Michele Weigle

Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, (2003)

M.S. in Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, (1998)

B.S. in Computer Science, Northeast Louisiana University, (1996)

Research Interests

web science, digital preservation, social media, information visualization

Articles

Reid, T., Poole, A. H.., Choi, H. Wook., Rauch, C., Kelly, M., Nelson, M. L. and Weigle, M. C. (2025). Problems with archiving and replaying current web advertisements. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology 76 (13) , pp. 1803-1830.

McCoy, C. G., Gore, R., Nelson, M. L. and Weigle, M. C. (2024). A Relevance Model for Threat-Centric Ranking of Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities. Cybersecurity & Information Systems Information Analysis Center (CSIAC) Journal.

Jayanetti, H., Garg, K., Alam, S., Nelson, M. L. and Weigle, M. C. (2024). Robots Still Outnumber Humans in Web Archives in 2019, But Less Than in 2015 and 2012. International Journal on Digital Libraries (IJDL) 25 , pp. 537--553.

Jones, S. M.., Klein, M., Weigle, M. C. and Nelson, M. L. (2023). Summarizing Web Archive Corpora Via Social Media Storytelling By Automatically Selecting and Visualizing Exemplars. ACM 18 (1) , pp. 1--48.

Berlin, J., Kelly, M., Nelson, M. L. and Weigle, M. C. (2023). To Re-experience the Web: A Framework for the Transformation and Replay of Archived Web Pages. ACM 17 (3) , pp. 1--49.

Aturban, M., Klein, M., Herbert Van de Sompel, Alam, S., Nelson, M. L. and Weigle, M. C. (2023). Hashes are not suitable to verify fixity of the public archived web. PLOS ONE 18 (6) , pp. 1--49.

Jones, S. M.., Weigle, M. C. and Nelson, M. L.. (2021). Hypercane: Toolkit for Summarizing Large Collections of Archived Webpages. ACM 2021 (Summer) , pp. 1-14.

McCoy, C. G.., Nelson, M. L.. and Weigle, M. C. (2018). Mining the Web to approximate university rankings. Information Discovery and Delivery 46 (3) , pp. 173-183.

Mohrehkesh, S., Weigle, M. C. and Das, S. K.. (2017). Energy Harvesting in Electromagnetic Nanonetworks. IEEE 50 (2) , pp. 59-67.

Brunelle, J. F.., Kelly, M., Weigle, M. C. and Nelson, M. L.. (2016). The impact of JavaScript on archivability. International Journal on Digital Libraries 17 (2) , pp. 95-117.

Alsum, A., Weigle, M. C., Nelson, M. L. and Herbert Van de Sompel (2014). Profiling Web Archive Coverage for Top-Level Domain and Content Language. International Journal of Digital Libraries (IJDL).

AlNoamany, Y., Alsum, A., Weigle, M. C. and Nelson, M. L. (2014). Who and What Links to the Internet Archive. International Journal of Digital Libraries (IJDL).

Olariu, S., Mohrehkesh, S., Wang, X. and Weigle, M. C. (2014). On Aggregating Information in Actor Networks. SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing Communications Review 18 (1) , pp. 85–96.

Kelly, M., Brunelle, J. F.., Weigle, M. C. and Nelson, M. L. (2013). A Method for Identifying Personalized Representations in the Archives. D-Lib Magazine 19 (11/12).

Yan, G., Wen, D., Olariu, S. and Weigle, M. C. (2013). Security Challenges in Vehicular Cloud Computing. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems 14 (1) , pp. 284–294.

Toh, C., Higashino, T., Cano, J. and Weigle, M. C. (2012). Highlights: IEEE ITS Society Technical Committee on Mobile Communications Networks for ITS. IEEE ITS Magazine 4 (1).

Weigle, M. C., Cheng, L., Kaur, J. and Kulkarni, V. (2010). Generalized Stochastic Performance Models for Loss-based Congestion Control. Computer Communications 33 (4) , pp. 513-525.

Yan, G., Olariu, S. and Weigle, M. C. (2009). Providing Location Security in Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks. IEEE Wireless Communications, Special Issue on On-the-Road Communications 16 (6) , pp. 48-55.

Brooks, R. R.., Pillai, B., Pirretti, M. and Weigle, M. C. (2009). Multicast Encryption Infrastructure for Securtity in Sensor Networks. International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks 5 (2) , pp. 139-157.

Yan, G., Olariu, S. and Weigle, M. C. (2008). Providing VANET Security Through Active Position Detection. Computer Communications: Special Issue on Mobility Protocols for ITS/VANET 31 (12).

