dg.o 2007

8th Annual International Digital Government Research Conference

May 20-23, 2007, Philadelphia, PA

Conference Co-Chairs

     Judith Bayard Cushing, The Evergreen State College

    Theresa Pardo, University at Albany/SUNY

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.dgsociety.org/dgo2007_homepage.htm

Conference Highlights

A look at the highlights of the conference, titles and connections to research papers, and "best of" awards for research papers, system demos and posters. 

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.

Panels     Research Papers     Student Papers     Posters/Demos

Panels

Benchmarking and Measuring Digital Government: Lessons from the EU Experience

Gabriella Cattane (moderator), Cristiano Codagnone, Pal Gaspar, Patrick Wauters and Karsen Gareis

Building a Relevant Digital Government Curriculum

Theresa Pardo (moderator), David F. Andersen, Luis F. Luna-Reyes, and Zhang Pengzhu

Building a Sustainable International Digital Government Research Community

Valerie Gregg (moderator) Sharon S. Dawes, Peter Shane, Paul Waddell, Theresa Pardo, G.P. Patil

Information Integration and Dissemination for Disaster Data Management

Louiqa Raschid (moderator), Sharad Mehrotra, Mark Prutsalis, David Maurstad and Judith Woodhall

Global Climate Change: Implications for Digital Government Research: Keynote Panel

Judith Bayard Cushing (moderator), Dominique Bachelet, Barbara Eckman, Richard P. Hooper, Peter van Puijenbroek and Robert C. Worrest

Government Perspective: International Developments in Digital Government

Eduard Hovy (moderator), Jiajun Ning and Madeleine Siosteen-Thiel

Law and Governance and Virtual Worlds

Ethan Katsh (moderator), Alan Gaitenby and Norman Sondheimer

Research Perspective: International Developments in Digital Government

Eduard Hovy (moderator), Yong Gi Baik, Thomasz Janowski, Maria Wimmer and Shiyang (Shane) Yu

Research Papers

 A-B | C-D | E-G  | H-L | M-O | P-Z |
(Alphabetical by title)

A-B

Assessing Capability for Justice Information Sharing

Anthony M. Cresswell, Theresa Pardo and Shahidul Hassan

Automatic Generation of Data Processing Workflows for Transportation Modeling (best paper award winner)

Jose Luis Ambite and Dipsy Kapoor

A Bootstrapping Approach for Identifying Stateholders in Public-Comment Corpora

Jaime Arguello and Jamie Callan

C-D

Channel Choice Determinants: An Exploration of the Factors that Determine the Choice of a Service Channel in Citizen Initiated Contacts

Willem Pieterson and Jan van Dijk

Control Patterns in a Healthcare Network

Vera Kartseva, Joris Hulstijn, Jaap Gordijn and Yao-Hua Tan

Devising an Architecture for Time-Critical Information Services: Inter-Organizational Performance Data Components for Emergency Medical Service (EMS)

Benjamin Schooley, Michael Marich and Thomas Horan

E-G

Emergence of the Governance Structure for Information Integration Across Governmental Agencies: A System Dynamics Approach

Luis F. Luna-Reyes, David F. Andersen, George P. Richardson, Theresa Pardo and Anthony M. Cresswell

Event-Triggered Data and Knowledge Sharing Among Collaborating Government Organizations

Seema Degwekar, Jeff Depree, Howard Beck, Carla Thomas and Stanley S.W. Su

Exploring the Causes and Effects of Inter-Agency Information Sharing Systems Adoption in the Anti/Counter-Terrorism and Disaster Management Domains

JinKyu Lee and H. Raghav Rao

First Generation E-Rulemaking: An Assessment of Regulatory Agency Web Sites

Cary Coglianese and Stuart Shapiro

H-L

Identifying and Classifying Subjective Claims

Namhee Kwon, Liang Zhou, Eduard Hovy and Stuart Shulman

Integration of Text-Based Applications into Service-Oriented Architectures for Transnational Digital Government

Andrea Matsunaga, Mauricio Tsugawa and Jose A.B. Fortes

Interactive Exploration and Discovery of E-Government Services

Giovanni Sacco

M-O

Managerial Openness and the Adoption of Distributed Group Support Systems: The Case of Web Wide Participation

