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:

• Managing Data on the World-Wide Web
• File Systems
• Seminar in Databases

Courses I Taught in the Past:

• Database Systems

Students:

Ph.D. Students

• Benyamin Galon (joint with Yerach Doytsher)
• Roy Levin
• Mirit Shalem (joint with Ziv Bar-Yossef)
• Svetlana Potyagaylo (joint with Omri Rand)

M.Sc. Students

• Vadim Eisenberg
• Gregory Borodin
• Ranit Gotsman
• Elad Kravi
• Liat Mashiach (joint with Joshua Greenfeld)
• Irena Zuyev (joint with Ziv Bar-Yossef)

Publications:

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

1. Eliyahu Safra, Yaron Kanza, Yehoshua Sagiv and Yerach Doytsher.
   Ad hoc Matching of Vectorial Road Networks.
   In International Journal of Geographical Information Science. (link)
    
2. Roi Friedman, Itsik Hefez, Yaron Kanza, Roy Levin, Eliyahu Safra and Yehoshua Sagiv.
   WISER: A Web-based Interactive Route Search System for Smartphones.
   In Proceedings of the 21^st International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), Lyon (France), April 2012. (pdf)
    
3. Yerach Doytsher, Ben Galon and Yaron Kanza.
   Querying Socio-Spatial Networks on the World-Wide Web.
   In Proceedings of the 21^st International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), Lyon (France), April 2012. (pdf)
    
4. Vadim Eisenberg and Yaron Kanza.
   D2RQ/Update: Updating Relational Data via Virtual RDFs.
   In Proceedings of the 21^st International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), Lyon (France), April 2012. (pdf)
    
5. Yerach Doytsher, Ben Galon and Yaron Kanza.
   Managing Socio-spatial Data as Large Graphs.
   Invited paper. The 1^st International Workshop on Large Scale Network Analysis (LSNA 2012), in conjunction with WWW 2012, Lyon (France), April 2012. (pdf)
    
6. Svetlana Potyagaylo, Omri Rand and Yaron Kanza.
   Targeted Autonomous Indoor Flight of a Rotary-Wing MAV.
   In Proceedings of the American Helicopter Society 68th Annual Forum (AHS68), Fort Worth (Texas, USA), May 2012. (pdf)
    
7. Itsik Hefez, Yaron Kanza and Roy Levin.
   TARSIUS: A System for Traffic-Aware Route Search under Conditions of Uncertainty.
   In Proceedings of the 19^th ACM International Symposium on Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS), Chicago (IL, USA), November 2011. (pdf)
    
8. Yerach Doytsher, Ben Galon and Yaron Kanza.
   Storing Routes in Socio-Spatial Networks and Supporting Social-Based Route Recommendation.
   In Proceedings of the 3^rd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Location Based Social Networks (LBSN' 11), Chicago (IL, USA), November 2011. (pdf)
    
9. Sagi Ben-Moshe, Eldar Fischer, Mani Fischer, Yaron Kanza, Arie Matsliah, Carl Staelin.
   Detecting and Exploiting Near-Sortedness for Efficient Relational Query Evaluation.
   In Proceedings of the 14^th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT), Uppsala (Sweden), March 2011. (pdf)
    
10. Vadim Eisenberg and Yaron Kanza.
    Ruby on Semantic Web.
    In Proceedings of the 27^th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Hannover (Germany), April 2011. (pdf)
     
11. Mirit Shalem and Yaron Kanza.
    How to Choose Combinations in a Join of Search Results.
    In Proceedings of the 20^th International Conference on World Wide Web (WWW), Hyderabad (India), March 2011. (pdf)
     
12. Chen Friedman, Inderjit Chopra, Svetlana Potyagaylo, Omri Rand, and Yaron Kanza.
    Towards Model-Free SLAM Using a Single Laser Range Scanner for Helicopter MAV.
    In AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference (GNC 2011), Portland (Oregon, USA), August 8-11, 2011. (pdf)
     
13. Chen Friedman, Inderjit Chopra, Svetlana Potyagaylo, Omri Rand, and Yaron Kanza.
    Towards obstacle avoidance and autonomous UAV operation.
    In AHS Specialists’ Meeting on Unmanned Rotorcraft and Network Centric Operations, Tempe, (Arizona, USA), January 25-27, 2011. (pdf)
     
14. Yerach Doytsher, Ben Galon and Yaron Kanza.
    Querying Geo-social Data by Bridging Spatial Networks and Social Networks.
    In Proceedings of the 2^nd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Location Based Social Networks (LBSN' 10), San Jose (California, USA), November 2010. (pdf)
     
15. Yaron Kanza and Mirit Shalem.
    Computing the Top-k Maximal Answers in a Join of Ranked Lists.
    In Proceedings of the 2010 ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Toronto (Ontario, Canada), 2010. (pdf)
     
16. Yaron Kanza, Roy Levin, Eliyahu Safra and Yehoshua Sagiv.
    Interactive Route Search in the Presence of Order Constraints.
    In Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB), 3(1), Presented in VLDB, Singapore, September 2010. (pdf)
     
17. Svetlana Potyagaylo, Omri Rand and Yaron Kanza.
    Motion Planning for an Autonomous Helicopter in a GPS-denied Environment.
    In Proceedings of the American Helicopter Society 66th Annual Forum (AHS66), Phoenix, (Arizona, USA), May 2010. (pdf)
     
18. Vadim Eisenberg and Yaron Kanza.
    A Persistent Programming Language for the Semantic Web.
    In IBM Programming Languages and Development Environments Seminar (PLDE), Haifa (Israel), April 2010. (pdf)
     
19. Eliyahu Safra, Yaron Kanza, Yehoshua Sagiv, Catriel Beeri and Yerach Doytsher.
    Location-based Algorithms for Finding Sets of Corresponding Objects over Several Geo-spatial Data Sets.
    In International Journal of Geographical Information Science, Vol. 24, No. 1, January 2010. (link)
     
20. Yaron Kanza, Roy Levin, Eliyahu Safra and Yehoshua Sagiv.
    An Interactive Approach to Route Search.
    In Proceedings of the 17^th ACM International Symposium on Geographic Information Systems (ACM-GIS), Seattle (Washington, USA), November 2009. (pdf)
     
21. Yaron Kanza, Eliyahu Safra and Yehoshua Sagiv.
    Route Search over Probabilistic Geospatial Data.
    In Proceedings of the 11^th International Symposium on Advances in Spatial and Temporal Databases (SSTD), Aalborg (Denmark), July 2009. (pdf)
     
22. Yaron Kanza, Eliyahu Safra, Yehoshua Sagiv and Yerach Doytsher.
    Heuristic Algorithms for Route-Search Queries over Geographic Data.
    In Proceedings of the 16^th ACM International Symposium on Geographic Information Systems (ACM-GIS), Irvine (California, USA), November 2008. (pdf)
     
23. 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)
     
24. 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)
     
25. 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)
     
26. 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)
     
27. 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)
     
28. 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)
     
29. 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)
     
30. 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)
     
31. 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)
     
32. 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)
     
33. 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)
     
34. 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)
     
35. 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)
     
36. 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)
     
37. 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)
     
38. 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)
     
39. 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)
     
40. 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.
     
41. 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)
     
42. 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)
     
43. 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)
     
44. 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.
     
45. 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)
     
46. 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)
     
47. 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).