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How AI-Driven Surveillance is Changing our World

2026

Sampson, Fraser

Springer

Information and Communications Technology in Support of Migration

2022

Akhgar, B., Hough, K. L., Abdel-Samad, Y., Bayerl, P. S., & Karakostas, A. (Eds.)

Springer

Information Security Technologies for Controlling Pandemics

2021

Jahankhani, H., Kendzierskyj, S., & Akhgar, B. (Eds.)

Springer

Technology Development for Security Practitioners

2021

Akhgar, B., Kavallieros, D., & Sdongos, E. (Eds.)

Springer

Journal Articles

Hancock, P., Van Hardeveld, G., Jakubcek, J., Akhgar, B., Davey, S., Amann, P (2024). Design of Cryptopol: A serious game for teaching cryptocurrency tracing techniques to Law Enforcement. ACM Games: Research and Practice, Volume 2, Issue 4, Article 32, 14 pages.
Ezzeddine, Y., Bayerl, P. S. and Gibson, H. (2023). Safety, privacy, or both: evaluating citizens’ perspectives around artificial intelligence use by police forces. Policing and Society, 33 (7), 861-876.
O’Neill, M., Van Der Giessen, M., Bayerl, P. S., Hail, Y., Aston, E. and Houtsonen, J. (2023). Conditions, Actions and Purposes (CAP): A dynamic model for community policing in Europe. Policing: a Journal of Policy and Practice, 17.
Butot, V., Jacobs, G., Bayerl, P. S., Amador, J. and Nabipour, P. (2023). Making Smart Things Strange Again: Using Walking as a Method for Studying Subjective Experiences of Smart City Surveillance. Surveillance & Society, 21 (1), 61-82.
Bayerl, P., Shahid, S., & Moitroux, P. (2023). Why bystanders (don’t) post about violence: Contextualizing individual versus socialized rationales of observers’ publication intentions. Social Media and Society..
Akhgar, B., Bayerl, P.S., Mounier, G., Linden, R. and Waites, B. (2022). AP4AI: accountability principles for artificial intelligence in the internal security domain. European Law Enforcement Research Bulletin, 22 (6).
Bayerl, P., Akhgar, B., Raven, A., Gibson, H., & Day, T. (2022). Future Challenges and Requirements for Open Source Intelligence in Law Enforcement Investigations: Results From a Horizon Scanning Exercise. European Law Enforcement Research Bulletin, 22, 21-38.
Bayerl, P. S., & Jacobs, G. (2022). Who is responsible for customers’ privacy? Effects of first versus third party handling of privacy contracts on continuance intentions. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 185, 122039.