Brooks, R. R.., Pillai, B., Weigle, M. C. and Pirretti, M. (2007). Optimal Layout of Multicast Groups using Network Embedded Multicast Security in Ad-hoc Sensor Networks. International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks 3 (3).

Weigle, M. C., Jeffay, K. and Smith, F. D.. (2006). Quantifying the Effects of Recent Protocol Improvements to TCP: Impact on Web Performance. Computer Communications 29 (15) , pp. 2853-2866.

Weigle, M. C., Adurthi, P., Hernandez-Campos, F., Jeffay, K. and Smith, F. D.. (2006). Tmix: A Tool for Generating Realistic TCP Application Workloads in ns-2. ACM 36 (3).

Weigle, M. C., Jeffay, K. and Smith, F. D.. (2005). Delay-Based Early Congestion Detection and Adaptation: Impact on web performance. 28 (8).

Books

Olariu, S. and Weigle, M. C. (2009). Vehicular Networks: From Theory to Practice. CRC Press/Taylor & Francis.

Book Chapters

Kum, H., Bedrick, S. and Weigle, M. C. (2024). Challenges in Data Science in the Use of Large-Scale Population Datasets for Scientific Inquiry Digital Ethology: Human Behavior in Geospatial Context The MIT Press.

Weigle, M. C., Balsa-Barreiro, J., Chawla, N. V.., Dávid-Barrett, T., Melchior, M., Pallante, V., Sarker, A. and Gilliland, J. (2024). Characterizing Social Environments in the Physical and Virtual Worlds Using Digital Data Digital Ethology: Human Behavior in Geospatial Context The MIT Press.

Almalag, M., Weigle, M. C. and Olariu, S. (2013). MAC Protocols for VANETs Mobile Ad Hoc Networking: Cutting Edge Directions Hoboken, NJ, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Olariu, S., Weigle, M. C., Abuelela, M. and Yan, G. (2009). Use of Infrastructure in VANETs, In Vehicular Networks: From Theory to Practice (pp. 7.1-7.2) Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press/Taylor & Francis.

Yan, G., Ibrahim, K. and Weigle, M. C. (2009). Vehicular Network Simulators Vehicular Networks: From Theory to Practice (pp. 13.1-13.22) Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press/Taylor & Francis.

Conference Proceeding

Garg, K., Alam, S., Ayala, D., Weigle, M. C. and Nelson, M. L. (2025). A Longitudinal Dataset of URLs Sampled From the Wayback Machine 2025 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) (pp. 277-280) IEEE.

Garg, K., Alam, S., Ayala, D., Weigle, M. C. and Nelson, M. L. (2025). Resilience, Volume, and Temporal Trends Across 25 Years of the Wayback Machine 2025 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) (pp. 59-68) IEEE.

Zaki, T., Nelson, M. L. and Weigle, M. C. (2025). Web Archives for Verifying Attribution in Twitter Screenshots Proceedings of the 36th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (pp. 91-99) ACM.

Calano, D., Weigle, M. C. and Nelson, M. L. (2025). GitHub Repository Complexity Leads to Diminished Web Archive Availability Proceedings of ACM Web Science.

Garg, K., Alam, S., Ayala, D., Weigle, M. C. and Nelson, M. L.. (2025). Not Here, Go There: Analyzing Redirection Patterns on the Web Proceedings of the 17th ACM Web Science Conference 2025 (pp. 249-260) ACM.

Botello, J. G.., Frew, L., Padilla, J. and Weigle, M. C. (2024). Exploring Large Language Models for Analyzing Changes in Web Archive Content: A Retrieval-Augmented Generation Approach Proceedings of the 9th Computational Archival Science (CAS) Workshop.

Frew, L., Nelson, M. L. and Weigle, M. C. (2024). Retrogressive Document Manipulation of US Federal Environmental Websites Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM).

Rauch, C., Poole, A. H.., Reid, T., Weigle, M. C., Nelson, M. L., Poursardar, F. and Kelly, M. (2024). Archiving Digital Marketing: Examining Preservation of Dynamic Content on the Web Through the Lens of Online Advertisements Proceedings of the International Conference on Digital Preservation (iPRES).

Escamilla, E., Klein, M., Cooper, T., Rampin, V., Weigle, M. C. and Nelson, M. L. (2023). Cited But Not Archived: Analyzing the Status of Code References in Scholarly Articles Proceedings of the International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL).

Escamilla, E., Salsabil, L., Klein, M., Wu, J., Weigle, M. C. and Nelson, M. L. (2023). It's Not Just GitHub: Identifying Data and Software Sources Included in Publications Proceedings of the Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries Conference (TPDL) (pp. 195--206).

