dg.o 2006

7th Annual International Digital Government Research Conference

May 21-24, San Diego, CA

Conference Co-Chairs

    Jose A.B. Fortes, University of Florida

    Ann Macintosh, Napier University

Conference Home Page (archived)  

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/dgo2006

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, and poster and system demos.  In addition, the links below will give yuou direct access to alphabetical listings by title.

Keynote Speeches     Panels     Research Papers     Student Papers

Posters/Demos     Birds-of-a-Feather

Keynote Speeches

One Hundred Years of Data
Fran Berman, University of California San Diego, USA

Academic and Business Partnerships to Enhance Digital Government Research
Kimberly Nelson, Microsoft Corporation, USA

Panels

Cyberinfrastructure for Public Health

Noshir Contractor, Bradford W. Hesse

U.S. National Science Foundation Program Managers: Perspectives on Sustaining Digital Government Research

Lawrence E. Brandt, Sylvia Spengler

Eco-Informatiics and Decision Making Managing Our Natural Resources

Judith Bayard Cushing, Tyrone Wilson. Fred Martin, John Schnase, Sylvia Spengler, Larry Sugarbaker, Theresa Pardo

Sustaining an International DG/E-Gov Research Community

Sharon S. Dawes, Valerie J. Gregg

Research Papers

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

A-C

Accelerated Indexing in a Domain-Specific Digital Library
Lois Delcambre, Susan Price, Marianne Lykke Nielsen, Timothy Tolle, Vibeke Luk, Mathew Weaver

Argos: Dynamic Composition of Web Services for Goods Movement Analysis and Planning
José Luis Ambite, Genevieve Giuliano, Peter Gordon, Mountu Jinwala, Dipsy Kapoor, LanLan Wang, Qisheng Pan

Automatic Alignment of Vector Data and Orthoimagery for The National Map
Craig A. Knoblock, Cyrus Shahabi, Ching-Chien Chen, E. Lynn Usery

Automatically Labeling Hierarchical Clusters
Pucktada Treeratpituk, Jamie Callan

Bringing an Informed Public into Policy Debates through Online Deliberation: The Healthcare 89
Dialogue Project
Vincent Price, Joseph N. Cappella

Building a Demonstration Prototype for the Preservation of Large-Scale Multimedia
Collections
Arcot Rajasekar, Richard Marciano, Reagan Moore, Chien-Yi Hou, Francine Berman, Lynn Burstan, Steve Anderson, Mellisa McEwen, Bee Bornheimer, Harry Kreisler, Brian Schottlaender, Luc DeClerck, Brad Westbrook, Arwen Hutt, Ardys Kozbial, Chris Frymann, Vivian Chu

Building a State Government Digital Preservation Community: Lessons on Interorganizational
Collaboration
Hyuckbin Kwon, Theresa A. Pardo, G. Brian Burke

Building Efficiency through ICT Utilization in the Government of Japan
Hirokazu Okumura

Challenges in eGovernment Technology Transfer
Soon Ae Chun, Yelena Yesha, Nabil Adam, Vijay Atluri

Connecting to Congress
David Lazer, Kevin Esterling, Michael Neblo, Jane Fountain, Ines Mergel, Curt Ziniel

Converting Online Public Legal Information into Knowledge: “ABC del Diritto” an Italian 62
e-Government Citizen-Oriented Service
Maria Angela Biasiotti, Roberts Nannucci

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, Alan G. Wang, Siddharth Kaza, Lu Chunju Tseng, Yuan Wang, Shailesh Joshi, Tim Petersen, Chuck Violette

COSPA (Consortium for Studying, Evaluating, and Supporting the Introduction of Open
Source Software and Open Data Standards in the Public Administration)
Bruno Rossi, Barbara Russo, Giancarlo Succi

D-F

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

Data Processing Workflows in the Social Sciences: Representation and Automatic Generation
José Luis Ambite, Dipsy Kapoor, Mountu Jinwala

Decoding Political Discourse Networks
John Kelly, David Stark

Developing a Youth-Services Information System for City and County Government: 259
Experiments in User-Designer Collaboration
James P. Zappen, Sibel Adali, Teresa M. Harrison

