dg.o 2003

4th Annual Digital Government Research Conference

May 18-21, 2004, Boston MA

Conference Co-Chairs:

     Yigal Arens, University of Southern California

      Eduard Hovy, University of Southern California

Conference Home Page (archived 7/2007)

This web site for the conference includes the call for papers, submission details, lists of panels, keynote speaker and panelists, and conference schedules. www.dgrc.org/dgo2003

Conference Highlights

The dgOnline report of the conference includes an overview of the conference, report on the keynote speaker, 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 posters and demos.  In addition, the links below will give you direct access to alphabetical listings by title.

Panels    Research Papers    Student Papers   

Posters/Demos     Birds-of-a-Feather    

Panels

Developing and Applying UrbanSim, a System for Simulating Urban Land Use, Transportation, and Environmental Impacts

Paul Waddell, Alan Borning

E-Rulemaking: New Directions for Information Technology and Regulation
Cary Coglianese, Eduard Hovy, Kincho Law, Elizabeth Liddy, Beth Noveck, Peter Shane, Sue Stendebach

Knowledge Networking in the Public Sector
Sharon S. Dawes

Modeling Land Use, Transportation, and Environmental Impacts
Alan Borning, John Britting, Paul Waddell, Christopher Forinash

Open Code for Digital Government
L Jean Camp

Summary Report on New IT Research Possibilities to Advance Environmental Research, Policy and Management Panel dgo2003

Sue Stendebach

Spatio-Temporal Data & Remote & In Situ Sensing We Gotta DRREAMM!: Data Retrieval & Representation for Environmental Analysis, Modeling & Monitoring
Judy Cushing, Geoff Henebry, Paul Flikkema, Paul Doruska

Towards Digital Governments: Sharing Geospatial Information
Anthony Stefanidis

Transnational Digital Government Research: Building Regional Partnerships
José A. B. Fortes

2003 National Conference on Digital Government Research Panel: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Informatics (BDEI)
Judy Cushing, Kate Beard-Tisdale, Barbara Eckman, Eric Landis, John Schnase, Rob Stevenson

Research Papers

A-D | E-G | H-L | M-R | S-Z |
(Alphabetical by title)

A-D

Assessing the Usefulness and Usability of Online Learning Activities: MapStats for Kids
Sven Fuhrmann, John Bosley, Bonan Li, Stephen Crawford, Alan MacEachren, Roger Downs, Mark Gahegan

Better Public Policy Through Natural Language Information Access
Boris Katz, Roger Hurwitz, Jimmy J. Lin, Ozlem Uzuner

Biodiversity & Ecosystem Informatics Preliminary Report of the February 11, 2003, BDEI PI Workshop
Judy Cushing, Kate Beard, Barbara Eckman, Eric Landis, John Schnase, Rob Stevenson, Kathleen Bergen, Geoff Henebry, Jim Clark, Woody Turner

Building a Terminological Database from Heterogeneous Definitional Sources
Smaranda Muresan, Samuel D. Popper, Peter T. Davis, Judith L. Klavans

The Challenging Interface of Technology and Policy: A Case Study of Communications Interoperability
Viktor Mayer-Schönberger

Citizen's Attitudes About Privacy While Accessing Government and Private Websites: Results of an Online Study
Salvatore J. Stolfo, Eric Johnson, Tomislav Pavlicic, Stephen Jan

COPLINK: Visualization for Crime Analysis
Hsinchun Chen, Homa Atabakhsh, Tim Petersen, Jenny Schroeder, Ty Buetow, Luis Chaboya, Chris O'Toole, Michael Chau, Tom Cushna, Dan Casey, Zan Huang

Crime Data Mining: An Overview and Case Studies
Hsinchun Chen, Wingyan Chung, Yi Qin, Michael Chau, Jennifer Jie Xu, Gang Wang, Rong Zheng, Homa Atabakhsh

Data Exploration with Paired Hierarchical Visualizations: Initial Designs of PairTrees
Bill Kules, Ben Shneiderman, Catherine Plaisant

Data Swapping: A Risk-Utility Framework and Web Service Implementation
Shanti Gomatam, Alan F. Karr, Chunhua Charlie Liu, Ashish P. Sanil

Designing a Metadata-Driven Visual Information Browser for Federal Statistics
Bill Kules, Ben Shneiderman

DGPort: A Web Portal for Digital Government
Chun Q. Yin, L. Dwayne Nickels, Charles Zhi-kai Chen, T. Gavin Ng, Hsinchun Chen

Digital Citizenship: Parameters of the Digital Divide
Stuart W. Shulman, Mack C. Shelley, Lisa Thrane

Distributed Information Retrieval with Skewed Database Size Distributions
Luo Si, Jie Lu, Jamie Callan

