Mr. Rhodes is currently the Chief Technologist of the U. S. General Accounting Office and Director of the Center for Technology & Engineering. Mr. Rhodes provides assistance throughout the Legislative Branch on computer and telecommunications issues and leads reviews requiring significant technical expertise. Mr. Rhodes has been the senior advisor on a range of assignments covering continuity of government & operations, export control, computer security & privacy, e-commerce & e-government, voting systems, and various unconventional weapons systems. He has served as a Commissioner on the Independent Review of the National Imagery and Mapping Agency.
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Moderator: Eduard Hovy, Digital Government Research Center, USC Information Sciences Institute

UrbanSim
Presented by Alan Borning, Ph.D. and Paul Waddell, Ph.D.
University of Washington
Project home page
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MapStats
Presented by Jon Sperling
U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development
and
Marshall DeBerry, Program Manager
FedStats
Project home page
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Moderator: Peggy Agouris, University of Maine

• Events, Patterns and Analysis: forecasting conflict in the 21st century
  Subramanian, Devika; Stoll, Richard
• Turning to Digital Government in a Crisis: Coordinating Government, Business & Nonprofit Services in Response to the World Trade Center Attacks of September 11, 2001
  Dawes, Sharon; Cahan, Bruce; Cresswell, Anthony; Pardo, Theresa; Thompson, Fiona; Tayi, Giri; Harrison, Teresa; Stewart, Thomas; Birkland, Thomas
• Testbed for High-Speed 'End-to-End' Communications in Support of Comprehensive Emergency Management
  Bostian, Charles; Midkiff, Scott; Gallagher,T; Rieser,C.J.; Rondeau,T; Kurgan, W. Michael; Carstensen, L.W.; Morgan, G.E.; Sweeney,D.G.; Hood, J.H.

Moderator: Sudarshan Murthy, Oregon Health & Science University

• Diffusion of eLearning practices in higher education institutions - A social network study
  Mergel, Ines
• Relation browser++: An interface for exploring and searching large information collections
  Zhang, Junliang

Moderator: Yigal Arens, Digital Government Research Center, USC Information Sciences Institute

George Spix is chief architect in the Consumer Platforms Division of Microsoft Corporation. He is responsible for Microsoft's end-to-end solutions for consumer appliances and public networks. He also serves on the board of the Digital Audio Video Council (DAVIC), the Information Infrastructure Standards Panel (IISP), the Commerce Department's Computer Systems' Security and Privacy Advisory Board (CSSPAB), and a National Research Council (NRC) study focused on trusted computing systems. Mr. Spix joined Microsoft in 1993 as the Director of Multimedia Document Architecture. He was responsible for the Advanced Consumer Technology division's multimedia tools efforts and early third party tools acquisitions. Later, as Director of Infrastructure and Services, his team created the services and networks required for early interactive television trials.

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Moderator: Judith Cushing, Evergreen State College

• A Web Query System for Heterogeneous Government Data
  Wiegand, Nancy; Zhou, Naijun; Cruz, Isabel; Sunna, William
• Networking Urban Ecological Models Through Distributed Services
  McCartney, Peter; Quay, Ray; Gries, Corinna; Redman, Charles; Fountain, Tony
• Automating the Integration of Heterogeneous Databases
  Hovy, Eduard; Philpot, Andrew; Falke, Stefan
• Harvesting Information to Sustain our Forests
  Delcambre, Lois; Tolle, Timothy; Maier, David; Weaver, Mathew; Toccalino, Patty; Baldwin, Lacey; Phillips, Fred; Steckler, Nicole; Koch, Marianne; Nielsen, Marianne Lykke; Behlings, Daniel; Landis, Eric

Moderator: Anthony Stefanidis, University of Maine

• Towards A National Infectious Disease Information Infrastructure: A Case Study in West Nile Virus and Botulism
  Zeng, Daniel; Chen, Hsinchun; Tseng, Chunju; Larson, Catherine A.; Eidson, Millicent; Gotham, Ivan; Lynch, Cecil; Ascher, Michael
• GeoCollaborative Crisis Managment
  MacEachren, Alan; Cai, Guoray; Fuhrmann, Sven; McNeese, Michael; Sharma, Rajeev
• Geoinformatic Surveillance Hotspot Prioritization Using Linear Extensions of Partially Ordered Sets for Multi-criterion Ranking with Multiiple Indicators
  Patil, Ganapati; Taillie, Charles
• Geospatial Information in Complex Mobile Field Settings
  Nusser, Sarah; Goodchild, Michael; Clarke, Keith; Miller, Leslie

