Avigdor Gal
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List of Publications
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Ontology Engineering.
Encyclopedia of Database Systems, Ling Liu and M. Tamer Ozsu (eds.). Springer (US), pp. 1972-1973. 2009
Uncertainty in Streams.
Encyclopedia of Big Data Technologies, Springer (US), 2018 (to appear)
In Schema Matching, Even Experts are Human
Schema Matching/ Entity ResolutionTowards Expert Sourcing in Schema Matching. Proceedings of ICDE Workshop on Information Integration on the Web (IIWeb’14). Chicago, Illinois, USA, March 2014.
An Effective Blocking Algorithm for Entity Resolution
Schema Matching/ Entity ResolutionInformation Systems. 38(6):908-926, September 2013.
Enhancing the Capabilities of Attribute Correspondences
Schema Matching/ Entity ResolutionZ. Bellahsene, A. Bonifati, and E. Rahm (eds.), Schema Matching and Mapping. Springer, pp. 53-74, 2011.
Tuning the Ensemble Selection Process of Schema Matchers
Schema Matching/ Entity ResolutionInformation Systems, 35(8):845-859. 2010.
Advances in Ontology Matching
Schema Matching/ Entity ResolutionIn Advances in Web Semantics I: ontologies, Web Services and Applied Semantic Web, T. S. Dillon, E. Chang, R. Meersman, and K. Sycara (eds.). Lecture Notes In Computer Science, vol. 4891. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 176-198. 2009.
Managing Uncertainty in Schema Matching with Top-K Schema Mappings
Schema Matching/ Entity ResolutionUncertainty Management/Probabilistic DatabasesJournal on Data Semantics, 6:90-114, 2006.
Instance-level Process Matching using Event Log Information.
Proceedings of 29th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE’17). Essen, Germany, June 2017
On the Cardinality of Schema Matching
Schema Matching/ Entity ResolutionR. Meersman, Z. Tari (Eds.): On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2005: Workshops, Agia Napa, Cyprus, October 31 - November 4 2005, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3762, Springer 2005.
Measuring the Relative Performance of Schema Matchers
Schema Matching/ Entity ResolutionProceedings of the 2005 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI’05). Compiegne, France, September 19-22, 2005.
Agent Oriented Data Integration
Agents/ Goal Recognition DesignSchema Matching/ Entity ResolutionLecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer 2005.
A Framework for Modeling and Evaluating Automatic Semantic Reconciliation
Schema Matching/ Entity ResolutionUncertainty Management/Probabilistic DatabasesVLDB Journal, 14(1):50-67, 2005.
Automatic Ontology Matching using Application Semantics
Ontology ManagementSchema Matching/ Entity ResolutionAI Magazine. 26(1):21-32, 2005.
Evaluating matching Algorithms: the Monotonicity Principle
Schema Matching/ Entity ResolutionProceedings of the IJCAI Workshop on Information Integration on the Web, Acapulco, Mexico, August 8 2003.
A Model for Schema Integration in Heterogeneous Databases
Schema Matching/ Entity ResolutionProceedings of the International Database Engineering & Applications Symposium, IDEAS’03, July 16-18, 2003, Hong Kong, China. IEEE Computer Society 2003.
The Use of MachineGenerated Ontologies in Dynamic Information Seeking
Schema Matching/ Entity ResolutionC. Batini, F. Giunchiglia, P. Giorgini, and M. Mecella (Eds.): Cooperative Information Systems, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2172, Springer, pp. 433-447, 2001.
A Cooperative Model for PreferenceBased Information Sharing in Narrow Bandwidth Networks
Online Data DeliveryInternational Journal of Cooperative Information Systems. 22(10), March 2013.
Tennenholtz: DataParallelComputing Meets STRIPS
Online Data DeliveryProceedings of the Twenty-Seventh AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI’2013). Bellevue, Washington, USA, July 14-18, 2013.
A Dual Framework and Algorithms for Targeted Online Data Delivery
Online Data DeliveryIEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 23(1):5-21, January 2011.
On Tradeoffs in Event Delivery Systems
Complex Event ProcessingOnline Data DeliveryProceedings of the 4th International Conference on Distributed Event-Based Systems (DEBS’2010). Cambridge, UK, July 2010.
Web Monitoring 20: Crossing Streams to Satisfy Complex Data Needs
Online Data DeliveryProceedings of the 25th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE’2009). Shanghai, China, March 2009.
Scalable Catalog Infrastructure for Managing Access Costs and Source Selection in Wide Area Networks
Online Data DeliveryInternational Journal of Cooperative Information Systems (IJCIS), 17(1):77-109, March 2008.
Capturing Approximated Data Delivery Tradeoffs
Online Data DeliveryProceedings of the 24th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2008). Cancun, Mexico, April 2008.
