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• = Project Highlight
• = System demonstration
• = Poster

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Mr. Eisner is currently the Assistant General Counsel for Regulation and Enforcement at the U.S. Department of Transportation. Prior to this, Mr. Eisner held positions as Assistant Chief Counsel for Regulation and Enforcement and Deputy Assistant Chief Counsel for Litigation in the Federal Aviation Administration.

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• An Efficient Nearest Neighbor Algorithm for P2P Settings: Tanin, Egemen; Nayar, Deepa; Samet, Hanan
• Data Assignment in Fault Tolerant Uploads for Digital Government Applications: A Genetic Algorithms Approach: Yang, Yan; Cheung, Leslie; Golubchik, Leana

• Automatic Composition of Aggregation Workflows for Transportation Modeling: Ambite, José Luis; Weathers, Matthew
• Invited System Demo: Vehicular Networks in Urban Transportation Systems: Wu, Hao; Palekar, Mahesh; Fujimoto, Richard; Lee, Jaesup; Ko, Joonho; Guensler, Randall; Hunter, Michael

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• Towards Electronic Governance - A case study of ICT in Local Government: Zwahr, Thomas; Rossel, Pierre; Finger, Matthias
• Modeling Online Participation in Local Government: Kavanaugh, Andrea; Isenhour, Philip; Perez-Quinones, Manuel; Dunlap, Daniel
• Public Participation in Transportation Decision Making: Nyerges, Timothy; Brooks, Terry; Jankowski, Piotr; Rutherford, G. Scott; Young, Rhonda

• A Relatedness Analysis Approach for Regulation Comparison and E-Rulemaking Applications: Lau, Gloria; Wang, Haoyi; Law, Kincho; Wiederhold, Gio
• Near-Duplicate Detection for e-rulemaking: Yang, Hui; Callan, Jamie;
• Language Processing Technologies for Electronic Rulemaking: A Project Highlight: Shulman, Stuart; Callan, Jamie; Hovy, Eduard; Zavestoski, Stephen

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• Governance Characteristics of Information Technology: Shah, Rajiv C.; Kesan, Jay P.
• Connecting to Congress Project Highlights:Lazer, David; Esterling, Kevin; Neblo, Michael; Fountain, Jane; Mergel, Ines; Ziniel, Curt
• Early Lessons from the Application of Process Technology to Online Grievance Mediation: Katsh, Ethan; Osterweil, Leon J.; Sondheimer, Norman K.; Rainey, Daniel

A panel on discussion on digital archiving efforts by the U.S. Library of Congress.
Panelists:

• William G. LeFurgy, manager, U.S. Library of Congress Digital Initiatives Project
• Theresa Pardo, deputy director, Center for Technology in Government, SUNY University at Albany
• Margaret Hedstrom, associate professor, University of Michigan School of Information
• Tyler O. Walters, associate director, Georgia Institute of Technology, Technology and Resource Services

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• DM-AMS Employing Data Mining Techniques for Alert Management: Janeja,Vandana;Atluri,Vijayalakshmi; Gomaa,Ahmed;Adam,Nabil; Bornhoevd,Christof;Lin,Tao
• Coplink Center: Chen, Hsinchun; Atabakhsh, Homa; Xu, Jennifer Jie; Wang, Gang; Marshall, Byron; Kaza, Siddharth; Tseng, Lu; Eggers, Shauna; Gowda Hemanth; Petersen, Tim; Violette, Chuck
• Geocollaborative Crisis Management: MacEachren, Alan; Fuhrmann, Sven; McNeese, Michael; Cai, Guoray; Sharma, Rajeev
• GeoInformatic Hotspot Systems (GHS) for Detection, Prioritization, and Early Warning: Patil, G.P.

System Demos:

• Technology Transfer of Inter-Agency Government Services and Their Transnational Feasibility Studies: Adam, Nabil; Atluri, Vijayalakshmi; Chun, Soon Ae;Fariselli, Patrizia; Hopper, Julia Culver; Bojic, Olana; Stewart, Rick T.; Fruscione, Jim; Manocchio, Nick
• Enabling GeoCollaborative Crisis Management Through Advanced GeoInformation Technologies: Cai,Guoray; MacEachren, Alan M.; Sharma, Rajeev; Brewer, Isaac; Fuhrmann, Sven; McNeese, Mike
• Integration of Multidimensional Geospatial Information for Coastal Management and Decision-making: Li, Ron; Bedford, Keith; Shum, C.K.; Niu, Xutong; Zhou, Feng; Velissariou, Vasilia; Ramirez, J. Raul; and Zhang, Aidong
• Significance Information for Translation: Air Quality Data Integration: Philpot, Andrew; Pantel, Patrick; Hovy, Eduard
• BioPortal: An Integrated Infectious Disease Information Sharing and Analysis Environment: Zeng, Daniel; Chen, Hsinchun; Tseng, Chunju; Larson, Catherine; Eidson, Millicent; Gotham, Ivan; Lynch, Cecil; Asher, Michael
• Visualization in Law Enforcement: Chen, Hsinchun; Atabakhsh, Homa; Tseng, Chunju; Marshall, Byron; Kaza, Siddharth; Eggers, Shauna; Gowda, Hemanth; Shah, Ankit; Petersen, Tim; Violette, Chuck

