DG.O 2007: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Judith Bayard Cushing, Theresa A. Pardo (Eds.): Proceedings of the 8th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research, Bridging Disciplines & Domains, DG.O 2007, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, May 20-23, 2007. Digital Government Research Center 2007 ACM International Conference Proceeding Series 228 ISBN 1-59593-599-1
Policy and adoption I

John Rohrbaugh: Managerial openness and the adoption of distributed group support systems: the case of WebWide participation. 13-18
Stuart Shapiro, Cary Coglianese: First generation e-rulemaking: an assessment of regulatory agency websites. 19-25
Diffusion and usage
David Lazer, Ines Mergel, Curt Ziniel, Kevin Esterling, Michael Neblo: Members of congress websites: diffusion at the tip of the iceberg. 26-34
Doria Pilling, Heike Boeltzig: Moving toward e-government: effective strategies for increasing access and use of the internet among non-internet users in the U.S. and U.K. 35-46
Luis F. Luna-Reyes, David F. Andersen, George P. Richardson, Theresa A. Pardo, Anthony M. Cresswell: Emergence of the governance structure for information integration across governmental agencies: a system dynamics approach. 47-56
Control and integrity
Sangchul Song, Joseph JáJá: New techniques for ensuring the long term integrity of digital archives. 57-65
Vera Kartseva, Joris Hulstijn, Jaap Gordijn, Yao-Hua Tan: Control patterns in a healthcare network. 66-75
Advances in technology
Namhee Kwon, Liang Zhou, Eduard H. Hovy, Stuart W. Shulman: Identifying and classifying subjective claims. 76-81
José Luis Ambite, Dipsy Kapoor: Automatic generation of data processing workflows for transportation modeling. 82-91
Jaime Arguello, Jamie Callan: A bootstrapping approach for identifying stakeholders in public-comment corpora. 92-101
Information sharing
Seema Degwekar, Jeff DePree, Howard W. Beck, Carla S. Thomas, Stanley Y. W. Su: Event-triggered data and knowledge sharing among collaborating government organizations. 102-111
Andréa M. Matsunaga, Maurício O. Tsugawa, José A. B. Fortes: Integration of text-based applications into service-oriented architectures for transnational digital government. 112-121
Anthony M. Cresswell, Theresa A. Pardo, Shahidul Hassan: Assessing capability for justice information sharing. 122-130
Policy and adoption II
Raya Fidel, Hans Jochen Scholl, Shuhua (Monica) Liu, Kristene Unsworth: Mobile government fieldwork: a preliminary study of technological, organizational, and social challenges. 131-139
Noor Huijboom: Social capital and ICT adoption in the public sector. 140-147
Crisis management
Hector Jasso, Tony Fountain, Chaitan Baru, William S. Hodgkiss, Don Reich, Kurt Warner: Prediction of 9-1-1 call volumes for emergency event detection. 148-154
JinKyu Lee, H. Raghav Rao: Exploring the causes and effects of inter-agency information sharing systems adoption in the anti/counter-terrorism and disaster management domains. 155-163
Benjamin L. Schooley, Michael J. Marich, Thomas A. Horan: Devising an architecture for time-critical information services: inter-organizational performance data components for emergency medical service (EMS). 164-172
Services
Willem Pieterson, Jan van Dijk: Channel choice determinants; an exploration of the factors that determine the choice of a service channel in citizen initiated contacts. 173-182
Giovanni Maria Sacco: Interactive exploration and discovery of e-government services. 190-197
Student papers
Lei Zheng: Cross-national information policy conflict regarding access to information: building a conceptual framework. 201-211
Jeongsoo Kim: The impact of e-government on child support enforcement policy outcomes. 212-221
K. Sham Bhat: A toolbox for the choice of indicator classes for ranking of watersheds. 222-231
System demonstrations and posters

