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Address: 231A Smith Hall, 5000 Forbes Av.
Carnegie-Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
United States

Telephone: +1 (412) 268-5866
Website: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~eran
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Date of birth: 20.4.1975
Citizenship: Israel, UK

Current Position

Post doctoral fellow, Institute of Software Research - School of Computer Science, Carnegie-Mellon University.

Academic Degrees

2002-2008: Ph.D. Student (direct PhD course), Information Systems Engineering, Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. Title: Approximate Service Retrieval. Instructors: Prof. Dov Dori and Dr. Iris Reinhartz-Berger.

1998-2001: B.Sc., Computer Science and B.A., Honors Program, University of Haifa, Israel.

Research Interests

Novel methods and theories for engineering advanced information systems:

  • Privacy: Information priacy, privacy in location-sharing application, privacy policy semantics
  • Information systems theory: Formal semantics and ontology, algorithms for approximate inference, cognitive models of information system usage
  • Web: Semantic Web, Web service composition, information retrieval
  • Usability: Automatic optimization of software usability, usable privacy and security, usability in social software

Awards

First place in the speed category, International Semantic Service Selection Contest (S3) 2009, for the Opossum search engine.

Technion award for teaching excellence (2008).

Finalist at the FameLab science communication competition, organized by the British Council (2008).

Israel Ministry of Science - Levi Eshkol scholarship for scientific achievement (2006).

The Technion - graduate school's excellence scholarship (2006).

The Technion - consistent teaching assistant award (Spring 2004).

The Technion - best teaching assistant award (Winter 2004).

Haifa University - Mairhof scholarship for excellence (2001).

Haifa University - B.A. honors program (1998-2001).

Publications

Journal Papers

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Aviv Segev and Eran Toch, Context-Based Matching and Ranking of Web Services for Composition. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, Forthcoming 2009.
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Eran Toch, Avigdor Gal, Iris Reinhartz-Berger, and Dov Dori, A Semantic Approach to Approximate Service Retrieval. ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 2:1-2:30, November 2007.
 
Sheizaf Rafaeli, Miri Barak, Yuval Dan-Gur, and Eran Toch, QSIA - A Web-Based Environment for Learning, Assessing and Knowledge Sharing in Communities. Computers and Education, Volume 43, Issue 3 (November 2004), pp. 273 - 289.

Papers in Refereed Conferences

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Eran Toch, Iris Reinhartz-Berger, Avigdor Gal, and Dov Dori. Generating and optimizing graphical user interfaces for semantic service composition. In Conceptual Modeling - ER 2008, volume 5231 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, October 2008, pp. 528-529.
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Eran Toch, Iris Reinhartz-Berger, and Dov Dori, Liquid-Interface: Automatically Generating and Optimizing User-Interfaces for Dynamic Compositions, accepted to Israel Association for Information Systems Conference (ILAIS'08).
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Avigdor Gal, Aviv Segev and Eran Toch, Semantic Methods for Service Categorization: An Empirical Study, VLDB 2007 - International Workshop on Semantic Data and Service Integration.
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Mati Golani, Eran Toch and Avigdor Gal, Modeling Alternatives in Exception Executions, Business Process Intelligence (BPI'07).
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Eran Toch, Iris Reinhartz-Berger, Avigdor Gal, and Dov Dori, Towards Service Retrieval on the Web, ILAIS-06, October 2006.
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Eran Toch, Iris Reinhartz-Berger, Avigdor Gal, and Dov Dori, OPOSSUM: Bridging the Gap between Web Services and the Semantic Web, Proceedings of Next Generation Information technologies and Systems Conference (NGITS'06), LNCS 4032, pp. 357-358, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, July 2006.
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Eran Toch, Avigdor Gal, and Dov Dori, Automatically Grounding Semantically-enriched Conceptual Models to Concrete Web Services, Proceedings of International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER'05), LNCS 3716, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg , pp. 304-319, October 2005.
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Dov Dori, Eran Toch, and Iris Reinhartz-Berger, OPM/S: Modeling Semantic Web Services using Human and Machine Interpretable Language, 3rd Workshop on Web Dynamics, The Thirteenth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW'04), May 2004.
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Dov Dori, Dizza Beimel, and Eran Toch, OPCATeam - Collaborative Business Process Modeling with OPM, Proceedings of Business Process Management (BPM'04), LNCS 3080, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, pp.66-81, 2004.
Eran Toch, and Asmaa Ganayem, A Single Facade? SHIL - Consistent Service for Multicultural Audience, Association of Internet Researchers Conference (AOIR'04), September 2004.
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Sheizaf Rafaeli, Miri Barak, Yuval Dan-Gur, and Eran Toch, Knowledge Sharing and Online Assessment, Proceedings of the International Association for Development of the Information Society Conference (IADIS'03), pp. 257-266, 2003.

Demos and Seminar Talks

Eran Toch, Dov Dori and Avigdor Gal and Iris Reinhartz-Berger, A Human Oriented Approach Towards Service Composition, IBM Programming Languages and Development Environments Seminar, Haifa, May 2007.
Arnon Sturm, Dov Dori, Iris Reinhartz-Berger, Zenya Yaroker, Valeria Bondanya, Eran Toch, and Sergey Guenender, Developing Multi Agent Systems with OPCAT - Object-Process CASE Tool, in AAMAS'04, 2004.