Posters:

• E-government and the Preparation of Citizens for Natural and Man-Made Disasters: A Multidisciplinary Study of the Development and Usability of Hazard Information on the Web: Basolo, Victoria; Steinberg, Laura J.; Gant, Steven
• Data mining the family tree: identification of relatives using genetic kinship analysis of DNA databases: Bieber, Frederick; Brenner, Charles; Lazer, David
• BorderSafe: Cross-Jurisdictional Information Sharing, Analysis, and Visualization: Chen, Hsinchun; Atabakhsh; Kaza, Siddharth; Marshall, Byron; Xu, Jennifer; Wang, G Alan; Petersen, Tim; Violette Chuck
• Hotspot Detection for Chestnut Oak Regeneration: Fei, Songlin
• The National Center for Digital Government: Fountain, Jane; Lazer, David
• Centralized or Decentralized Organization?: Janssen, Marijn
• Community E-government Coordination Work Platform: Jiang, Luquan; Zhang, Pengzhu; Wang, Huanchen
• Topological Analysis of Criminal Activity Networks in Multiple Jurisdictions: Kaza, Siddharth; Xu, Jennifer; Marshall, Byron; Chen, Hsinchun
• The Hare and the Tortoise: Network structure in collaborative problem solving: Lazer, David; Friedman, Allan
• Virtual Machines in Transnational Digital Government: a Case Study: Matsunaga, Andrea; Tsugawa, Mauricio; Fortes, José A.B.
• Exploring the Spatio-temporal Variation of Seagrass Ecosystems in Southern Tampa Bay: Li, Ron; Niu, Xutong
• Research In Progress: A Preliminary Theoretical Framework For Understanding E-governance Initiatives: Mundkur, Anu
• Using GIS Technology to Assess the Prudence of Municipal Growth through Annexation: O'Looney, John
• Digital Government Community Building and Outreach: Reed, Mack; Arens, Yigal
• Employing the Mobility Paradigm: the Next Big Leap in Digital Government?: Scholl, Hans
• Governing with Information Technologies: Kesan, Jay; Shah, Rajiv
• A Study of Smart Growth Initiatives using GIS: The case of Austin, Texas: Tu, Wei; Li, Lixin; Piltner, Reinhard
• Searching for Geospatial Government-Produced Data: Wiegand, Nancy

System Demos, 7:30 p.m.:

• Automated Dental Identification: Ammar, Hany; Jain, Anil K.; Abdel-mottaleb, Mohamed
• Argos: Dynamic Composition of Web Services for Goods Movement Analysis and Planning: Ambite, José Luis; Giuliano, Genevieve; Gordon, Peter; Pan, Qisheng; Abbasi, Naqeeb; Wang, LanLan; Weathers, Matthew
• Designing A Better Web Portal for Digital Government: A Web-mining Based Approach: Fang, Xiao; Sheng, Olivia
• Supporting Debates over Citizen Initiatives: Kattamuri, Kishore; Silaghi, Marius; Kaner, Cem; Stansifer, Ryan; Zanker, Markus
• Upper Level Set Scan Statistic System for Detecting Arbitrarily Shaped Hotspots for Digital Governance: Patil, G. P.; Rathbun, S. L.; Acharya, R; Patankar, P; Modarres, Reza

Posters:

