dg.o 2002

3th Annual Digital Government Research Conference

May 19-22, 2002, Los Angeles, CA

Conference Chair: 

     Yigal Arens, University of Southern California

Conference Home Page (archived 8/2007)

This web site for the conference includes the call for papers, submission details, lists of panels, keynote speakers and panelists, and conference schedules. www,dgrc.org/dgo2002

Conference Highlights

The dgOnline report of the conference includes an overview of the conference, report on the keynote speakers, the program and program at a glance.

Conference Proceedings (ACM Digital Library)

Permanently housed on the searchable ACM Digital Library, the published Proceedings include welcome letters, program and conference committee lists, panels, research papers, project highlights, and poster and system demos.  In addition, the links below will give you direct access to alphabetical listings by title.

Keynote Speech       Sessions       Panels       Research Papers    

Student Papers       Birds-of-a-Feather    

Keynote Speech

Digital Government and the Internet
Vint Cerf

Sessions

BDEI: Event and Process Tagging for Information Integration in the International Gulf of Maine Watershed

Kate Beard, Jeffrey S. Kahl, Neal Pettigrew, Malcolm Hunter, Marilyn Lutz

Designing an Infrastructure for Heterogeneity of Ecosystem Data, Collaborators, Organizations

Karen Baker, Geoffrey C. Bowker, Helena Karasti

Efficient Demand Responsive Transit
Kurt Palmer, Maged Dessouky, Tamer Abdelmaguid

Towards an Operational Semantics of Biological Diversity: Integrating Structure and Function in a Web-Accessible Knowledge Base
Ferdinando Villa, Marta Ceroni

Beyond Benefits and Costs: Understanding Outcomes of ITS Deployments in Public Transit
Genevieve Giuliano, Thomas O'Brien

Panels

Communications Interoperability in Disaster Response Situations

Moderator: George Morgan & Charles Bostian

Broadband Wireless Communications for Disaster Relief: A Project of Virginia Tech's Center for Wireless Telecommunications (CWT) Science Applications International Corporation
Charles Bostian, Scott Midkiff, Laurence W. Bill Carstensen, George E. Morgan, Michael Kurgan, Rick Klobuchar, Larry Brandt

A Disaster-Recovery Plan for Local Municipalities Using Communication Satellite Facilities and Services
Leslie A. Taylor, Sidney M. Skjei

Engaging Government Agencies in Digital Government Research

Moderator: Sharon Dawes

Engaging Government in DG Research
Sharon Dawes

Governing the Network. Making a Case for Local E-Government: The New York Experience
Meghan E. Cook

New Models of Collaboration for the Delivery of Public Services
Lise Préfontaine

Organizational Inhibitors and Facilitators of Info-Sharing Across Three Federal Agencies
Marianne Koch

New Directions for Digital Government Research

Moderator: Valerie Gregg

New Directions in Digital Government: Knowledge Discovery and Dissemination
Gary W. Strong

New Directions: Digital Government Panels 1 & 2
Valerie Gregg

New directions in Digital Government Research
Margaret Hedstrom

IT Research, Innovation, and E-Government: Committee on E-Government Computer Science and Telecommunications Board the National Academies
William L. Scherlis, Jon Eisenberg

Technology Transfer

Moderator: Yigal Arens

Adventures in Technology Transfer
Steven Minton

Industrial Technology Transfer a Personal View
Joel S. Birnbaum

The Integrated Media Systems Center: Technology Transfer, Licensing, and Commercialization of Immersive Technologies
Isaac Maya

Building a Persistent Archive: Technology Transfer to Federal Agencies
Reagan W. Moore

Strengthening the Organizational and Network Foundations of Digital Government Research

Moderator: Jane Fountain

Mental Models and Knowledge Management for Government Organizations

Niki Steckler

Social Mechanisms that Facilitate the Creation and Maintenance of Virtual Networks Among Government Agencies
Noshir Contractor

Healthcare in a Digital World

Moderator: Muriel D. Ross

The Alaska Telemedicine Testbed Project (1996-2001): Digital Healthcare in a Narrow Bandwidth Environment
Frederick W. Pearce

Research Papers

A-C | D-G | H-M | N-S | T-Z |
(Alphabetical by title)

A-C

APPOINT: an Approach for Peer-to-Peer Offloading the INTernet

Egemen Tanin, Hanan Samet

BDEI: Biodiversity Information Organization Using Taxonomy (BIOT)
Susan Gauch

A Bioinformatics Platform for Studying Metabolic Functions of Unculturable Microbes
Allan Dickerman, Brett Tyler

Building Automatically a Business Registration Ontology
Melania Degeratu, Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou

