List of Publications

All papers (unless mentioned otherwised) are PDF files.

Invited Publications

Refereed Publications in Journals and Collected Articles
Chapters in Books
Selected Refereed Conference Proceedings
Other Publications

Invited Publications in Journals and Collected Articles

A. Gal, G. Modica, H. Jamil, and A. Eyal
Automatic Ontology Matching Using Application Semantics
AI Magazine, 26(1):21-32, 2005.

A. Gal, A. Segev, C. Tatsiopoulos, K. Sidiropoulos, and P. Georgiades
Agent Oriented Data Integration
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer 2005.

Refereed Publications in Journals and Collected Articles

S. Wasserkrug, A. Gal , O. Etzion
Detection of Uncertain Events in Intelligence and Security Informatics
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 20(8):1111-1114, 2008.

A. Segev, A. Gal
Enhancing Portability with Multilingual Ontology-Based Knowledge Management
Decision Support Systems, 45(3):567-584, 2008.

V. Zadorozhny, L. Raschid and A. Gal
Scalable Catalog Infrastructure for Managing Access Costs and Source Selection in Wide Area Networks
International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems (IJCIS), 17(1):77-109, 2008.

E. Toch, A. Gal, I. Reinhartz-Berger, D. Dori
A Semantic Approach to Approximate Service Retrieval
ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT), 8(1), 2007.

A. Segev, A. Gal
Putting Things in Context: A Topological Approach to Mapping Contexts to Ontologies
Journal on Data Semantics, 9:113-140, 2007.

J. Eckstein, A. Gal, S. Reiner
Monitoring an Information Source under a Politeness Constraint (online supplement)
INFORMS Journal on Computing, (20)1:3-20, 2007.

C. Domshlak, A. Gal, H. Roitman
Rank Aggregation for Automatic Schema Matching
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 19(4):538-553, 2007.

A. Gal
Why is Schema Matching Tough and What Can We Do About It?
SIGMOD Record, 35(4):2-5, 2007.

L. Bright, A. Gal, L. Raschid
Adaptive Pull-Based Policies for Wide Area Data Delivery
ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS), 31(2):631 - 671, 2006.

A. Gal
Managing Uncertainty in Schema Matching with Top-K Schema Mappings
Journal on Data Semantics, 6:90-114, 2006.

A. Gal, A. Anaby-Tavor, A. Trombetta, and D. Montesi
A Framework for Modeling and Evaluating Automatic Semantic Reconciliation
VLDB Journal, 14(1):50-67, 2005.

A. Gal, J. Eckstein, and Z. Stoumbos
Scheduling of Data Transcription in Periodically Connected Databases
Stochastic Analysis and Applications, 21(5):1021-1058, 2003.

V. Atluri, A. Gal

An Authorization Model for Temporal and Derived Data: Securing Information Portals
ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC), 5(1):62 - 94 , 2002.

A. Gal, J. Eckstein
Managing Periodically Updated Data in Relational Databases: A Stochastic Modeling Approach
Journal of the ACM. 48(6): 1141-1183, 2001.

A. Gal, J. Mylopoulos

Towards Web-Based Application Management Systems
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 13(4): 683-702, 2001.

A. Gal, J. Mylopoulos

Supporting Distributed Autonomous Information Services Using Coordination
International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems, 9(3):255-282, 2000.

A. Gal, S. Kerr, J. Mylopoulos

Information Services for the Web: Building and Maintaining Domain Models
International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems, 8(4):227-254, 1999.

A. Gal

Semantic Interoperability in Information Services: Experiencing with CoopWARE.
SIGMOD Record, 28(1):68-75, 1999.

A. Gal, O. Etzion

A Multi-Agent Update Process in a Database with Temporal Data Dependencies and Schema Versioning.
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 10(1):21-37, 1998.

A. Gal, O. Etzion

Parallel Execution Model for a Temporal Databases.
International Journal of Computer Systems Science and Engineering, 12(5):317-327, 1997.

D. Dori, A. Gal, O. Etzion

Temporal Active Database: a Key to Computer Integrated Manufacturing.
International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing, 9(2):89-104, 1996.

