dg.o 2001

2nd Annual Digital Government Research Conference

May 21-23, 2001, Los Angeles, CA

Conference Chair: Yigal Arens, University of Southern California

Conference Home Page (archived 9/2007)

This web site for the conference includes the conference schedule: www.isi.edu/dgrc/dgo2001

Conference Proceedings (DGRC Library)

Permanently housed on the DGRC Library, the papers include panels, case studies, research papers, poster and demos, project highlights, birds-of-a-feather sessions and workshops.  In addition, the links below will give you direct access to alphabetical listings by title.

Panels    Case Studies    Research Papers    Posters & Demos

Project Highlights    Birds-of-a-Feather    Workshops  

Panels

Internet Voting
David Cheney, David Jefferson, Paul Herrnson, Jane Fountain, David Ellio

Design Considerations for Digitizing a Democracy
Anthony B. Maddox

Opportunities for Digital Government Research
Sharon S. Dawes

Digital Government Research Agenda for Partnerships Between Academia and Statistical Agencies
Charlie Rothwell

Some Comments On the Council for Excellence in Government and its eGovernment Fellows Program(.pdf)
Charles J. Rothwell

A Digital Government Research Agenda for Future Partnerships Between Statistical Agencies , Academia and NSF
Charles J. Rothwell

Distributed Learning Environments: Effect on Universities and Government
Peter A. Bloniarz

New Initiative in Biodiversity and Ecosytems Informatics
Anne Frondorf, John Schnase, Valerie Gregg, Eric Landis, David Maier,
Reagan Moore, Avi Silberschatz, Lucent Bruce Stein, Eduard Hovy

The Research Frontier: FedStats, Statistics and Digital Government Research
Cathryn Dippo

Issues in Technology Transfer
Yigal Arens

Report on the Graduate Student Session
Roslin Hauck

Case Studies

COPLINK: A National Model for Law Enforcement Information Sharing and Knowledge Management
Hsinchun Chen

COPLINK: Developing Information Sharing and Criminal Intelligence Analysis Technologies For Law Enforcement
Roslin V. Hauck, Jennifer Schroeder, Hsinchun Chen

COPLINK: Knowledgwledge Management for Law Enforcement: Textual Analysis, Visualization and Collaboration
AI Lab, Dept. of MIS, University of Arizona; Tucson Police Dept.; Phoenix Police Dept.

COPLINK Knowledge Management for Law Enforcement: Text Analysis, Visualization and Collaboration
Homa Atabakhsh, Hsinchun Chen, Michael Chau, Jennifer Jie Xu, Jing Zhang, Haidong Bi, Jennifer Schroeder

Harvesting Information to Sustain our Forests: Creating an Adaptive Management Portal
Tim Tolle, Lois Delcambre

Harvesting Information to Sustain our Forests: Creating an Adaptive Management Portal
Tim Tolle, Lois Delcambre

Research Papers

A-D | E-H | I-M | N-S | T-Z |
(Alphabetical by title)

A-D

Adaptive Interfaces for Collecting Survey Data From Users
Michael F. Schober, Frederick G. Conrad

Citizen Agenda-Setting: The Electronic Collection and Synthesis Of Public Commentary in the Regulatory Rulemaking Process
Stuart Shulman

Data Mining in a Geospatial Decision Support System for Drought Risk Management
Sherri K. Harms, Steve Goddard, Stephen E. Reichenbach, William J. Waltman, Tsegaye Tadesse

E-H

E-Government: Human-Centered Systems for Business Services
Nabil R. Adam, Francisco Artigas, Vijayalakshmi Atluri, Soon Ae Chun, Sue Colbert, Melania Degeratu, Adel Ebeid, Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou, Richard Holowczak, Odysseus Marcopolus, Pietro Mazzoleni, Wendy Rayner, Yelena Yesha

E-Tables: Non-Specialist Use and Understanding of Statistical Data
Gary Marchionini, Carol Hert, Ben Shneiderman, Liz Liddy

Fast Approximate Evaluation of OLAP Queries for Integrated Statistical Data
Jose Luis Ambite, Cyrus Shahabi, Rolfe R. Schmidt, and Andrew Philpot

Future Views of Field Data Collection in Statistical Surveys
Sarah Nusser, Leslie Miller, Keith Clarke, Michael Goodchild

