Welcome!

My Position

I've served as the Chairman of Communication Systems Engineering Department at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel between 2005-2010. Now, I'm tenured Full Professor at Communication Systems Engineering Department (Ben-Gurion University) and Visiting Professor at Computer Laboratory (Cambridge University, UK). I'm also heading the Q1 Journal of Computer and System Sciences. In my past life I've finished Ph.D in Computer Science at the Department of Computer Science, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel and moved for postdoc to the University of British Columbia, Canada. For more (not so updated) information about me, please, go to here.

How to Reach Me

Prof. Michael Segal
Communication Systems Engineering Department
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Beer-Sheva 84105, POB 653, Israel
e-mail: segal "at" cse.bgu.ac.il or michael99segal "at" gmail.com or michael.segal "at" cl.cam.ac.uk
phone (+972) 8-6477234 (office)
fax (+972) 8-6472883

The start of my family The "sun" kiss,

...and together ... still only 2 ...around the world,

...and my beautiful ...wife,

...and finally sons ,

My hobbies

I just LOVE this game. I'm also playing in Israel competitions for championship. For more information, see Table Tennis.

My e-mail address:

segal@bgu.ac.il

My awards

Israeli Disabled Veterans Association award for outstanding athletes, 2016, Israel

Toronto prize for excellence in research, 2010, Israel

Ministry of Justice Post-doctoral award, 1999, Israel

Pacific Institute of the Mathematical Studies Post-doctoral Fellowship, 1999, Canada

Kreitman Prize for Distinguished Ph.D studies, 1999

New York Federation Award, 1998

Otto Schwartz Prize "For Excellent Studies, Ph.D", 1997

Intel Prize "For Outstanding M.Sc work", 1996

Achievement Award "The Big Ten of the University", 1995

First place in Table Tennis Israelian competions, 1994

Gold Medal "For Excellent Achievements in the Studies" ,1989

Prizes in the finals of Soviet Union and Moldavian National Contests for high school students in math, physics and computer science.

List of my publications

Esther M. Arkin, Paz Carmi, Matthew J. Katz, Joseph S. B. Mitchell, Michael Segal: Locating Battery Charging Stations to Facilitate Almost Shortest Paths. Discrete Applied Mathematics, 254: 10-16 (2019)

Vladimir Kaplun, Michael Segal: Breaching the privacy of connected vehicles network. Telecommunication Systems, to appear (2019)

Michael Segal: Journal of Computer and System Science: 50 years of celebration. In memory of Professor Edward Blum. J. Comput. Syst. Sci. 94: 1 (2018)

Michael Segal: Privacy Aspects in Data Querying. COCOON 2018: x

Yair Allouche, Esther M. Arkin, Yuval Cassuto, Alon Efrat, Guy Grebla, Joseph S. B. Mitchell, Swaminathan Sankararaman, Michael Segal: Secure communication through jammers jointly optimized in geography and time. Pervasive and Mobile Computing 41: 83-105 (2017)

Shlomi Dolev, Lukasz Krzywiecki, Nisha Panwar, Michael Segal: Dynamic attribute based vehicle authentication. Wireless Networks 23(4): 1045-1062 (2017)

Danny Hermelin, Michael Segal, Harel Yedidsion: Coordination of Mobile Mules via Facility Location Strategies. PAAMS 2017: 107-119

Harel Yedidsion, Aritra Banik, Paz Carmi, Matthew J. Katz, Michael Segal: Efficient data retrieval in faulty sensor networks using a mobile mule. WiOpt 2017: 1-8

Shlomi Dolev, Lukasz Krzywiecki, Nisha Panwar, Michael Segal: Optical PUF for Non-Forwardable Vehicle Authentication. Computer Communications 93: 52-67 (2016)

Kirill Kogan, Alejandro Lopez-Ortiz, Sergey I. Nikolenko, Gabriel Scalosub, Michael Segal: Large profits or fast gains: A dilemma in maximizing throughput with applications to network processors. J. Network and Computer Applications 74: 31-43 (2016)

Michael Segal: Location always matters: how to improve performance of dynamic networks? FedCSIS 2016: 5

Jon Crowcroft, Liron Levin, Michael Segal: Using data mules for sensor network data recovery. Ad Hoc Networks 40: 26-36 (2016)

