Professional or Scholarly Activities

Services to National and International Funding Agencies
as Proposal Reviewer

• USA (National Science Foundation), since 1987 (reviewed numerous research proposals for funding). Served on panels.
• Belgium (Flanders), SBO (Strategic Basic Research) Programme, 2008
• Switzerland, Swiss National Foundation, 2005
• Singapore (Science & Engineering Research Council Agency for Science), 2005.
• The Netherlands (the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, NOW), 2003, 2005.
• Australian Research Council, Expert Assessor of International Standing, 2003.
• Canada (National Science and Engineering Research Council) NSF equivalent-national research sponsorship organization (reviewer for several years).
• Austria (Fonds zur Forderung der: FWF) 1999.
• Norway (Research Council of Norway) 1996, 1997, 1998, 2002, 2003.
• Israel (The Israel Science Foundation), 1996.
• Hong Kong (National Research Grants Council), 1996.
• Science Foundation, Ireland, 2001.
• German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development, 2006.

Chaired technical sessions

DWP2005,WWW2004 (5/2004), WWW2003 (5/2003), 2nd International Workshop on the Semantic Web (5/2001), 8th IFIP 2.6 WC on Database Semantics (DS-8) (01/1999), IFIPWG 11.5 Conference on Integrity and Control in Information Systems (12/1997), 12th ICDE (02/96), 11th ICDE (04/1995), 4th IEEE RIDE (03/1995), 10th ICDE (05/1995), 9th ICDE, 04/1993), 7th ICDE (04/1991), 6th ICDE (02/1990), Etc.

Services to Journals as Referee

IEEE TKDE, VLDB Journal, ACM TODS, ACM TOIT, ACM TOIS, ACM Computing Surveys, Information Systems, Intelligent Information Systems, Distributed Systems Engineering, IEEE Transaction on Computers, IEEE Transaction on Software Engineering, BMC Bioinformatics, Journal of Selected Areas in Communication, Information Sciences, Software-Practice and Experiences, Information and Software Technology, Information Technology & Management, and practically all journals in the area of work.

Society Memberships

Senior Member (2003-2005; Fellow thereafter), Member, IEEE and IEEE Computer Society, including Technical Committee on Database Engineering, 1981-present. Member, Association for Computing Machinery, including SIGMOD, 1981-present, SIGGROUP, 1997 - 2002.