DIGARCH Project Highlights: Multi-Institutional Testbed for Scalable Digital Archiving
Stephen P. Miller, Robert S. Detrick, John Helly

Digital Deliberation: Searching and Deciding About How to Vote
Scott P. Robertson

Digital Governance and Hotspot GeoInformatics for Monitoring, Etiology, Early Warning, and
Management Around the World
G. P. Patil

E-Government and the Preparation of Citizens for Disasters
Victoria Basolo, Laura Steinberg, Stephen Gant

eGOVERNET - An European eGovernment Research Funding Agency Network
Madeleine Siösteen-Thiel, Trond Knudsen

E-Voting in the 2005 Local Elections in Estonia and the Broader Impact for Future E-Voting
Projects
Alexander H. Trechsel, Fabian Breuer

Experimental Application of Process Technology to the Creation and Adoption of Online
Dispute Resolution
Ethan Katsh, Leon J. Osterweil, Norman K. Sondheimer, Daniel Rainey

Federal Agencies and the Evolution of Web Governance
Julianne Mahler, Priscilla M. Regan

The Fully Mobile City Government Project (MCity)
Hans (Jochen) Scholl, Raya Fidel, Jens-Erik Mai

G-M

GeoCollaborative Crisis Management: Designing Technologies to Meet Real-World Needs
Alan M. MacEachren, Guoray Cai, Michael McNeese, Rajeev Sharma, Sven Fuhrmann

Indexing and Searching Handwritten Medical Forms
Venu Govindaraju

Integrated Criminal Justice: ARJIS Case Study
Steve Sawyer, Michael Tyworth

Integrating Data and Interfaces to Enhance Understanding of Government Statistics: Toward
the National Statistical Knowledge Network Project Briefing
Gary Marchionini, Stephanie Haas, Catherine Plaisant, Ben Shneiderman

Intelligent Cities
Steve Curwell

Locating Related Regulations Using a Comparative Analysis Approach
Gloria T. Lau, Haoyi Wang, Kincho H. Law

LOG-IN Africa: Local Governance and ICTs Research Network for Africa
Gianluca Misuraca

Lynx: An Open Architecture for Catalyzing the Deployment of Interactive Digital Government
Workflow-Based Systems
Iván P. Vélez, Bienvenido Vélez

Multidimensional Text Analysis for eRulemaking
Namhee Kwon, Stuart W. Shulman, Eduard Hovy

Multidisciplinary E-Government Research and Education as a Catalyst for Effective
Information Technology 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 for Digital Government Program on Networked Governance
Jane E. Fountain, David Lazer

National Large-Scale Urban True Orthophoto Mapping and Its Standard Initiative
Guoqing Zhou, Wenhan Xie, Susan Benjamin, Robin G. Fegeas, John Simmers, Hap Cluff, Y. Lei, Jeanne Foust

Next Steps in Near-Duplicate Detection for eRulemaking
Hui Yang, Jamie Callan, Stuart Shulman

Organic Development: A Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approach to Design of Public Sector Information Systems
Michael Tyworth, Steve Sawyer

Policy Through Software Defaults
Rajiv C. Shah, Jay P. Kesan

Political E-Identity: Campaign Funding Data and Beyond
David Wolber

Progress in Language Processing Technology for Electronic Rulemaking
Stuart Shulman, Eduard Hovy, Jamie Callan, Stephen Zavestoski

A Project to Assess Voting Technology and Ballot Design
Michael W. Traugott, Paul S. Herrnson, Richard G. Niemi

Project Highlights: Multiple Agency and Jurisdiction Organized Response (M.A.J.O.R.)
Disaster Research
Allen W. Batteau, Dale Brandenburg, Matt Seeger

Research Issues Related to Exchanging Information from Heterogeneous Data Sources
Kathleen Swigger, Robert Brazile

Robust Technologies for Automated Ingestion and Long-Term Preservation of Digital
Information
Joseph JaJa