Satisfying Complex Data Needs using PullBased Online Monitoring of Volatile Data Sources
Online Data DeliveryProceedings of the 24th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2008). Cancun, Mexico, April 2008.
CommunicationEfficient Query Answering with Quality Guarantees in ClientServer Applications
Online Data DeliveryProceedings of the 10th International Workshop on the Web and Databases (WebDB’2007), Beijing, Chaina, June 2007.
Monitoring an Information Source under a Politeness Constraint
Online Data DeliveryINFORM Journal on Computing, (20)1:3-20, December 2007.
ProMo Hybrid Data Delivery Framework for User Profile Satisfaction
Online Data DeliveryProceedings of the VLDB2006 Ph.D. Workshop, Seoul, Korea, Sept 11, 2006.
Using Nonrandom Associations for Predicting Latency in WANs
Online Data DeliveryProceedings of the 6th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2005). New York City, New York, November 20-22 2005.
A Cooperative Model for Wide Area Content Delivery Applications
Online Data DeliveryR. Meersman, Z. Tari (Eds.): On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2005: CoopIS, DOA, and ODBASE, OTM Confederated International Conferences, Agia Napa, Cyprus, October 31 - November 4 2005, Proceedings, Part I. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3760, Springer 2005.
Wide Area Performance Monitoring Using Aggregate Latency Profiles
Online Data DeliveryProceedings of the International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE 2004). Munich, July 28-30, 2004.
Latency Profiles: Performance Monitoring for Wide Area Applications
Online Data DeliveryProceedings of the Third IEEE Workshop on Internet Applications (WIAPP ‘03), San Jose, CA, June 23-24, 2003.
Managing Periodically Updated Data in Relational Databases: A Stochastic Modeling Approach
Online Data DeliveryUncertainty Management/Probabilistic DatabasesJournal of the ACM. 48(6): 1141-1183, 2001.
Optimising Event Pattern Matching using using Business Process Models
Complex Event ProcessingProcess ManagementIEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), accepted for publication, 2014.
Effcient Processing of Uncertain Events in RuleBased Systems
Complex Event ProcessingUncertainty Management/Probabilistic DatabasesIEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 24(1):45-58, January 2012.
Pattern Rewriting Framework for Event Processing Optimization
Complex Event ProcessingProceedings of the 5th International Conference on Distributed Event-Based Systems (DEBS’2011). NY, NY, July 2011.
Generic architecture of complex event processing systems
Complex Event ProcessingA. Hinze and A. Buchmann (eds.), Principles and Applications of Distributed Event-Based Systems. IGI Global, pp. 1-18, 2010.
Rule Parameter Tuning using the PredictionCorrection Paradigm
Complex Event ProcessingProceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Distributed Event-Based Systems (DEBS’2009). Nashville, TN, USA, July 2009.
A Taxonomy and Representation of Sources of Uncertainty in Composite Event Systems
Complex Event ProcessingProc. NGITS ’2006 - The 6th Int. workshop on Next Generation Information Technologies and Systems, Kibbutz Shefayim, Israel, July 2006, pp. 174-185.
Inference and Prediction of Uncertain Events in Active Systems: A Language and Execution Model
Complex Event ProcessingUncertainty Management/Probabilistic DatabasesProceedings of the VLDB 2003 PhD Workshop. Co-located with the 29th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2003). Berlin, September 12-13, 2003. CEUR Workshop Proceedings 76 Technical University of Aachen (RWTH) 2003.
Searching Business Process Repositories Using Operational Similarity
Process ManagementProceedings of the 19th International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS 2011). Crete, Greece, Oct 19-21, 2011.
Modeling Alternatives in Exception Executions
Process ManagementService Management & RetrievalProceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Business Process Intelligence (BPI 07). Brisbane, Australia, September 2007.
Flexible Business Process Management using Forward Stepping and Alternative Paths
Process ManagementProceedings of the Third Conference on Business Process Management (BPM’05). Nancy, France, September 6-8, 2005.
A New Class of Lineage Expressions over Probabilistic Databases computable in Ptime
Uncertainty Management/Probabilistic DatabasesProceedings of the 7th International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM’2013). Washington DC, USA, September 16-18, 2013.
Challenges of Uncertainty Management in Event Processing
Uncertainty Management/Probabilistic DatabasesProceedings of the Second International Workshop on Event-driven Architecture, Processing and Systems (EDA-PS’07), Vienna, Austria, September 2007
A Taxonomy and Representation of Sources of Uncertainty in Composite Event Systems
Uncertainty Management/Probabilistic DatabasesProc. NGITS ’2006 - The 6th Int. workshop on Next Generation Information Technologies and Systems, Kibbutz Shefayim, Israel, July 2006, pp. 174-185.