Moderator: Stuart Shulman, Drake University

• Successfully Adopting IT for Social Welfare Program Management
  Duncan, Dean; Kum, Hye-Chung (Monica); Flair, Kim; Wang, Wei
• Transnational Digital Government Research
  Fortes, José A.B.
• ITR/IM+SII: A Distributed Information Management Framework (REGNET) for Environmental Laws and Regulations
  Law, Kincho H.; Wiederhold, Gio; Leckie, Jim; Thompson, Barton; Kerrigan, Shawn; Lau, Gloria T.; Labiosa, Bill; Heenan, Charles; Wang, Haoyi; Zhou, Liang; Trivedi, Pooja; Peng, Jun
• COPLINK Center: Information and Knowledge Management for Law Enforcement
  Chen, Hsinchun; Atabakhsh, Homa; Petersen, Tim; Violette, Chuck

Moderator: Anthony Stefanidis, University of Maine

• Indexing Distributed Complex Data for Complex Queries
  Tanin, Egemen; Harwood, Aaron; Samet, Hanan;
• Data Confidentiality, Data Quality and Data Integration for Federal Databases
  Karr, Alan F.
• Toward the National Statistical Knowledge Network
  Marchionini, Gary; Haas, Stephanie; Shneiderman, Ben; Plaisant, Catherine; Hert, Carol
• Collaborative Research: Quality graphics for federal statistical summaries: results
  MacEachren, Alan M.; Carr, Daniel; Scott, David

Moderator: Genevieve Giuliano, Digital Government Research Center, USC Information Sciences Institute

• Current Practices in E-Government-induced Business Process Change (BPC)
  Scholl, Hans J.
• Connected Kids: Designing Database Software for Web-Based Information Dissemination to Multiple Audiences
  Harrison, Teresa M.; Adali, Sibel; Zappen, James P.
• Multidisciplinary E-Government Research and Education as a Catalyst for Effective Information Technology to Regional Governments
  Vélez-Rivera, Bienvenido; Díaz, Walter; Fernandez-Sein, Rafael; Rodríguez-Martínez, Manuel; Núñez, Mario; Rivera-Vega, Pedro I.;
• Electronic Government at the American Grassroots
  Donald Norris

Moderator: Theresa Pardo, Center for Technology in Government, University at Albany, SUNY

• Digital Government: Reviving the Newhall Simulation Model to Understand the Patterns and Trends of Soil Climate Regimes and Drought Events
  Waltman, William; Goddard, Stephen; Reichenbach, Stephen; Gu, Gang; Cottingham, Ian; Peake, Jeffrey; Tadesse, Tsegaye; Harms, Sherri; Deogun, Jitender
• REGBASE: A Distributed Information Infrastructure for Regulation Management and Compliance Checking
  Law, Kincho; Wiederhold, Gio; Lau, Gloria; Pan, Xiaoshan; Wang, Haoyi; Zhang, Li
• Digitalization of Coastal Management and Decision Making Supported by Multi-Dimensional Geospatial Information and Analysis
  Li, Ron; Bedford, Keith; Shum, C.K; Ramirez, J. Raul; Zhang, Aidong
• Infrastructure for Data Sharing, Spatial Analysis, Resource Decision-Making, and Societal Impact: The Oregon Coastal Atlas
  Wright, Dawn; Haddad, Tanya; Klarin, Paul; Dana, Randy; Dailey, Michele

Now a hallmark of the annual National Conference on Digital Government Research, the BoF sessions give researchers and government participants with disparate backgrounds a lively and informal atmosphere for exploring issues of common interest:

• Being Successful in Digital Government Projects Read abstract
  Moderator: Nancy Wiegand, University of Wisconsin
  
  
• Ecoinformatics Read abstract
  Moderator: William Sonntag, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
  
  
• Identifying 'the public': Who should be involved in developing information technology designed to support public participation? Read abstract
  Moderator: Christie Drew, University of Washington
  
  
• International Collaboration Read abstract
  Moderators: Noshir Contractor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Anthony Stefanidis, University of Maine
  
