D. Carmel, D. Cohen, R. Fagin, E. Farhi, M. Herscovici, Y. Maarek and A. Soffer, Static Index Pruning for Information Retrieval Systems. In Proceedings of the SIGIR 2001, New Orleans, LA, Sept. 2001
Y. Aridor, D. Carmel, R. Lempel, Y. Maarek and A.Soffer, "Knowledge Encapsulation for Focused Search from Pervasive Devices". In proceedings of the Tenth International World Wide Web Conference, Hong Kong, May 2001.
R. Lempel and A. Soffer, "PicASHOW: Pictorial Authority Search by Hyperlinks on the Web". In proceedings of the Tenth International World Wide Web Conference, Hong Kong, May 2001.
J. Neumann, H. Samet, and A. Soffer, "Integration of Local and Global Shape Analysis for Logo Classification". In Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Visual Form, IWVF4, Capri, Italy, May 2001 (LNCS 2059, Springer).
D. Carmel. Y. Maarek, and A. Soffer "XML and Information Retrieval: a SIGIR 2000 Workshop", SIGMOD Record 30(1):62-65(2001), also SIGIR Forum 34(1):31-36(200)
Y. Aridor, D. Carmel, R. Lempel, Y. Maarek and A.Soffer, "Knowledge Agents on the Web". In Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop, CIA 2000, Boston, MA, July 2000. (LNAI 1860, Springer).
D. Carmel, M. Shtlhaim, and A. Soffer, "eResponder: Electronic Question Responder", In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems, Eilat, Israel, September 2000 (LNCS 1901, Springer).
Aya Soffer, Hanan Samet, "Two Data Organizations for Storing Symbolic Images in a Relational Database System". In Proceedings of the 8th Working Conference on Database Semantics (DS-8), Rotorua, New ZealandDS-8 1999: 435-452
Aya Soffer, Hanan Samet, "Query Processing and Optimization for Pictorial Query Trees". In proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Visual Information Systems, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June, 1999: 60-67 (LNCS 1614)
Aya Soffer, Hanan Samet, "Pictorial Query Specification for Browsing Through Spatially Referenced Image Databases". Journal of Visual Languages and Computing 9(6): 567-596 (1998)
Aya Soffer, Hanan Samet, "Integrating Symbolic Images into a Multimedia Database System Using Classification and Abstraction Approaches". VLDB Journal 7(4): 253-274 (1998)