Publications

KEYNOTES and Public Talks

S. Abbar et al. The Science of Algorithmic Map Inference | Quality of Map[Slides]. Tutorial at SIGKDD'18. London, UK. August 2018.

S., Abbar. Big Urban Data Analytics. Invited Speaker in Smart City Summit Algiers. Algiers, Algeria. June 2018.

S., Abbar. Urban Computing. Invited talk at University of Algiers. December 2017.

S., Abbar. Tutorial: Computer Science and Social Media for Disaster Management [Video in arabic]. In the 6th Red Crescent Camp, Doha, Qatar. March 2015.

S., Abbar and D., Grigori, Tutorial: Web Services & Personalization. In web intelligence summer school (WI'2010): User-Centric Web. July 5-9, 2010. Saint-Germain-Au-Mont-d'Or, France

S., Abbar and D., Grigori, Tutorial: Personalization in Web Services. In 26èmes Journées Bases de Données Avancées (BDA'10), October 2010. Toulouse, France

Book Chapter

S., Abbar, M., Bouzeghoub, S., Lopes, Personalization Paradigm in Service Delivery Platforms.

In Handbook on “Service Delivery Platforms: Developing and Deploying Converged Multimedia Services”. Edited by Syed A. Ahson and Mohammad Ilyas, CRC Press. ISBN: 978-1-4398008-9-8. 650 pages, February 2011.

Main Publications

2019

45. Yanyan Xu, Shan Jiang, Ruiqi Li, Jiang Zhang, Jinhua Zhaoh, Sofiane Abbar, Marta C.González. Unraveling environmental justice in ambient PM2.5 exposure in Beijing: A big data approach. In Journal of Computers, Environment and Urban Systems. 2019

2018

44. Rade Stanojevic, Sofiane Abbar and Mohamed Mokbel. W-edge: weighing the edges of the road network. To appear in ACM SIGSPATIAL 2018. Seattle, US.

43. Songtao He, Favyen Bastani, Sofiane Abbar, Mohammad Alizadeh, Hari Balakrishnan, Sanjay Chawla and Samuel Madden. RoadRunner: Improving the Precision of Road Network Inference from GPS Trajectories. To appear in ACM SIGSPATIAL 2018. Seattle, US.

42. Favyen Bastani, Songtao He, Sofiane Abbar, Mohammad Alizadeh, Hari Balakrishnan, Sanjay Chawla and Sam Madden. Machine-Assisted Map Editing. To appear in ACM SIGSPATIAL 2018. Seattle, US.

41. [SocInfo] Sofiane Abbar, Tahar Zanouda, Nora Al Emadi, Rachida Zegour. City of the People, for the People: Sensing Urban Dynamics via Social Media Interactions. To appear in proceedings of SocInfo 2018. Saint Petersburg, Russia.

40. [CVPR] Favyen Bastani, Songtao He, Sofiane Abbar, Mohammad Alizadeh, Hari Balakrishnan, Sanjay Chawla, David DeWitt, Sam Madden. RoadTracer: An incremental graph construction process for robust road map extraction from aerial images. To appear in proceedings of CVPR 2018. Salt Lake City, Utah, US.

39. [HyperText] Sofiane Abbar, Carlos Castillo, and Antonio Sanfilippo. To Post or Not to Post: Using Online Trends to Predict Popularity of Offline Content. To appear in proceedings of 29th ACM Conference on HyperText and Social Media (HyperText 2018). Baltimore, Maryland. 2018

38. [EPJ] Abdelkader Baggag, Sofiane Abbar, Tahar Zanouda, and Jaidpeed Srivastava: Resilience Analytics: Coverage and Robustness in Multi-Modal Transportation Networks. In EPJ Data Science. 2018

37. [DMKD] Sofiane Abbar, Tahar Zanouda, and Javier Borge-Holthoefer: Structural Robustness and Service Reachability in Urban Settings. In Springer Journal of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery. Special issue on Data Mining for Smart Cities. 2018

36. [IREC] Sofiane Abbar, Ameni Boumaiza, Nassma Mohandes, Antonio Sanfilippo. "Modeling Innovation Diffusion for Renewable Energy Technologies in City Neighborhoods". To appear in proceedings of the 9th IEEE International Renewable Energy Congress (IREC 2018). Hammamet, Tunisia.

