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Dr. Yigal Hoffner

yigal.hoffner@gmail.com

Researcher and expert in the architecture of decentralized systems with extensive experience in the industry, and senior lecturer in the Department of Software Engineering.

Dr. Hoffner has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Reading in England, where he also earned his B.Sc. in Computers and Cybernetics and worked in the university's microprocessor lab. 

After completing his Ph.D., Dr. Hoffner joined the ANSA Research Center in Cambridge, England, where he spent a decade in research and development of the architecture of decentralized systems, and later relocated to the IBM Research Center in Zurich.
After spending a decade in Switzerland, Hoffner returned to Israel and began working at the Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo and at Shenkar, where he serves as senior lecturer.

Dr. Hoffner has been published in about 40 books, journals and international conferences, and has approximately nine international patents from IBM.

A selection of Dr. Hoffner's recent publications

  • Hoffner, Y., "Interoperability and Distributed Platform Design", in "Distributed Platforms", Eds. Schill, A. et al, ICDP `96: IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Platforms, Dresden, Germany, February 27 - March 1, Chapman & Hall, London, 1996.
  • Hoffner Y., Facciorusso C., Field S. and Schade A., "Distribution Issues in the Design and Implementation of a Virtual Market Place", Computer Networks, The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking, North Holland, Volume 32, Number 6, pp. 717-730, May 2000.
  • Hoffner Y., Ludwig H., Grefen P. and Aberer K., "CrossFlow: Integrated Workflow Management and Electronic Commerce", ACM: Special Interest Group on Electronic Commerce, Vol. 2.1, Winter, 2001, http://www.acm.org/sigecom/exchanges
  • Hoffner Y., Field S., Grefen P. and Ludwig H., "Contract-Driven Creation and Operation of Virtual Enterprises", Computer Networks, The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking, North Holland, Volume 37, pp. 111-136, September 2001.
  • Simon Field and Yigal Hoffner, “Web Services and Matchmaking”, International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations, IEL Interscience Publishers, Volume 1, Number 3, 2003.
  • Facciorusso, C.,  Field, S., Hauser, R., Hoffner, Y., Humbel, R., Pawlitzek, R., Rjaibi, W. and Siminitz, C.  "A Web Services Matchmaking Engine for Web Services", Proceedings of EC-Web 2003, DEXA Conference, 1-5 September 2003. 
  • Y. Hoffner and S. Field, “Transforming Agreements into Contracts”, International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems, Vol. 14, No. 2 & 3, June/Sept. 2005.
  • Hepp M. and Hoffner Y. (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, "E-Commerce and 

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