E-G

The Effects of E-Government on Trust and Confidence in Government
Caroline Tolbert, Karen Mossberger

The Effects of Internet Use on Political Participation: Evidence from an Agency Online Discussion Forum
J. Woody Stanley, Christopher Weare

E-Government in the Arabian Gulf: A Vision Toward Reality
George K. Kostopoulos

Electronic Government at the American Grassroots - 2002
Donald F. Norris, M. Jae Moon

Electronic Negotiation of Government Contracts Through Transducers
Aabhas V. Paliwal, Nabil Adam, Vijayalakshmi Atluri, Yelena Yesha

Enabling Email Confidentiality Through the Use of Opportunistic Encryption
Simson L. Garfinkel

Enabling Transnational Collection, Notification, and Sharing of Information
V. Cavalli-Sforza, A. I. Antón, O. Brooks, J. Carbonell, R. Cole, R. Connolly, J. Fortes, M. Herrera, I. Krsul, C. McSweeney, C. Ortega, S. Su, D. Towsley, J. Ventura, W. Ward

Extending Metadata Definitions by Automatically Extracting and Organizing Glossary Definitions
Eduard Hovy, Andrew Philpot, Judith Klavans, Ulrich Germann, Peter Davis, Samuel Popper

Extending XML Web Querying to Heterogeneous Geospatial Information
Nancy Wiegand, Naijun Zhou, Stephen Ventura, Isabel F. Cruz

Finding Outliers in Models of Spatial Data
David W. Scott, J. Blair Christian

A Framework for Regulation Comparison with Application to Accessibility Codes
Gloria T. Lau, Kincho H. Law, Gio Wiederhold

Free-link Topology Navigation on Statistical Table Objects: Metadata Schema and User Interface
Xiangming Mu, Gary Marchionini

Generating Original Structure in Regulatory Documents
Steven O. Kimbrough, Thomas Y. Lee, Balaji Padmanabhan, Yinghui Yang

H-L

Implementation of a Coastal Decision Making System Using Internet and Wireless Technologies
Xutong Niu, Tarig Ali, Ruijin Ma, Ahmed Elaksher, Ron Li

Implementing the Electronic Disbursement of Child Support Payments: NSF National Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o2003)
Craig L. Johnson, Maureen A. Pirog

Improving Access to Large Volumes of Online Data

Egemen Tanin, Hanan Samet

Improving Accessibility and Usability of Geo-Referenced Statistical Data
Haixia Zhao, Ben Shneiderman, Catherine Plaisant, Dmitry N. Zotkin, Ramani Duraiswami

Improving Accessibility and Usability of Geo-Referenced Statistical Data
Haixia Zhao, Ben Shneiderman, Catherine Plaisant

Integration of Multi-Source Spatial Information for Coastal Management and Decision Making
Ron Li, Keith W. Bedford, C. K. Shum, J. Raul Ramirez, Aidong Zhang, Ahmed Elaksher

M-R

Managing Heterogeneous Models and Schemas in the Waterway Information Network
R. M. Malyankar, K. M. Shea, J. W. Spalding, M. J. Lewandowski, A. R. Baddam

Multi-Source Coastal Data Analysis
Xutong Niu, Chung-yen Kuo, Vasilia Velissariou, Ron Li, Keith W. Bedford, C. K. Shum

New Approaches to Help Users Get Started with Visual Interfaces: Multi-Layered Interfaces and Integrated Initial Guidance
Hyunmo Kang, Catherine Plaisant, Ben Shneiderman

Ontology-Based Workflow Change Management for Flexible eGovernment Service Delivery
Soon Ae Chun, Vijayalakshmi Atluri

Preserving State Government Web Publications: First-Year Experiences
Larry S. Jackson

Regulatory Information Management and Compliance Assistance
Shawn Kerrigan, Charles Heenan, Haoyi Wang, Kincho H. Law, Gio Wiederhold

S-Z

Scientist, Politician, and Bureaucrat Subcultures as Barriers to Information-Sharing in Government Agencies
David B. Drake, Marianne J. Koch, Nicole A. Steckler

Semantic Web Enabled E-Government Services
Brahim Medjahed, Athman Bouguettaya, Mourad Ouzzani

Social Welfare Program Administration and Evaluation and Policy Analysis Using Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) on Administrative Data
Hye-Chung (Monica) Kum, Dean Duncan, Kimberly Flair, Wei Wang

The State Cancer Profiles Web Site and Extensions of Linked Micromap Plots and Conditioned Choropleth Map Plots
Daniel B. Carr, Sue Bell, Linda Pickle, Yuguang Zhang, Yaru Li

Supporting End-Users of Statistical Information: The Role of Statistical Metadata in the Statistical Knowledge Network
Carol A. Hert, Stephanie Haas