• Agency Interoperation for Effective Data Mining in Border Control and Homeland Security Applications: Adam, Nabil; Atluri, Vijaylakshmi; Koslowski, Rey; Janeja, Vandana; Warner, Janice; Paliwal, Aabhas
• Towards a Privacy Measurement Criterion for Voting Systems: Coney, Lillian; Hall, Joseph L.; Vora, Poorvi L.; Wagner, David
• Modeling the Social and Technical Processes of Interorganizational Information Integration: Dawes, Sharon; Cresswell, Anthony; Pardo, Theresa; Thompson, Fiona
• Evaluation of the GovStat Statistical Interactive Glossary: Implications for Just-in-Time Help: Haas, Stephanie; Brown, Ron; Cao, Leo; Wilbur, Jesse
• Spatiotemporal Analysis of 9-1-1 Call Stream Data: Hodgkiss, William
• ITR/IM+SII A Distributed Information Management Framework (REGNET) for Environmental Laws and Regulations: Law, Kincho
• Style Conscious: How Members of Congress Learn New Ways to Communicate:Lazer, David; Kevin Esterling, Michael Neblo
• Electronic Communication in a Geographically Dispersed Community of Forensic Scientists: Mergel, Ines; Lazer, David; Binz-Scharf, Maria Christina
• Geoinformatic Surveillance of Hotspot Detection, Prioritization and Early Warning: Patil, G. P.; Rathbun, S. L., Acharya, R.; Patankar, P.; Modarres, Reza
• Municipal E-Government and Equity: Reece, Bryan
• A Pilot Project in PAs to transit to an Open Source Solution: Russo, Barbara; Sillitti, Alberto; Zuliani, Paolo; Succi, Giancarlo; Gasperi, Paolo
• Scalable Data Collection Infrastructure for Digital Government Applications: Samet, Hanan; Tanin, Egemen; Golubchik, Leana
• Integrated Criminal Justice Systems: Designing Effective Systems for Inter-organizational Action: Sawyer, Steve; Tyworth, Michael
• Guide: Government User Identity for Europe Seltsikas, Philip; Borthwick, Lia
• Give the People What They Want: Research Notes From the Hunt for Better Electronic Rulemaking: Shulman, Stuart; Shelley, Mack C.
• Digital Governance for Animal Health and Biosecurity Applications: Wagner, Gale; Vedlitz, Arnie; Waghela, Surya
• A Framework for Analyzing Cross-Boundary e-Government Projects: The CapWIN Example: Williams, Christine; Fedorowicz, Jane
• Improving the Quality of Public Services---Case Study of Shanghai Social Security and Citizen Services System: Zhang, Peng-zhu;Xu, Fang-fang;Jiang, Lu- quan
• National & Municipal Government Websites: A Comparison Between the United States and China: Zhou, Quan

• Lois Delcambre, Professor, Computer Science Department, Portland State University
• Genevieve Giuliano, Professor, School of Policy, Planning and Development, and Director, METRANS Transportation Center, University of Southern California

Panelists:

• Lynne Chronister, Associate Vice Chancellor for Research, University of California, Davis
• Jane Fountain, Professor, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, and Director, National Center for Digital Government, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
• Judith Klavans, Director of Research, Center for Advanced Study of Language, College of Information Studies, University of Maryland

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

• Exploring the Success Factors of State Website Functionality: An Empirical Investigation: Gil-García, Ramón
• US-European Union Collaboration on Digital Government Research: Developing New Models: Cresswell, Anthony M.; Pardo, Theresa A.; Dawes, Sharon S.
• Multidisciplinary E-Government Research and Education as a Catalyst for Effective IT Transfer to Regional Governments: Vélez-Rivera, Bienvenido; Fern‡ndez-Sein, Rafael; Rodr’guez-Mart’nez, Manuel; Rivera-Vega, Pedro I.; D’az, Walter; Nœ–ez-Molina, Mario

• Communication Technology and Urban Governance Reform: Weare, Christopher
• Constructing Online deliberations among citizens, issue publics, and elites: The Healthcare Dialogue Project: Price, Vincent
• A National Center of Excellence for Infectious Disease Informatics: Project Summary Chen, Hsinchun; Zeng, Daniel; Tseng, Chunju; Larson, Catherine A.; Eidson, Millicent; Gotham, Ivan; Lynch, Cecil; Hu, Paul

• Cyberinfrastructure for Public Health: Moderators - Contractor, Noshir; Leischow, Scott
• Long-Term Management and Preservation of Digital Information: Moderator - LeFurgy, William
• Multiple Methods and Multiple Paradigms for Digital Government Research: Understanding the Promises and Challenges: Moderators - Theresa Pardo and Ramón Gil-García
• Digital Government, the Challenges of Integration and Interoperability: Moderator - Scholl, Hans Jochen
• Building New Curricula for Digital Government Studies: Moderator - Shulman, Stuart
• The National Infrastructure for Community Statistics: Moderators: DeBerry, Marshall; Reamer, Andrew

• Building Sustainable Community Information Systems: Lessons from a Digital Government Project: Harrison, Teresa M.; Zappen, James
• SGER: Computer-Assisted Interpretation of Citizen Input in Rebuilding Lower Manhattan: Kutz, Daniel; Zappen, James
• Policy Made Public: New Technologies of Deliberation and Reperesentation in Rebuilding Lower Manahattan: Polletta, Francesca; Stark, David

• Human-Computer Interaction Themes in Digital Government: Web Site Comprehension and Statistics Visualization : Shneiderman, Ben

