dg.o 2005

6th Annual Digital Government Research Conference

May 15-18, 2005, Atlanta, GA

Conference Co-Chairs:

    Lois Delcambre, Portland State University

    Genevieve Giuliano, 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, a confirmed participants list and conference schedules. www.dgrc.org/dgo2005

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, student 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     Panels     Research Papers     Student Papers

Project Highlights    Posters & Demos     Birds-of-a-Feather

Keynote Speech

Digital Dreams: The Future of e-Government
Neil Eisner, U.S. Department of Transportation

Panels

Keynote Panel:  Digital Government Research in the Academy
Moderators: Lois Delcambre, Genevieve Giuliano

Panelists: Lynne Chronister, Jane Fountain, Judith Klavans

Cyberinfrastructure for Public Health
Moderators: Noshir Contractor, Scott Leischow

Panelists: Brad Hesse, Judith Qualters, Helga Rippen, David Introcaso, Mark Parascandola, Sylvia Spengler

Preserving Information Long-Term: Digital Archiving
Panelists: William G.LeFurgy, Theresa Pardo, Margaret Hedstrom, Tyler O. Walters

Research Papers

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

A-C

Aligning Database Columns Using Mutual Information
Patrick Pantel, Andrew Philpot, Eduard Hovy

Automatic Composition of Aggregation Workflows for Transportation Modeling
José Luis Ambite, Matthew Weathers

Building Sustainable Community Information Systems: Lessons from a Digital Government Project
Teresa M. Harrison, James P. Zappen

D-F
DM-AMS: Employing Data Mining Techniques for Alert Management
Vandana P. Janeja, Vijayalakshmi Atluri, Ahmed Gomaa, Nabil Adam, Christof Bornhoevd,Tao Lin

An Efficient Nearest Neighbor Algorithm for P2P Settings
Egemen Tanin, Deepa Nayar, Hanan Samet

Data Assignment in Fault Tolerant Uploads for Digital Government Applications: A Genetic Algorithms Approach
Yan Yang, Leslie Cheung, Leana Golubchik

E-Electoral Administration: Organizational Lessons Learned from the Deployment of E-Voting in the UK
Alexandros Xenakis, Ann Macintosh

Evaluation and Evolution of a Browser and Search Interface: Relation Browser++
Junliang Zhang, Gary Marchionini

Exploring the Success Factors of State Website Functionality: An Empirical Investigation
J. Ramón Gil-García

 G-M
Governance Characteristics of Information Technology
Rajiv Shah, Jay P. Kesan

 N-S
Near-Duplicate Detection for e-rulemaking
Hui Yang, Jamie Callan

A Pilot Project in PAs to Transit to an Open Source Solution
Barbara Russo, Alberto Sillitti, Paolo Zuliani, Giancarlo Succi, Paolo Gasperi

A Real Option Analysis Approach to Evaluate Digital Government Investment
Leon Chen, Olivia Sheng, Dennis Goreham, Jeanne Watanabe

A Relatedness Analysis Approach for Regulation Comparison and E-Rulemaking Applications
Gloria Lau, Haoyi Wang, Kincho Law, Gio Wiederhold

 T-Z
Towards Electronic Governance - A Case Study of ICT in Local Government
Thomas Zwahr, Pierre Rossel, Matthias Finger

Student Papers

CRM in the Public Sector- Towards a Conceptual Research Framework

Alexander Schellong

Motivations for Implementing E-Government: An Investigation of the Global Phenomenon

Kimberly Scholtzfus

Vertical Datum Conversion in the Lake Erie Costal Area

Feng Zhou

Project Highlights

A-C | D-F | G-M | N-S | T-Z |

(Alphabetical by title)

A-C

Automated Dental Identification System (ADIS)

Hany Ammar, Mohamed Abdel-Mottaleb, Anil K. Jain

Communications Technology and Urban Governance Reform: Project Highlights
Christopher Weare, Juliet A. Musso

Connecting to Congress: Project Highlights
David Lazer, Kevin Esterling, Michael Neblo, Jane Fountain, Inez Mergel, Curt Ziniel