Technology Implementation Management in Law Enforcement: COPLINK System Usability and User Acceptance Evaluations
Chienting Lin, Paul J. Hu, Hsinchun Chen, Jennifer Schroeder

Toward a Statistical Knowledge Network
Gary Marchionini, Stephanie Haas, Catherine Plaisant, Ben Shneiderman, Carol Hert

Towards a Living GIS: Enhancing Digital Democracy Through Sustained Citizen Participation
Nathan Michaud, Chris Brehme, Robert Snyder

Turning to Digital Government in a Crisis
Sharon S. Dawes, Bruce B. Cahan, Anthony M. Cresswell

Student Papers

Conception and Implementation of Digital Government Projects: The Role of Knowledge Transfer
Maria Christina Scharf

eGovernment & Internet Security: Some Technical and Policy Considerations
Luis F. Luna-Reyes, J. Ramón Gil-García

Examining the Motivations for E-Government from anIinstitutional Theory Perspective: Evidence from Turkey

Mete Yildiz

A Geographic Visual Query Composer (GVQC) for Accessing Federal Databases
Diansheng Guo

A Study on Automatic Ontology Mapping of Categorical Information
Naijun Zhou

Posters & Demos

A-D | E-G | H-L | M-R | S-Z |
(Alphabetical by title)

A-D

Accessing Diverse Geo-Referenced Data Sources with the SAND Spatial DBMS
Jagan Sankaranarayanan, Egemen Tanin, Hanan Samet, Frantisek Brabec

Automated Support for Older Adult Accessibility of E-Government Web Sites
Shirley A. Becker, Luke L. Nowak

Coastal Mapping and Change Detection Using High-Resolution IKONOS Satellite Imagery

Kkaichang Di, Ruijin Ma, Jue Wang, Ron Li

Computer-Assisted Probability Sampling and Statistical Inference in the Field
Pushpal Mukhopadhyay, Sarah Nusser

COPLINK: Visualization for Crime Analysis DEMO
Hsinchun Chen, Homa Atabakhsh, Tim Petersen, Jenny Schroeder, Ty Buetow, Luis Chaboya, Chris O'Toole, Michael Chau, Tom Cushna, Dan Casey, Zan Huang

Coastal Mapping and Change Detection Using High-Resolution IKONOS Satellite Imagery
Kaichang Di, Ruijin Ma, Jue Wang, Ron Li

Data Exploration with Paired Hierarchical Visualizations: Initial Designs of PairTrees
Bill Kules, Ben Shneiderman, Catherine Plaisant

Demo: Accessing Diverse Geo-Referenced Data Sources with the SAND Spatial DBMS
Jagan Sankaranarayanan, Egemen Tanin, Hanan Samet, Frantisek Brabec

Demonstration for The State Cancer Profiles Web Site and Extensions of Linked Micromap Plots and Conditioned Choropleth Map Plots
Daniel B. Carr

Dg.o2003 the National Conference on Digital Government Research: An Integrated Fire, Smoke and Air Quality Network
Stefan Falke, Rudolf Husar

E-G

Enabling Email Confidentiality Through the Use of Opportunistic Encryption
Simson L. Garfinkel

Extending Metadata Definitions by Automatically Extracting and Organizing Glossary Definitions
Eduard Hovy, Andrew Philpot, Judith Klavans, Ulrich Germann, Peter T. Davis

Finding Our Future: A Research Agenda for the Research Enterprise
Theresa A. Pardo, Sharon S. Dawes, Anthony M. Cresswell, Fiona Thompson, Giri K. Tayi

The Forest Portal: A Multidisciplinary Project
Marianne Koch, Lois Delcambre, Patricia Toccalino, Eric Landis, Fred Phillips, Tim Tolle, Len Shapiro, Nicole Steckler, David Maier, Mathew Weaver, Shawn Bowers, Balbinder Banga, Jason Brewster, Afrem Gutema, Sudarshan Murthy, Bill Howe, Rupa Tummala, Julia Norman, Kirsten Zillman, David Drake, Craig Palmer, Ashley Burt

A Framework for the Representation of Geospatial Image Processing Operations
Vijay Venkataraman, Peggy Agouris

The GovStat Ontology
Maria Cristina Pattuelli, Stephanie W. Haas, Ron T. Brown, Jesse Wilbur

The GovStat Statistical Interactive Glossary (SIG)
Ron T. Brown, Jesse Wilbur, Stephanie W. Haas, Maria Cristina Pattuelli

H-L

Helping Users Get Started with Visual Interfaces: Multi-Layered Interfaces, Integrated Iniitial Guidance and Video Demonstrations
Hyunmo Kang, Catherine Plaisant, Ben Shneiderman

H2O: Building Communities Around Ideas
John Palfrey, Juliet Armstrong, Julian Marinus, Jonathan Zittrain

