Yaron Kanza

Contact Information

Office : Taub building, Room 514
Email : my-last-name@cs.technion.ac.il (replace my-last-name with kanza)
Phone (office) : (972) 4 829 4939
Fax : (972) 4 829 3900
Phone (cellular) : 050 935 6568

Address :

Department of Computer Science Technion Israel Institute of Technology Haifa, 32000 Israel

Research Interests:

• Database Systems and Database Theory: data integration, data exchange, uncertainty and incompleteness, privacy, access control;
• Managing data on the World-Wide Web: querying XML, XML retrieval;
• Geographic Information Systems;

Courses I Teach:

• Database Systems
• Seminar in Databases

Publications:

See DBLP for a list of my publications in the DBLP publications server.

1. Yaron Kanza, Eliyahu Safra, Yehoshua Sagiv and Yerach Doytsher.
   Heuristic Algorithms for Route-Search Queries over Geographic Data.
   In 16^th ACM International Symposium on Geographic Information Systems (ACM-GIS), Irvine (California, USA), November 2008.
   (pdf)
2. Nir Dolev, Yaron Kanza and Yerach Doytsher.
   Efficient Orienteering-Route Search over Uncertain Spatial Datasets.
   In FIG Working Week 2008 - Integrating Generations., Stockholm (Sweden), June 2008.
   (pdf)
3. Eliyahu Safra, Yaron Kanza, Nir Dolev, Yehoshua Sagiv and Yerach Doytsher.
   Computing a k-Route over Uncertain Geographical Data.
   In Proceedings of the 10^th International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases (SSTD), Boston (MA, USA), July 2007.
   (pdf)
4. Mariano P. Consens, Xin Gu, Yaron Kanza and Flavio Rizzolo.
   Self Managing Top-k (Summary, Keyword) Indexes in XML Retrieval.
   In Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Ranking in Databases (DBRank), Istanbul (Turkey), 2007.
   (pdf)
5. M. S. Ali, Mariano P. Consens, Xin Gu, Yaron Kanza, Flavio Rizzolo and Rachel Stasiu.
   Efficient, Effective, and Flexible XML Retrieval Using Summaries.
   In Proceedings of Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval (INEX), Dagstuhl (Germany), December 2006.
   (pdf)
6. Eliyahu Safra, Yaron Kanza, Yehoshua Sagiv and Yerach Doytsher.
   Efficient Integration of Road Maps.
   In Proceedings of the 14^th ACM International Symposium on Geographic Information Systems (ACM-GIS), Arlington (Virginia, USA), November 2006.
   (pdf)
7. Eliyahu Safra, Yaron Kanza, Yehoshua Sagiv and Yerach Doytsher.
   Integrating Data from Maps on the World-Wide Web.
   In Proceedings of the 6^th International Symposium on Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems, Hong Kong (China), December 2006.
   (pdf)
8. Sara Cohen, Itzhak Fadida, Yaron Kanza, Benny Kimelfeld and Yehoshua Sagiv.
   Full Disjunctions: Polynomial-Delay Iterators in Action.
   In Proceedings of the 32^nd International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), 2006.
   (pdf)
9. Yaron Kanza, Alberto O. Mendelzon, Renee J. Miller and Zheng Zhang.
   Authorization-Transparent Access Control for XML Under the Non-Truman Model.
   In International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), Munich (Germany), 2006.
   (pdf)
10. Catriel Beeri, Yerach Doytsher, Yaron Kanza, Eliyahu Safra and Yehoshua Sagiv
    Finding Corresponding Objects when Integrating Several Geo-Spatial Datasets.
    In 13^th ACM International Symposium on Geographic Information Systems (ACM-GIS), Bremen (Germany), 2005.
    (pdf)
11. Sara Cohen, Yaron Kanza, Benny Kimelfeld and Yehoshua Sagiv.
    Interconnection semantics for keyword search in XML.
    In Proceedings of the 2005 ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Bremen (Germany), 2005.
    (pdf)
12. Catriel Beeri, Yaron Kanza, Eliyahu Safra and Yehoshua Sagiv.
    Object Fusion in Geographic Information Systems.
