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Hello! I am a PhD student at the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology) in the Computer Science Department. My research is about query processing in the WWW and semi-structured databases. My Msc. project is W3QS, a query system for the WWW. My daughter is EDEN.

In Journals:
David Konopnicki and Oded Shmueli, Information Gathering in the WWW: The W3QL Query Language and the W3QS system, ACM TODS 23(4), Dec. 1998. (postscript)

In refereed conferences:

• David Konopnicki and Oded Shmueli, W3QS: A Query System for the World-Wide Web, Proc. VLDB, 1995.(postscript)
• David Konopnicki and Oded Shmueli, Early Experience with W3QS - A WWW Information Gathering System, Proc. The 19th IEEE Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel, 1996. (postscript)
• David Konopnicki and Oded Shmueli, WWW Exploration Queries, Proc. NGITS'99. LNCS 1649 (postscript)
• David Konopnicki and Oded Shmueli, A Comprehensive Framework for Integrating WWW Data and Services, Proc. CoopIS'99 (postscript)
• David Konopnicki, Lior Leiba, Oded Shmueli, Yehoshua Sagiv, A Formal Yet Practical Approach to Electronic Commerce, Proc. CoopIS'99 (postscript)

• David Konopnicki and Oded Shmueli, Bringing Database Functionality to the World-Wide Web, Proc. International Workshop on the Web and Databases (LNCS 1590), 1998.(postscript)
• C. Beeri, G. Elber, T. Milo, Y. Sagiv, O. Shmueli, N. Tishby, Y. Kogan, D. Konopnicki, P. Mogilevski, WebSuite - A tool -- Suite for Harnessing Web data, Proc. International Workshop on the Web and Databases (to appear in LNCS), 1998.
• David Konopnicki and Oded Shmueli, Defining, Optimizing and Executing WWW Exploration Queries, Workshop on Query Processing for Semistructured Data and Non-Standard Data Formats, 1998.
• David Konopnicki, Lior Leiba, Oded Shmueli, Yehoshua Sagiv, Toward Automated Electronic Commerce, Proc. First IAC Workshop on Internet Based Negotiation Technologies, 1999. (postscript)

My main project is W3QS, a query system for the WWW. The documentation for W3QS is found here.

I am teaching in the following courses: Introduction to DBMS and Implementation of DBMS .

Areas of interrest

• Relational Databases, Query processing.
• Data Mining on the WWW.
• Operating Systems. 

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