Automatically Grounding Semanticallyenriched Conceptual Models to Concrete Web Services
Service Management & RetrievalProceedings of the 24th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER’05). Klagenfurt, Austria, October 24-28, 2005.
InterEnterprise Workflow Management Systems: Enhancing Trust in Electronic Commerce
Service Management & Retrieval10th International Workshop on Database & Expert Systems Applications, Florence, Italy, 1-3 September, 1999, Proceedings. IEEE Computer Society, 1999, ISBN 0-7695-0281-4, pp. 623-627.
Modelling Cooperation among Information Systems using Control Elements
Service Management & RetrievalProc. NGITS
A Generic Integration Architecture for Cooperative Information Systems
Service Management & RetrievalProceedings of the First IFCIS International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS
A MultiAgent Update Process in a Database with Temporal Data Dependencies and Schema Versioning
Active DatabasesTemporal DatabasesIEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 10(1):21-37, 1998.
TALE — A Temporal Active Language and Execution Model
Active DatabasesTemporal DatabasesP. Constantopoulos, J. Mylopoulos, Y. Vassiliou (EDs) - Advanced Information Systems Engineering, Springer, pp. 60-81, 1996.
A Language for the Support of Constraints in Temporal Active Databases
Active DatabasesTemporal DatabasesProc. ILPS’95–Workshop on Constraints, Databases and Logic Programming, Portland, Oregon, December 1995, pp. 42-58.
Handling Change Management using Temporal Active Repositories
Active DatabasesTemporal DatabasesM. Papazoglou (Ed) - Object Oriented: Entity Relationship, Springer Verlag, pp. 378-387, 1995.
Retroactive and Proactive Processing
Active DatabasesTemporal DatabasesFourth International Workshop on Research Issues in Data Engineering: Active Database Systems, Houston, Texas, February 14-15, 1994. IEEE-CS 1994, ISBN 0-8186-5360-4, pp. 126-131.
Temporal Active Databases
Active DatabasesTemporal DatabasesInt. Workshop on Temporal Databases, Arlington, TX, June 1993.
A Temporal Support in Active Databases, Proc
Active DatabasesTemporal DatabasesWorkshop on Information Technologies and Systems 92, Dallas, TX, December 1992, pp. 245-254.
Handling Constantly Changing Metadata
Active DatabasesProc. Second IEEE Metadata Conference, Silver Spring, Maryland, September 1997.
CODES A Design Tool for Computerized System
Active DatabasesProc. NGITS ’95 - Int. workshop on Next Generation Information Technologies and Systems, Naharia, Israel, June 1995, pp. 116-123.
REMI: A Framework of Reusable Elements for Mining Heterogeneous Data with Missing Information.
Uncertainty Management/Probabilistic DatabasesJournal of Intelligent Information Systems (JIIS), 51(2):367-388, Oct 2018
Handling Probabilistic Integrity Constraints in Pay-as-you-go Reconciliation of Data Models.
Schema Matching/ Entity ResolutionInformation Systems, 83:166-180, 2019.
- Context-Aware Temporal Network Representation of Event Logs: Model and Methods for Process Performance Analysis.
Process ManagementInformation Systems, 84:240-254, 2019.
Goal Recognition Design in Deterministic Environments
Agents/ Goal Recognition DesignJournal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR), 65:209-269, 2019.
Recommendations for enhancing the usability and understandability of process mining in healthcare.
Process ManagementArtificial Intelligence in Medicine, 109: 101962, 2020.
Interval-based queries over lossy IoT event streams.
Complex Event ProcessingACM Transactions on Data Science, 1(4):1-27, 2020.
Learning to Rerank Schema Matches.
Schema Matching/ Entity ResolutionIEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 33(8): 3104-3116, August 2021.
Data Science Meets Law.
Data Science Aspects Communications of the ACM,65(2):35-39, 2022.
PoWareMatch: a Quality-aware Deep Learning Approach to Improve Human Schema Matching.
Schema Matching/ Entity ResolutionJournal of Data and Information Quality (JDIQ), Special Issue on Deep Learning for Data Quality, 14(3):1–27, September 2022.
Process Discovery with Context-Aware Process Trees.
Process Management, Information Systems, 106:101533, 2022.
Uncovering the shape of neighborhoods: Harnessing data analytics for a smart governance of urban areas.
Data Science AspectsJournal of Urban Management, 11:178-187, 2022.
Process Minding: Closing the Big Data Gap.
Process ManagementProceedings of Business Process Management - 18th International Conference, BPM 2020, pp. 3-16, Seville, Spain, September 2020
Heterogeneous Data Integration by Learning to Rerank Schema Matches.
Schema Matching/ Entity ResolutionProceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM’2018). Singapore, November 2018 (20% acceptance rate).
Congestion Graphs for Automated Time Predictions.