Shlomi Dolev, Lukasz Krzywiecki, Nisha Panwar, Michael Segal: Vehicle authentication via monolithically certified public key and attributes. Wireless Networks 22(3): 879-896 (2016)

Bingxian Lu, Zhicheng Zeng, Lei Wang, Brian Peck, Daji Qiao, and Michael Segal: Confining Wi-Fi Coverage: A Crowdsourced Method Using Physical Layer Information., IEEE SECON (2016)

Vitaly Milyeykovski, Michael Segal, Vladimir Katz: Using central nodes for efficient data collection in wireless sensor networks. Computer Networks 91: 425-437 (2015)

Jon Crowcroft, Michael Segal, Liron Levin: Improved structures for data collection in static and mobile wireless sensor networks. J. Heuristics 21(2): 233-256 (2015)

Liron Levin, Dariusz R. Kowalski, Michael Segal: Message and time efficient multi-broadcast schemes. Theor. Comput. Sci. 569: 13-23 (2015)

Dmitry Zelikman, Michael Segal: Reducing Interferences in VANETs. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems 16(3): 1582-1587 (2015)

Yair Allouche, Michael Segal: Cluster-Based Beaconing Process for VANET. Vehicular Communications 2(2): 80-94 (2015)

Esther M. Arkin, Yuval Cassuto, Alon Efrat, Guy Grebla, Joseph S. B. Mitchell, Swaminathan Sankararaman, Michael Segal: Optimal placement of protective jammers for securing wireless transmissions in a geographic domain. IPSN 2015: 37-46

Yair Allouche, Yuval Cassuto, Alon Efrat, Michael Segal, Esther M. Arkin, Guy Grebla, Joseph S. B. Mitchell, Swaminathan Sankararaman: Secure Communication through Jammers Jointly Optimized in Geography and Time. MobiHoc 2015: 227-236

Jon Crowcroft, Liron Levin, Michael Segal: Using data mules for sensor network resiliency. WiOpt 2015: 427-434

Ohad Ben-Shahar, Shlomi Dolev, Andrey Dolgin, Michael Segal: Direction election in flocking swarms. Ad Hoc Networks 12: 250-258 (2014)

Liron Levin, Alon Efrat, Michael Segal: Collecting data in ad-hoc networks with reduced uncertainty. Ad Hoc Networks 17: 71-81 (2014)

A. Karim Abu-Affash, Paz Carmi, Matthew J. Katz, Michael Segal: The Euclidean Bottleneck Steiner Path Problem and Other Applications of (alpha,beta)-Pair Decomposition. Discrete & Computational Geometry 51(1): 1-23 (2014)

Swaminathan Sankararaman, A. Karim Abu-Affash, Alon Efrat, Sylvester David Eriksson-Bique, Valentin Polishchuk, Srinivasan Ramasubramanian, Michael Segal: Optimization Schemes for Protective Jamming. MONET 19(1): 45-60 (2014)

Dariusz R. Kowalski, Eyal Nussbaum, Michael Segal, Vitaly Milyeykovski: Scheduling problems in transportation networks of line topology. Optimization Letters 8(2): 777-799 (2014)

Kirill Kogan, Alejandro Lopez-Ortiz, Sergey I. Nikolenko, Gabriel Scalosub, Michael Segal: Balancing work and size with bounded buffers. COMSNETS 2014: 1-8

Esther M. Arkin, Paz Carmi, Matthew J. Katz, Joseph S. B. Mitchell, Michael Segal: Locating Battery Charging Stations to Facilitate Almost Shortest Paths. ATMOS 2014: 25-33

Jon Crowcroft, Michael Segal, Liron Levin: Improved structures for data collection in wireless sensor networks. INFOCOM 2014: 1375-1383

Shlomi Dolev, Lukasz Krzywiecki, Nisha Panwar, Michael Segal: Dynamic Attribute Based Vehicle Authentication. NCA 2014: 1-8

Liron Levin, Michael Segal, Hanan Shpungin: Interference-free energy efficient scheduling in wireless ad hoc networks. Ad Hoc Networks 11(1): 201-212 (2013)