Co-Evolution of Research and Practice: The BLS and FedStats Case
Marchionini, Levi, Haas

Collaborative Research on Web Dissemination of Geotechnical Data
Jennifer N. Swift, J. Carl Stepp, Diane Vaughan, Paul Grimes, Loren Turner

Community Science for Biodiversity Monitoring

Robert D. Stevenson, Robert A. Morris

Computation and Uncertainty in Ecological Forecasting
James S. Clark, Pankaj Agarwal, Michael Lavine

Connected Kids: Community Information System Design and Development

Sibel Adali, Teresa M. Harrison, James P. Zappen

COPLINK: Visualization and Collaboration for Law Enforcement
H. Chen, H. Atabakhsh, D. Zeng, J. Schroeder, T. Petersen, D. Casey, M. Chen, Y. Xiang, D. Daspit, S. Nandiraju, S. Fu

D-G

Design, Analysis, Simulation, and Evaluation of Advanced Container Terminals
H. Jula, C. I. Liu, P. A. Ioannou

Designing an Infrastructure for Heterogeneity in Ecosystem Data, Collaborators and Organizations
Karen S. Baker, Geoffrey C. Bowker, Helena Karasti

DGRC AskCal: Natural Language Question Answering for Energy Time Series
Andrew Philpot, Jose Luis Ambite, Eduard Hovy

Digital Citizenship: Lessons Learned as Service-Learning Meets the Digital Divide
Stuart Shulman, Sally Beisser, Teresa Larson, Mack Shelley

A Disaster-Recovery Plan for Local Municipalities Using Currently Available Communication Satellite Facilities and Services
Leslie A. Taylor, Sidney M. Skjei

Dynamic Composition of Workflows for Customized eGovernment Service Delivery
Soon Ae Chun, Vijayalakshmi Atluri, Nabil R. Adam

Efficient Rule Discovery in a Geo-Spatial Decision Support System Sherri Harms, Dan Li, Jitender Deogun, Tsegaye Tadesse

Enforcing Privacy in Interoperable E-Government Applications
A. Rezgui, Z. Wen, A. Bouguettaya

Extracting Meaningful Entities from Police Narrative Reports
Michael Chau, Jennifer J. Xu, Hsinchun Chen

H-M

Information Mediation Across Heterogeneous Government Spatial Data Sources
Amarnath Gupta, Ashraf Memon, Joshua Tran, Rajiv P. Bharadwaja, Ilya Zaslavsky

Integrating Heterogeneous Data Sources for Better Freight Flow Analysis and Planning
Jose Luis Ambite, Genevieve Giuliano, Peter Gordon, Qisheng Pan, Sandipan Bhattacharjee

Integrating Radar Remote Sensing of Habitat Structure: A Pilot Project for Biodiversity Informatics
Kathleen M. Bergen, Daniel G. Brown, Eric J. Gustafson, M. Craig Dobson

Interactive Linked Micromap Plots and Dynamically Conditioned Choropleth Maps
Daniel B. Carr, Jim Chen, B. Sue Bell, Linda Pickle, Yuguang Zhang

A Method for Automating Text Markup

Rashmi K. Iyengar, R. M. Malyankar

Mobile and Wireless Technologies: Emerging Opportunities for Digital Government

Anthony M. Townsend

N-S

Optimal Tabular Releases from Confidential Data

Alan F. Karr, Adrian Dobra, Ashish P. Sanil

OUTLAW: Using Geo-Sspatial Associations for Outlier Detection and Visual Analysis of Cargo Routes
Vandana Janeja, Vijay Atluri, Nabil Adam

A Portal for Access to Complex Distributed Information about Energy
Jose Luis Ambite, Yigal Arens, Walter Bourne, Peter T. Davis, Eduard H. Hovy, Judith L. Klavans, Andrew Philpot, Samuel Popper, Ken Ross, Ju-Ling Shih, Peter Sommer, Surabhan (Nick) Temiyabutr, Laura Zadoff

Potential of Motion Imagery Systems
Gary Demos

Privacy Preserving Composition of Government Web Services
Athman Bouguettaya, Brahim Medjahed, Abdelmounaam Rezgui, Mourad Ouzzani, Zhaoyang Wen

Querying Heterogeneous Land Use Data: Problems and Potential

N. Wiegand, E. D. Patterson, N. Zhou, S. Ventura, I. F. Cruz

Rapid Updates of GIS Databases from Digital Images
Howard Schultz, Allen R. Hanson, Edward M. Riseman, Frank Stolle