The Future of Mobile Survey Data Collection in Natural Resource Surveys
Sarah Nusser, Keith Clarke, Michael Goodchild, Leslie Miller

I-L

Interfacing the SAND Spatial Browser with FedStats Data
Hanan Samet, Frantissek Brabec, Gísli R. Hjaltason

Issues in the Development of Spatial Spreadsheets and Browsers
Hanan Samet, Frantisek Brabec, Gísli R. Hjaltason, Claudio Esperança

M-S
Making Voters Autonomous: The Possibility of Unmediated Political Campaigns
Shanto Iyengar

Maritime Information Markup and Use in Passage Planning
Raphael Malyankar

Metadata Generation and Retrieval of Geographic Imagery
Aidong Zhang and Lei Zhu

Supporting Visual Integration and Analysis of Geospatially-Referenced Data through Web-Deployable, Cross-Platform Tools
Alan M. MacEachren, Frank Hardisty, Mark Gahegan, Michael Wheeler, Xiping Dai, Diansheng Guo, Masa Takatsuka

T-Z

Towards the Digital Government of the 21st Century
Herbert Schorr, Salvatore J. Stolfo

Using Lifelines for Spatiotemporal Studies
Anthony Stefanidis, Panayotis Partsinevelos, Peggy Agouris

A Web-Based Architecture for Government Databases and Services
Athman Bouguettaya, Ahmed Elmagarmid, Brahim Medjahed, Mourad Ouzzani

Scaleable Data Collection for Internet-based Digital Government Applications
W.C. Cheng, C.-F. Chou, L. Golubchik, S. Khuller, H. Samet

Posters & Demos

Department of Transportation's Docket Management System
Christine S. Meers

Discovering Associations between Climatic and Environmental Variables for Supporting Drought Decision Making
Sherri K. Harms, Tsegaye Tadesse

E-Government for State Business Services
Vijay Atluri, Nabil R. Adam

Fast Approximate Evaluation of Decision-Support Queries for Integrated Statistical Data
Jose Luis Ambite, Cyrus Shahabi, Rolfe R. Schmidt, Andrew Philpot

From the Lab to the Marketplace: University Tech Transfer Process
Dina Lozofsky

Geographic Situation Understanding and Management
Robert Neches, In-Young Ko

Interfacing the Sand Spatial Browser with FedStats
Hanan Samet, Frantissek Brabec, Gísli R. Hjaltason

A Prototype Wearable System for Field Computing
Keith Clarke

Selected Designs for Communicating Federal Statistical Summaries
Daniel B. Carr and Ru Sun

Serving Up California Government Data: An Integrated Approach
Patricia Cruse, Marsha Fanshier, Fredric Gey

Some Assembly Required: Building a Digital Government for the 21st Century
Sharon S. Dawes, Peter A. Bloniarz, Kristine L. Kelly

Using Lifelines for Spatiotemporal Studies
Anthony Stefanidis, Panayotis Partsinevelos, Peggy Agouris

Maritime Information Markup
Raphael Malyankar

Project Highlights

Data Acquisition and Integration in the DGRC's Energy Data Collection Project
Eduard Hovy, Andrew Philpot, Jose Luis Ambite, Yigal Arens, Judith Klavans, Walter Bourne, and Deniz Saroz

Digital Government Program Announcement NSF 99-103
Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering, Division of Experimental and Integrative Activities, National Science Foundation

GeoWorlds: Integrated Digital Libraries and Geographic Information Systems
Robert Neches, In-Young Ko, Robert MacGregor, Ke-Thia Yao

Information Infrastructure for Regulation Management and Compliance Checking
Shawn Kerrigan, Gloria Lau, Liang Zhou, Gio Wiederhold, Kincho H. Law

An Infrastructure for Delivering Geospatial Data from Heterogeneous Data Sources to the Field

Leslie Miller

An Infrastructure for Delivering Geospatial Data from Heterogeneous Data Sources to the Field
Leslie Miller

Personalization of Government Internet Services
John O'Looney

Project Battuta: Collecting and Using Geospatial Data in the Field
Iowa State University, University of Southern California Santa Barbara, National Science Foundation, Census, Bureau of Labor Statistics, USDA, USGS (Goodchild)

Rapidly Deployable Broadband Wireless Communications for Emergency Management
Scott F. Midkiff, Charles W. Bostian

Similarity Search for Harvesting Information to Sustain our Forests
Lois Delcambre, Mathew Weaver, Timothy Tolle, David Maier, Eric Landis, Shawn Bowers, Patty Toccalino, Fred Phillips, Nicole Steckler, Craig Palmer, Julia Norman, Rupini Tummala, Sonali Varde

Some Assembly Required: Building a Digital Government for the 21st Century
Sharon S. Dawes, Peter A. Bloniarz, Kristine L. Kelly

Towards a Better Understanding of Information Needs and Use Issues Within the Citizen-Government Digital Divide
William J. McIver, Jr.