Scalable Data Collection and Retrieval Infrastructure for Digital Government Applications
Hanan Samet, Leana Golubchik

Secure-CITI Critical Information-Technology Infrastructure

Daniel Mossé, Louise Comfort, Ahmed Amer, José C. Brustoloni, Panos K. Chrysanthis, Milos Hauskrecht, Alexandros Labrinidis, Rami Melhem, Kirk Pruhs

Secure Interoperation for Effective Data Mining in Border Control and Homeland Security Applications
Nabil R. Adam, Vijayalakshmi Atluri, Rey Koslowski, Robert Grossman, Vandana P. Janeja, Janice Warner

Should E-Government Design for Citizen Participation? Stealth Democracy and Deliberation
Peter Muhlberger

Simulating Impact of Light Rail on Urban Growth in Phoenix: An Application of Urbanism
Modeling Environment
Himanshu Joshi, Subhrajit Guhathakurta, Goran Konjevod, John Crittenden, Ke Li

Spatiotemporal Analysis of 9-1-1 Call Stream Data
Hector Jasso, Tony Fountain, Chaitan Baru, William Hodgkiss, Don Reich, Kurt Warner

T-Z

Transitioning from e-Government to e-Governance in the Knowledge Society: The Role of
the Legal Framework for Enabling the Process in the European Union’s Countries
Krassimira Paskaleva-Shapira

A Temporal Based Forensic Analysis of Electronic Communication
Salvatore J. Stolfo, Germán Creamer, Shlomo Hershkop

Time-Critical Information Services: Analysis and Workshop Findings on Technology,
Organizational, and Policy Dimensions to Emergency Response and Related
E-Governmental Services
Thomas A. Horan, Michael Marich, Ben Schooley

UrbanSim: Interaction and Participation in Integrated Urban Land Use, Transportation, and
Environmental Modeling
Alan Borning, Paul Waddell

Using Natural Language Processing to Improve eRulemaking
Claire Cardie, Cynthia Farina, Thomas Bruce

Using Semantic Components to Facilitate Access to Domain-Specific Documents in
Government Settings
Susan Price, Lois Delcambre, Marianne Lykke Nielsen, Timothy Tolle, Vibeke Luk, Mathew Weaver

Voting Prediction Using New Spatiotemporal Interpolation Methods
Jun Gao, Peter Revesz

Water Models and Water Politics: Design, Deliberation, and Virtual Accountability
Steven Jackson

Web Portal Implementation to Support Public Participation in Transportation Decision Making
Tim Nyerges, Terry Brooks, Piotr Jankowski, G. Scott Rutherford, Rhonda Young

When Opinion Leaders Blog: New forms of Citizen Interaction
Andrea Kavanaugh, Than Than Zin, John M. Carroll, Joseph Schmitz, Manuel Pérez-Quiñones, Philip Isenhour

Student Papers

Automated Classification of Congressional Legislation
Stephen Purpura, Dustin Hillard

E-Governance in Africa, from Theory to Action: a Practical-Oriented Research and Case
Studies on ICTs for Local Governance
Gianluca Carlo Misuraca

The Social Relations of e-Government Diffusion in Developing Countries: The Case of Rwanda
Wagaki Mwangi

Posters/Demos

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

A-C

Accuracy Improvement of Urban True Orthoimage Generation Using 3D R-Tree-Based Urban Model
Guoqing Zhou, Wenhan Xie

Automated Dental Identification System (ADIS)
Hany Ammar, Robert Howell, Mohamed Abdel-Mottaleb, Anil Jain

The BioPortal Project: A National Center of Excellence for Infectious Disease Informatics
Hsinchun Chen, Daniel Zeng, Chunju Tseng, Cathy Larson

Building Regulatory Compliant Storage Systems
Zachary N. J. Peterson, Randal Burns

Citizen Centric Analysis of Anti/Counter-Terrorism E-Government Services
H. R. Rao, JinKyu Lee

Connected Kids: Designing a Youth-Services Information System for Local Government
James P. Zappen, Sibel Adali, Teresa M. Harrison

