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  José A. B. Fortes, Ann Macintosh (Eds.): Proceedings of the 7th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research, DG.O 2006, San Diego, California, USA, May 21-24, 2006. Digital Government Research Center 2006 ACM International Conference Proceeding Series 151

Invited talks

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  Fran Berman: One hundred years of data. 3-4
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  Kimberly T. Nelson: Academic and business partnerships to enhance digital government research. 5

Panels

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  Noshir S. Contractor, Bradford W. Hesse: Cyberinfrastructure for public health. 9-10
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  Lawrence Brandt, Sylvia Spengler: U.S. National Science Foundation program managers: perspectives on sustaining digital government research. 11
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  Judith Bayard Cushing, Tyrone Wilson, Fred Martin, John L. Schnase, Sylvia Spengler, Larry Sugarbaker, Theresa A. Pardo: Eco-informatics and decision making managing our natural resources. 12-13
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  Sharon S. Dawes, Valerie Gregg: Sustaining an international DG/E-Gov research community. 14-15

Data Mining

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  Hector Jasso, Tony Fountain, Chaitan Baru, William S. Hodgkiss, Don Reich, Kurt Warner: Spatiotemporal analysis of 9-1-1 call stream data. 21-22
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  Salvatore J. Stolfo, Germán Creamer, Shlomo Hershkop: A temporal based forensic analysis of electronic communication. 23-24
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  Susan Price, Lois M. L. Delcambre, Marianne Lykke Nielsen, Timothy Tolle, Vibeke Luk, Mathew Weaver: Using semantic components to facilitate access to domain-specific documents in government settings. 25-26

Voting

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  David Wolber: Political e-identity: campaign funding data and beyond. 29-37
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  Michael Traugott, Paul S. Herrnson, Richard G. Niemi: A project to assess voting technology and ballot design. 38-39
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  Alexander H. Trechsel, Fabian Breuer: E-voting in the 2005 local elections in Estonia and the broader impact for future e-voting projects. 40-41

Integrated justice

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  Kathleen M. Swigger, Robert P. Brazile: Research issues related to exchanging information from heterogeneous data sources. 45-46
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  Steve Sawyer, Michael Tyworth: Integrated criminal justice: ARJIS case study. 47-48
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  Hsinchun Chen, Homa Atabakhsh, Alan Gang Wang, Siddharth Kaza, Chunju Tseng, Yuan Wang, Shailesh Joshi, Tim Petersen, Chuck Violette: 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. 49-50

Citizen participation 1

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  Peter Muhlberger: Should e-government design for citizen participation?: stealth democracy and deliberation. 53-61
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  Maria Angela Biasiotti, Roberta Nannucci: Converting online public legal information into knowledge: "ABC del Diritto" an Italian e-Government citizen-oriented service. 62-66
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  Timothy L. Nyerges, Terry Brooks, Piotr Jankowski, G. Scott Rutherford, Rhonda Young: Web portal implementation to support public participation in transportation decision making. 67-68

Crisis management 1

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  Alan M. MacEachren, Guoray Cai, Michael D. McNeese, Rajeev Sharma, Sven Fuhrmann: GeoCollaborative crisis management: designing technologies to meet real-world needs. 71-72
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  Venu Govindaraju: Indexing and searching handwritten medical forms. 73-74
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  Ganapati P. Patil: Digital governance and hotspot geoinformatics for monitoring, etiology, early warning, and management around the world. 75-76

Citizen participation 2

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  Andrea L. Kavanaugh, Than Than Zin, John M. Carroll, Joseph Schmitz, Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones, Philip L. Isenhour: When opinion leaders blog: new forms of citizen interaction. 79-88
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  Vincent Price, Joseph N. Cappella: Bringing an informed public into policy debates through online deliberation: the healthcare dialogue project. 89-90
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  John Kelly, David Stark: Decoding political discourse networks. 91-92

Emergent design

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  Steven Jackson: Water models and water politics: design, deliberation, and virtual accountability. 95-104
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  Michael Tyworth, Steve Sawyer: Organic development: a top-down and bottom-up approach to design of public sector information systems. 105-112