  
• Internet-Based Public Policy Participation for Rural Community Citizens Read abstract
  Moderator: K. Jo Min, Iowa State University
  
  
• Interorganizational Information Integration and Social and Technical Interactions Read abstract
  Moderators: Theresa A. Pardo and Anthony M. Cresswell, Center for Technology in Government, SUNY University at Albany
  
  
• Long-Term Management and Preservation of Digital Information Read abstract
  Moderator: William LeFurgy, Library of Congress

• GeoCollaborative Crisis Management: Using Maps to Mediate EOC-Mobile Team Collaboration
  Cai,Guoray; Bolelli,Levent; MacEachren, Alan; Sharma,Rajeev; Fuhrmann,Sven; McNeese,Mike
• Web-Based Collaborative Tools for Geospatial Data Exploration
  Dai, Xiping; Guo, Diansheng; MacEachren, Alan; Zhou, Biliang; Chen, Jin; Macgill, James
• A Web Based Tool for an Automated Dental Identification System (ADIS)
  Fahmy, Gamal; Nassar, Diaa; Haj-Said, Eyad; Chen, Hong; Nomir, Omima; Zhou, Jindan; Howell, Robert; Ammar, Hany H.; Abdel-Mottaleb, Mohamed; Jain, Anil K.
• Publishing Geographic and Statistical Online Learning Activities for Middle School Children
  Fuhrmann, Sven; Crawford, Stephen; MacEachren, Alan; Bhowmick, Tanuka
• A Knowledge-based Geo-Spatial Decision Support System for Drought Assessment
  Kozal, Dustin; Culver, Matt; Harms, Sherri
• A Software Infrastructure for Government Regulation Analysis and Compliance Assistance
  Lau, Gloria; Kerrigan, Shawn; Wang, Haoyi; Law, Kincho H.; Wiederhold, Gio
• Cross-Jurisdictional Activity Networks to Support Criminal Investigations
  Marshall, Byron; Kaza, Siddharth; Xu, Jennifer; Atabakhsh, Homa; Petersen, Tim; Violette, Chuck; Chen, Hsinchun
• Constructing the InterPARES Thesaurus: A Vocabulary Tool for Diverse Research Communities
  Rouche, Nadav
• Importing Abstract Data into the SAND Database System
  Samet, Hanan; Brabec, Frantisek; Sankaranarayanan, Jagan
• A Prototype System for Transnational Information Sharing and Process Coordination: System Demo
  Su, S.; Fortes, J.; Kasad, T.R.; Patil, M.; Matsunaga, A.; Tsugawa, M.; Cavalli-Sforza, V.; Carbonell, J.; Jansen, P.; Ward, W.; Cole, R.; Towsley, D.; Chen, W.; Anton, A.I.; He, Q.; McSweeney, C.; deBrens, L.; Ventura, J.; Taveras, P.; Connolly, R.; Ortega, C.; Piñeres, B.; Brooks, O.; Herrera, M.
• Ontology-Based Geospatial XML Query System
  Wiegand, Nancy; Zhou, Naijun; Cruz, Isabel; Sunna, William
• Relation Browser++: an information exploration and searching tool
  Zhang, Junliang; Shearer, Tim; Marchionini, Gary; Efron, Miles; Elsas, John

