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Machine-Assisted Map Editing
Favyen Bastani, Songtao He, Sofiane Abbar +4
Mapping road networks today is labor-intensive. As a result, road maps have poor coverage outside urban centers in many countries. Systems to automatically infer road network graph…
Kharita: Robust Map Inference using Graph Spanners
Rade Stanojevic, Sofiane Abbar, Saravanan Thirumuruganathan +3
The widespread availability of GPS information in everyday devices such as cars, smartphones and smart watches make it possible to collect large amount of geospatial trajectory inf…
Privacy and Twitter in Qatar: Traditional Values in the Digital World
Norah Abokhodair, Sofiane Abbar, Sarah Vieweg +1
We explore the meaning of privacy from the perspective of Qatari nationals as it manifests in digital environments. Although privacy is an essential and widely respected value in m…
Using Twitter to Understand Public Interest in Climate Change: The case of Qatar
Sofiane Abbar, Tahar Zanouda, Laure Berti-Equille +1
Climate change has received an extensive attention from public opinion in the last couple of years, after being considered for decades as an exclusive scientific debate. Government…
Fetishizing Food in Digital Age: #foodporn Around the World
Yelena Mejova, Sofiane Abbar, Hamed Haddadi
What food is so good as to be considered pornographic? Worldwide, the popular #foodporn hashtag has been used to share appetizing pictures of peoples' favorite culinary experiences…