Crisis management 2

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  Thomas A. Horan, Michael J. Marich, Benjamin L. Schooley: Time-critical information services: analysis and workshop findings on technology, organizational, and policy dimensions to emergency response and related e-governmental services. 115-123
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  Nabil R. Adam, Vijayalakshmi Atluri, Rey Koslowski, Robert Grossman, Vandana Pursnani Janeja, Janice Warner: Secure interoperation for effective data mining in border control and homeland security applications. 124-125
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  Allen W. Batteau, Dale Brandenburg, Matt Seeger: Project highlights: multiple agency and jurisdiction organized response (M.A.J.O.R.) disaster research. 126-127

E-Cities

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  Hans Jochen Scholl, Raya Fidel, Jens-Erik Mai: The fully mobile city government project (MCity). 131-132
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  Alan Borning, Paul Waddell: UrbanSim: interaction and participation in integrated urban land use, transportation, and environmental modeling. 133-134
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  Himanshu Joshi, Subhrajit Guhathakurta, Goran Konjevod, John Crittenden, Ke Li: Simulating impact of light rail on urban growth in Phoenix: an application of urbansim modeling environment. 135-141
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  Steve Curwell: Intelligent cities. 142-143

Technology transfer

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  Madeleine Siösteen-Thiel, Trond Knudsen: eGOVERNET: an European eGovernment Research funding agency Network. 147-148
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  Bienvenido Vélez-Rivera, Rafael Fernandez-Sein, Manuel Rodríguez-Martínez, Pedro I. Rivera-Vega, Walter Díaz, Mario Nuñez-Molina: Multidisciplinary e-government research and education as a catalyst for effective information technology transfer to regional governments. 149-150
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  Soon Ae Chun, Yelena Yesha, Nabil R. Adam, Vijay Atluri: Challenges in eGovernment technology transfer. 151-152
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  Bruno Rossi, Barbara Russo, Giancarlo Succi: COSPA (consortium for studying, evaluating, and supporting the introduction of open source software and open data standards in the public administration). 153-154

E-Rulemaking 1

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  Namhee Kwon, Stuart W. Shulman, Eduard H. Hovy: Multidimensional text analysis for eRulemaking. 157-166
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  Pucktada Treeratpituk, Jamie Callan: Automatically labeling hierarchical clusters. 167-176
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  Claire Cardie, Cynthia Farina, Thomas Bruce: Using natural language processing to improve eRulemaking: project highlight. 177-178

Transparency and E-Governance

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  Krassimira Paskaleva-Shapira: 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. 181-190
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  Jane E. Fountain, David Lazer: A National Center for Digital Government program on networked governance: project highlights, dg.o 2006 NSF grant # 0131923. 191-192
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  David Lazer, Kevin Esterling, Michael Neblo, Jane E. Fountain, Ines Mergel, Curt Ziniel: Connecting to Congress. 193-194
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  Scott P. Robertson: Digital deliberation: searching and deciding about how to vote. 195-196

Student research presentations

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  Wagaki Mwangi: The social relations of e-government diffusion in developing countries: the case of Rwanda. 199-208
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  Gianluca Carlo Misuraca: e-Governance in Africa, from theory to action: a practical-oriented research and case studies on ICTs for local governance. 209-218
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  Stephen Purpura, Dustin Hillard: Automated classification of congressional legislation. 219-225

e-Rulemaking 2

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  Gloria T. Lau, Haoyi Wang, Kincho H. Law: Locating related regulations using a comparative analysis approach. 229-238
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  Hui Yang, Jamie Callan, Stuart W. Shulman: Next steps in near-duplicate detection for eRulemaking. 239-248
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  Stuart W. Shulman, Eduard H. Hovy, Jamie Callan, Stephen Zavestoski: Progress in language processing technology for electronic rulemaking. 249-250

Crisis management 3

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  Daniel Mossé, Louise Comfort, Ahmed Amer, José Carlos Brustoloni, Panos K. Chrysanthis, Milos Hauskrecht, Alexandros Labrinidis, Rami G. Melhem, Kirk Pruhs: Secure-CITI Critical Information-Technology Infrastructure. 253-254
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  Victoria Basolo, Laura Steinberg, Stephen Gant: E-government and the preparation of citizens for disasters. 255-256

Participatory design and mediation

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  James P. Zappen, Sibel Adali, Teresa M. Harrison: Developing a youth-services information system for city and county government: experiments in user-designer collaboration. 259-264
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  Rajiv C. Shah, Jay P. Kesan: Policy through software defaults. 265-272
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  Ethan Katsh, Leon J. Osterweil, Norman K. Sondheimer, Daniel Rainey: Experimental application of process technology to the creation and adoption of online dispute resolution. 273-274