• I2T: Information Integration Testbed for Digital Government
  Baru, Chaitan; Gupta, Amarnath; Zaslavsky, Ilya; Papakonstantinou, Yannis
• Modeling the Social and Technical Processes of Interorganizational Information Integration
  Dawes, Sharon; Cresswell, Anthony; Pardo, Theresa; Thompson, Fiona
• Strategic Alignment of Key Partners in E-Government Initiatives: The Internet Payment Platform Pilot
  Fedorowicz, Jane; Gelinas, Ulric; Gogan, Janis; Williams, Christine B.
• Simulation-Based Operations Planning for Regional Transportation Systems
  Fitzgibbons, Brad; Fujimoto, Richard; Guensler, Randall; Hunter, Michael; Park, Alfred; Wu, Hao
• Antecedents of Sustainability in Cross-agency Information-based Networks
  Fountain, Jane; McKinnon, Robin; Park, Eunyun
• How are we doing? Tracking country image in the information Age
  Gant, Diana B.
• The Transformation of E-governance in Local Government: Comparison of Critical Success Factors in Gangnam-Gu, Seoul South Korea and Washington D.C., USA
  Gant, Jon P.; Nam, Won-Joon; Bretschneider, Stuart; Kim, Soonhee; Choi, Heungsuk
• A Project to Assess Voting Technology and Ballot Design
  Herrnson, Paul S.; Niemi, Richard G.; Bederson, Benjamin B.; Conrad, Fred; Traugott, Michael
• Modeling Statistical Comparisons in the Statistical Knowledge Network
  Hert, Carol A.
• Air Quality Data Integration from Heterogeneous Sources
  Hovy, Eduard; Philpot, Andrew; Falke, Stefan
• Understanding Social Welfare Service Patterns Using Sequential Analysis
  Kum, Hye-Chung (Monica); Duncan, Dean; Wang, Wei
• An Information Infrastructure for Government Regulation Analysis and Compliance Assistance
  Lau, Gloria; Kerrigan, Shawn; Wang, Haoyi; Law, Kincho H.; Wiederhold, Gio
• Managing Novelty and Cross-Agency Cooperation in Digital Government
  Lazer, David; Binz-Scharf, Maria Christina
• DNA and the Criminal Justice System: A Web-Based Community of Practice
  Lazer, David; Binz-Scharf, Maria Christina; Rabl, Birgit
• Temporal Knowledge Discovery with Infrequent Episodes
  Li, Dan; Jiang, Liying; Deogun, Jitender S.
• Voronoi Region-Based Spatiotemporal GIS Databases
  Li, Lixin; Piltner, Reinhard
• E-Government in Rural Communities: Issues and Trends
  Min, K. Jo; Malladi, Sasidhar
• Scalable Data Collection Infrastructure for Digital Government Applications
  Samet, Hanan; Tanin, Egemen; Golubchik, Leana
• Governance Structures & Technology Adoption in the Post-Communist Caucasus, Case Study: Armenia
  Selian, Audrey N.
• Developing and Testing A High Telepresence Virtual Agora for Broad Citizen Participation: A Multi-Trait, Multi-Method Investigation
  Shane, Peter; Mulberger, Peter; Cavalier, Robert
• Generational Differences in Informational Technology Use & Political Involvement
  Shelley, Mack; Thrane, Lisa; Shulman, Stuart
• Integrating Metadata Development, XML, and DBMS Search and Query Techniques in a State of Wisconsin Land Information System
  Wiegand, Nancy
• Internet Querying of Metadata to Search for Geospatial Government Data
  Wiegand, Nancy
• Comparing and contrasting models of participation for online transportation decision-making
  Wilson, Matt; Drew, Christie; Nyerges, Tim; Ramsey, Kevin

Moderator: Valerie Gregg, Program Manager, NSF Digital Government Research Program

Panelists:

• Dr. Michael Pazzani - Division Director, Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS), CISE
• Dr. C. Suzanne Iacono - Program Manager, Information Technology Research, CISE/IIS
• Dr. Sylvia Spengler - Program Manager, Science and Engineering Information Integration and Informatics, CISE/IIS
• Dr. Miriam Heller - rogram Manager, Human and Social Dynamics, Social, Behavioral and Economics Directorate

This preeminent panel of National Science Foundation (NSF) managers will provide a strategic vision of the ever-evolving research landscape available to the digital government research community. Since we met last May in Boston, there is a new organizational structure in NSF's Computing and Information Science and Engineering Directorate (CISE), accompanied by program changes. There are new NSF-wide opportunities for funding multidisciplinary research, which is at the heart and soul of digital government research. The digital government research community is a stakeholder in these new directions. As digital government research continues to help government agencies solve intellectual "E-government" challenges and help policy-makers understand the impacts of information technology on governance and democracy, this community needs to leverage these (and others not represented on this panel) NSF opportunities. This panel presents an opportunity to learn about the about the changes and new opportunities first hand. There will be ample time to ask questions and to kick-off a dialogue that will continue well beyond Seattle.

