Avigdor Gal is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Industrial En[1]gineering & Management at the Technion – Israel Institute of Tech[1]nology. He received his D.Sc. degree from the Technion in 1995 in the area of temporal active databases. He has published more than 90 papers in journals (e.g., Journal of the ACM ( JACM), ACM Transac[1]tions on Database Systems (TODS), IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), ACM Transactions on Internet Tech[1]nology (TOIT), and the VLDB Journal), books (Temporal Databases: Research and Practice, Schema Matching and Mapping, and Reasoning in Event-based Distributed Systems) and conferences (ICDE, ER, CoopIS, BPM, DEBS) on the topics of data integration, complex event processing, 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 of CoopIS and DEBS, and in various roles in ER and CIKM. He served as a program committee member in SIGMOD, VLDB, ICDE and others. Avigdor was an Area Editor of the Encyclopedia of Database Systems.
Avigdor Gal is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Industrial En[1]gineering & Management at the Technion – Israel Institute of Tech[1]nology. He received his D.Sc. degree from the Technion in 1995 in the area of temporal active databases. He has published more than 90 papers in journals (e....