Digital document preservation and archiving

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  Hyuckbin Kwon, Theresa A. Pardo, G. Brian Burke: Building a state government digital preservation community: lessons on interorganizational collaboration. 277-284
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  Joseph JáJá: Robust technologies for automated ingestion and long-term preservation of digital information. 285-286
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  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 demonstration prototype for the preservation of large-scale multimedia collections. 287-288
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  Stephen P. Miller, Robert S. Detrick, John J. Helly: DIGARCH project highlights multi-institutional testbed for scalable digital archiving. 289-290

Spatio temporal and GIS

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  Jun Gao, Peter Z. Revesz: Voting prediction using new spatiotemporal interpolation methods. 293-300
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  Hanan Samet, Leana Golubchik: Scalable data collection and retrieval infrastructure for digital government applications. 301-302
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  Craig A. Knoblock, Cyrus Shahabi, Ching-Chien Chen, E. Lynn Usery: Automatic alignment of vector data and orthoimagery for the national map. 303-304
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  Guoqing Zhou, Wenhan Xie, Susan Benjamin, Robin Fegeas, John Simmers, Hap Cluff, Y. Lei, Jeanne Foust: National large-scale Urban True Orthophoto Mapping and its standard initiative. 305-306

Process and workflow

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  Iván P. Vélez, Bienvenido Vélez: Lynx: an open architecture for catalyzing the deployment of interactive digital government workflow-based systems. 309-318
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  José Luis Ambite, Genevieve Giuliano, Peter Gordon, Mountu Jinwala, Dipsy Kapoor, LanLan Wang, Qisheng Pan: Argos: dynamic composition of web services for goods movement analysis and planning. 319-320
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  José Luis Ambite, Dipsy Kapoor, Mountu Jinwala: Data processing workflows in the social sciences: representation and automatic generation. 321-322

Federal agencies and the web

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  Julianne Mahler, Priscilla M. Regan: Federal agencies and the evolution of web governance. 325-331
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  Alan F. Karr: Data confidentiality, data quality and data integration for federal databases. 332-333
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  Gary Marchionini, Stephanie W. Haas, Catherine Plaisant, Ben Shneiderman: Integrating data and interfaces to enhance understanding of government statistics: toward the national statistical knowledge network project briefing. 334-335

International digital government projects

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  Lois M. L. Delcambre, Susan Price, Marianne Lykke Nielsen, Timothy Tolle, Vibeke Luk, Mathew Weaver: Accelerated indexing in a domain-specific digital library. 339-340
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  Gianluca Misuraca: LOG-IN Africa local governance and ICTs research network for Africa. 341
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  Hirokazu Okumura: Building efficiency through ICT utilization in the government of Japan. 342-343

System demonstrations

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  Hui Yang, Jamie Callan, Stuart W. Shulman: DURIAN: a demo for near-duplicate detection. 347
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  Satyasrinivas Chekuri, Diaa Eldin M. Nassar, Ayman Abaza, Eyad Haj-Said, Ali Bahu, Uthman Qurashi, Gamal Fahmy, Hany H. Ammar: webADIS: a flexible web-based environment for the Automated Dental Identification System. 348-349
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  Paul Klarin, Tanya Haddad, Joseph Cone, Dawn J. Wright: Living on the edge with the Oregon coastal atlas. 350-351
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  Vincent Maugis: Integrating information technology and social science research for effective government: MOST policy research tool. 352-353
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  Sean W. Mulvenon, Kening Wang: Integration of GIS and educational achievement data for education policy analysis and decision-making. 354-355
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  Lori A. Clarke, Alan Gaitenby, Daniel Gyllstrom, Ethan Katsh, Matthew Marzilli, Leon J. Osterweil, Norman K. Sondheimer, Leah Wing, Alexander E. Wise, Daniel Rainey: A process-driven tool to support online dispute resolution. 356-357
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  Brian M. Tomaszewski, Alan M. MacEachren, Scott Pezanowski, Xiaoyan Liu, Ian Turton: Supporting humanitarian relief logistics operations through online geocollaborative knowledge management. 358-359
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  Paul Waddell, Alan Borning, Hana Sevcikova, David Socha: Opus (the Open Platform for Urban Simulation) and UrbanSim 4. 360-361