A. Gal, O. Etzion

Maintaining Data Driven Rules in Databases.
IEEE Computer, 28(1):28-38, Jan. 1995.

A. Gal, O. Etzion, A. Segev

Representation of Highly-Complex Knowledge in a Database.
Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, 3(2):185-203, Mar. 1994.

Chapters in Books

A. Gal, E. Michailovsky, and M. Golani
Workflow Reconfiguration Using Chains
R. Meersman, Z. Tari et al (eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2889, Springer, pp. 18-19, 2003.
A. Gal

On Transaction Management in Temporal Databases
O. Etzion, S. Jajodia and S.Sripada (EDs) - Temporal Databases: Research and Practice, Springer Verlag, pp. 96-114, 1998.

O. Etzion, A. Gal, A. Segev

Extended Update Functionality in Temporal Databases
O. Etzion, S. Jajodia and S.Sripada (EDs) - Temporal Databases: Research and Practice, Springer Verlag, pp. 56-95, 1998.

A. Gal, O. Etzion, A. Segev

TALE --- A Temporal Active Language and Execution Model.
P. Constantopoulos, J. Mylopoulos, Y. Vassiliou (EDs) - Advanced Information Systems Engineering, Springer, pp. 60-81, 1996.

A. Gal, O.Etzion

Handling Change Management using Temporal Active Repositories.
M. Papazoglou (Ed) - Object Oriented: Entity Relationship, Springer Verlag, pp. 378-387, 1995.

O. Etzion, A. Gal, A. Segev

Data-Driven and Temporal Rules in PARDES.
N. Paton, E. Williams (Eds) - Rules in Database Systems, Springer Verlag, pp. 92-108, 1993.

Selected Refereed Conference Proceedings

· Y. Turchin, A. Gal, S. Wasserkrug
Tuning Complex Event Processing Rules using the Prediction Correction Paradigms
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Distributed Event-Based Systems (DEBS'2009). Nashville, TN, USA, July 2009.

A. Gal, M.V. Martinez, G.I. Simari, VS Subrahmanian
Aggregate Query Answering under Uncertain Schema Mappings
Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2009), Shanghai, China, March 2009.

H. Roitman, A. Gal, L. Raschid
Web Monitoring 2.0: Crossing Streams to Satisfy Complex Data Needs
Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2009), Shanghai, China, March 2009.

A. Eyal and A. Gal
Self Organizing Semantic Topologies in P2P Data Integration Systems
Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2009), Shanghai, China, March 2009.

A. Marie, A. Gal
Boosting Schema Matchers
Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS 2008), Monterrey, Mexico, Nov 5 - Nov 7, 2008.

S. Wasserkrug, A. Gal, O. Etzion
Complex Event Processing Over Uncertain Data
2nd International Conference on Distributed Event-Based Systems, Rome, Italy, July 2008.

H. Roitman, A. Gal, L. Raschid
Satisfying Complex Data Needs using Pull-Based Online Monitoring of Volatile Data Sources
24th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2008), Cancun, Mexico, April 2008.

H. Roitman, A. Gal, L. Raschid
Capturing Approximated Data Delivery Trade-offs
24th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2008), Cancun, Mexico, April 2008.

A. Marie, A. Gal
Managing Uncertainty in Schema Matcher Ensembles
Proceedings of International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM 2007), Washington DC, October 10-12, 2007.

A. Marie, A. Gal
On the Stable Marriage of MaximumWeight Royal Couples
Proceedings of AAAI Workshop on Information Integration on the Web (IIWeb'07), Vancouver, BC, Canada, July 22, 2007.

M. Shmueli-Scheuer, A. Chaudhary, A. Gal, C. Li
Communication-Efficient Query Answering with Quality Guarantees in Client-Server Applications
Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on the Web and Databases (WebDB'2007), Beijing, Chaina, June 2007.

A. Segev and A. Gal
Puzzling It Out: Supporting Ontology Evolution with Applications to eGovernment
Proceedings of IJCAI-Workshop on Modeling and Representation in Computational Semantics (MRCS-2007). Hyderabad, India, January 7, 2007.