John Rohrbaugh

Members of Congress Web Sites: Diffusion at the Tip of the Iceberg

David Lazer, Ines Mergel, Curt Ziniel, Kevin Esterling and Michael Neblo

Mobile Government Fieldwork:  A Preliminary Study of Technological, Organizational, and Social Challenges

Raya Fedel, Hans J (Jochen) Scholl. Shuhua, Monica Liu, and Kristene Unsworth

Moving Toward E-Government - Effective Strategies for Increasing Access to and Use of the Internet Among Non-Interest Users in the U.S. and the U.K.

Doria Pilling and Heike Boeltzig

New Techniques for Ensuring the Long Term Integrity of Digital Archives

Sangchul Song and Joseph JaJa

Open Standards and the Role of Politics

Rajiv C. Shah and Jay P. Kesan

P-Z

A Pragmatic Approach to the Introduction of E-Government

Peter Salhofer and David Ferbas

Prediction of 9-1-1 Emergency Call Volumes for Emergency Event Detection

Hector Jasso, Tony Fountain, Chaitan Baru, William Hodgkiss, Ron Reich and Kurt Warner

Rapid Development of Electronic Public Services - Software Infrastructure and Software Process

Tomasz Janowski, Adegboyega Ojo and Elsa Estevez

Social Capital- System and ICT Adoption in the Public Sector

Noor Huijboom

Student Papers

Cross-National Information Policy Conflict Regarding Access to Information: Building a Conceptual Framework

Lei Zheng

The Impact of E-Government on Child Support Enforcement Policy Outcomes

Jeongsoo Kim

A Toolbox for the Choice of Indicator Classes for Ranking Watersheds

K Sham Bhat

Posters/Demos

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

A-B

Advancing E-Governance at the Community Level with Neighborhood Information Systems

Sungsoo Hwang

Advancing Return on Investment Analysis for Government Information Technology

Anthony M. Cresswell, Theresa Pardo, G. Brian Burke and Lucy Dadayan

The Arizona ID Matcher: Developing an Identity Matching Tool for Law Enforcement

G. Alan Wang, Siddharth Kaza, Shailesh Joshi, Kris Chang, Chunju Tseng, Homa Atabakhsh and Hsinchun Chen

ARGOS: Dynamic Composition of Web Services for Goods Movement Analysis and Planning

Jose Luis Ambite, Genevieve Giuliano and Peter Gordon

ARGOS: A Framework for Automatically Generating Data Processing Workflows

Jose Luis Ambite and Dipsy Kapoor

Automated Dental Identification System (ADIS)

Hany Ammar, Mohamed Abdel-Mottaleb and Anil Jain

Automated Dental Identification System (ADIS) in Testing Mode

Ayman Abaza, Usman Qureshi, Ali Bahu, Eyad HajSaid, DiaaEldin Nassar and Hany Ammar

Building Government IT Workforce Capacity: A Competency Framework

Sharon S. Dawes and Natalie Helbig

C-D

A Case Study of G2G Information Sharing in the Chinese Context

Fan Jing and Zhang Pengzhu

Citizen-Based Assessment and Improvement of E-Government Services for Small and Medium-Sized Communities

K. Jo Min, John Jackman, Sarah Ryan, Ratrick Patterson, Ann Wingerter, Kent Bailey and Gayle Trede

Citizen Centric Analysis of Anti/Counter-Terrorism E-Government Services

JinKyu Lee and H. Gaghav Rao

Connecting to Congress: Improving Deliberation in the Information Age

Kevin Esterling, Michael Nablo and David Lazer

Cyberinfrastructure Knowledge Networks on the Web:  A Recommender System for Locating Resources in a Knowledge Network

Noshir Contractor and Harold D. Green, Jr.

