OPHER ETZION

Motto in life : "Ridendo Dicere Verum" (in Latin: to say the truth through humor)

PUBLICATIONS

Consistency and Optimization

O. Etzion- Flexible Consistency Modes for Active Database Applications. Information Systems Journal, 18(6),Nov 1993, pp 391-404.

O. Etzion, D. Dori, S. Nof - Active Coordination of CIM Multi Database System. International Journal of CIM, 8(2), 1995.

O. Etzion, D. Botzer - A Heuristic Optimization Model of Coordination Strategies for CIM Databases. IIE Transactions 27(6), Dec 1995, pp 734-751

D. Botzer, O. Etzion - Optimization of Materialization Strategies For Derived Data-Elements in Active Databases. IEEE- Transaction on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 8(2), April 1996, pp 260-272

O. Etzion, B. Dahav - Patterns of Self-Stabilization in Database Consistency Maintenance. Data and Knowledge Engineering. 28(3), October 1998, pp 299 - 319.

Data-driven Rules

O. Etzion- Active Interdatabase Dependencies, Information Sciences Journal 75, Dec 1993, pp 133-163.

O.Etzion- PARDES- A Data-Driven Oriented Active Database Model, ACM Sigmod Record, 22(1), March 1993, pp 1-7 .

O. Etzion - The Reflective Approach for Data-Driven Rules. International Journal of Intelligent and Cooperative Information Systems, 2(4), Dec 1993, pp 399-424

A. Gal, O. Etzion - Maintaining Data-Driven Rules in a Database IEEE Computer, 28(1), pp 28-38 .

Event Management

O. Etzion - Reasoning about the behavior of active database systems, T. Sellis (ed)- Rules in Database Systems II, Springer Verlag

A. Adi, D. Botzer, O. Etzion - A semantic event model. Proceed. ECIS, July 2000.

A. Adi, D. Botzer, O. Etzion, T. Yatzkar - A personalization tool. Demo, VLDB 2000.

Knowledge Modeling

A. Gal, O. Etzion, A. Segev - Representation of Highly- Complex Knowledge in a Databases. Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, 3(2), April 1994, pp 185-203

Temporal Dependencies

D. Dori, A. Gal, O. Etzion - Temporal Active Databases: A key to Computer Integrated Manufacturing, International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing, 9(2), 1996, pp. 89-104.

A. Gal, O. Etzion - A Multi-Data Update Process in Databases with Temporal dependencies and schema versioning IEEE Transaction of Knowledge and Data Engineering, 10(1), February 1998, pp 21-37.

.A. Gal, O.Etzion - Handling Change Management using Temporal Active Repositories, M. Papazoglou (ed) - Object Oriented: Entity Relationship, Springer Verlag.

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 - A language for the Support of Constraints in Temporal Active Databases, ILPS Workshop on Constraints and Database, Portland, Dec 1995.

Temporal Databases

A. Gal, O. Etzion - A Parallel Execution Model for Updating Temporal Databases. Computer Systems Science and Engineering, 12(5), Sep 1997, pp 317-328

O. Etzion, A. Gal, A. Segev - Extended Update Functionality in Temporal Databases.

O. Etzion, S. Jajodia, S. Sripada (eds)- Temporal databases, Research and Practice, Springer-Verlag

M. Golani, O. Etzion - Temporal Active Rules, Proceed. NGITS'99, July 1999.