Process ManagementProceedings of the 33th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI’2019). Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, January 2019 (16% acceptance rate).
Inductive Context-aware Process Discovery.
Process ManagementProceedings of the International Conference on Process Mining (ICPM’2019). Aachen, Germany, June 2019
Efficient Heuristic Search for Optimal Environment Redesign.
Agents/ Goal Recognition DesignProceedings of the 29th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS’2019). Berkeley, California, USA, July 2019
A Cognitive Model of Human Bias in Matching.
Schema Matching/ Entity ResolutionProceedings of the 16th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI’2019). Yanuca Island, Cuvu, Fiji, August 2019.
InCognitoMatch: Cognitive-aware Matching via Crowdsourcing.
Schema Matching/ Entity ResolutionProceedings of the 2020 International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD’2020), Portland, OR, USA, June 14-19, 2020.
Goal Recognition Design - Survey
Agents/ Goal Recognition DesignProceedings of the 29th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI’2020), pp. 4847-4853. Yokohama, Japan, July 2020.
Accounting for Observer’s Partial Observability in Stochastic Goal Recognition Design.
Agents/ Goal Recognition DesignProceedings of the 24th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI’2020), pp. 2394-2401. Santiago de Compostela, Spain, August 2020.
ADnEV: Cross-Domain Schema Matching using Deep Similarity Matrix Adjustment and Evaluation.
Schema Matching/ Entity ResolutionProceedings of the 46th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB’2020). Tokyo, Japan, August 2020.
Queueing Inference for Process Performance Analysis with Missing Life-Cycle Data.
Process ManagementProceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Process Mining (ICPM’2020), pp. 57-64. Padua, Italy, October 2020.
Discovering Hierarchical Processes Using Flexible Activity Trees for Event Abstraction.
Complex Event ProcessingProcess ManagementProceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Process Mining (ICPM’2020), pp. 145-152. Padua, Italy, October 2020.
Mapping Patterns for Virtual Knowledge Graph.
Ontology ManagementProceedings of Description Logics 2020). Rhodes, Greece, October 2020.
Learning to Characterize Matching Experts.
Schema Matching/ Entity ResolutionProceedings of the 37th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE’2021). Chania, Crete, Greece, April 2021.
ADaMaP: Automatic Alignment of Data Sources using Mapping Patterns
Ontology ManagementProceedings of 33th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE’21). Melbourne, Australia, June 2021 (19% acceptance rate).
Uncertain Process Data with Probabilistic Knowledge: Problem Characterization and Challenges.
Process ManagementProceedings of the International Workshop on BPM Problems to Solve Before We Die (PROBLEMS 2021) co-located with the 19th International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2021). Rome, Italy September 2021. CEUR Workshop Proceedings 2938
From Limited Annotated Raw Material Data to Quality Production Data: A Case Study in the Milk Industry.
Data Science AspectsProceedings of 30th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM’21). Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, November 2021 (24% acceptance rate).
Conformance Checking Over Stochastically Known Logs.
Process ManagementProceedings of 20th Business Process Management Conference (BPM’22). Munster, Germany, September 2022 (37% acceptance rate).
FlexER: Flexible Entity Resolution for Multiple Intents.
Schema Matching/ Entity ResolutionProceedings of the 2023 ACM SIGMOD/PODS Conference (SIGMOD’2023. Seattle, Washington, USA, June 2023.
Multi-Source Uncertain Entity Resolution at Yad Vashem: Transforming Holocaust Victim Reports into People
Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD Conference, San Francisco, California, USA, June 2016.
P 3 -Folder: Optimal Model Simplication for Improving Accuracy in Process Performance Prediction.
Business Process Management - 14th International Conference, BPM 2016, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, September 2016 (18% acceptance rate).
In Log and Model We Trust? a Generalized Conformance Checking Framework
Business Process Management - 14th International Conference, BPM 2016, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, September 2016 (18% acceptance rate)
Equi-Reward Utility Maximizing Design in Stochastic Environments
Proceedings of the 26th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI’2017). Melbourne, Australia, August 2017
Temporal Network Representation of Event Logs for Improved Performance Modelling in Business Processes
Business Process Management - 15th International Conference, BPM 2017, Barcelona, Spain, September 2017
Goal Recognition Design with Non-Observable Actions
Agents/ Goal Recognition DesignThe 13th Bar-Ilan Symposium on the Foundations of Arti cial Intelligence (BISFAI). Ramat Gan, Israel, May 10-11, 2015.
Queue Mining for Delay Prediction in Multi-Class Service Processes
Process ManagementInformation Systems, accepted for publication, 2015
Goal Recognition Design with Non-Observable Actions
Agents/ Goal Recognition DesignWorkshop on Heuristics and Search for Domain-independent Planning (HSDIP). Jerusalem, Israel, June 2015