Posters

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  Nabil R. Adam, Vijay Atluri, Soon Ae Chun, Francisco J. Artigas, Irfan Bora, Bob Ceberio: Constituent-centric municipal government coalition portal. 365-366
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  Nabil R. Adam, Vijayalakshmi Atluri, Vandana Pursnani Janeja, Aabhas V. Paliwal, Mahmoud Youssef, Soon Ae Chun, J. Cooper, J. Paczkowski, Christof Bornhövd, I. Nassi, Joachim Schaper: Semantics-based threat structure mining. 367-368
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  Hany H. Ammar, Robert Howell, Mohamed Abdel-Mottaleb, Anil K. Jain: Automated dental identification system (ADIS). 369-370
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  Kallol Kumar Bagchi, Stuart D. Galup, Robert Cerveny: An empirical study on e-government readiness: the roles of institutional efficiency and interpersonal trust. 371-372
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  Hsinchun Chen, Daniel Dajun Zeng, Chunju Tseng, Cathy Larson: The BioPortal project: a national center of excellence for infectious disease informatics. 373-374
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  Shu-Chuan Chiu: Understanding the adoption and diffusion of innovative information technology curricula: a case application to master of public administration programs. 375-376
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  Flavio Corradini, Francesco De Angelis, Alberto Polzonetti, Barbara Re: Quality evaluation of e-Government digital services. 377-378
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  Anthony M. Cresswell: The role of public return on investment assessment in government IT projects. 379-380
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  Judith Bayard Cushing, Tyrone Wilson, Alan Borning, Lois M. L. Delcambre, Geoffrey C. Bowker, Mike Frame, John L. Schnase, William Sonntag, Janos Fulop, Carol A. Hert, Eduard H. Hovy, Julia Jones, Eric Landis, Charles M. Schweik, Lawrence Brandt, Valerie Gregg, Sylvia Spengler: Eco-informatics and natural resource management. 381-382
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  Sharon S. Dawes, Valerie Gregg: Overview: building a sustainable international digital government research community. 383-384
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  Kevin Esterling, David Lazer, Michael Neblo: Technology adoption and institutional change in the United States senate: an analysis of web site content. 385-386
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  Patrizia Fariselli, Julia Culver-Hopper, Olana Bojic: eGovernment for business across the Atlantic: from cases to models. 387-389
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  Mark Gaynor: SGER: project summary - CAPWIN. 390-391
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  José Ramón Gil-García, Donna S. Canestraro, Jim Costello, Andrea Baker, Derek Werthmuller: Improving the workflow while reducing the costs: using XML for web site content management in government agencies. 392-393
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  José Ramón Gil-García, Luis F. Luna-Reyes: Enacting inter-organizational e-government in the Mexican federal government. 394-395
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  Genevieve Giuliano, Peter Gordon, Qisheng Pan: Estimating freight flows for metropolitan highway networks using secondary data sources. 396-397
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  Thomas A. Horan, Michael J. Marich, Benjamin L. Schooley: Time-critical information services: update on exploratory analysis of emergency response and related e-governmental services. 398-399
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  Eduard H. Hovy, Andrew Philpot, Patrick Pantel: Entity consolidation and alignment in semi-structured data sources. 400-401
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  Tomasz Janowski, Elsa Estevez, Irshad Khan, Adegboyega K. Ojo: UNeGov.net: community of practice for electronic governance. 402-403
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  Marijn Janssen, René W. Wagenaar: Unraveling shared services using simulation. 404-405
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  Arturas Kaklauskas: Modeling and forecasting of e-Vilnius development. 406-407
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  Andrea L. Kavanaugh, Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones, Dan Dunlap, Philip L. Isenhour: Modeling online participation in local governance. 408-409
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  Siddharth Kaza, Yuan Wang, Hsinchun Chen: Target vehicle identification for border safety with modified mutual information. 410-411
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  John W. Kelly, Danyel Fisher, Marc A. Smith: Friends, foes, and fringe: norms and structure in political discussion networks. 412-417
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  Hyun Joon Kim, Soonhee Kim: Electronic government capacity and federal program performance: an analysis of OMB's part scores and executive branch management scorecard. 418-419
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  Trond Knudsen: Research and development for innovative government: a national agenda for renewal. 420-422
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  Kincho H. Law: A distributed information management framework (REGNET) for environmental laws and regulations. 423-424