Constructing Electronic Interactions Among Citizens, Issue Publics, and Elites: The Healthcare Dialogue Project
Vincent Price, Joseph N. Cappella

Coplink Center: Social Network Analysis and Identity Deception Detection for Law Enforcement and Homeland Security Intelligence and Security Informatics: A Crime Data Mining Approach to Developing Border Safe Research
Hsinchun Chen, Homa Atabakhsh, Jennifer Jie Xu, Gang Wang, Byron Marshall, Siddharth Kaza, Lu Tseng, Shauna Eggers, Hemanth Gowda, Tim Petersen, Chuck Violette

D-F

Data Confidentiality, Data Quality and Data Integration for Federal Databases
Alan F. Karr

Digitalization of Coastal Management and Decision Making Supported by Multi-Dimensional Geospatial Information and Analysis
Ron Li, Keith Bedford, C.K. Shum, Xutong Niu, Feng Zhou, Vasilia Velissariou, J. Raul Ramirez, Aidong Zhang

Early Lessons from the Application of Process Technology to Online Grievance Mediation
Ethan Katsh, Leon Osterweil, Norman K. Sondheimer, Daniel Rainey

Eco-Informatics and Natural Resource Management

Judith Bayard Cushing, Tyrone Wilson, Alan Borning, Lois Delcambre, Geoff Bowker, Mike Frame, John Schnase, William Sonntag, Janos Fulop, Carol Hert, Eduard Hovy, Julia Jones, Eric Landis, Charles Schweik, Lawrence Brandt, Valerie Gregg, Sylvia Spengler

Email Mining Toolkit Supporting Law Enforcement Forensic Analyses

Salvatore J. Stolfo, Shlomo Hershkop

Emergency Medicine, Disease Surveillance, and Informatics
Venu Govindaraju

G-M

GeoCollaborative Crisis Management
Alan MacEachren, Sven Fuhrmann, Michael McNeese, Guoray Cai, Rajeev Sharma

GeoInformatic Hotspot Systems (GHS) for Detection, Prioritization, and Early Warning
G.P Patil

Harvesting Information to Sustain our Forests
Lois Delcambre, Marianne Lykke Nielsen, Timothy Tolle, Mathew Weaver, David Maier, Susan Price

Language Processing Technologies for Electronic Rulemaking
Stuart Shulman, Jamie Callan, Eduard Hovy, Stephen Zavestoski

Modeling Online Participation in Local Government
Andrea Kavanaugh, Philip Isenhour, Manuel Perez-Quinones, Daniell Dunlap

Multidisciplinary E-Government Research and Education as a Catalyst for Effective IT Transfer to Regional Governments
Bienvenido Vélez-Rivera, Rafael Fernández-Sein, Manuel Rodríguez-Martínez, Pedro I. Rivera-Vega, Walter Díaz, Mario Núñez-Molina

N-S

A National Center of Excellence for Infectious Disease Informatics: Project Summary
Daniel Zeng, Hsinchun Chen, Chunju Tseng, Catherine Larson, Millicent Eidson, Ivan Gotham, Cecil Lynch, Paul Hu

Policy Made Public: New Technologies of Deliberation and Representation in Rebuilding Lower Manhattan Francesca Polletta, David Stark

A Project to Assess Voting Technology and Ballot Design
Paul Herrnson, Richard Niemi, Benjamin Bederson, Frederick Conrad, Michael Traugott

Public Participation in Transportation Decision Making
Timothy Nyerges, Terry Brooks, Piotr Jankowski, G. Scott Rutherford, Rhonda Young,

Quality Graphics for Statistical Summaries
Alan M. MacEachren, Daniel Carr, David Scott

SGER: Computer-Assisted Interpretation of Citizen Input in Rebuilding Lower Manhattan
Daniel O. Kutz, Javed Mostafa, Monique Girard, David Stark

T-Z

Toward a Statistical Knowledge Network--2004-05
Gary Marchionini,Stephanie Haas, Ben Shneiderman, Catherine Plaisant, Carol Hert

Transnational Digital Government Research: Project Highlights
José A.B. Fortes

US-European Union Collaboration on Digital Government Research: Developing New Models
Anthony M. Cresswell, Theresa A. Pardo, Sharon S. Dawes