Constituent-Centric Municipal Government Coalition Portal
Nabil R. Adam, Vijay Atluri, Soon Ae Chun, Francisco Artigas, Irfan Bora, Bob Ceberio

D-F
Design Principles for Public Safety Response Mobilization
Jane Fedorowicz, M. Lynne Markus, Steve Sawyer, Michael Tyworth, Christine B. Williams

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

Distributed Higher-Order Text Mining: Theory and Practice
William M. Pottenger, Shenzhi Li, Christopher D. Janneck

A Distributed Information Management Framework (REGNET) for Environmental Laws and Regulations
Kincho H. Law

DURIAN: A Demo for Near-Duplicate Detection
Hui Yang, Jamie Callan, Stuart Shulman

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

Effective Citizen Relationship Management: Hurricane Wilma and Miami-Dade County 311
Alexander Schellong, Thomas Langenberg

eGovernment for Business Across the Atlantic: From Cases to Models
Patrizia Fariselli, Julia Culver-Hopper, Olana Bojic

Electronic Government Capacity and Federal Program Performance: An Analysis of OMB's Part Scores and Executive Branch Management Scorecard

Hyun Joon Kim, Soonhee Kim

An Electronic Social Network to Market Topics of Public Interest: Net@INA
L. Valadares Tavares, Paulo Silva

Elements of Social Science Engagement in Information Infrastructure Design
David Ribes, Karen S. Baker

An Empirical Study on E-Government Readiness: The Roles of Institutional Efficiency and Interpersonal Trust
Kallol Bagchi, Stuart Gallup, Robert Cerveny

Enacting Inter-Organizational E-Government in the Mexican Federal Government
J. Ramon Gil-Garcia, Luis Felipe Luna-Reyes

Entity Consolidation and Alignment in Semi-Structured Data Sources
Eduard Hovy, Andrew Philpot, Patrick Pantel

Estimating Freight Flows for Metropolitan Highway Networks Using Secondary Data Sources
Genevieve Giuliano, Peter Gordon, Qisheng Pan

Friends, Foes, and Fringe: Norms and Structure in Political Discussion Networks
John W. Kelly, Danyel Fisher, Marc Smith

G-M

The Impacts of Digital Government on Civic Engagement: A Typology of Information Technology Use
Hun Myoung Park

Improving the Workflow While Reducing the Costs: Using XML for Web Site Content Management in Government Agencies
J. Ramon Gil-Garcia, Donna Canestraro, Jim Costello, Andrea Baker, Derek Werthmuller

Interactive Design Best Practices for the Public Sector
Eric Miller

Integrating Information Technology and Social Science Research for Effective Government: MOST Policy Research Tool
Vincent Maugis

Integration of GIS and Educational Achievement Data for Educational Policy Analysis and Decision Making

Sean W. Mulvenon, Kening Wang

Living on the Edge with the Oregon Coastal Atlas
Paul Klarin, Tanya Haddad, Joseph Cone, Dawn J. Wright

Locating Online Government Information: A Comparison of FirstGov, Google, and Yahoo
Lokman I. Meho, Kiduk Yang

Matching and Integration Across Heterogeneous Data Sources
Patrick Pantel, Andrew Philpot, Eduard Hovy

Modeling and Forecasting of E-Vilnius Development
Arturas Kaklauskas

Modeling Online Participation in Local Governance
Andrea Kavanaugh, Manuel Pérez-Quiñones, Daniel Dunlap, Philip Isenhour

Multi-Institution Testbed for Scalable Digital Archiving
Stephen P. Miller, Robert Detrick, John Helly

N-S
Opus (the Open Platform for Urban Simulation) and UrbanSim 4

Paul Waddell, Alan Borning, Hana Ševcíková, David Socha

Overview: Building a Sustainable International Digital Government Research Community
Sharon S. Dawes, Valerie Gregg

A Performance Ratings Framework for the Evaluation of Electronic Voting Systems: Project Highlights: Exploratory Research
Poorvi L. Vora, Rahul Simha, Jonathan Stanton

Periodic Association Mining in a Geospatial Decision Support System
Dan Li, Jitender S. Deogun