Improving Accessibility and Usability of Geo-Referenced Statistical Data
Haixia Zhao, Ben Shneiderman, Catherine Plaisant

M-R

Management Assistance for Work First Via a Dynamic Website
Hye-Chung (Monica) Kum, Dean Duncan, Kimberly Flair, Wei Wang

MapStats for Kids: Developing and Assessing Web-Based Tools to Foster Geographic and Statistical Literacy in Children
Stephen Crawford, Sven Fuhrmann, Bonan Li, Alan MacEachren, Mark Gahegan, Roger Downs

Methodology and Preliminary Findings Towards the Characterization and Evaluation of Non-Line-of-Sight (NLOS) Paths for Fixed Broadband Wireless Communications for Emergency and Disaster Response
Tim Gallagher, Mary Miniuk

Optimized Querying of E-Government Services
Mourad Ouzzani, Athman Bouguettaya, Brahim Medjahed

A Prototype Automated Dental Identification System (ADIS)
Diaa Eldin M. Nassar, Hany H. Ammar

Quality Graphics in Web-Based Applications for Summarizing Government Agency Data
Xiping Dai, Frank Hardisty, Alan MacEachren

Reducing Storage Costs for Federated Search of Text Databases
Jie Lu, Jamie Callan

The Relationship Among GIS-Oriented Spatiotemporal Databases
Lixin Li, Peter Revesz

Resolving Schema and Value Heterogeneities for XML Web Querying
Nancy Wiegand, Naijun Zhou, Stephen Ventura, Isabel F. Cruz, William Sunna

Regulatory Information Management and Compliance Assistance
Shawn Kerrigan, Charles Heenan, Haoyi Wang, Kincho H. Law, Gio Wiederhold

The Role of a Search Agent for Disenfranchised Users
Mousumi Chatterjee, Sibel Adali

S-Z

Searching With Continuous Query Exploration
Sibel Adali, Mousumi Chatterjee, Carrie Clegg, Manish Dalwadi, Ruchi Dayal, Jim Zappen, Teresa Harrison

SemView: A Semantic-Sensitive Distributed Image Retrieval System
Wei Wang, Yimin Wu, Aidong Zhang

Simulation-Based Operations Planning for Regional Transportation Systems
Richard Fujimoto, Randall Guensler, John Leonard

A Spatio-Temporal Decision Making System for Coastal Change Monitoring and Coastal Management
Ruijin Ma, Tarig Ali, Xutong Niu, Vasilia Velissariou, Kai-chien (Kevin) Cheng, Chung-Yen Kuo, Xian Xu, Ahmed Elaksher, Ron Li, Keith W. Bedford, C. K. Shum, J. Raul Ramirez, Aidong Zhang

START: A Framework for Facilitating E-Rulemaking
Boris Katz, Roger Hurwitz, Jimmy J. Lin, Ozlem Uzuner

System Demonstration: Geospatial Data and Mobile Computing for Field Data Collection Systems
Leslie Miller

Table Extraction Using Conditional Random Fields
David Pinto, Andrew McCallum, Xing Wei, W. Bruce Croft

Technical Problems of Deploying Standard Initiative of National City True Orthophoto Mapping
Guoqing Zhou, Zhihao Qin, Susan Benjamin, J. Rand, W. Schickler

Testbed for High-Speed End-to-End Communications in Support of Comprehensive Emergency Management
Charles Bostian, Scott Midkiff, Tim Gallagher, Mary Miniuk

Time-Series Data Mining in a Geospatial Decision Support System
Dan Li, Sherri Harms, Steve Goddard, William Waltman, Jitender Deogun

Trust Resource Management in Digital Government Through Process Modeling
Lee Osterweil, Norman Sondheimer, Anthony Butterfield, Lori Clarke, Robert Marx

Usability Enforcer and Dottie Software Tools: Promoting E-Government Accessibility for Older Adults
Shirley A. Becker, Luke L. Nowak

XML Schemas from Computational Ontologies
R. M. Malyankar, A. Baddam

Birds-of-a-Feather

Birds of a Feather Session: HCI and Usability
Gary Marchionini

BOF: Developing an Integration Infrastructure for the Statistical Knowledge Network: Metadata and Standards
Carol A. Hert

BOF: Ecosystem Informatics, Bio-Informatics (and Health/Epidemiology)
Judy Cushing

BoF Report: State of the Semantic Web in Digital Government
Joel Sachs

BOF Session: International Digital Government Research
Tony Stefanidis

DG.o2003: Birds of a Feather Theme
G. P. Patil

E-Government and Public Policy
Stuart Shulman

GIS Birds of a Feather Summary
Peggy Agouris, Kristin Eickhorst

Public-Private Partnerships for Internet Development
Sharon Gillett, William Lehr, Jane Fountain

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