Voting, Vote Capture & Vote Counting Symposium
Jean L. Camp, Warigia Bowman, Allan Friedman

Posters & Demos

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

A-C

Agency Interoperation for Effective Data Mining in Border Control and Homeland Security Applications

Nabil R. Adam, Vijaylakshmi Atluri, Rey Koslowski, Vandana P. Janeja, Janice Warner, Aabhas Paliwal

Argos: Dynamic Composition of Web Services for Goods Movement Analysis and Planning
José Luis Ambite, Genevieve Giuliano, Peter Gordon, Qisheng; Pan, Naqeeb Abbasi, Lan Wang, Matthew Weathers

Automated Dental Identification System (ADIS)
Hany Ammar, Anil K. Jain, Mohaned Abdel-Mottaleb

BioPortal: An Integrated Infectious Disease Information Sharing and Analysis Environment
Daniel Zeng, Hsinchun Chen, Chunju Tseng, Catherine Larson, Millicent Eidson, Ivan Gotham, Cecil Lynch, Michael Asher

BorderSafe: Cross-Jurisdictional Information Sharing, Analysis, and Visualization
Hsinchun Chen, Homa Atabakhsh, Siddharth Kaza, Byron Marshall, Jennifer Xu, G. Alan Wang, Tim Petersen, Chuck Violette

Capital Wireless Integration Network (CapWIN): Building a Bridge in Transportation and Public Safety Communications
Ake, George S., Jr.

Centralized or Decentralized Organization?
Marijn Janssen

Community E-government Coordination Work Platform
Laquan Jiang, Pengzhy Zhang, Huanchen Wang

D-F

Data Mining the Family Tree:  Identification of Relatives Using Genetic Kinship Analysis of DNA

Frederick R. Bieber, Charles Brenner, David Lazer

Designing A Better Web Portal for Digital Government: A Web-Mining Based Approach
Xiao Fang, Olivia Sheng

Digital Governance for Animal Health and Biosecurity Applications
Gale Wagner, Arnie Vedlitz, Surya Waghela

Electronic Communication in a Geographically Dispersed Community of Forensic Scientists
Ines Mergel, David Lazer, Maria Christina Binz-Scharf

Employing the Mobility Paradigm: The Next Big Leap in Digital Government?
Hans J. Scholl

Enabling GeoCollaborative Crisis Management Through Advanced GeoInformation Technologies
Guoray Cai, Alan M. MacEachren, Rajeev Sharma, Isaac Brewer, Sven Fuhrmann, Mike McNeese

Evaluation of the GovStat Statistical Interactive Glossary: Implications for Just-in-Time Help
Stephanie Haas, RonBrown, Leo Cao, Jesse Wilbur

Exploring the Spatio-Temporal Variation of Seagrass Ecosystems in Southern Tampa Bay
Ron Li, Xutong Niu

A Framework for Analyzing Cross-Boundary e-Government Projects: The CapWIN Example
Christine Williams, Jane Fedorowicz

G-M

Give the People What They Want: Research Notes From the Hunt for Better Electronic Rulemaking
Stuart Shulman, Mack Shelley,

Geoinformatic Surveillance of Hotspot Detection, Prioritization and Early Warning
G. P, Patil, S.L. Rathbun, R. Acharya, P. Patankar, Reza Modarres

Governing with Information Technologies

Rajiv C. Shah, Jay P. Kesan

The Hare and the Tortoise: Network Structure of Exploration and Exploitation
David Lazer, Allan Friedman

Hotspot Detection for Chestnut Oak Regeneration
Songlin Fei

Improving the Quality of Public Services---Case Study of Shanghai Social Security and Citizen Services System
Peng-zhu Zhang, Xu Fang-fang , Jiang Lu-quan

Integrated Criminal Justice Systems: Designing Effective Systems for Inter-Organizational Action
Steve Sawyer, Michael Tyworth

Integration of Multidimensional Geospatial Information for Coastal Management and Decision-Making
Ron Li, Keith Bedford, C.K. Shum, Xutong Niu, Feng Zhou, Vasilia Velissariou, Raul J. Ramirez, Aidong Zhang