Invited Talks

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New Under the Sun, Technion graduate students showcase lecture series, April 2008.
The Tetherless World Constellation research group, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, March 2008.
Ebiquity research group, University of Maryland at Baltimore County, March 2008.
Institute for Software Research, Carnegie Mellon University, March 2008.
Information Systems department, Haifa University, March 2008.
Software Engineering seminar, Information Systems department, Ben-Gurion University, February 2008.
Departmental seminar, Industrial Engineering and Management department, Ben-Gurion University, February 2008.
Reuse-based Model Driven Architecture, IBM Haifa Research Labs, Model-Driven Development seminar, December 2007.
Service Retrieval: Approximating Information Systems, Tel Aviv University, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, November 2007.
Software Engineering Challenges and Web Search Techniques, Hertzelia Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), Faculty of Computer Science seminar, May 2007.
Towards Approximate Service Retrieval, IBM Haifa Research Labs, research seminars series, February 2007.
Is there a commercial future for the Semantic Web? Hebrew University Graduate School of Management Administration seminar, May 2005.

Teaching

Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

2005-Present: Adjunct Lecturer - Analysis and Specification of Information Systems.

2003-2005: Teaching Assistant: Methodologies in Information Systems Engineering.

2002-2005: Teaching Assistant in charge, Analysis and Specification of Information Systems.

2004-Present: Instructor, graduation projects in information systems area.

Haifa University

2000 - 2001: Teaching assistant, Software Engineering course, the Computer Science Department.

Professional Experience

Consultancy

Consulting to commercial and non-commercial organizations in areas such as large-scale distributed system design, semantic technologies, algorithm design and user-computer interaction.

2002-2004: The InfoSoc Research Center

The InfoSoc research center (located in Haifa University) investigates interactions between society, information and technology. I designed, developed, and coordinated a system for collaborative knowledge sharing in e-learning, used by several universities, and a multi-lingual interactive citizen advisory service, which serves hundreds of thousands of users.

1997-2001: NetVision Internet Applications (Nia) Ltd.

Project manager, system analyst and pre-sale engineer. I worked on several Web-based projects in finance, e-commerce and content management. My tasks included managing development teams, specifying and analyzing requirements, handling system design, and budgeting.

1997-1999: Kinetica Ltd. (acquired by Netvision Ltd.)

Software engineer, development of software infrastructure for real-time financial systems in Java and Microsoft technologies.

1996-1997: Israel 'Joint' foundation, Sderot.

Developing and implementing a combined social and technological project, enabling immigrant youth to connect with similar groups inside Israel and worldwide through a Web-based system.

1993-1996: Military Service

Serving as a non-commissioned officer in an infantry field unit.

Academic Activities

Program committee secretary: International Conference on Systems Engineering and Modeling (ICSEM'07), Herzeliya and Haifa, Israel.

Program Chair: Object-Process Methodology (OPM) 2005 Workshop.

Reviewer for International Journal of Web Engineering and Technology, CAiSE 2007, ICSEM 2007, CoopIS 2006, WISE 2006, AAAI 2005, SIGMOD 2005, IIWeb 2004.

Research Projects

OPOSSUM (beta): A Semantic Search Engine for Web Services. (link: http://dori.technion.ac.il/, source code: http://projects.semwebcentral.org/projects/opossum/)

Liquid Interface: A smart generator for usable user interfaces from semantic Web services. (link: http://dori.technion.ac.il/liquidInterface/)

OPCAT: An Object-Process Methodology CASE tool. (link: http://www.objectprocess.org/)

QSIA: A collaborative e-learning and knowledge sharing infrastructure. (link: http://qsia.haifa.ac.il/)

Shil: A citizen advice system aimed at multi-cultural users. (link: http://shil.info/)

Project Mentoring

Naama Bentolila, Tali Dolev, Master data Dashboard for SAP, 2007.

Amir Lahav, Leonid Gofman, Liquid Interfaces: Automatic and usable user interface, 2007.

Tanya Linder, Leena Rubinshtein, Anton Nazarenko, OpcatPatterns: Specification and automatic implementation of design patterns, 2007.

Valdimir Sterkin, Yossi Matatov, Ofer Kochavi, Anna Khudyak, VisWeb: Enabling automatic translation between OPM and OWL (Web Ontology Language), 2005.

Yael Karlinsky, Karin Tamares, AutoCheck: Automatic Assignment Checking in UML, 2005.

Hai Harari, Noa Slabezki, Moshe Zychlinski, Asaf Rosin, Data Insight: Data analysis on the recruiting processes in Intel, 2005.

Roy Ionas, Benoit Seligmann, Dror Givoli, Reuse: A tool for reusing modeling artifacts in OPCAT, 2004.

Liat Katzik, Roni Ramon, Ori Meroz, HIO: Pen-based input for a visual modeling tool, 2004.