Seema Degwekar, Jeff DePree, Stanley Y. W. Su, Howard W. Beck: A distributed event-triggered knowledge sharing system. 236-237
Nikos Loutas, Sotirios K. Goudos, Vassilios Peristeras, Konstantinos A. Tarabanis: A public administration reference domain ontology in the web service modeling language. 238-239
Steve Sawyer, Jane Fedorowicz, Michael Tyworth, M. Lynne Markus, Christine B. Williams: A taxonomy for public safety networks. 240-241
Sungsoo Hwang: Advancing e-governance at the community level with neighborhood information systems. 242-243
Anthony M. Cresswell, Theresa A. Pardo, G. Brian Burke, Lucy Dadayan: Advancing return on investment analysis for government information technology. 244-245
José Luis Ambite, Genevieve Giuliano, Peter Gordon: ARGOS: dynamic composition of web services for goods movement analysis and planning (project highlights 2007). 246-247
Hany H. Ammar, Mohamed Abdel-Mottaleb, Anil K. Jain: Automated dental identification system (ADIS). 248-249
Ayman Abaza, Usman Qureshi, Ali Bahu, Eyad Haj-Said, Diaa Eldin M. Nassar, Hany H. Ammar: Automated dental identification system (ADIS) in testing mode. 250-251
José Luis Ambite, Dipsy Kapoor: Argos: a framework for automatically generating data processing workflows. 252-253
Sharon S. Dawes, Natalie Helbig: Building government IT workforce capacity: a competency framework. 254-255
Noshir S. Contractor, Harold D. Green: Cyberinfrastructure knowledge networks on the web a recommender system for locating resources in a knowledge network. 256-257
JinKyu Lee, H. Raghav Rao: Citizen centric analysis of anti/counter-terrorism e-government services. 258-259
K. Jo Min, John Jackman, Sarah Ryan, Patrick Patterson, Kent Bailey, Ann Wingerter, Gayle Trede: Citizen-based assessment and improvement of e-government services for small and medium-sized communities. 260-261
Kevin Esterling, Michael Neblo, David Lazer: Connecting to congress: improving deliberation in the information age. 262-263
Patrick Pantel, Andrew Philpot, Eduard H. Hovy: Data integration in the wild: from instances to concept catalogs. 264-265
Mifan Careem, Chamindra de Silva, Ravindra De Silva, Louiqa Raschid, Sanjiva Weerawarana: Demonstration of Sahana: free and open source disaster management. 266-267
William M. Pottenger: D-HOTM: distributed higher order text mining. 268-269
Walter T. de Vries: eGov and SDI: the common grounds and missing links. 270-271
Judith Bayard Cushing, Anne Fiala, Nalini Nadkarni, Lee Zeman, Lois M. L. Delcambre, David Maier, Fred Martin, Aaron Crosland: From measurement to management: evidence-based practice in natural resource management. 272-273
Ganapati P. Patil, K. Sham Bhat, Raj Acharya, S. W. Joshi: Geoinformatic surveillance of hotspot detection, prioritization and early warning for digital governance. 274-275


Marijn Janssen: Intermediaries orchestrating public service networks. 282-283
Hanan Samet, Adam Phillippy, Jagan Sankaranarayanan: Knowledge discovery using the sand spatial browser. 284-285
Efthimios Tambouris, Naoum Liotas, Dimitrios Kaliviotis, Konstantinos A. Tarabanis: A framework for scoping eParticipation. 288-289
Siddharth Kaza, Daning Hu, Homa Atabakhsh, Hsinchun Chen: Predicting criminal relationships using multivariate survival analysis. 290-291
Tomasz Janowski, Adegboyega K. Ojo, Elsa Estevez: Rapid development of electronic public services: a case study in electronic licensing service. 292-293
Tomasz Janowski, Adegboyega K. Ojo, Elsa Estevez: Rapid development of electronic public services: software infrastructure and software process. 294-295
Marijn Janssen, Patrick van der Duin, René W. Wagenaar, Melanie Bicking, Maria Wimmer: Scenario building for e-government in 2020. 296-297
Nancy Wiegand: Semantic web for geospatial e-government portals. 298-299
Hanan Samet, Michael D. Lieberman, Jagan Sankaranarayanan, Jon Sperling: STEWARD: demo of spatio-textual extraction on the web aiding the retrieval of documents. 300-301
Ganapati P. Patil, K. Sham Bhat, S. W. Joshi: Surveillance geoinformatics of hotspot detection and prioritization for monitoring, etiology, early warning and sustainable management. 302-303
G. Alan Wang, Siddharth Kaza, Shailesh Joshi, Kris Chang, Chunju Tseng, Homa Atabakhsh, Hsinchun Chen: The Arizona IDMatcher: developing an identity matching tool for law enforcement. 304-305
Mireya Estrada-Marroquín, Víctor M. Morán-Rodríguez, José Ramón Gil-García, Luis F. Luna-Reyes: The impact of institutions on interorganizational IT projects in the Mexican federal government. 308-309
Lori A. Clarke, Alan Gaitenby, Ethan Katsh, Matthew Marzilli, Leon J. Osterweil, Daniel Rainey, Borislava I. Simidchieva, Norman K. Sondheimer, Leah Wing, Alexander E. Wise: Using process definitions to drive user interactions with digital government systems. 310-311
Barbara Mirel, Peter Goldsmith, Richard Brath, Brian Cort: Visual analytics for model-based policy analysis: exploring rapid changes in commodities markets. 312-313
Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones, Andrea L. Kavanaugh, Uma Murthy, Philip L. Isenhour, Jaideep Godara, Spencer J. Lee, Alain Fabian: VizBlog: a discovery tool for the blogosphere. 314-315
José Ramón Gil-García, Natalie Helbig, Theresa A. Pardo, Luis F. Luna-Reyes, Celene Navarrete: Working group on comparative and transnational digital government in North America. 316-317
Panels
Dominique Bachelet, Richard P. Hooper, Judith Bayard Cushing, Peter van Puijenbroek, Barbara A. Eckman, Robert C. Worrest: Global climate change implications for digital government research: keynote panel. 321-322
Gabriella Cattaneo, Cristiano Codagnone, Pál Gáspár, Patrick Wauters, Karsten Gareis: Benchmarking and measuring digital government: lessons from the EU experience. 323-327
Valerie Gregg, Sharon S. Dawes: Building a sustainable international digital government research community. 331-332
Louiqa Raschid: Information integration and dissemination for disaster data management. 333-335
Eduard H. Hovy: Government perspective: panel: international developments in digital government. 336
Eduard H. Hovy: Research perspective: panel: international developments in digital government. 337-338
Theresa A. Pardo: Building a relevant digital government curriculum. 339



