Avigdor Gal

Associate Professor, Faculty of Industrial Engineering & Management, Technion

Vice Dean for Teaching

Visiting Professor, UMIACS, University of Maryland, College Park

Member of the IFIP WG 2.6 on Data Semantics

Recipient of the IBM Faculty Award for 2002-2004

Member of CoopIS (Cooperative Information Systems) Advisory Board

IEEE Senior Member

 

Please see here my research interests (Hebrew narration). If you're interested in a graduate degree please contact me by email.

Other (present and past) positions:

Avigdor Gal is an Associate professor at the Faculty of Industrial Engineering & Management at the Technion. He received his D.Sc. degree from the Technion - Israel Institute ofTechnology in 1995 in the area of temporal active databases. During his studies, Avigdor has received the Miriam and Aaron Gutwirth Scholarship three years in a row (1993-1995). He has published more than 80 papers in journals (e.g. Journal of the ACM (JACM), ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS),  IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT), and the VLDB Journal), books (Temporal Databases: Research and Practice) and conferences (ICDE, ER, CoopIS, BPM) on the topics of data integration, temporal databases, information systems architectures, and active databases.

Avigdor is a member of CoopIS (Cooperative Information Systems) Advisory Board, a member of IFIP WG 2.6, and a recipient of the IBM Faculty Award for 2002-2004. He is a member of the ACM  and a senior member of IEEE. Avigdor served as a Program co-Chair and General Chair of CoopIS, and in various roles in ER and CIKM. He served as a program committee member in SIGMOD, VLDB, ICDE and others. Avigdor is an Area Editor of the Encyclopedia of Database Systems.

Research Summary

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Projects:

 

Follow these links to:

Technological Infrastructure for Electronic Commerce, a tutorial
Data Management in eCommerce: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, a tutorial (zipped PS file)

Courses:

094223: Data Structures and Algorithms (password protected)
095210: Seminar in Information Systems and Knowledge Engineering: Schema Matching (password protected)
096225: Distributed Database Systems (password protected)


           List of Publications

Quick links to:

Publications on Schema Matching and Data Integration

Publications on Uncertainty Management

Publications on Monitoring Wide Area Networks


Address

Technion--Israel Institute of Technology William Davidson Faculty of Industrial Engineering & Management Technion City 32000 Haifa, Israel
+972-4-829-4425

+972-4-829-5688


Last update of this page: May 20, 2007