I. Yahav, A. Gal and N. Larson
Bid-Based Approach for Pricing Web Services
Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS 2006). Montpellier, France, Nov 1 - Nov 3, 2006.

· H. Roitman, A. Gal and L. Raschid
Profile Based Online Data Delivery
Proceedings of the VLDB2006 Ph.D. Workshop, Seoul, Korea, Sept 11, 2006.

M. Golani and A Gal
Optimizing Exception Handling in Workflows using Process Restructuring
Proceedings of the fourth Conference on Business Process Modeling (BPM'06). Vienna, Austria, September 5-7, 2006.

A. Segev and A. Gal
Ontology Verification Using Contexts
Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Contexts and Ontologies: Theory, Practice and Applications (C&O'2006). Riva del Garda, Italy, August 28, 2006.

H. Roitman, A. Gal and L. Raschid
ProMo - A Scalable and Efficient Framework for Online Data Delivery
Proceedings of NGITS '2006 - The 6th Int. workshop on Next Generation Information Technologies and Systems, Kibbutz Shefayim, Israel, July 2006.

E. Toch, I. Reinhartz-Berger, A. Gal and D. Dori
OPOSSUM: Bridging the Gap Between Web Services and the Semantic Web
Proceedings of NGITS '2006 - The 6th Int. workshop on Next Generation Information Technologies and Systems, Kibbutz Shefayim, Israel, July 2006.

S. Wasserkrug, A. Gal, and O. Etzion
A Taxonomy and Representation of Sources of Uncertainty in Composite Event Systems
Proceedings of NGITS '2006 - The 6th Int. workshop on Next Generation Information Technologies and Systems, Kibbutz Shefayim, Israel, July 2006.

Y. Ben-Chaim and A. Gal - .
Second Order Snapshot-Log Relations: Supporting Multi-Directional Database Replication using Asynchronous Snapshot Replication
Proceedings of NGITS '2006 - The 6th Int. workshop on Next Generation Information Technologies and Systems, Kibbutz Shefayim, Israel, July 2006.

A. Gal and A. Segev
Putting Things in Context: Dynamic e-Government Re-Engineering using Ontologies and Context
Proc. Workshop on E-Government: Barriers and Opportunities at WWW'2006. Edinburgh, Scotland, June 2006.

H. Roitman and A. Gal
OntoBuilder: Fully Automatic Extraction and Consolidation of Ontologies from Web Sources using Sequence Semantics
Proc. International Conference on Semantics of a Networked World: Semantics of sequence and time dependent data, Munich, Germany, March 30, 2006.

V. Zadorozhny, L. Raschid, A. Gal, Q. Ye, H. Murthy
Using Non-random Associations for Predicting Latency in WANs
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2005). New York City, New York, November 20-22 2005.

E. Toch, A. Gal, D. Dori
Automatically Grounding Semantically-enriched Conceptual Models to Concrete Web Services
Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER'05). Klagenfurt, Austria, October 24-28, 2005

S. Berkovsky, Y. Eytani, A. Gal
Measuring the Relative Performance of Schema Matchers
Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2005). Compiegne, France, September 19-22, 2005

M. Golani, A. Gal
Flexible Business Process Management using Forward Stepping and Alternative Paths
Proceedings of the third Conference on Business Process Modeling (BPM'05). Nancy, France, September 6-8, 2005

S. Wasserkrug, A. Gal, O. Etzion
A Model for Reasoning with Uncertain Rules in Event Composition Systems
Proceedings of the 21st Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI-2005). Edinburgh, Scotland, July 26-29, 2005

A. Segev, A. Gal
Putting Things in Context: A Topological Approach to Mapping Contexts and Ontologies
Proceedings of the AAAI Workshop on Contexts and Ontologies: Theory, Practice and Applications. Pittsburgh, July 9-13, 2005

V. Zadorozhny, A. Gal, L. Raschid, Q. Ye
Wide Area Performance Monitoring Using Aggregate Latency Profiles
Proceedings of the International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE 2004). Munich, July 28-30, 2004