    In Proceedings of the 30^th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), Toronto (Canada), September 2004.
    (zip)
13. Yiftah Ben-Aharon, Sara Cohen, Yael Grumbach, Yaron Kanza, Jonathan Mamou, Yehoshua Sagiv, Benjamin Sznajder and Efrat Twito.
    Searching in an XML Corpus Using Content and Structure.
    In Proceedings of the Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval (INEX), Dagstuhl (Germany), December 2003.
    (pdf)
14. Yaron Kanza and Yehoshua Sagiv.
    Computing Full Disjunctions.
    In Proceedings of the 22^th Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (PODS), San Diego (California), 2003.
    (zip)
15. Sara Cohen, Yaron Kanza and Yehoshua Sagiv.
    Generating Relations from XML Documents.
    In Proceedings of the 9^th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT), Siena (Italy), January 2003.
    (zip)
16. Sara Cohen, Yonatan Mamou, Yaron Kanza and Yehoshua Sagiv.
    XSEarch: A Semantic Search Engine for XML.
    In Proceedings of the 29^th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), Berlin (Germany), September 2003.
    (zip)
17. Yaron Kanza, Werner Nutt and Yehoshua Sagiv.
    Querying Incomplete Information in Semistructured Data.
    In Journal of Computer and System Sciences, 64(3), May 2002.
    (zip)
18. Sara Cohen, Yaron Kanza, Yakov Kogan, Werner Nutt, Yehoshua Sagiv and Alexander Serebrenik.
    EquiX-a Search and Query Language for XML.
    In Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 53(6), 2002.
    (zip)
19. Sara Cohen, Yaron Kanza and Yehoshua Sagiv.
    Select-Project Queries over XML Documents.
    In Proceedings of the 5^th Workshop on Next Generation Information Technologies and Systems (NGITS), Caesarea (Israel), June 2002.
20. Sara Cohen, Yaron Kanza and Yehoshua Sagiv.
    SQL4X: A Flexible Query Language for XML and Relational Databases.
    In Proceedings of the 8^th International Workshop on Databases and Programming Languages (DBPL), Rome (Italy), September 2001.
    (zip)
21. Yaron Kanza and Yehoshua Sagiv.
    Flexible Queries over Semistructured Data.
    In Proceedings of the 20^th Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (PODS), Santa-Barbara (California), 2001.
    (zip)
22. Sara Cohen, Yaron Kanza, Yakov Kogan, Werner Nutt, Yehoshua Sagiv, Alexander Serebrenik.
    Combining the Power of Searching and Querying.
    In Proceedings of the 5^th IFCIS International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS), 2000.
    (zip)
23. Yaron Kanza, Werner Nutt and Yehoshua Sagiv.
    Incomplete Answers for Queries over Semi-structured Data.
    In Proceedings of the 6^th International Workshop on Knowledge Representation meets Databases (KRDB), Linkoping (Sweden), July 1999.
24. Yaron Kanza, Werner Nutt, and Yehoshua Sagiv.
    Queries with Incomplete Answers over Semistructured Data.
    In Proceedings of the 18^th Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (PODS), Philadelphia (Penn.), June 1999.
    (zip)
25. Ziv Bar-Yossef, Yaron Kanza, Yakov Kogan, Werner Nutt ,and Yehoshua Sagiv.
    Querying Semantically Tagged Documents on the World-Wide Web.
    Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Next Generation Information Technologies and Systems, NGITS'99, Zikhron-Yaakov (Israel), July 1999.
    (zip)
26. Sara Cohen, Yaron Kanza, Yakov Kogan, Werner Nutt, Yehoshua Sagiv and Alexander Serebrenik.
    EquiX - Easy Querying in XML Databases.
    ACM SIGMOD Workshop on the Web and Databases (WebDB),Philadelphia(Penn.), June 1999.
    (zip)

Ph.D. Thesis

• My Ph.D. research proposal: Oblivious Querying over Data with Irregular Structure (Research Proposal).
• My Ph.D. Thesis: Oblivious Querying over Data with Irregular Structure (Thesis).