Moderator: Yigal Arens, Digital Government Research Center, USC Information Sciences Institute

• Exploring the Feasibility of a Digital Government Journal
  Dawes, Sharon; Helbig, Natalie; Gil-García, José Ramon
• The National Center for Digital Government: Integrating Information and Institutions
  Fountain, Jane; Lazer, David; McKinnon, Robin; Mergel, Ines
• NSF / Digital Government Communications and Publications
  Reed, Mack
• Digital Government Portal: A Tool for Digital Government Research
  Chen, Hsinchun; Zhou, Yilu; Qin, Jialun Larson, Catherine;

Moderator: Gary Marchionini, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• Successfully Adopting IT for Social Welfare Program Management
  Duncan, Dean; Kum, Hye-Chung (Monica); Flair, Kim; Wang, Wei
• Healthcare Dialogue: Constructing Electronic Interaction to Maximize Decision Quality in Deliberations among Citizens, Issue Publics, and Elites
  Price, Vincent; Cappella, Joseph N.
• Database Middleware for Distributed Ontologies in State and Federal Family & Social Services
  Bouguettaya, Athman; Elmagarmid, Ahmed; Ouzzani, Mourad; Medjahed, Brahim
• Automated Dental Identification System (ADIS)
  Fahmy, Gamal; Nassar, Diaa Eldin M.; Jai-Said, Eyad; Chen, Hong; Nomir, Omaima; Zhou, Jindan; Howell, Robert; Ammar, Hany H.; Abdel-Mottaleb, Mohamed; Jain, Anil K.

Moderator: Alan Karr, National Institute of Statistical Sciences

• Modeling and Comparing Spatiotemporal Events
  Eickhorst, Kristin; Agouris, Peggy; Stefanidis, Anthony
• ARGOS: Dynamic Composition of Web Services for Goods Movement Analysis and Planning
  Ambite, José-Luis; Giuliano, Genevieve; Gordon, Peter; Harth, Andreas; Wang, Lanlan; Pan, Qisheng; Decker, Stefan
• Simulation-Based Operations Planning for Regional Transportation Systems
  Fitzgibbons, Brad; Fujimoto, Richard; Guensler, Randall; Hunter, Michael; Park, Alfred; Wu, Hao
• An Internet Platform to Support Public Participation in Transportation Decision Making; aka Participatory GIS for Transportation (PGIST)
  Nyerges, Tim

Moderator: William LeFurgy, Library of Congress

Panelists:

• Laura Campbell, Associate Librarian for Strategic Initiatives, Library of Congress: Challenges and Opportunities in Building a National Digital Preservation Strategy
• Martha Anderson, Digital Project Manager, Library of Congress: Developing a Technical Architecture to Support Distributed Digital Preservation
• William G. LeFurgy, Digital Project Manager, Library of Congress: LoC and NSF Digital Archiving and Long-term Preservation Research Program
• TBD, Partnership Perspectives in Managing and Preserving Digital Materials [speaker will be identified after partnership awards are made]

Developing a National Digital Preservation Program:
Congress directed the Library of Congress (LoC) to manage a National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) to address the many serious issues associated with managing cultural heritage materials in digital form. The legislation directed LoC to work with Federal government agencies and other stakeholders to determine how best to preserve a broad range of important digital content. Up to $175 million (including cost sharing) is potentially available. Digital content is voluminous, complicated, and encumbered with intellectual property and other restrictions. Many players are also involved in producing and keeping content. These factors argue for a distributed network of partners to enable a shared approach. Sharing is critical to distribute responsibility for what will be huge quantities of content and to learn from each other about the best way to do things. The basic intent of NDIIPP is to coordinate a national strategy for collecting and preserving digital content. A crucial element of this strategy is to work with government agencies, both to share new technologies and to identify needs for improved tools, systems, and structures. NDIIPP will serve as a framework to leverage many individual efforts in government and other sectors. The framework has three major parts: 1) a network of partnerships devoted to preserving digital content; 2) an architecture--or blueprint--to give practical help in building the network of partnerships; and 3) an advanced program for digital preservation research. This session will discuss progress to date in developing the framework, including efforts to build content partnerships, collaborate with other international libraries, LoCÕs own work to collect digital materials, design an inclusive architecture, and work with the National Science Foundation to establish the first research grants program devoted exclusively to digital preservation.

Session 5b:

IT Adoption

- Tuesday, 1:30 p.m.