35. [SIAM SDM] Rade Stanojevic, Sofiane Abbar, Saravanan Thirumuruganathan, Sanjay Chawla, Fethi Filali and Ahid Aleimat. "Robust Road Map Inference through Network Alignment of Trajectories". To appear in the proceedings of SIAM International Conference On Data Mining (SDM'18.) San Diego, US.

34. [POWERENG] Ameni Boumaiza, Sofiane Abbar, Antonio Sanfilippo. "Innovation Diffusion for Renewable Energy Technologies". To appear in proceedings of the 12th IEEE International Conference on Compatibility, Power Electronics, and Power Engineering (CPE-POWERENG 2018). Doha, Qatar

33. [LBS] Rade Stanojevic, Sofiane Abbar, Saravanan Thirumuruganathan, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales, Sanjay Chawla, Fethi Filali and Ahid Aleimat. "Road Network Fusion for Incremental Map Updates". In the special volume of Springer's Lecture Notes in Cartography and Geoinformation (LBS 2018.) [preprint]

2017

32. [JWS] Norah Abokhodair, Sofiane Abbar, Sarah Vieweg, Yelena Mejova. "Privacy and Social Media Use in the Arabian Gulf: Saudi Arabian & Qatari Traditional Values in the Digital World". To appear in the Journal of Web Science (JWS 2017.)

31. [SocInfo] Tahar Zanouda, Sofiane Abbar, Laure Berti-Equille, Kushal Shah, Abdelkader Baggag, Sanjay Chawla, Jaideep Srivastava. "On the Role of Political Affiliation in Human Perception: The Case of Delhi OddEven Experiment" In proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo 2017). Oxford, UK.

30. [ICWSM] Noora Al Emadi, Sofiane Abbar, Javier Borge-Holthoefer, Fransisco Guzman and Fabrizio Sebastiani. QT2S: Real-Time Road Traffic Monitoring Via Tweet Grounding" In proceedings of the 11th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2017). Montreal, Canada. [preprint]

2016

29. Abdelkader Baggag, Sofiane Abbar, Tahar Zanouda, Javier Borge-Holthoefer, and Jaideep Srivastava: A Multiplex Approach to Urban Mobility. In the 5th International Conference on Complex Networks and Their Applications. 2016

28. Sofiane Abbar, Tahar Zanouda, and Javier Borge-Holthoefer: Resilience and Robustness of Cities Around the World. In the 5th international workshop on Urban Computing (UrbComp'16) in conjunction with 22nd ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, San Francisco, California. [preprint | presentation | video]

27. Yelena Mejova, Sofiane Abbar, and Ingmar Weber: Influence in food consumption: Will you eat icecream when it rains. In the 2nd International Conference on Computational Social Science 2016 (IS2S2'16)

26. Norah Abokhodair, Sofiane Abbar, Sarah Vieweg, and Yelena Mejova: Privacy and Twitter in Qatar: Traditional Values in the Digital World [preprint]. In the proceedings of the 8th International ACM Web Science Conference 2016 (WebSci'16)

25. Sofiane Abbar, Tahar Zanouda, Laure Berti-Equille and Javier Borge-Holthoefer: Using Twitter to Understand Public Interest in Climate Change: The Case of Qatar [pdf]. In the proceedings of the International Workshop on Social Media for Environment and Ecological Monitoring (SWEEM'16) in conjunction with AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM).

24. Yelena Mejova, Sofiane Abbar, and Hamed Haddadi: Fetishizing Food in Digital Age: ‪#‎foodporn‬ Around the World[pdf]. In the proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM)

23. Antonio Sanfilippo, Chase Dowling, and Sofiane Abbar: Do International Students Displace US Students in the Pursuit of Higher Degrees in Science and Engineering ? A Forecasting Analysis. In The Higher Education Policy Journal. 2016.