Alexander Kesselman, Kirill Kogan, Sergey Nemzer, Michael Segal: Space and speed tradeoffs in TCAM hierarchical packet classification. J. Comput. Syst. Sci. 79(1): 111-121 (2013)

Yair Allouche, Michael Segal: A Cluster-Based Beaconing Approach in VANETs: Near Optimal Topology Via Proximity Information. MONET 18(6): 766-787 (2013)

Shlomi Dolev, Michael Segal, Hanan Shpungin: Bounded-Hop Energy-Efficient Liveness of Flocking Swarms. IEEE Trans. Mob. Comput. 12(3): 516-528 (2013)

Hanan Shpungin, Michael Segal: Improved multicriteria spanners for Ad-Hoc networks under energy and distance metrics. TOSN 9(4): 37 (2013)

Liron Levin, Michael Segal, Hanan Shpungin: Cooperative data collection in ad hoc networks. Wireless Networks 19(2): 145-159 (2013)

Yair Allouche, Michael Segal: A cluster based beaconing process for VANET. Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks 2013: 87-90

Alexander Plutov, Michael Segal: The delta-betweenness centrality. PIMRC 2013: 3376-3380

Shlomi Dolev, Lukasz Krzywiecki, Nisha Panwar, Michael Segal: Certificating Vehicle Public Key with Vehicle Attributes A (periodical) Licensing Routine, Against Man-in-the-Middle Attacks and Beyond. ASCoMS@SAFECOMP 2013

Vitaly Milyeykovski, Michael Segal, Hanan Shpungin: Location, location, location: Using central nodes for efficient data collection in WSNs. WiOpt 2013: 333-340

Liron Levin, Alon Efrat, Michael Segal: Collecting data in ad-hoc networks with reduced uncertainty. WiOpt 2013: 659-666

Liron Levin, Dariusz R. Kowalski, Michael Segal: Message and time efficient multi-broadcast schemes. FOMC 2013: 21-37

Alexander Kesselman, Kirill Kogan, Michael Segal: Improved Competitive Performance Bounds for CIOQ Switches. Algorithmica 63(1-2): 411-424 (2012)

Alexander Kesselman, Kirill Kogan, Michael Segal: Best Effort and Priority Queuing Policies for Buffered Crossbar Switches. Chicago J. Theor. Comput. Sci. 2012 (2012)

Boaz Ben-Moshe, Amit Dvir, Michael Segal, Arie Tamir: Centdian Computation in Cactus Graphs. J. Graph Algorithms Appl. 16(2): 199-224 (2012)

Zeev Nutov, Michael Segal: Improved approximation algorithms for maximum lifetime problems in wireless networks. Theor. Comput. Sci. 453: 88-97 (2012)

Isaac Keslassy, Kirill Kogan, Gabriel Scalosub, Michael Segal: Providing performance guarantees in multipass network processors. IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw. 20(6): 1895-1909 (2012)

Yair Allouche, Michael Segal: VANET in eyes of hierarchical topology. FOMC 2012: 7

Swaminathan Sankararaman, A. Karim Abu-Affash, Alon Efrat, Sylvester David Eriksson-Bique, Valentin Polishchuk, Srinivasan Ramasubramanian, Michael Segal: Optimization schemes for protective jamming. MobiHoc 2012: 65-74

Dariusz R. Kowalski, Zeev Nutov, Michael Segal: Scheduling of Vehicles in Transportation Networks. Nets4Cars/Nets4Trains 2012: 124-136

Kirill Kogan, Alejandro Lopez-Ortiz, Gabriel Scalosub, Michael Segal: Large Profits or Fast Gains: A Dilemma in Maximizing Throughput with Applications to Network Processors. CoRR abs/1202.5755 (2012)

Liam Roditty, Michael Segal: On Bounded Leg Shortest Paths Problems. Algorithmica 59(4): 583-600 (2011)

Michael Elkin, Yuval Lando, Zeev Nutov, Michael Segal, Hanan Shpungin: Novel algorithms for the network lifetime problem in wireless settings. Wireless Networks 17(2): 397-410 (2011)

A. Karim Abu-Affash, Paz Carmi, Matthew J. Katz, Michael Segal: The euclidean bottleneck steiner path problem. Symposium on Computational Geometry 2011: 440-447