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Moderator: Kincho H. Law, Stanford University

• Home (Page) Style: House Members on the Web
  Esterling, Kevin; Lazer, David M.J.; Neblo, Michael
• Web Accessibility for Older Adults
  Becker, Shirley Ann
• A Project to Assess voting Technology and Ballot Design
  Herrnson, Paul; Niemi, Richard; Bederson, Benjamin B.; Conrad, Fred; Traugott, Michael
• DGRC AskCal: A Multilingual Question Answering Agent for Heterogeneous Energy Databases
  Hovy, Eduard; Philpot, Andrew; Ding, Lei

Moderator: Peggy Agouris, University of Maine

• A Prototype System for Transnational Information Sharing and Process Coordination
  Su, S.; Fortes, J.; Kasad, T. R.; Patil, M.; Matsunaga, A.; Tsugawa, M.; Cavalli-Sforza V.; Carbonell, J.; Jansen, P.; Ward, W.; Cole, R.; Towsley, D.; Chen, W.; Antón, A. I.; He, Q.; McSweeney, C.; deBrens, L.; Connolly, R.; Ortega, C.; Piñeres, B.; Brooks, O.; Herrera, M.
• Representation and Distribution of Geospatial Knowledge
  Malyankar, Raphael M.
• A Language Modeling Approach to Metadata for Cross-Database Linkage and Search
  Croft, W. Bruce; Callan, Jamie
• Modeling the Social and Technical Processes of Interorganizational Information Integration
  Dawes, Sharon; Cresswell, Anthony M.; Pardo, Theresa; Thompson, Fiona

• Argos: An Ontology and Web Service Composition Infrastructure for Goods Movement Analysis
  Ambite, José Luis; Giuliano, Genevieve; Gordon, Peter; Decker, Stefan; Harth, Andreas; Jassar, Karanbir; Pan, Qisheng; Wang, LanLan
• The Use of Mobile Technology for Proactive Healthcare in Tribal Communities
  Becker, Shirley Ann; Sugumaran, Ramprasad; Pannu, Kiran
• A Technical Modeler's Interface for UrbanSim, a System for Integrated Land Use, Transportation, and Environmental Modeling
  Borning, Alan; Waddell, Paul
• Dynamic Conditioned Choropleth Maps: Examples and Innovations
  Carr, Daniel; Zhang, Yuguang; Li, Yaru; Zhang, Chunling
• Demonstration of the National Agricultural Decision Support System
  Cottingham, I.J; Goddard, S.; Zhang, S.; Wu, X.; Lu, K.; Rutledge, A; Waltman W. J.
• Adopting IT for Effective Management of Social Welfare Programs
  Duncan, Dean; Kum, Hye-Chung (Monica); Flair, Kim; Wang, Wei
• Distributed Simulation Test Bed for Intelligent Transportation Systems Design and Analysis
  Fitzgibbons, Brad; Fujimoto, Richard; Guensler, Randall; Hunter, Michael; Park, Alfred; Wu, Hao
• The Oregon Coastal Atlas: A Pacific Northwest Coastal Information Management System
  Haddad, Tanya; Dailey, Michele; Wright, Dawn
• OMEGA: Brazilian Case of a Police Investigation Activities' Support System
  Junior, Jaime Leonel de Paula; Pereira, Andre Ribas; Gomes, Rogerio; Dahmer, Andre
• Spatial Technologies for Coastal Management
  Niu, Xutong; Xu, Xian; Kuo, Chung-yen; Srivastava, Alok; Kuo, Chung-yen; Velissariou, Vasilia; Li, Ron; Bedford, Keith W.; Shum, C. K.; Ramirez, J. Raul; Zhang, Aidong
• Multilingual DGRC AskCal: Querying Energy Time Series in English, Spanish, and Mandarin Chinese
  Philpot, Andrew; Hovy, Eduard; Ding, Lei
• Metadata++ A Digital Library for Natural Resource Managers
  Weaver, Mathew; Delcambre, Lois; Tolle, Timothy; Behlings, Daniel; Toccalino, Patty; Baldwin, Lacey; Nielsen, Marianne Lykke
• The GovStat Content Delivery Template (CDT) for Creating Explanatory Animations
  Wilbur, Jesse; Haas, Stephanie W.
• Sharing and Visualizing Infectious Disease Datasets Using the WNV-BOT Portal System
  Zeng, Daniel; Chen, Hsinchun; Tseng, Lu; Larson, Catherine; Eidson, Millicent; Gotham, Ivan; Lynch, Cecil; Ascher, Michael