A Probabilistic Model for Approximate Identity Matching
G. Alan Wang, Hsinchun Chen, Homa Atabakhsh

A Process Driven Tool to Support Online Dispute Resolution

Lori Clarke, Alan Gaitenby, Daniel Gyllstrom, Ethan Katsh, Matthew Marzilli, Leon J. Osterweil, Norman K. Sondheimer, Leah Wing, Alexander Wise, Daniel Rainey

Quality Evaluation of E-Government Digital Services
Flavio Corradini, Francesco De Angelis, Alberto Polzonetti, Barbara Re

Regionalizing Integrated Watershed Management: A Strategic Vision
Keith Pezzoli, Richard Marciano, John Robertus

Repository Replication Using SMTP and NNTP
Michael L. Nelson, Joan A. Smith, Martin Klein

Research and Development for Innovative Government: A National Agenda for Renewal
Trond Knudsen

The Role of Public Return on Investment Assessment in Government IT Projects
Anthony M. Cresswell

Scalable and Secure Data Collection: Incentives Considerations
Ranjit Raveendran, William C. Cheng, Leana Golubchik

Semantics-Based Threat Structure Mining
N. Adam, V. Atluri, V. P. Janeja, A. Paliwal, M. Youssef, S. Chun, J. Cooper, J. Paczkowski, C. Bornhoevd, I. Nassi, J. Schaper

Semantic Web Technologies to Automate Searching for Geospatial Data
Nancy Wiegand

SGER: Project Summary - CAPWIN
Mark Gaynor

Supporting Humanitrian Relief Logistic Operations Through Online GeoCollaborative Knowledge Management

Brian M. Tomaszewski, Alan M. MacEachren, Scott Pezanowski, Xiaoyan Liu, Ian Turton

T-Z

Target Vehicle Identification for Border Safety with Modified Mutual Information
Siddharth Kaza, Yuan Wang, Hsinchun Chen

Technology Adoption and Institutional Change in the United States Senate: An Analysis of Web Site Content
Kevin Esterling, David Lazer, Michael Neblo

Time-Critical Information Services: Update on Exploratory Analysis of Emergency Response and Related E-Governmental Services
Thomas A. Horan, Michael Marich, Ben Schooley

Understanding the Adoption and Diffusion of Innovative Information Technology Curricula: A Case Application to Master of Public Administration Programs
Shu-Chuan Chiu

UNeGov.Net: Community of Practice for Electronic Governance
Tomasz Janowski, Elsa Estevez, Irshad Khan, Adegboyega Ojo

University Information System RUSSIA: Data, Knowledge Products and Services for Social Research
Tatyana Yudina

Unraveling Shared Services Using Simulation
Marijn Janssen, René W. Wagenaar

Virtualization Technologies in Transnational DG
Maurício Tsugawa, Andréa Matsunaga, José A. B. Fortes

WebADIS: A Flexible Web-Based Environment for the Automated Dental Identification System
Satyasrinivas Chekuri, Diaa Eldin Nassar, Ayman Abaza, Eyad Haj Said, Ali Bahu, Uthman Qurashi, Gamal Fahmy, Hany Ammar

What can E-Commerce and E-Government Learn from Each Other?
Hans J (Jochen) Scholl

Birds-of-a-Feather

Citizen Relationship Management: Understanding, Challenges and Impact

Alexander Schellong

E-Governance as a Global Knowledge-Enabling Platform

Matthias Finger, Gianluca Misuraca, Pierre Rossel

E-Government Measurement and Evaluation
Luis Felipe Luna-Reyes, J. Ramon Gil-Garcia

Interdisciplinary Analysis of Digital Government Work
Hans J (Jochen) Scholl, Jens-Erik Mai, Raya Fidel

Using System Dynamics for Theory Building in Digital Government Research: Exploring the Dynamics of Digital Government Evolution
Ignacio J. Martinez-Moyano

XML for Web Site Management in Government: State of the Art and Future Research
J. Ramon Gil-Garcia, Donna Canestraro, Jim Costello, Andrea Baker, Derek Werthmuller

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