Liron Levin, Michael Segal, Hanan Shpungin: Energy efficient data gathering in multi-hop hierarchical wireless ad hoc networks. FOMC 2011: 62-69

Isaac Keslassy, Kirill Kogan, Gabriel Scalosub, Michael Segal: Providing performance guarantees in multipass network processors. INFOCOM 2011: 3191-3199

Yair Allouche, Michael Segal: Near-optimal, reliable and self-organizing hierarchical topology in VANET. Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks 2011: 79-80

Liron Levin, Michael Segal, Hanan Shpungin: Interference-free energy efficient scheduling in wireless ad hoc networks. WiOpt 2011: 41-48

Alberto Marchetti-Spaccamela, Michael Segal (Eds.): Theory and Practice of Algorithms in (Computer) Systems - First International ICST Conference, TAPAS 2011, Rome, Italy, April 18-20, 2011. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6595, Springer 2011, ISBN 978-3-642-19753-6 2010

Daniel Berend, Michael Segal, Hanan Shpungin: Energy and Lifetime Efficient Connectivity in Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks. Ad Hoc & Sensor Wireless Networks 10(1): 61-87 (2010)

Shimon Abravaya, Michael Segal: Maximizing the number of obnoxious facilities to locate within a bounded region. Computers & OR 37(1): 163-171 (2010)

Yoram Revah, Michael Segal, Liron Yedidsion: Real-time data gathering in sensor networks. Discrete Applied Mathematics 158(5): 543-550 (2010)

Alexander Kesselman, Kirill Kogan, Michael Segal: Packet mode and QoS algorithms for buffered crossbar switches with FIFO queuing. Distributed Computing 23(3): 163-175 (2010)

Hanan Shpungin, Michael Segal: Near-Optimal Multicriteria Spanner Constructions in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks. IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw. 18(6): 1963-1976 (2010)

Amit Dvir, Michael Segal: Placing and maintaining a core node in wirelessad hoc networks. Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing 10(6): 826-842 (2010)

Hanan Shpungin, Michael Segal: On minimizing the total power of k-strongly connected wireless networks. Wireless Networks 16(4): 1075-1089 (2010)

Ohad Ben-Shahar, Shlomi Dolev, Andrey Dolgin, Michael Segal: Direction election in flocking swarms. DIALM-PODC 2010: 73-80

Michael Segal, Hanan Shpungin: Improved Multi-criteria Spanners for Ad-Hoc Networks Under Energy and Distance Metrics. INFOCOM 2010: 6-10

Boaz Ben-Moshe, Amit Dvir, Michael Segal, Arie Tamir: Centdian Computation for Sensor Networks. TAMC 2010: 187-198

Liron Levin, Michael Segal, Hanan Shpungin: Optimizing performance of ad-hoc networks under energy and scheduling constraints. WiOpt 2010: 11-20

Shlomi Dolev, Michael Segal, Hanan Shpungin: Bounded-hop strong connectivity for flocking swarms. WiOpt 2010: 177-185

Zeev Nutov, Michael Segal: Improved Approximation Algorithms for Maximum Lifetime Problems in Wireless Networks. ALGOSENSORS 2009: 41-51

Hanan Shpungin, Michael Segal: Near Optimal Multicriteria Spanner Constructions in Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks. INFOCOM 2009: 163-171

Yoann Dieudonn, Shlomi Dolev, Franck Petit, Michael Segal: Deaf, Dumb, and Chatting Asynchronous Robots. OPODIS 2009: 71-85

Michael Segal, Hanan Shpungin: On construction of minimum energy k-fault resistant topologies. Ad Hoc Networks 7(2): 363-373 (2009)

Yoram Revah, Michael Segal: Improved Algorithms for Data-Gathering Time in Sensor Networks II: Ring, Tree, and Grid Topologies. IJDSN 5(5): 463-479 (2009)

Shimon Abravaya, Michael Segal: Low complexity algorithms for optimal consumer push-pull partial covering in the plane. European Journal of Operational Research 197(2): 456-464 (2009)

Hanan Shpungin, Michael Segal: Low-energy fault-tolerant bounded-hop broadcast in wireless networks. IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw. 17(2): 582-590 (2009)