• Agency Interoperation for Effective Data Mining in Border Control and Homeland Security Applications
  Adam, Nabil R.; Atluri, Vijayalakshmi; Janeja, Vandana P.
• Human-Centered Systems for Business Services
  Adam, Nabil R.; Atluri, Vijayalakshmi; Chun, Soon Ae
• The Italian Electronic Identity Card: a short introduction
  Arcieri, Franco; Ciclosi, Mario; Fioravanti, Fabio; Nardelli, Enrico; Talamo, Maurizio
• Model and Schema Registry
  Baddam, Anvith; Nivargi, Prajakta; Gardner, Monte; Malyankar, Raphael M.
• Vertical Integration in the Statistical Knowledge Network
  Barreau, Deborah; Su, Chang; Spurgin, Kristina M.
• Software Tools for the Effective Use of Color in Web Designs
  Becker, Shirley Ann; Tu, Chia-Jung; Kim, Hyoung-rae
• Identity the Civic Scenario
  Camp, L. Jean
• WNV-BOT Portal Project Summary
  Chen, Hsinchun; Zeng, Daniel; Tseng, Chunju; Larson, Catherine A. Eidson, Millicent; Gotham, Ivan; Lynch, Cecil; Ascher, Michael
• Scalable and Secure Data Collection: Fault Tolerance Considerations
  Cheng, William; Cheung, Leslie; Chou, Cheng-Fu; Golubchik, Leana; Yang, Yan
• Ontology Alignment for Real-World Applications
  Cruz, Isabel F.; Sunna, William; Chaudhry, Anjli
• Research Agenda for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Informatics
  Cushing, Judith; Beard-Tisdale, Kate; Bergen, Kathleen; Clark, Jim; Henebry, Geoff; Landis,Eric; Maier,David; Schnase,John; Stevenson,Rob
• New models of collaboration for delivering government services
  Dawes, Sharon; Fletcher, Patricia Diamond; Gant, Jon; Prefontaine, Lise; Nigot, Sylvie
• Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe (LOCKSS) Government Documents
  Eckman, Chuck; Reich, Victoria; Robertson Thomas; Rosenthal, David S.H.
• The National Biological Information Infrastructure: Building Information & Geospatial Technologies for Biological Community
  Frame, Michael T.
• Regression on Distributed Databases via Secure Multi-Party Computation
  Karr, Alan F.; Lin, Xiaodong; Sanil, Ashish P.; Reiter, Jerome
• Integrating Urban Ecological Models
  McCartney, Peter; Quay, Ray; Gries, Corinna; Sundermier, Amy; Schoeninger, Robin; Zehnder, Joseph; Bagley, Anubhav; Mason, Dale; Ding, Longjiang
• Evaluation of the Geopositioning Accuracy of QuickBird Imagery
  Niu, Xutong; Wang, Jue; Di, Kaichang; Lee, Jin-Duk; Li, Ron
• Citizens Preferences Towards One-Stop Government
  Schellong, Alexander; Mans, Dieter
• Enabling Data Interoperability Through Metadata
  Shin, Sharon; Landis, Eric
• Digital Government: New Tools to Define Terroirs and Viticultural Areas in the Northern Great Plains
  Waltman, W.J.; Goddard, S.; Read, P.E.; Reichenbach, S.E.; Cottingham, I.J.; Peake, J.S.
• Question Answering Performance on Table Data
  Wei, Xing; Croft, Bruce; Pinto, David
• DOAS: A Drought Online Analysis System with Constraint Databases
  Wu, Shasha; Revesz, Peter

Moderator: Mr. Paul Timmers, Head of Unit, eGovernment, European Commission, Information Society Directorate-General

Panelists:

• Charles Kemper, Voice-Insight, Belgium
• Bernard Katzy, CeTIM Netherlands
• Steve Curwell , University of Salford UK

This invited panel of E-Government research experts from across Europe will offer a sampling of exciting research projects funded by the European Union. Given the common threads and synergies between US and EU funded projects, this panel will start an exploration of collaboration opportunities that could lead to new, possibly joint projects in Digital Government and eGovernment research.