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  H. Raghav Rao, JinKyu Lee: Citizen centric analysis of anti/counter-terrorism e-government services. 425-426
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  Dan Li, Jitender S. Deogun: Periodic association mining in a geospatial decision support system. 427-428
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  Ron Li, Keith W. Bedford, C. K. Shum, Xutong Niu, Feng Zhou, Vasilia Velissariou, J. Raul Ramirez, Aidong Zhang: Digitalization of coastal management and decision making supported by multi-dimensional geospatial information and analysis. 429-430
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  Lokman I. Meho, Kiduk Yang: Locating online government information: a comparison of FirstGov, Google, and Yahoo. 431-432
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  Eric Miller: Interactive design best practices for the public sector. 433-434
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  Stephen P. Miller, Robert S. Detrick, John J. Helly: Multi-institution testbed for scalable digital archiving. 435
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  Michael L. Nelson, Joan A. Smith, Martin Klein: Repository replication using SMTP and NNTP. 436-437
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  Patrick Pantel, Andrew Philpot, Eduard H. Hovy: Matching and integration across heterogeneous data sources. 438-439
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  Hun Myoung Park: The impacts of digital government on civic engagement: a typology of information technology use. 440-441
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  Zachary N. J. Peterson, Randal C. Burns: Building regulatory compliant storage systems. 442-443
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  Keith Pezzoli, Richard Marciano, John Robertus: Regionalizing integrated watershed management: a strategic vision. 444-445
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  William M. Pottenger, Shenzhi Li, Christopher D. Janneck: Distributed higher-order text mining: theory and practice. 446-447
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  Ranjit Raveendran, William C. Cheng, Leana Golubchik: Scalable and secure data collection: incentives considerations. 448-449
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  David Ribes, Karen S. Baker: Elements of social science engagement in information infrastructure design. 450-451
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  Alexander Schellong, Thomas Langenberg: Effective citizen relationship management: Hurricane Wilma and Miami-Dade County 311. 452-453
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  Hans Jochen Scholl: What can e-Commerce and e-Government learn from each other? 454-455
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  Maurício O. Tsugawa, Andréa M. Matsunaga, José A. B. Fortes: Virtualization technologies in transnational DG. 456-457
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  Luís Valadares Tavares, Paulo Silva: An electronic social network to market topics of public interest: Net@INA. 458-459
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  Poorvi L. Vora, Rahul Simha, Jonathan Stanton: A performance ratings framework for the evaluation of electronic voting systems: project highlights: exploratory research. 460-461
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  G. Alan Wang, Hsinchun Chen, Homa Atabakhsh: A probabilistic model for approximate identity matching. 462-463
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  Nancy Wiegand: Semantic web technologies to automate searching for geospatial data. 464-465
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  Jane Fedorowicz, M. Lynne Markus, Steve Sawyer, Michael Tyworth, Christine B. Williams: Design principles for public safety response mobilization. 466-467
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  Tatyana N. Yudina: University Information System RUSSIA: data, knowledge products and services for social research. 468-469
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  James P. Zappen, Sibel Adali, Teresa M. Harrison: Connected kids: designing a youth-services information system for local government. 470-471
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  Guoqing Zhou, Wenhan Xie: Accuracy improvement of urban true orthoimage generation using 3D R-tree-based urban model. 472-478

Birds-of-a-feather

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  Hans Jochen Scholl, Jens-Erik Mai, Raya Fidel: Interdisciplinary analysis of digital government work. 481-483
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  Luis F. Luna-Reyes, José Ramón Gil-García: E-government measurement and evaluation. 484
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  José Ramón Gil-García, Donna S. Canestraro, Jim Costello, Andrea Baker, Derek Werthmuller: XML for web site management in government: state of the art and future research. 485-486
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  Matthias Finger, Gianluca Misuraca, Pierre Rossel: e-Governance as a global knowledge-enabling platform. 487
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  Ignacio J. Martinez-Moyano: Using system dynamics for theory building in digital government research: exploring the dynamics of digital government evolution. 488-489
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  Alexander Schellong: Citizen Relationship Management: understanding, challenges and impact. 490