Michael Segal, Alexander Kesselman: Proceedings of the DIALM-POMC Joint Workshop on Foundations of Mobile Computing, Toronto, Canada, August 18-21, 2008 ACM 2008

Michael Elkin, Yuval Lando, Zeev Nutov, Michael Segal, Hanan Shpungin: Novel Algorithms for the Network Lifetime Problem in Wireless Settings. ADHOC-NOW 2008: 425-438

Alexander Kesselman, Kirill Kogan, Michael Segal: Improved Competitive Performance Bounds for CIOQ Switches. ESA 2008: 577-588

Daniel Berend, Michael Segal, Hanan Shpungin: Power efficient resilience and lifetime in wireless ad-hoc networks. FOWANC 2008: 17-24

Amit Dvir, Michael Segal: The (k, l) Coredian Tree for Ad Hoc Networks. ICDCS Workshops 2008: 267-272

Alexander Kesselman, Kirill Kogan, Michael Segal: Packet mode and QoS algorithms for buffered crossbar switches with FIFO queuing. PODC 2008: 335-344

Alexander Kesselman, Kirill Kogan, Michael Segal: Best Effort and Priority Queuing Policies for Buffered Crossbar Switches. SIROCCO 2008: 170-184

Amit Dvir, Michael Segal: The (k, l) Coredian Tree for Ad Hoc Networks. Ad Hoc & Sensor Wireless Networks 6(1-2): 123-144 (2008)

Yoram Revah, Michael Segal: Improved bounds for data-gathering time in sensor networks. Computer Communications 31(17): pp. 4026--4034 (2008)

Michael Segal: Fast algorithm for multicast and data gathering in wireless networks. Inf. Process. Lett. 107(1): 29-33 (2008)

Ofer Hadar, Shlomo Greenberg, Michael Segal: EPCRTT-based smoothing and multiplexing of VBR video traffic. Multimedia Tools Appl. 36(3): 203-219 (2008)

Michael Segal, Eli Zeitlin: Computing closest and farthest points for a query segment. Theor. Comput. Sci. 393(1-3): 294-300 (2008)

Hanan Shpungin, Michael Segal: Low Energy Construction of Fault Tolerant Topologies in Wireless Networks. DIALM-POMC 2007

Yoram Revah, Michael Segal: Improved Algorithms for Data-Gathering Time in Sensor Networks II: Ring, Tree and Grid Topologies. ICNS 2007: 46

Yoram Revah, Michael Segal: Improved Lower Bounds for Data-Gathering Time in Sensor Networks. ICNS 2007: 76

Amit Dvir, Michael Segal: Placing and Maintaining a Core Node in Wireless Ad Hoc Sensor Networks. Networking 2007: 13-24

Paz Carmi, Matthew J. Katz, Michael Segal, Hanan Shpungin: Fault-Tolerant Power Assignment and Backbone in Wireless Networks. Ad Hoc & Sensor Wireless Networks 4(4): 355-366 (2007)

Liam Roditty, Michael Segal: On bounded leg shortest paths problems. SODA 2007: 775-784

Michele Luglio, Cristiano Monti, Cesare Roseti, Antonio Saitto, Michael Segal: Interworking between MANET and satellite systems for emergency applications. Int. J. Satellite Communications Networking 25(5): 551-558 (2007)

Yehuda Ben-Shimol, Boaz Ben-Moshe, Yoav Ben-Yehezkel, Amit Dvir, Michael Segal: Automated antenna positioning algorithms for wireless fixed-access networks. J. Heuristics 13(3): 243-263 (2007)

Stefan Funke, Alexander Kesselman, Fabian Kuhn, Zvi Lotker, Michael Segal: Improved approximation algorithms for connected sensor cover. Wireless Networks 13(2): 153-164 (2007)

Paz Carmi, Michael Segal, Matthew J. Katz, Hanan Shpungin: Fault-Tolerant Power Assignment and Backbone in Wireless Networks. PerCom Workshops 2006: 80-84

Sergey Bereg, Binay K. Bhattacharya, David Kirkpatrick, Michael Segal: Competitive Algorithms for Maintaining a Mobile Center. MONET 11(2): 177-186 (2006)

Stefan Funke, Alexander Kesselman, Ulrich Meyer, Michael Segal: A simple improved distributed algorithm for minimum CDS in unit disk graphs. WiMob (2) 2005: 220-223