The panel will cover these projects:

• SAFIR - Speech automatic friendly interface research Multimodal and multilingual speech technology providing services to the citizens and civil servants, applying also in noisy environments.
• GUIDE Ð Creating an European identity management architecture for eGovernment - Interoperable framework for identity management and related implementation strategies, respecting European diversity and interests.
• COSPA - Consortium for Open Source in the Public Administration - Use of various open source software solutions, which tests and measures the benefits in public administrations in terms of office-level productivity and financial indicators
• TERREGOV - Impact of eGovernment on territorial government services - Technology to enable the automatic access to complementary services from different administrations in order to get the complete service at once.
• INTELCITIES - Intelligent cities - Open source interoperable platform for cross-border public services to exchange data.

The EU's eGovernment research strategy is structured around two core challenges--

1. Advanced eGovernment services for business and citizens. These are envisioned as interactive, secure and user-driven, and their adoption will require transformation of the public sector into a network of dynamic, interoperable and service-driven public organizations. And,
2. Mobile, pan-European and individualized services. Beyond placing traditional public services on-line, digital technologies enable the offering of services of a completely new nature. Access to such services will require a set of solutions covering multi-modal access, authentication, citizen-relations-management, user-driven information management, open source solutions and multi-lingual issues.

These developments require organizational transformation in the public sector, within and across departments, within and across member states. Apart from back-office integration and the corresponding organizational re-engineering, inter-organizational networking is an emerging challenge. eGovernment research is also expected to be a catalyst for a number of eGovernment policy developments and, through that, increasing the scale and impact of eGovernment investment in Europe.

Moderator: Lois Delcambre, Oregon Health & Science University

• Detecting Anomalous Geospatial Trajectories through Spatial Characterization and Spatio-Semantic Associations
  Janeja, Vandana P; Atluri, Vijayalakshmi; Adam, Nabil R
• Knowledge Management Over Time-Varying Geospatial Datasets
  Agouris, Peggy; Stefanidis, Anthony; Beard, Kate; Gahegan, Mark; Tsotras, Vassilis; Gunopulos, Dimitris
• A Geospatial Decision Support System for Drought Risk Management
  Goddard, Steve; Deogun, Jitender; Harms, Sherri K.; Hayes, Michael J.; Hubbard, Kenneth G.; Reichenbach, Stephen; Revesz, Peter; Waltman, W.J.; Wilhite, Donald A.
• Very Large Scale Multidimensional Data Management and Retrieval for USGS and NIMA Imagery
  Zhang, Aidong; Wang, Wei; Mark, David M.

Moderator: Jane Fountain, National Center for Digital Government, Harvard University Kennedy School of Government

• Organizational Factors Affecting Knowledge Sharing Capabilities in E-Government: An Empirical Study
  Kim, Soonhee; Lee, Hyangsoo
• Exploration and Exploitation: Knowledge Sharing in Digital Government Projects
  Binz-Scharf; Maria Christina
• Knowledge Networking in the Public Sector
  Dawes, Sharon; Cresswell, Anthony; Pardo, Theresa; Thompson, Fiona

Moderator: Eduard Hovy, Digital Government Research Center, USC Information Sciences Institute

• SGER Collaborative: A Testbed for eRulemaking Data
  Shulman, Stuart; Callan, Jamie; Hovy, Eduard, Zavestoski, Stephen
• Digital Government and E-Rulemaking: New Directions for Technology and Regulation
  Coglianese, Cary
• Developing and Testing A High Telepresence Virtual Agora for Broad Citizen Participation: A Multi-Trait, Multi-Method Investigation
  Shane, Peter M.; Muhlberger, Peter; Cavalier, Robert
• Process Technology for Achieving Government Online Dispute Resolution
  Katsh, Ethan; Osterweil, Leon; Sondheimer, Norman;

• Boeing Company
  The Boeing Company is a huge worldwide enterprise involving a complexity of products, suppliers, and customers. The information technology required to support this enterprise is also large and complex, and multi-faceted. During the field trip to Boeing at the conference, we will discuss and demonstrate several aspects of IT-related work going on at Boeing. There will be discussions of the network/communications infrastructure in Boeing, the computing security issues faced in the company, a discussion of how IT is being used in the re-engineering of business processes, some current research on the use of display walls in collaboration, and some of the approaches being used in data and text mining.
  
  
• Seattle Police Department
  The Seattle Police Department will be opening its Operations Center for Emergency Preparedness to demonstrate new IT and programs. Details will be added here as they develop.
  
  
• Microsoft Corporation
  Microsoft Research will demonstrate some of the new technology being developed for e-government applications. Details will be added here as they develop.
• Border Patrol presentation at the Westin (tentative)