22. Sofiane Abbar, Laure Berti-Equille, Javier Borge-Holthoefer, Sanjay Chawla, Hossam M. Hammady, and Jaideep Srivastava: Qurb: Qatar Urban Analytics. In ARC’2016, MLDAS'2016.

21. Sofiane Abbar., Noora Al Emadi, Francisco Guzman., Fabrizio Sebastiani, and Javier Borge-Holthoefer: Real-Time Location Extraction for Social-Media Events in Qatar. In ARC’2016.

20. Sejeong Kwon, Sofiane Abbar, and Jim Jansen: Efforts Toward Automatically Identifying Virality Attributes in Arabic Content. In ARC’2016.

2015

19. Sofiane Abbar, Jisun An, Haewoon Kwak, Yacine Messaoui, and Javier Borge-Holthoefer: Consummers and Suppliers: Attention asymmetries. A Case Study of Aljazeera's News Covearge and Comments [pdf]. To appear in proceedings of the Computation Journalism Symposium 2015 (C+J 2015), New York City, USA, October 2-3, 2015.

18. Yelena Mejova, Hamed Haddadi, Sofiane Abbar, Azadeh Ghahghaei and Ingmar Weber: Culture of Food and Exercise on Instagram: Case of Qatar [pdf]. To appear in proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics 2015 (ICHI 2015), Dallas, Texas, USA, October 21-23, 2015.

17. Sofiane Abbar, Yelena Mejova, and Ingmar Weber: You Tweet What You Eat: Studying Food Consumption Through Twitter [poster]. International Conference on Computational Social Science, IC²S² 2015, Helsinki, Finland, June 8-11, 2015.

16. Sofiane Abbar, Yelena Mejova, and Ingmar Weber: You Tweet What You Eat: Studying Food Consumption Through Twitter [pdf]. In proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2015, Seoul, Republic of Korea, April 18-23, 2015.

2014

15. Saravanan Thirumuruganathan, Habibur Rahman, Sofiane Abbar and Gautam Das: Beyond Itemsets: Mining Frequent Featuresets over Structured Items [pdf]. To appear in proceedings of Very Large Data Bases (PVLDB'2015, Vol 8 - Kona) [Full Research Paper]

14. Sofiane Abbar, Habibur Rahman, Saravanan Thirumuruganathan, Carlos Castillo, and Gautam Das:Ranking Item Features by Mining Online User-Item Interactions [pdf]. In proceedings of the 30th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE'14, Chicago) [Full Research Paper]

2013

13. Sofiane Abbar, Sihem Amer-Yahia, Piotre Indyk, and Sepideh Mahabadi:Real-Time Computation of Diverse Related Articles [pdf]. In proceedings of the 23rd International World-Wide Web Conference (WWW13, Rio de Janeiro) [Full Research Paper]

12. Sofiane Abbar, Sihem Amer-Yahia, Piotr Indyk, Sepideh Mahabadi, and Kasturi Varadarajan: Diverse Near Neighbor Problem [pdf]. In Proceedings of the 29th Annual Symposium of Computational Geometry (SoCG2013) [Full Research Paper].

11. Sofiane Abbar, Sihem Amer-Yahia, Piotre Indyk, and Sepideh Mahabadi: Nearest Neighbor Algorithms for Diverse News Retreival. In Actes des 29èmes Journées Bases de Données Avancées (BDA'2013), France

2012

10. Sihem Amer-Yahia, Samreen Anjum, Amira Ghenai, Aysha Siddique, Sofiane Abbar, Samuel Madden, Adam Marcus, and Mohammed El-Haddad: MAQSA: A System for Social Analytics on News [pdf]. In proceedings of SIGMOD 2012 [Demo paper]

9. L., Baba-hamed, S., Abbar, and A., Houari, The Impact of Negative Preferences on a recommendation Process. In proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems (IEEE-ICMCS'12). May 2012. Tangier, Morroco.