Jones, S. M.., Jayanetti, H. R.., Klein, M., Weigle, M. C. and Nelson, M. L. (2023). Synthesizing Web Archive Collections into Big Data: Lessons from Mining Data from Web Archives Proceedings of the Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries Conference (TPDL) (pp. 220--229).

Bragg, H., Jayanetti, H., Nelson, M. L. and Weigle, M. C. (2023). Less than 4% of Archived Instagram Account Pages for the Disinformation Dozen are Replayable Proceedings of ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) (pp. 102--106).

Frew, L., Nelson, M. L. and Weigle, M. C. (2023). Making Changes in Webpages Discoverable: A Change-Text Search Interface for Web Archives Proceedings of ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) (pp. 71--81).

Weigle, M. C., Nelson, M. L.., Alam, S. and Graham, M. (2023). Right HTML, Wrong JSON: Challenges in Replaying Archived Webpages Built with Client-Side Rendering Proceedings of ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) (pp. 82-92) IEEE.

Balakireva, L., Escamilla, E., Cooper, T., Nelson, M. L.. and Weigle, M. C. (2023). The Memento Tracer Toolset for Human-Guided Focused Crawling of Dynamic Web 2023 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) (pp. 265-266) IEEE.

Alam, S., Garg, K., Weigle, M. C., Nelson, M. L.., Graham, M. and Ayala, D. (2023). TrendMachine: A Temporal Webpage Resilience Portal Proceedings of ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) (pp. 93-97) IEEE.

Aturban, M., Alam, S., Nelson, M. L.. and Weigle, M. C. (2019). Archive Assisted Archival Fixity Verification Framework 2019 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) (pp. 162-171) IEEE.

Alam, S., Kelly, M., Weigle, M. C. and Nelson, M. L.. (2017). Client-Side Reconstruction of Composite Mementos Using ServiceWorker 2017 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) (pp. 1-4) IEEE.

Mohrehkesh, S. and Weigle, M. C. (2014). RIH-MAC: Receiver-Initiated Harvesting-aware MAC for NanoNetworks Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication Atlanta, GA:.

Almalag, M., Weigle, M. C., Olariu, S. and El-Tawab, S. (2013). A Modified TC-MAC Protocol for Multi-hop Cluster Communications in VANETs Proceedings of IEEE Connected Vehicles and Expo (ICCVE) Las Vegas:.

Mohrehkesh, S. and Weigle, M. C. (2013). Optimizing Communication Energy Consumption in Perpetual Wireless Nanosensor Networks Proceedings of the IEEE Globecom Atlanta, GA:.

Mohrehkesh, S., Olariu, S. and Weigle, M. C. (2013). A Framework for Assessing the Quality of Event Detection in Sensor Networks Proceedings of the ACM Annual International Workshop on Mission-Oriented Wireless Sensor Networking (MiSeNet) Miami, FL:.

Kelly, M., Nelson, M. L. and Weigle, M. C. (2013). Graph-Based Navigation of a Box Office Prediction System (poster abstract) Proceedings of IEEE VIS Atlanta, GA:.

Olariu, S., Mohrehkesh, S. and Weigle, M. C. (2013). Toward Aggregating Time-Discounted Information Proceedings of the ACM Annual International Workshop on Mission-Oriented Wireless Sensor Networking (MiSeNet) Miami, FL:.

Kelly, M., Brunelle, J., Weigle, M. C. and Nelson, M. L. (2013). On the Change in Archivability of Websites Over Time Proceedings of the International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL) Valletta, Malta:.

Alsum, A., Weigle, M. C., Nelson, M. L. and Herbert Van de Sompel (2013). Profiling Web Archive Coverage for Top-Level Domain and Content Language Proceedings of the International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL) Valletta, Malta:.

AlNoamany, Y., Alsum, A., Weigle, M. C. and Nelson, M. L. (2013). Who and What Links to the Internet Archive Proceedings of the International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL) Valletta, Malta:.

AlNoamany, Y., Weigle, M. C. and Nelson, M. L. (2013). Access Patterns for Robots and Humans in Web Archives Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) Indianapolis, IN:.

Almalag, M. S.., Olariu, S., Weigle, M. C. and El-Tawab, S. (2013). Peer-to-peer file sharing in VANETs using TC-MAC 2013 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PERCOM Workshops) (pp. 84-89) IEEE.

Mohrehkesh, S., Nadeem, T. and Weigle, M. C. (2012). Context-aware content adaptation in access point Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (pp. 758-761) ACM.