Report of the National Workshop on Internet Voting: Issues and Research Agenda

C. D. Mote, Jr.

Remote Thin-Client Access to Spatial Database Systems
Hanan Samet, František Brabec

Representation and Querying of Interpolation Data in Constraint Databases
Peter Revesz, Lixin Li

Representing, Exploiting, and Extracting Metadata Using Metadata++
Mathew Weaver, Bill Howe, Lois Delcambre, Tim Tolle, Dave Maier

Scalable and Secure Data Collection Using Bistro W. C. Cheng, C.-F. Chou, L. Golubchik, S. Khuller, J. Y. C. Wan

A Software Architecture for Distributed Geospatial Decision Support Systems
Steve Goddard, Shifeng Zhang, William J. Waltman, Dennis Lytle, Seavey Anthony

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

Spatial Data Infrastructure for Ecological Research
Judith Bayard Cushing, Nalini Nadkarni, Lois Delcambre, Dave Maier

Spatio-Temporal Data Models of Biogeophysical Fields for Ecological Forecasting
Geoff Henebry, Tony Fountain, Jan Chomicki, Jon Ranson

Supporting Statistical, Graphic/Cartographic, and Domain Literacy Through Online Learning Activities: MapStats for Kids
Alan M. MacEachren, Mark Harrower, Bonan Li, David Howard, Roger Downs, Mark Gahegan

T-Z

A Theory and Implementation of Smooth Conditional Maps
J. Blair Christian, David W. Scott

Towards an Operational Semantics of Biological Diversity: Integrating Structure and Function in a Web-Accessible Knowledge Base
Ferdinando Villa, Marta Ceroni

Toward Spatio-Temporal Models of Biogeophysical Fields for Ecological Forecasting
Geoffrey M. Henebry, Tony Fountain, Jan Chomicki, K. Jon Ranson

Usability Studies of Geovisualization Software in the Workplace
Trudy A. Suchan

User Needs Assessment for the Adaptive Management Portal
Balbinder Banga, Eric Landis, Tim Tolle, Lois Delcambre, Fred Phillips

Using Controlled Vocabularies as a Knowledge Base for Natural Resource Managers
Tim Tolle, Patty Toccalino, Lois Delcambre, Julia Norman, Fred Phillips, David Maier

Using Interface Design for a Wearable Field Computer Keith C. Clarke, Andrea Nuernberger, Thomas Pingel, Du Qingyun

Using Shortest Path Algorithms to Identify Criminal Associations
Jennifer Jie Xu, Hsinchun Chen

Visualizing Geo-Referenced Data with the Eco Flight Simulator
Stephen McDonald, Robert D. Stevenson

Wireless Sensor Networks: From the Laboratory to the Field
Paul G. Flikkema, Brent W. West

Workshop on the Biodiversity and Ecosystems Informatics for the Indian River Lagoon
Mohamad Musavi, Habtom Ressom, Ross Hinkle, Richard Miller

Student Papers

Conditioned and Manipulable Matrix for Visual Exploration
Xiping Dai, Frank Hardisty

Enriching Documents in an Information Portal Using Superimposed Schematics
Shawn Bowers, Lois Delcambre, David Maier

Examining User Acceptance of COPLINK Technologies by Law Enforcement Officers: A Survey Study
Chienting Lin, Paul J. Hu, Jennifer Schroeder, Hsinchun Chen

Hierarchical Structures for Video Query Systems
Kristin Eickhorst

Posters & Demos

COPLINK overview
Hsinchun Chen

Collaborative Research on Web Dissemination of Geotechnical Data
Jennifer Swift, Carl Stepp, Diane Vaughan, Paul Grimes, Loren Turner

Community Science for Biodiversity Monitoring: The Electronic Field Guide (EFG) Project
Robert D. Stevenson, Robert A. Morris

EcoFlyer: Visualizing Geo-Referenced Data

Steve McDonald

iMove: Spherical Iimagery

Potential of Motion Imagery Systems
Gary Demos

Regnet: An Infrastructure for Regulatory Information Management and Compliance Assistance Shawn Kerrigan, Charles Heenan, Kincho H. Law

Remote Thin-Client Access to Spatial Database Systems
Hanan Samet, František Brabec

Spatio Temporal Helixes for Event Modeling
Anthony Stefanidis, Peggy Agouris, Panos Partsinevelos

Webview: A Distributed Geographical Image Retrieval System
Wei Wang, Daoying Ma, Yimin Wu, Aidong Zhang, David M. Mark

Birds-of-a-Feather

Birds-of-a-Feather: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Informatics

Kathleen M. Bergen, Daniel G. Brown, Eric J. Gustafson, M. Craig Dobson

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