Stefan Funke, Alexander Kesselman, Ulrich Meyer, Michael Segal: A simple improved distributed algorithm for minimum CDS in unit disk graphs. TOSN 2(3): 444-453 (2006)

Hanan Shpungin, Michael Segal: k-fault resistance in wireless ad-hoc networks. DIALM-POMC 2005: 89-96

Paz Carmi, Shlomi Dolev, Sariel Har-Peled, Matthew J. Katz, Michael Segal: Geographic Quorum System Approximations. Algorithmica 41(4): 233-244 (2005)

Hai Huang, Andra W. Richa, Michael Segal: Dynamic Coverage in Ad-Hoc Sensor Networks. MONET 10(1-2): 9-17 (2005)

Alexander Kesselman, Dariusz R. Kowalski, Michael Segal: Energy efficient connectivity in ad hoc networks from user's and designer's perspective. ICC 2005: 3161-3165

Alexander Kesselman, Dariusz R. Kowalski, Michael Segal: Energy efficient communication in ad hoc networks from user's and designer's perspective. Mobile Computing and Communications Review 9(1): 15-26 (2005)

Stefan Funke, Alexander Kesselman, Zvi Lotker, Michael Segal: Improved Approximation Algorithms for Connected Sensor Cover. ADHOC-NOW 2004: 56-69

Michael J. Spriggs, J. Mark Keil, Sergei Bespamyatnikh, Michael Segal, Jack Snoeyink: Computing a (1+epsilon)-Approximate Geometric Minimum-Diameter Spanning Tree. Algorithmica 38(4): 577-589 (2004)

Sergei Bespamyatnikh, Michael Segal: Selecting distances in arrangements of hyperplanes spanned by points. J. Discrete Algorithms 2(3): 333-345 (2004)

Hai Huang, Andra W. Richa, Michael Segal: Approximation Algorithms for the Mobile Piercing Set Problem with Applications to Clustering in Ad-Hoc Networks. MONET 9(2): 151-161 (2004)

Sergey Bereg, Michael Segal: Dynamic Algorithms for Approximating Interdistances. Nord. J. Comput. 11(4): 344-355 (2004)

Michael J. Spriggs, J. Mark Keil, Sergei Bespamyatnikh, Michael Segal, Jack Snoeyink: Approximating the geometric minimum-diameter spanning tree. CCCG 2003: 39-42

Sergei Bespamyatnikh, Michael Segal: Dynamic Algorithms for Approximating Interdistances. ICALP 2003: 1169-1180

Matthew J. Katz, Frank Nielsen, Michael Segal: Maintenance of a Piercing Set for Intervals with Applications. Algorithmica 36(1): 59-73 (2003)

Michael Segal: Placing an Obnoxious Facility in Geometric Networks.i. J. Comput. 10(3): 224-237 (2003)

Hai Huang, Andra W. Richa, Michael Segal: Approximation algorithms for the mobile piercing set problem with applications to clustering in ad-hoc networks. DIAL-M 2002: 52-61

Sergei Bespamyatnikh, Binay K. Bhattacharya, David G. Kirkpatrick, Michael Segal: Lower and Upper Bounds for Tracking Mobile Users. IFIP TCS 2002: 47-58

Sergei Bespamyatnikh, Michael Segal: Fast Algorithms for Approximating Distances. Algorithmica 33(2): 263-269 (2002)

Matthew J. Katz, Klara Kedem, Michael Segal: Improved algorithms for placing undesirable facilities. Computers & OR 29(13): 1859-1872 (2002)

Michael Segal: Lower Bounds for Covering Problems. J. Math. Model. Algorithms 1(1): 17-29 (2002)

Sergei Bespamyatnikh, Binay K. Bhattacharya, Mark Keil, J. David Kirkpatrick, Michael Segal: Efficient algorithms for centers and medians in interval and circular-arc graphs. Networks 39(3): 144-152 (2002)

Ofer Hadar, Michael Segal: Models and Algorithms for Bandwidth Allocation of CBR Video Streams in a VoD System. ITCC 2001: 148-152

Sergei Bespamyatnikh, Michael Segal: Fast Maintenance of Rectilinear Centers. International Conference on Computational Science (1) 2001: 633-639