Mohrehkesh, S., Ji, S., Nadeem, T. and Weigle, M. C. (2012). Demographic Prediction of Mobile User from Phone Usage Proceedings of the Nokia Mobile Data Challenge Workshop Newcastle, UK:.

Almalag, M., Olariu, S. and Weigle, M. C. (2012). TDMA Cluster-based MAC for VANETs (TC-MAC) Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on VANETs From Theory to Practice (VTP) San Francisco, CA:.

Padia, K., AlNoamany, Y. and Weigle, M. C. (2012). Visualizing Digital Collections at Archive-It Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) (pp. 15–18) Washington, DC:.

Kelly, M. and Weigle, M. C. (2012). WARCreate - Create Wayback-Consumable WARC Files from Any Webpage (demo) Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) (pp. 437–438) Washington, DC:.

Ainsworth, S., Alsum, A., SalahEldeen, H., Weigle, M. C. and Nelson, M. L. (2011). How Much of the Web Is Archived? Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) (pp. 133–136) Ottawa, Canada:.

Rawat, D., Bista, B. B.., Yan, G. and Weigle, M. C. (2011). Securing Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks Against Malicious Drivers: A Probabilistic Approach Proceedings of the International Conference on Complex, Intelligent, and Software Intensive Systems (CISIS) (pp. 146–151 ) Seoul, Korea:.

Arbabi, H. and Weigle, M. C. (2011). Monitoring Free-Flow Traffic using Vehicular Networks Proceedings of the IEEE Intelligent Vehicular Communications System Workshop (IVCS) (pp. 272–276) Las Vegas, NV:.

Arbabi, H. and Weigle, M. C. (2010). Highway Mobility and Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks in ns-3 Baltimore, MD: Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference.

Arbabi, H. and Weigle, M. C. (2010). Using DTMon to Monitor Transient Flow Traffic Proceedings of the IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC) (pp. 110–117) Jersey City, NJ:.

Almalag, M. and Weigle, M. C. (2010). Using Traffic Flow for Cluster Formation in Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks Proceedings of the Workshop On User MObility and VEhicular Networks (ON-MOVE) (pp. 631–636) Denver, CO:.

Weigle, M. C. (2010). Cooperative Collision Warning Through Mobility and Probability Prediction San Diego: Proceedings of the IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Networks.

Yan, G., Olariu, S. and Weigle, M. C. (2010). Cross-layer location verification enhancement in vehicular networks 2010 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (pp. 95-100) IEEE.

Rawat, D. B.., Yan, G., Popescu, D. C., Weigle, M. C. and Olariu, S. (2009). Dynamic Adaptation of Joint Transmission Power and Contention Window in VANET Anchorage, AK: 70th IEEE Vehicular Technologies Conference - VTC 2009 Fall.

Arbabi, H. and Weigle, M. C. (2009). Using Vehicular Networks to Collect Common Traffic Data (pp. pp.117-118) Beijing: Proceedings of the ACM International Workshop on Vehicular Internetworking (VANET).

Yan, G., Weigle, M. C. and Olariu, S. (2009). A Novel Parking Service Using Wireless Networks Chicago: Proceedings of hte IEEE International Conference on Service Operations.

Ibrahim, K., Weigle, M. C. and Olariu, S. (2009). Probabilistic Inter-Vehicle Geocast for Dense Vehicular Networks Barcelona: Proceedings of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference - Spring.

Ibrahim, K. and Weigle, M. C. (2008). CASCADE: Cluster-based Accurate Syntactic Compression of Aggregated Data in VANETs New Orleans: Proceedings of the IEEE International Workshop on Automotive Networking and Applications (AutoNet).

Ibrahim, K., Weigle, M. C. and Yan, G. (2008). Light-Weight Laser-Aided Position Verification for CASCADE Dearborn, MI: Proceedings of the International Conference on Wireless Access in Vehicular Environments (WAVE).

Yan, G., Wang, Y., Weigle, M. C., Olariu, S. and Ibrahim, K. (2008). WEHealth: A Secure and Privacy Preserving eHealth Using NOTICE Dearborn, MI: Proceedings of the International Conference on Wireless Access in Vehicular Environments (WAVE).

Yan, G., Olariu, S., Weigle, M. C. and Abuelela, M. (2008). SmartParking: A Secure and Intelligent Parking System Using NOTICE (pp. 569-574) Proceedings of the International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems.

Ibrahim, K. and Weigle, M. C. (2008). Optimizing CASCADE Data Aggregation for VANETs (pp. 724-729) Atlanta, GA: Proceedings of the International Workshop on Mobile Vehicular Networks (MoVeNet).