Conference Articles

Jones, A., Davey, S., Fenwick, J., Wallis, R., Whitfield, K., & Akhgar, B. (2024). Work-in-Progress—Enhancing Cyber Prevention Education: Utilising Virtual Reality Technology for Parents/Carers and Teachers. In: iLRN Proceedings. 10th International Conference of the Immersive Learning Research Network (iLRN) Academic, 1(1), 210–216.
Ezzeddine, Y., Bayerl, P., & Gibson, H. (2023). Citizen Perspectives on Necessary Safeguards to the Use of AI by Law Enforcement Agencies. In: Proceedings from CSCE 2022. Transactions on Computational Science & Computational Intelligence.
Cumberland, E., & Day, T. (2021). A Prescriptive Approach for Structured Information Extraction From Web Forums And Social Media. In: 2021 International Symposium on Computer Science and Intelligent Controls (ISCSIC). (pp. 95-101). IEEE.
Bayerl, P. S., & Butot, V. (2021). Smart City Configurations: A Conceptual Approach to Assess Smart City Practices and Outcomes. In: 2021 6th International Conference on Smart and Sustainable Technologies (SpliTech). (pp. 01-07). IEEE.
Wanner, L., Klusch, M., Mavropoulos, A., Jamin, E., Marín Puchades, V., Casamayor, G., Černocký, J., Davey, S., Domínguez, M., Egorova, E., Grivolla, J., Jaramillo Rojas, G. E., Karakostas, A., Ntioudis, D., Pecina, P., Sobko, O., Vrochidis, S., Wertmann, L. (2021). Towards a Versatile Intelligent Conversational Agent as Personal Assistant for Migrants. In: Lecture Notes in Computer Science. (pp. 316-327). Springer International Publishing.
Davri, E. C., Darra, E., Monogioudis, I., Grigoriadis, A., Iliou, C., Mengidis, N., Tsikrika, T., Vrochidis, S., Peratikou, A., Gibson, H., Haskovic, D., Kavallieros, D., Chaskos, E., Zhao, P., Shiaeles, S., Savage, N., Akhgar, B., Belleken, X., & Farah, M. A. B. (2021). Cyber Security Certification Programmes. In: 2021 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience (CSR). (pp. 428-435). IEEE.
McAlpine, A., Sahar, A., & Pannocchia, D. (2021). Abase and Abound: Social Media Campaign Strategies during the Cape Town Drought and UK Winter Floods. In: AQUA≈360: Water for All - Emerging Issues and Innovations. Exeter, UK, 31 Aug - 02 Sep 2021.
Bayerl, P.S., Akhgar, B., La Mattina, E., Pirillo, B., Cotoi, I., Ariu, D., Mauri, M., Garcia, J., Kavallieros, D., Kardara, A. & Karagiorgou, K. (2021). Strategies to Counter Artificial Intelligence in Law Enforcement: Cross-Country Comparison of Citizens in Greece, Italy and Spain. In: Transactions on Computational Science & Computational Intelligence. Cham, Switzerland, Springer (IKE'21 - The 20th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering. 26 July 2021- 29 July 2021. Las Vegas, USA.

Book Chapters

Waddington, D. (2017). Police liaison approaches to managing political protest: A critical analysis of a prominent UK example. In: Community Policing-A European Perspective. (pp. 83-97). Springer, Cham.
Bayerl, P. S., & Jacobs, G. (2017). Evaluating the design and implementation of CP-support technologies: A participatory framework. In: Community Policing-A European Perspective. (pp. 247-267). Springer, Cham.
Andrews, S., Day, T., Domdouzis, K., Hirsch, L., Lefticaru, R., & Orphanides, C. (2017). Analyzing crowd-sourced information and social media for crisis management. In: Application of social media in crisis management. (pp. 77-96). Springer, Cham.
Lyle, A., Day, T., & McSeveny, K. (2017). The final ATHENA test case: an integrated view of ATHENA. In: Application of Social Media in Crisis Management. (pp. 205-224). Springer, Cham.
Jeraj, J., Fink, A., Lyle, A., Day, T., & Blair, K. (2017). Preliminary ATHENA case studies: Test-bed development and delivery. In: Application of Social Media in Crisis Management. (pp. 193-204). Springer, Cham.
Sampson, F., & Lyle, A. (2017). Legal considerations relating to the police use of social media. In: Application of Social Media in Crisis Management. (pp. 171-190). Springer, Cham.
Bahk, C., Baptista, L., Winokur, C., Colodzin, R., & Domdouzis, K. (2017). The ATHENA Mobile Application. In: Application of Social Media in Crisis Management. (pp. 97-113). Springer, Cham.
Andrews, S. (2017). Best practices in the design of a citizen focused crisis management platform. In: Application of Social Media in Crisis Management. (pp. 59-75). Springer, Cham.

White Papers and Reports

Bayerl, P.S., Obst, M., & Akhgar, B. (2023). International Citizen Consultation on AI Accountability in Policing. AP4AI Report 3.
B. Akhgar, P.S. Bayerl, K. Bailey, R. Dennis, H. Gibson, S. Heyes, A. Lyle, A. Raven, F. Sampson, CENTRIC (2022). AP4AI Framework Blueprint, AP4AI Report 2.
B. Akhgar, P.S. Bayerl, K. Bailey, R. Dennis, S. Heyes, A. Lyle, A. Raven, F. Sampson, CENTRIC M. Gercke, Cybercrime Research Institute (2022). Summary Report on Expert Consultations, AP4AI Report 1.

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