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About Me

I am a post doctoral fellow at the Mobile Commerce Lab, of the School of Computer Science, Carnegie-Mellon University. Previously, I was a Ph.D. student at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.

My research interests include:

  • 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

You can reach me at:

Phone: +1 (412) 499-ERAN

Personal Links

Projects


Locaccino
: Privacy in Location-Sharing Applications.

Opossum
: Semantic Search Engine for Web Services. First place in the speed category, International Semantic Service Selection Contest (S3) 2009.

Liquid Interface
: Usable UI generation from service compositions
Previous projects:

OPCAT: Object-Process Methodology CASE tool

QSIA: Collaborative e-learning and knowledge sharing

Selected Publications

Journal Papers

Eran Toch, Avigdor Gal, Aviv Segev and Eran Toch, Context-Based Matching and Ranking of Web Services for Composition. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing. Forthcoming, 2009. Download

Eran Toch, Avigdor Gal, Iris 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. Download

Rafaeli, S., Barak, M., Dan-Gur, Y. and Toch, E., 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.

Conference Papers


Eran Toch, Iris Reinhartz-Berger, Avigdor Gal, and Dov Dori. Generating and optimizing graphical user interfaces for semantic service composition. Conceptual Modeling - ER 2008, volume 5231 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, October 2008, pages 528–529. Download

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, 2007. Download

Mati Golani, Eran Toch and Avigdor Gal, Modeling Alternatives in Exception Executions, Business Process Management Workshops, volume 4928 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 54–65. Springer, 2007..

Invited Talk: Towards Service Retrieval on the Web, IBM Haifa Research Labs, research seminars series, February 2007. abstract, PPT (3Mb)

Eran Toch, Iris Reinhartz-Berger, Avigdor Gal, and Dov Dori, Towards Service Retrieval on the Web, ILAIS-06, October 2006. Slides

Eran Toch, Iris Reinhartz-Berger, Avigdor Gal, and Dov Dori, OPOSSUM: Bridging the Gap between Web Services and the Semantic Web, proceedings of NGITS 2006, pp. 357-358. Download

Eran Toch, Avigdor Gal and Dov Dori, Automatically Grounding Semantically-enriched Conceptual Models to Concrete Web Services, Proceedings of the International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER), October 2005, pp. 304-319, ©Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005. Download

Dov Dori, Eran Toch, and Iris Reinhartz-Berger, Modeling Semantic Web Services with OPM/S – A Human and Machine-Interpretable Language, Third International Workshop on Web Dynamics, WWW 2004, New York, May 18, 2004. Download

Dov Dori, Dizza Beimel, and Eran Toch, OPCATeam – Collaborative Business Process Modeling with OPM. In J.Desel, B. Pernici, and M. Weske (Eds.): BPM 2004, LNCS 3080, pp.66–81, 2004. ©Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2004 Download

Rafaeli, S., Barak, M. Dan-Gur, Y. and Toch E., Knowledge Sharing and Online Assessment, Proceedings of the 2003 IADIS conference IADIS e-Society 2003 pp. 257-266. MS- Word Download