8. L., Baba-hamed, R., Soltani, and S., Abbar, Contextualisation des preferences dans les systemes de recommandation. In proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Information Systems and Technologiers (ICIST'12). March 2012. Sousse, Tunisia

<= 2011

7. L., Baba-hamed, S., Abbar, R., Soltani, M., Bouzeghoub, Elaboration et évaluation d'un système de recommandation sémantique. In proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Information Systems and Technologiers (ICIST'11). April 2011. Tebessa, Algeria.

6. S., Abbar, M., Bouzeghoub, S., Lopes, Introducing Contexts into Personalized Web Applications. In Proceedings of 12th international Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services (IIWAS'10). November 2010. Paris, France. [Full Research Paper]

5. S., Abbar, M., Bouzeghoub, S., Lopes, Service-Based Context-Aware Recommender System. In Actes des 26èmes Journées Bases de Données Avancées (BDA'10), October 2010. Toulouse, France.

4. S., Abbar, M., Bouzeghoub, S., Lopes, Context-Aware Recommender Systems: A Service-Oriented Approach [pdf]. In Proceedings of the 3rd International PersDB Workshop, in conjunction with the VLDB Conference. August, 2009, Lyon, France. [Workshop Paper]

3. S., Abbar, M., Bouzeghoub, D., Kostadinov, S., Lopes, A Contextualization Service for a Personalized Access Model. In Revue des Nouvelles Technologies de l'Information, Cépaduès Editions, Numéro spécial 9èmes journées francophones Extraction et gestion des connaissances - (EGC'09, Vol. RNTI-, janvier 2009, Strasbourg, France.

2. S., Abbar, M., Bouzeghoub, D., Kostadinov, S., Lopes, A., Aghazaryan, S., Betge-Brezetz, A Personelized Access Model: Concepts and Services for Content Delivery Platform. In Proceedings of 10th international Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services (IIWAS'08), Linz, Austria. November 2008 [Ful Research Paper]

1. S., Abbar, M., Bouzeghoub, D., Kostadinov, S., Lopes, A., Aghazaryan, S., Betge-Brezetz, Personelized Access Model: Concepts and Services for Content Delivery Platform. In Actes des 24èmes Journées Bases de Données Avancées (BDA'08), October 2008. Guilherand-Granges, France.

Dissertations

PhD. Thesis - S., Abbar, Personalized Acces Model for Content Delivery Platforms: A service Oriented Approach. University of Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France. December 2010 (Dissertation in pdf)

M.Sc. Thesis - S., Abbar, Data Personalization and User Profiling. Master Dissertation (in cooperation with Alcatel-Lucent bell Labs and PRiSM Laboratory), University of Paris Dauphine, Paris, France. September 2007 (Not available because of confidentiality terms)

B.Sc. Thesis - S., Abbar, M. A., Chouiha, P(n)-BST: Patitioned Binary Search Tree, Contribution à la stucturation de données. Dissertation of the engineer final year project. INI, Algiers, Algeria. June 2006 (Dissertation in pdf)

Technical Reports

S., Abbar, D., kostadinov. An Automatic Profile Contextualization Service. Technical report, @Versailles university, France. September 2008

S., Abbar, M., Bouzeghoub, D., Kostadinov, S., Lopes, Profile Matching: Approaches, Techniques, and Algorithms. Technical report, @Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, France. March 2008

S., Abbar, Data Personalization and User Profiling. Master Dissertation (in cooperation with Alcatel-Lucent bell Labs), University of Paris Dauphine, Paris, France. September 2007

S., Abbar, M., Bouzeghoub, D., Kostadinov, S., Lopes, Toward a Meta Model for User Profile Definition and Management. Technical report, @Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, France. 2007

S., Abbar, M., Bouzeghoub, D., Kostadinov, S., Lopes, A., Matoussi, State of the Art on Profiling and Data Personalization. Technical report, @Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, France. 2007