media and its role for LEA's : review and applications. In: AKHGAR, Babak, STANIFORTH, Andrew and BOSCO, Francesca, (eds.) Cyber Crime and Cyber Terrorism Investigators Handbook. Elsevier, 197-220.
BAYERL, Petra Saskia, STANIFORTH, Andrew, AKHGAR, Babak, BREWSTER, Benjamin and JOHNSON, Kayleigh (2014). A framework for the investigation and modeling of online radicalization and the identification of radicalized individuals. In: AKHGAR, Babak and ARABNIA, Hamid, (eds.) Emerging Trends in ICT Security. Emerging Trends in Computer Science and Applied Computing . Elsevier, 539-547.
AKHGAR, Babak, PARVIN, Esmael Salahi and SHERKAT, Mohammad Hussein (2014). Axiomatic agent based architecture for agile decision making in strategic information systems. Journal of ambient intelligence and humanized computing, 5 (1), 93-104.
GIBSON, Helen, ANDREWS, Simon, DOMDOUZIS, Konstantinos, HIRSCH, Laurence and AKHGAR, Babak (2014). Combining Big Social Media Data and FCA for Crisis Response. In: 2014 IEEE/ACM 7th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 690-695.
POLOVINA, Simon, ANDREWS, Simon, AKHGAR, Babak, STANIFORTH, Andrew and FORTUNE, David (2014). The EMPRISES pan-European Framework:. International Journal of Conceptual Structures and Smart Applications, 2 (2), 76-87.
BREWSTER, Benjamin, ANDREWS, Simon, POLOVINA, Simon, HIRSCH, Laurence and AKHGAR, Babak (2014). Environmental Scanning and Knowledge Representation for the Detection of Organised Crime Threats. In: HERNANDEZ, Nathalie, JÄSCHKE, Robert and CROITORU, Madalina, (eds.) Graph-Based Representation and Reasoning. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (8577). Springer International Publishing, 275-280.
HASSANZADEH, Mohammad, AKHGAR, Babak and NAVIDI, Fatemeh (2014). Integrating Knowledge and Science indicators (Kientometrics) towards a rational framework of investigations: a comparative approach. Collnet Journal of Scientometrics and Information Management, 8 (2), 247-256.
DOMDOUZIS, Konstantinos, ANDREWS, Simon, GIBSON, Helen, AKHGAR, Babak and HIRSCH, Laurence (2014). Service-Oriented Design of a Command and Control Intelligence Dashboard for Crisis Management. In: 2014 IEEE/ACM 7th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 702-707.
GREEN, Geff and LOCKLEY, Eleanor (2014). Surveillance without borders : the case of Karen refugees in Sheffield. In: AKHGAR, Babak and ARABNIA, Hamid R., (eds.) Emerging trends in ICT security. Emerging Trends in Computer Science & Applied Computing (1). Waltman, MA, Morgan Kaufmann, 519-533.
BREWSTER, Benjamin, AKHGAR, Babak, STANIFORTH, Andrew, WADDINGTON, Dave, ANDREWS, Simon and JOHNSON, Kayleigh (2014). Towards a model for the integration of knowledge management in law enforcement agencies. International journal of electronic security and digital forensics, 6 (1), 1-17.
ANDREWS, Simon, YATES, Simeon, AKHGAR, Babak and FORTUNE, David (2013). The ATHENA Project: Using Formal Concept Analysis to Facilitate the Actions of Responders in a Crisis Situation. In: AKHGAR, Babak and YATES, Simeon, (eds.) Strategic Intelligence Management. Amsterdam, Elsevier: Butterworth-Heinemann, 167-180.
ANDREWS, Simon, POLOVINA, Simon, YATES, Simeon and AKHGAR, Babak (2013). Tackling financial and economic crime through strategic intelligence: The EMPRISES Framework. In: ARABNIA, Hamid R., DELIGIANNIDIS, Leonidas, HASHEMI, Ray and LU, Joan, (eds.) Proceedings of The 2013 International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering (IKE 2013). CSREA Press, 22-25.
ANDREWS, Simon, AKHGAR, Babak, YATES, Simeon, STEDMON, Alex and HIRSCH, Laurence (2013). Using formal concept analysis to detect and monitor organised crime. In: LARSEN, Henrik Legind, MARTIN-BAUTISTA, Maria J., VILA, María Amparo, ANDREASEN, Troels and CHRISTIANSEN, Henning, (eds.) Flexible Query Answering Systems. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (8132). Heidelberg, Springer, 124-133.
MARDANI, Amir, AKHGAR, Babak, ANDREWS, Simon, YATES, Simeon and HASSANZADEH, Mohammad (2012). Investigating the unofficial factors in Google ranking. In: ARABNIA, Hamid R., DELIGIANNIDIS,, Leonidas and HASHEMI, Ray R., (eds.) Proceedings of the 2012 International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering (IKE 2012). CSREA Press, 320-326.
NALCHIGAR, Soroosh, NASSERZADEH, S.M.R and AKHGAR, Babak (2011). Simulating strategic information systems planning process using fuzzy cognitive map. International Journal of Business Information Systems (IJBIS), 8 (3), 286-306.