Sergei Bespamyatnikh, Binay K. Bhattacharya, David G. Kirkpatrick, Michael Segal: Mobile facility location. DIAL-M 2000: 46-53

Sergei Bespamyatnikh, Binay K. Bhattacharya, J. Mark Keil, David G. Kirkpatrick, Michael Segal: Efficient Algorithms for Centers and Medians in Interval and Circular-Arc Graphs. ESA 2000: 100-111

Matthew J. Katz, Frank Nielsen, Michael Segal: Shooter Location through Piercing Sets. EWCG 2000: 55-58

Matthew J. Katz, Frank Nielsen, Michael Segal: Maintenance of a Percing Set for Intervals with Applications. ISAAC 2000: 552-563

Matthew J. Katz, Klara Kedem, Michael Segal: Discrete rectilinear 2-center problems. Comput. Geom. 15(4): 203-214 (2000)

Sergei Bespamyatnikh, Michael Segal: Covering a set of points by two axis-parallel boxes. Inf. Process. Lett. 75(3): 95-100 (2000)

Sergei Bespamyatnikh, Michael Segal: Enumerating longest increasing subsequences and patience sorting. Inf. Process. Lett. 76(1-2): 7-11 (2000)

Sergei Bespamyatnikh, Klara Kedem, Michael Segal, Arie Tamir: Optimal Facility Location Under Various Distance Functions. Int. J. Comput. Geometry Appl. 10(5): 523-534 (2000)

Boaz Ben-Moshe, Matthew J. Katz, Michael Segal: Obnoxious Facility Location: Complete Service with Minimal Harm. Int. J. Comput. Geometry Appl. 10(6): 581-592 (2000)

Michael Segal: Covering Point Sets and Accompanying Problems. PhD Thesis, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, 1999

Matthew J. Katz, Klara Kedem, Michael Segal: Improved algorithms for placing undesirable facilities. CCCG 1999

Boaz Ben-Moshe, Matthew J. Katz, Michael Segal: Obnoxious facility location: Complete service with minimal harm. CCCG 1999

Sergei Bespamyatnikh, Michael Segal: Rectilinear Static and Dynamic Discrete 2-center Problems. WADS 1999: 276-287

Sergei Bespamyatnikh, Klara Kedem, Michael Segal: Optimal Facility Location under Various Distance Functions. WADS 1999: 318-329

Michael Segal: On Piercing Sets of Axis-Parallel Rectangles and Rings. Int. J. Comput. Geometry Appl. 9(3): 219- (1999)

Matthew J. Katz, Klara Kedem, Michael Segal: Constrained Square-Center Problems. SWAT 1998: 95-106

Michael Segal, Klara Kedem: Geometric applications of posets. Comput. Geom. 11(3-4): 143-156 (1998)

Michael Segal, Klara Kedem: Enclosing k Points in the Smallest Axis Parallel Rectangle. Inf. Process. Lett. 65(2): 95-99 (1998)

Sergei Bespamyatnikh, Michael Segal: Covering a set of points by two axis-parallel boxes. CCCG 1997

Michael Segal: On Piercing Sets of Axis-Parallel Rectangles and Rings. ESA 1997: 430-442

Michael Segal, Klara Kedem: Geometric Applications Of Posets. WADS 1997: 402-415

Michael Segal, Klara Kedem: Enclosing K Points in the Smallest Axis Parallel Rectangle. CCCG 1996: 20-25

Michael Segal: Overview (3x updated) of research history. Research 2025.

My research

My major research deals with the topics related to the fields of Algorithms Design, Data communication and Data Structures. I'm interested in determining computational difficulty of solving certain specific problem or families of problems. The problems that I am concerned with are fundamental optimization problems that have applications in transportation, station placement, communication, facility location, graph theory, statistics, selection, geometric pattern matching, layout of VLSI circuits and enumeration. While a part my research is based on a standard sequential deterministic model of computation, I am also interested in both parallel and distributed models of computation and the use of probabilistic algorithms. Last several years, I am working in the area of mobile wireless networks and security. My main interests there are to discover the topological nature and combinatorial properties of the networks problems that deal with routing, switching, scheduling, location tracking, distributed computation, sending messages and connectivity of the users.