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dg.o2005 Convenes with Wider Scope
6th National Conference on Digital Government Research Shows Stronger Roots, Broader Application, International Reach
By Mack Reed
DGRC Communications Manager
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The 6th National Conference on Digital Government Research convened May
15-18 in Atlanta, GA.
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With the arrival of the 6th National Conference on Digital Government Research in Atlanta this month, the Digital Government community has matured into a multi-faceted research discipline with considerable strength and diversity.
dg.o2005 features nearly 100 presentations, system demonstrations, panel discussions and special gatherings. These show a deep and growing commitment among the community's computer scientists, policy scholars and IT practitioners to developing and exploring better e-government with new technologies, organizational studies and widely-shared best practices.
Each day of the conference will be kicked off with a keynote presentation:
- Monday, 9:00 a.m.:
Keynote address:
Neil Eisner, U.S. Department of Transportation
Topic: "Digital Dreams: The Future of E-Government"
- Tuesday, 8:30 a.m.:
Keynote panel:
Digital Government and the Academy
- Wednesday, 8:30 a.m.:
Keynote address and panel discussion:
Daniel E. Atkins, chair, NSF Advisory Panel on Cyberinfrastructure
Topic: "Cyberinfrastructure-enhanced Science and Digital Government: Pathfinders and Fellow Travelers"
This year for the first time, the dg.o conference has also convened two International Workshops that will further explore the grounds of common interest that were mapped by a summit held at dg.o2004 in Seattle between U.S. researchers and members of the international e-government community. These invitation-only sessions are on Sunday from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.:
However the two special tutorials, new this year, are open to all who wish to register for them:
- Sunday, 2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.:
Application of Social Network Analysis in Digital Government Research, presented by:
- David Lazer, associate professor of public policy at the National Center for Digital Government at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government;
- Ines Mergel, post-doctoral fellow at the National Center for Digital Government at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government; and
- Noshir Contractor, Director of the Science of Networks in Communities (SONIC) Group at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Wednesday, 1:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Data Confidentiality and Statistical Disclosure Limitation, presented by Alan Karr, director of the National Institute of Statistical Sciences
Other invited talks will include "Human-Computer Interaction Themes in Digital Government: Web Site Comprehension and Statistics Visualization" (Tuesday, 2:00 p.m.) - a presentation on computer interfaces by the Ben Shneiderman, founding director of the University of Maryland Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory.
Georgia Tech will offer an invited demonstration of its traffic-management technology, titled Vehicular Networks in Urban Transportation Systems (Monday, 10:45 a.m. to noon).
Additional panels will focus on Cyberinfrastructure for Public Health (Monday in two parts -10:30 a.m. to noon and 1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.); and "Preserving Information Long Term: Digital Archiving (Monday, 3:30 p.m.).
And on Monday evening from 5:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., dg.o2005 will continue the tradition of offering live system demonstrations and poster presentations to the accompaniment of good food.
Here is a small sampling of the breadth and depth of research presentations and project highlights scheduled in parallel tracks for dg.o2005:
Monday, 10:45 a.m.
An Efficient Nearest Neighbor Algorithm for P2P Settings: Tanin, Egemen; Nayar, Deepa; Samet, Hanan
- This presentation details new techniques for querying spatial objects over peer-to-peer networks, making possible ever better geographical references.
Monday, 10:45 a.m.
Automatic Composition of Aggregation Workflows for Transportation Modeling: Ambite, José Luis; Weathers, Matthew
- This Digital Government Research Center project uses automatically generated computational workflows to aid in the modeling of cargo-transit patterns, as part of a larger project to build a flexible data analysis system for use on the web.
Monday, 1:30 p.m.
- A session on e-rulemaking gives insight into the process whereby government IT is used to collect and study public comment and help turn legislation into the specific rules of law:
- 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
Monday, 3:30 p.m.
Geocollaborative Crisis Management: MacEachren, Alan; Fuhrmann, Sven; McNeese, Michael; Cai, Guoray; Sharma, Rajeev
- The Pennsylvania State University/GeoVISTA team has been doing innovative work to integrate statistical information with powerful, configurable and user-friendly interfaces, making federal statistics accessible to a wide variety of citizens and government agencies.
Tuesday, 2:00 p.m.
A Real Option Analysis Approach to Evaluate Digital Government Investment: Chen, Leon; Sheng, Olivia; Goreham, Dennis; Watanabe, Jeannie
- A Utah team has been studying the way governments are measuring the cost-effectiveness and benefits of investing in e-government technologies and adapting to e-gov practices.
Tuesday, 2:00 p.m.
Building Sustainable Community Information Systems: Lessons from a Digital Government Project: Harrison, Theresa M.; Zappen, James
- Researchers at SUNY/Albany and Rensselaer Polytechnic are studying the sustainability of computerized community information systems - such as bulletin boards and computer conferencing.
Wednesday, 10:00 a.m.
Harvesting Information to Sustain our Forests: Delcambre, Lois; Nielsen, Marianne Lykke; Tolle, Timothy; Weaver, Mathew; Maier, David; Price, Susan
- Researchers in Portland, Oregon are working to develop a metadata-driven, domain-specific digital library for use in natural-resource management that integrates data from many different documents.
Wednesday, 10:00 a.m.
Aligning Database Columns Using Mutual Information: Pantel, Patrick; Philpot, Andrew; Hovy, Eduard
- Working with air pollution data in multiple formats from a variety of sources, researchers from the Digital Government Research Center at USC's Information Sciences Institute have been using machine-learning technologies to reduce the amount of manual labor required to integrate heterogeneous datasets.
For complete information on all the presentations and events of dg.o2005, see the program and the at-a-glance schedule.
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