• A Real Option Analysis Approach to Evaluate Digital Government Investment: Chen, Leon; Sheng, Olivia; Goreham, Dennis; Watanabe, Jeannie
• Automated Dental Identification: Ammar, Hany; Jain, Anil K.; Abdel-mottaleb, Mohamed
• Emergency Medicine, Disease Surveillance, and Informatics: Govindaraju, Venu

• Electronic Democracy : An International Focus Group: Norris, Donald F.
• Transnational Digital Government Research: Project Highlights Fortes, José

• Quality Graphics for Federal Statistical Summaries: results MacEachren, Alan M.; Carr, Daniel; Scott, David
• Toward a Statistical Knowledge Network--2004-05: Marchionini, Gary; Haas, Stephanie; Plaisant, Catherine; Shneiderman, Ben; Hert, Carol
• Evaluation and Evolution of a Browser and Search Interface: Relation Browser: Zhang, Junliang; MacEachren, Alan M.

• E-electoral Administration: Organizational Lessons Learned from the Deployment of E-voting in the UK: Xenakis, Alexandros; Macintosh, Ann
• Voting, Vote Capture & Vote Counting Symposium: Camp, L Jean; Bowman, Warigia; Friedman, Allan
• An Assessment of Voting Technology and Ballot Design: Herrnson, Paul; Niemi, Richard; Bederson, Benjamin; Conrad, Frederick; Traugott, Michael

Daniel E. Atkins is a Professor in the School of Information and in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Michigan (UM), Ann Arbor.

He began his research career in the area of computer architecture and did pioneering work in high-speed computer arithmetic and parallel computer architecture. He has served as Dean of the College of Engineering and more recently as the founding Dean of the School of Information at UM.

He is Director of the Alliance for Community Technology (ACT) an international partnership with philanthropy for research and development in the use of information and communication technology (ICT) to further the mission of educational and other non-profit organizations.

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• Vertical Datum Conversion in the Lake Erie Coastal Area: Zhou, Feng
• CRM in the Public Sector - Towards a conceptual research framework: Schellong, Alexander
• Motivations for Implementing E-Government: An Investigation of the Global Phenomenon: Stotzfus, Kimberly

• Aligning Database Columns Using Mutual Information: Pantel, Patrick; Philpot, Andrew; Hovy, Eduard
• BDEI-3: Eco-informatics and Decision Making: Cushing, Judith Bayard; Wilson, Tyrone
• Harvesting Information to Sustain our Forests: Delcambre, Lois; Nielsen, Marianne Lykke; Tolle, Timothy; Weaver, Mathew; Maier, David; Price, Susan

• Data Confidentiality, Data Quality and Data Integration for Federal Databases: Karr, Alan F.
• Digitalization of Coastal Management and Decision Making Supported by Multi-Dimensional Geospatial Information and Analysis: Li, Ron; Bedford, Keith; Shum, C.K; Niu, Xutong; Zhou, Feng; Velissariou, Vasilia; Ramirez, J. Raul; and Zhang, Aidong
• Email Mining Toolkit Power Point Presentation: Stolfo, Salvatore J.; Hershkop, Shlomo

• The Case for Forming a Digital Government Society: Arens, Yigal; Dawes, Sharon; Fountain, Jane; Delcambre, Lois; Giuliano, Genevieve

This final session will review conference activities with particular attention to the results of the first business meeting of the digital government society in formation. We will outline plans for setting up the society, electing its leadership, and more. We will also discuss plans for next year's conference, dg.o 2006.

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An Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) is the integration of technology, information processing and communication that leads to easier travel, increased safety and saved time and money.

In the late 1980's, Georgia began discussing the concept of ITS to maximize the efficiency of current and future transportation systems. Atlanta's winning bid for the 1996 Olympics caused an early start. By January 1996, the Transportation Management Center (TMC) was open. It became operational in April of 1996 marking the introduction of NAVIGATOR. Headquarters

The Transportation Management Center (TMC) is the headquarters and information clearinghouse for NAVIGATOR, operating 24 hours a day
365 days a year.

TMC employees work behind the scenes to provide statewide incident management through a three phase process:

• Phase 1: Collecting Information The TMC monitors the roadways and collects real-time information from Video Detection System (VDS) cameras along the interstates. Operators also gather information taking *DOT calls from travelers regarding traffic congestion and roadway incidents.
• Phase 2: Confirm and Analyze Information TMC employees must then confirm each incident by identifying the problem, the cause and the effect it will have on the roadway. The proper authorities, such as police, fire or HERO, are notified so they can respond to the incident.
• Phase 3: Communicate the Information The third step is communicating this information to travelers, allowing them to make informed travel decisions, through changeable message signs (CMS) on the roadways, the NAVIGATOR website and media relations.