O. Shehory, G. Koifman, A. Gal
Negotiation-Based Price Discrimination for Information Goods
Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems (AAMAS'04). New York City, July 19-23 July, 2004

S. Wasserkrug, O. Etzion, A. Gal
Inference and Prediction of Uncertain Events in Active Systems: A Language and Execution Model
Proceedings of the VLDB 2003 PhD Workshop, CEUR Workshop Proceedings 76 Technical University of Aachen (RWTH) 2003

A. Anaby-Tavor, A. Gal, A. Trombetta
Evaluating matching Algorithms: the Monotonicity Principle
Proceedings of the IJCAI Workshop on Information Integration on the Web

A. Gal, A. Trombetta, A. Anaby-Tavor, D. Montesi
A Model for Schema Integration in Heterogeneous Databases
Proceedings of the International Database Engineering & Applications Symposium, IDEAS'03, July 16-18, 2003, Hong Kong, China. IEEE Computer Society 2003

L. Raschid, H.-F. Wen, A. Gal, V. Zadorozhny
Latency Profiles: Performance Monitoring for Wide Area Applications
Proceedings of the Third IEEE Workshop on Internet Applications (WIAPP `03), San Jose, CA, June 23-24 2003

G. Modica, A. Gal, H.M. Jamil

The Use of Machine-Generated Ontologies in Dynamic Information Seeking
Proc. Sixth International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS 2001), Trento, Italy, September 2001.

A. Gal, V. Atluri

An Authorization Model for Temporal Data
Proc. 7th ACM Conference on Computer and Communication Security, pp. 144-153, Athens, Greece, November 2000.

A. Gal

Obsolescent Materialized Views in Query Processing of Enterprise Information Systems
Proc. Eighth International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'99), pp. 367-374, Kansas City, Missouri, November 1999.

A. Gal, D. Montesi

Inter-Enterprise Workflow Management Systems
Proc. 10th International Conference and Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA '99), pp. 623-627, Florence, Italy, September 1999.

A. Gal, N.H. Minsky, V. Ungureanu

Regulating Agent Involvement in Inter-Enterprise Electronic Commerce
Proc. 19th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS '99), pp. 41-46, Austin, TX, June 1999.

S. Kerr, A. Gal, J. Mylopoulos

Information Services for the Web: Building and Maintaining Domain Models
Proc. Third IFCIP International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS 98), pp. 4-13, NYC, NY, August 1998.
Best-Paper Award

A. Gal

Handling Constantly Changing Metadata
Proc. Second IEEE Metadata Conference, Silver Spring, Maryland, September 1997.

A. Gal

Modelling Cooperation among Information Systems using Control Elements
Proc. NGITS '97 - Int. workshop on Next Generation Information Technologies and Systems, pp. 125-132, Jerusalem, Israel, June 1997.

J. Mylopoulos, A. Gal, K. Kontogiannis, M. Stanley

A Generic Integration Architecture for Cooperative Information Systems
Proc. First IFCIS International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS 96), pp. 208-217, Brussels, Belgium, June 1996.

A. Gal, D. Dori

Combining Simultaneous Values and Temporal Data Dependencies
Proc. Third International Workshop on Temporal Representation and Reasoning (TIME'96), pp. 112-119, Key West, Florida, May 1996.

A. Gal, O. Etzion, A. Segev

A Language for the Support of Constraints in Temporal Active Databases.
Proc. ILPS'95--Workshop on Constraints, Databases and Logic Programming, pp. 42-58, Portland, Oregon, December 1995.

A. Gal, O. Etzion

CODES - A Design Tool for Computerized System.
Proc. NGITS '95 - Int. workshop on Next Generation Information Technologies and Systems, pp. 116-123, Naharia, Israel, June 1995.

Other Publications

A. Gal

TALE - A Temporal Active Language and Execution Model.
D.Sc. thesis, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, July 1995.

A. Gal, J. Mylopoulos

Information Services: Coping with the Information Crisis.
Guest Editors' Introduction, Inernational Journal of Cooperative Information Services, 7(2&3):171-121, 1998.