ANDREWS, Simon, POLOVINA, Simon, HILL, Richard and AKHGAR, Babak, eds. (2011). Conceptual Structures for Discovering Knowledge (The 19th International Conference on Conceptual Structures, ICCS 2011, Derby, UK). Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Subseries: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence),, 6828 . Berlin and Heidelberg, Springer.
ANDREWS, Simon, POLOVINA, Simon, HILL, Richard and AKHGAR, Babak, eds. (2011). Conceptual structures for discovering knowledge : Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Conceptual Structures (ICCS) 2011. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 6828 . Springer.
AKHGAR, Babak, SHERKAT, Mhammad Hosein and HANAFIZADEH, Payam (2011). Designing an intelligent learner genetic-fuzzy model in oil industry supply chain based on self organized maps. International Journal of Computational Intelligence: Theory and Practice, 6 (1), 11-27.
YATES, Simeon, BATES, Christopher, AKHGAR, Babak, JOPEK, Lukasz, WILSON, Richard, JOHNSON-MITCHELL, Sarah and KILLICK, Samantha (2011). The Odyssey Project - understanding and implementing user needs in the context of ballistic crime data exchange. In: Intelligence Management: Knowldege Driven Frameworks for Combatting Terrorism and Organised Crime. Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing . Springer, 11-48.
YATES, Simeon, AKHGAR, Babak, BATES, Christopher, JOPEK, Lukasz and WILSON, Richard (2011). A platform for discovering and sharing confidential ballistic crime data. International Journal of Knowledge and Web Intelligence, 2 (2/3), 202-218.
ERFANI, Seyede Zahra, AKHGAR, Babak and RAMIN, Farzad (2010). A novel knowledge management implementation model for mobile telecommunication industry. World Applied Sciences Journal, 11 (1), 29-37.
AKHGAR, Babak, YATES, Simeon, RAHMAN, Fazilatur, JOPEK, Lukasz, MITCHELL, Sarah and CALDARELLI, Luca (2009). A Pan European platform for combating organized crime and terrorism (Odyssey Platform). In: Centeris : Conference on ENTERprise Information Systems, Esposende, Portugal., 7-10 October 2009. (Unpublished)
POLOVINA, S., HILL, R. and AKHGAR, B. (2009). Conceptual structures: tools and applications (guest editorial preface). International journal of intelligent information technologies, 5 (2).
ATKINSON, Sally, AKHGAR, Babak, RAHMAN, Fazilatur, SIDDIQI, Jawed I. A., HOLT, Mary, PINKERTON, Mike and JAMES, Brian (2009). Applied health informatics for diagnosis of multi-factorial diseases. In: ARABNIA, Hamid R., HASHEMI, Ray R. and MOXLEY, Frederick I., (eds.) IKE 2009 : Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering. CSREA Press, 571-575.
AKHGAR, B., RAHMAN, F., JOPEK, L., SIDDIQI, J., ATKINSON, S., SAVOLDELLI, A., PRATO, D., MONTRUCCHIO, S., GUELLA, F., JAMES, B., PINKERTON, M. and VILMOS, A. (2009). Creating a LOC based portable health-care platform using a universal mobile NFC host environment. In: 2nd International Conference on Health Informatics (HEALTHINF 2009), Oporto, Portugal, 14-17 January, 2009.
SIDDIQI, J., AKHGAR, B., RAHMAN, F., ATKINSON, S., SAVOLDELLI, A., ARICI, S., BERTELE, P., JAMES, B. and PINKERTON, M. (2009). Towards an integrated platform for improving hospital risk management. In: 6th International Conference on Information Technology - New Generations (ITNG 2009), Las Vegas, 27-29 April, 2009.
AKHGAR, Babak, RAHMAN, Fazilatur, JOPEK, Lukasz, SIDDIQI, Jawed, ATKINSON, Sally, SALVODELI, Alberto, PRATO, Doris, MONTRUCCHIO, Secondo, GUELLA, Federico, JAMES, Brian, PINKERTON, Mike and VILMOS, András (2008). Leveraging StoLPaN host environment for portable diagnostic health-care platform. In: ARABNIA, Hamid and HASHEMI, Ray R., (eds.) IKE 2008 : proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering. CSREA Press, 411-416.
ATKINSON, Sally, AKHGAR, Babak, SIDDIQI, Jawed, GRUDZ, Alicia, IHATOWICZ, Alexandra, GULISANO, Massimo, MEMEO, Lorenzo and SCRIVENS, Peter (2008). MATCH : a decision support system for integration of biomedical data. In: ARABNIA, Hamid R., YANG, Mary Qu and YANG, Jack Y., (eds.) BIOCOMP 2008 proceedings international conference bioinformatics and computational biology. Las Vegas, Nev., CSREA,, 294-297.
BEER, M. (2007). Structuring community care using multi-agent systems. In: AKHGAR, B., (ed.) ICCS 2007: proceedings of the 15th International Workshops on Conceptual Structures. Springer, 162-169.
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