Data Integration in the Wild: From Instances to Concept Catalogs

Patrick Pantek, Andrew Philpot and Eduard Hovy

Demonstration of Sahana: Free and Open Source Disaster Management

Mifan Careem, Chamindra De Silva, Ravindra De Silva, Louiqa Raschid and Sanjiva Weerawarana

D-HOTM: Distributed Higher Order Text Mining

William M. Pottenger

A Distributed Event-Triggered Knowledge Sharing System

Seema Degwekar, Jeff Depree, Stanley Su and Howard Beck

E-G

E-Gov and SDI: The Common Grounds and Missing Links

Walter T. de Vries

A Framework for Scoping eParticipation

Efthimios Tambouris, Naoum Liotas, Dimitrios Kaliviotis and Konstantinos Tarabanis

From Measurement to Management: Evidence-Based Practice in Natural Resource Management

Judith Bayard Cushing, Anne Fiala, Nalini Nadkarni, Lee Zeman, Lois Delcambre, David Maier, Fred Martin and Aaron Crosland

The Fully Mobile City Government Project (mCity)

Hans J. Scholl and Raya Fidel

Geoinformatic Surveillance of Hotspot Detection, Prioritization and Early Warning for Digital Governance

G.P. Patil, K. Sham Bhat, Raj Acharya and S. W. Joshi

Governing with Information Technologies

Rajiv C. Shah and Jay P. Kesan

H-N

Healthcare Dialogue: Project Highlights

Vincent Price and Joseph N. Cappella

The Impact of Institutions on Interorganizational IT Projects in the Mexican Federal Government

Mireya Estrada-Maroquin, Victor M. Moran-Rodriguez, J. Ramon Gil-Garcia and Luis F. Luna-Reyes

Indexing and Retrieval of Handwritten Medical Forms

Venu Govindaraju and Huaigu Cao

Intermediaries Orchestrating Public Service Networks

Marijn Janssen

Knowledge Discovery Using the SAND Spatial Browser

Hanan Samet, Adam Phillippy and Jagan Sankaranarayanan

M-R

MENVIS: Mobile Environmental Information System

Soon Ae Chun, Nabil R. Adam and Vijay Atluri

Predicting Criminal Relationships Using Multivariate Survival Analysis

Siddharth Kaza, Daning Hu, Homa Atabakhsh and Hsinchun Chen

A Public Administration Reference Domain Ontology in Web Service Modeling Language

Nikolaos Loutas, Sotirios K. Goudos, Vassilios Peristeras and Konstantinos Tarabanis

Rapid Development of Electronic Public Services - A Case Study in Electronic Licensing Service

Tomasz Janowski, Adegboyega Ojo and Elsa Estevez

S-Z

Scenario Building for E-Government in 2020

Marijn Janssen, Patrick van der Duin, Rene W. Wagenaar, Melanie Bicking and Maria Wimmer

Semantic Web for Geospatial E-Government Portals

Nancy Wiegand

STEWARD: Demo of Spatio-Textural Extraction on the Web Aiding the Retrieval of Documents

Hanan Samet, Mike Lieberman, Jagan Sankaranarayanan and Jon Sperling

Surveillance Geoinformatics of Hotspot Detection and Prioritization for Monitoring, Etiology, Early Warning and Sustainable Management

G.P. Patil, K. Sham Bhat and S.W. Joshi

A Taxonomy for Public Safety Networks

Steve Sawyer, Jane Fedorowicz, Michael Tyworth, M. Lynne Markus and Christine B. Williams

Using Process Definitions to Drive User Interactions with Digital Government Systems

Lori Clarke, Alan Gaitenby, Ethan Katsh, Matther Marzilli, Leon Osterweil, Daniel Rainey, Borislava Simidchieva, Norman Sondheimer, Leash Wing and Alexander Wise

Visual Analytics for Model-Based Policy Analysis: Exploring Rapid Changes in Commodities Markets

Barbara Mirel, Peter Goldsmith, Richard Barth and Brian Cort

VizBlog: A Discovery Tool for the Blogosphere

Manuel A. Perez-Quinones, Andrea Kavanaugh, Ulma Murthy, Philip Isenhour, Jaideep Godara, Spencer Lee and Alan Fabian

Working Group on Comparative and Transnational Digital Government in North America

J. Ramon Gil-Garcia, Natalie Helbig, Theresa Pardo, Luis F. Luna-Reyes and Cenene Navarrete

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