Ibrahim, K. and Weigle, M. C. (2008). Towards an Optimized and Secure CASCADE for Data Aggregation in VANETs (poster) (pp. 84-85) San Francisco: Proceedings of the ACM International Workshop on Vehicular Internetworking (VANET).

Abuelela, M., Olariu, S. and Weigle, M. C. (2008). NOTICE: An Architecture for Notification of Traffic Incidents (pp. 3001-3005) Singapore: Proceedings of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference - Sprng.

Ibrahim, K. and Weigle, M. C. (2008). ASH: Application-aware SWANS with Highway Mobility Phoenix, AZ: Proceedings of the IEEE INFOCOM Workshop on MObile N etowrking for Vehicular Environments (MOVE).

Rizvi, S., Olariu, S., Weigle, M. C. and Rizvi, M. (2007). A Novel Approach to Reduce Traffic Choas in Emergency and Evacuation Scenarios (pp. 1937-1941) Baltimore, MD: Proceedings of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference - Fall.

Ibrahim, K. and Weigle, M. C. (2007). Accurate Data Aggregation for VANETs (pp. 71-72) Montreal, Canada: Proceedings of the ACM International Workshop on Vehicular Ad Hoc Networking (VANET).

Yan, G., Choudhary, G., Weigle, M. C. and Olariu, S. (2007). Providing VANET Security Through Active Position Detection (pp. 73-74) Montreal: Proceedings of the ACM International Workshop on Vehicular Ad Hoc Networking (VANET).

Weigle, M. C. (2007). A Traffic Chaos Reduction Approach for Emergency Scenarios (pp. 576-578) New Orleans: Proceedings of the International Workshop on Research Challenges in Next Generation Networks for First Responders and Critical Infrastructures.

Weigle, M. C. and Olariu, S. (2007). Intelligent Highway Infrastructure for Planned Evacuations 2007 IEEE International Performance, Computing, and Communications Conference (pp. 594-599) IEEE.

Weigle, M. C. (2006). Improving Confidence in Network Simulations (pp. 2188-2194) Monterey, CA: Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference (Invited Paper).

Weigle, M. C., Vembar, D. and Du, Z. (2006). Assessing the Impact of Multiple Active Queue Management Routers San Francisco: Proceedings of Globecom.

Presentations

Weigle, M. C. (November , 2013). Telling Stories with Web Archives Keynote/Plenary Address Southeast Women in Computing Conference Lake Guntersville, AL.

Weigle, M. C. (December , 2012). Visualizing Digital Collections at Archive-It Oral Presentation Archive-It Partners Meeting Annapolis, MD.

Weigle, M. C. (November , 2012). Communications and Energy-Harvesting in Nanosensor Networks Oral Presentation BioCom2: NSF Workshop on Biological Computations and Communications Boston, MA.

Weigle, M. C. (October , 2012). Information Visualization - Visualizing Digital Collections at Archive-It Oral Presentation Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Baltimore, MD.

Ibrahim, K. and Weigle, M. C. (September , 2008). Securing CASCADE Data Aggregation for VANETs International Workshop on Mobile Vehicular Networks (MoVeNet) Atlanta, GA.

Rizvi, S. R.., Weigle, M. C. and Rizvi, M. E.. (August , 2008). InVANETs for First Responders ACM SIGCOMM Seattle, WA.

Weigle, M. C. (March 1, 2007). NOTICE: An Architecture for the Notification of Traffic Incidents and Congestion" Department Colloquium Norfolk State University, Norfolk, VA.

Weigle, M. C. (April 28, 2006). Issues in Network Protocol Evaluation Department colloquium Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA.

Weigle, M. C. (February 20, 2006). Issues in Network Protocol Evaluation Networking and Telecommunications seminar Georgia Tech,.

Weigle, M. C. (February 10, 2006). Issues in Network Protocol Evaluation Systems seminar University of Chapel Hill, Charlotte, NC.

Weigle, M. C. (April 2, 2005). Transport Protocols in Wireless Sensor Networks Virginia Tech-Clemson Workshop on Networking Research Virginia Tech University.

• 2023: John R. Broderick Diversity Champion Award, Old Dominion University
• 2016: Shining Star Award, ODU Division of Student Engagement and Enrollment Services (SEES)
• 2015: Shining Star Award, ODU Division of Student Engagement and Enrollment Services (SEES)
• 2014: Shining Star Award, ODU Division of Student Engagement and Enrollment Services (SEES)
• 2014: Distinguished Teaching Award for Tenured Faculty, ODU College of Sciences
• 2011: Shining Star Award, ODU Division of Student Engagement and Enrollment Services (SEES)