ITR/IM+SII A Distributed Information Management Framework (REGNET) for Environmental Laws and Regulations
Kincho Law

Human-Computer Interaction Themes in Digital Government: Website Comprehension and Statistics Visualization

Ben Shneiderman

Modeling the Social and Technical Processes of Interorganizational Information Integration
Sharon Dawes, Anthony Cresswell, Theresa Pardo, Fiona Thompson

N-S

The National Center for Digital Government Integrating Information and Institutions

Jane E. Fountain, David Lazer

National & Municipal Government Websites: A Comparison Between the United States and China
Quan Zhou

A Pilot Project in PAs to Transit to an Open Source Solution

Barbara Russo, Alberto Sillitti, Paolo Zuliani, Giancarlo Succi, Paolo Gasperi

Project Highlight: Digital Government Community Building and Outreach
Mack Reed, Yigal Arens

Research In Progress: A Preliminary Theoretical Framework For Understanding E-Governance Initiatives
Anu Mundkur

Scalable Data Collection Infrastructure for Digital Government Applications

Hannan Samet, Egemen Tanin, Leana Golubchik

Searching for Geospatial Government-Produced Data
Nancy Wiegand

Significance Information for Translation: Air Quality Data Integration
Andrew Philpot, Patrick Pantel, Eduard Hovy

Spatiotemporal Analysis of 9-1-1 Call Stream Data
W. Hodgkiss, C. Baru, T. Fountain, D. Reich, K. Warner, M. Glasscock

A Study of Smart Growth Initiatives Using GIS: The case of Austin, Texas
Wei Tu, Lixin Li, Reinhard Piltner

Style Conscious: How Members of Congress Learn New Ways to Communicate
David Lazer, Kevin Esterling, Michael Neblo

Supporting Debates over Citizen Initiatives
Kishore Kattamuri, Marius Silaghi,Cem Kaner, Ryan Stansifer, Markus Zanker

T-Z

Technology Transfer of Inter-Agency Government Services and Their Transnational Feasibility Studies
Nabil Adam, Vijayalakshmi Atluri, Soon Ae Chun, Patiizia Fariselli,Julia Culver Hopper, Olana Bojic, Rick T. Stewart, Jim Fruscione, Nick Manocchio

Topological Analysis of Criminal Activity Networks in Multiple Jurisdictions
Siddharth Kaza, Jennifer Xu, Byron Marshall, Hsinchun Chen

Towards a Privacy Measurement Criterion for Voting Systems
Lillie Coney, Joseph L. Hall, Poorvi L. Vora, David Wagner

Upper Level Set Scan Statistic System for Detecting Arbitrarily Shaped Hotspots for Digital Governance
G.P. Patil, S.K. Rathbun, R. Acharya, P. Patankar, Reza Modarres

Using GIS Technology to Assess the Prudence of Municipal Growth through Annexation
John O'Looney

Vehicular Networks in Urban Transportation Systems
Hao Wu, Mahesh Palekar, Richard Fujimoto, Jaesup Lee, Joonho Ko, Randall Guensler, Michael Hunter

Virtual Machines in Transnational Digital Government: A Case Study
Andrea Matsunaga, Mauricio Tsugawa, Mauricio; José A.B. Fortes

Visualization in Law Enforcement
Hsinchun Chen, Homa Atabakhsh, Chunju Tseng, Byron Marshall, Siddharth Kaza, Shauna Eggers, Hemanth Gowda, Antkit Shah, Tim Petersen, Chuck Violette

Birds-of-a-Feather

Building New Curricula for Digital Government Studies
Stuart Shulman

Cyberinfrastructure for Public Health
Noshir Contractor,Scott Leischow

Digital Government: The Challenges of Integration and Interoperability
Hans J. Scholl

Long-Term Management and Preservation of Digital Information
William LeFurgy

Multiple Methods and Multiple Paradigms for Digital Government Research: Understanding the Promises and Challenges
Theresa Pardo, J. Ramón Gil-García

The National Infrastructure for Community Statistics
Andrew Reamer, Marshall DeBerry

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