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A review of polymorphic malware detection techniques (2020)
Journal Article
Alrzini, J. R. S., & Pennington, D. (2020). A review of polymorphic malware detection techniques. International Journal of Advanced Research in Engineering and Technology, 11(12), 1238-1247. https://doi.org/10.34218/IJARET.11.12.2020.119

Despite the continuous updating of anti-detection systems for malicious programs (malware), malware has moved to an abnormal threat level; it is being generated and spread faster than before. One of the most serious challenges faced by anti-detection... Read More about A review of polymorphic malware detection techniques.

"Maybe we can work together": Researchers’ outcome expectations for sharing knowledge on social media (2020)
Journal Article
Alshahrani, H., & Pennington, D. (2021). "Maybe we can work together": Researchers’ outcome expectations for sharing knowledge on social media. Global Knowledge, Memory and Communication, 70(4/5), 377-398. https://doi.org/10.1108/GKMC-07-2020-0093

Purpose: This study aims to investigate the outcomes that researchers expect from using social media for knowledge sharing and to explore how these outcomes impact their use. Design/methodology/approach: The authors conducted 30 semi-structured inter... Read More about "Maybe we can work together": Researchers’ outcome expectations for sharing knowledge on social media.

Twitter as health information source: Exploring the parameters affecting dementia-related tweets (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Alhayan, F., & Pennington, D. (2020). Twitter as health information source: Exploring the parameters affecting dementia-related tweets. In SMSociety'20 - International Conference on Social Media and Society (277-290). https://doi.org/10.1145/3400806.3400838

Unlike other media, research on the credibility of information present on social media is limited. This limitation is even more pronounced in the case of healthcare, including dementia-related information. The purpose of this study was to identify us... Read More about Twitter as health information source: Exploring the parameters affecting dementia-related tweets.

Detecting critical responses from deliberate self-harm videos on YouTube (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Alhassan, M. A., & Pennington, D. (2020). Detecting critical responses from deliberate self-harm videos on YouTube. In CHIIR 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (383-386). https://doi.org/10.1145/3343413.3378002

YouTube is one of the leading social media platforms and online spaces for people who self-harm to search and view deliberate self-harm videos, share their experience and seek help via comments. These comments may contain information that signals a c... Read More about Detecting critical responses from deliberate self-harm videos on YouTube.