A Web-based Architecture for Government Databases and Services
Athman Bouguettaya, Ahmed Elmagarmid, Brahim Medjahed, Mourad Ouzzani

A Web-based Architecture for Government Databases and Services
Athman Bouguettaya, Ahmed Elmagarmid, Brahim Medjahed, Mourad Ouzzani

Web-Based Systems that Disseminate Information But Protect Confidential Data
Alan F. Karr, Ashish P. Sanil

Web-Based Systems that Disseminate Information But Protect Confidential Data
Alan F. Karr, Ashish P. Sanil

Birds-of-a-Feather

Birds of a Feather Sessions
Organizers: Carol Hert, Judith Klavans,

BOF Session, Group 1:
Collaboration in the Digital Government Program: How can different communities work together toward a common goal?
Participants: Sharon Dawes (chair), Jack Marshall, Lung Teng Hu, Jim Thompson, Joe Danek, Yigal Arens, Teresa Harrison, Sibel Adali, Bob Maslyn, Norman Dowe, Sal Stolfe, Vanghn Blankship, David Cheney, Alan MacEachren, Peter Bloniarz, Melvyn Ciment, H. Michael Chung

BOF Session, Group 2:
Citizens and Users and Social Impacts
Participants: Stuart Shulman (chair), Bob Carlitz, Fred Conrad, Roslin Hauck, Eric Welch

BOF Session, Group 3:
Presentation and Display for Universal Usability
Participants: Judith Klavans (chair), Lois DelCombre, John Looney, Gary Marchionini, John Pearson, Neil Scott

BOF Session, Group 5:
Digital Government Technologies: What's Next?
Participants: Leana Golubchik (chair), Jamie Callan (scribe), Vijay Atlira, Jamie Callan, Catherine Dippo, Ali Farahani, Leana Golubchik, Kincho Law, Scott Midkiff, Charlie Rothwell

BOF Session, Group 6:
Ontologies: Building Useful Knowledge Bases across Agencies
Participants: Eduard Hovy (chair), Shawn Bowers (scribe), Bob MacGregor, Raphael Malyankar, Shawn Kerrigan, Melania Degeratu, Jose Luis Ambite, Steve Reichenbach, Isabelle Cruz, Bill Labiosa

BOF Session, Group 7:
Metadata: Current Issues in Building Successful Metadata
Participants: Carol Hert (chair), David Barker-Plummer, Tony Stefanidis, Mathew Weaver, AthmanBouguettaya

BOF Session, Group 8:
Geospatial Data: A special case
Leader: David Chase (chair), Ken Lanfear, Ilya Zaslavsky, Richard Muntz, Sherrie Harms, Hanan Samet, Francisco Artigas, Peggy Agouris, Soon Chun, Katherine Hansen, Panayotis Partsiuvelos, Ron Li, Chaitan Baru, Brad Parks

Workshops

Building an Infrastructure for Law Enforcement Information Sharing and Collaboration: Design Issues and Challenges
Michael Chau, Homa Atabakhsh, Daniel Zeng, Hsinchun Chen

Citizens' Trust in Digital Government: Toward Citizen Relation Management
Seung-Yong Rho and Lung-Teng Hu

Conditioning Multiple Maps
David W. Scott, William C. Wojciechowski

Contrasting Expert Assessment of Privacy with Perceived Privacy: Implications for Public Policy
Ramnath K. Chellappa

Report of the National Workshop on Internet Voting: Issues and Research Agenda
Sponsored by the National Science Foundation, University of Maryland, Freedom Forum

Research Frontiers in Digital Government: New Models, Domains, and Upcoming Opportunities - Workshop
Eduard Hovy, Robert Chadduck, Carol Hert, Cathryn Dippo, Peter Bloniarz

Toward Improved Geographic Information Services Within a Digital Government
Report of the NSF Digital Government Initiative, Geographic Information Systems Workshop

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