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Proceedings of the 2005 national conference on Digital government research
2005,  Atlanta, Georgia    May 15 - 18, 2005
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Conference Chairs  
Lois Delcambre Portland State University
Genevieve Giuliano DGRC and USC/ISI
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Table of Contents
 
SESSION: Invited talks and system demonstrations
    Digital dreams: the future of e-government
Neil Eisner
Pages: 3 - 3
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    Capital wireless integrated network (CapWIN): building a bridge in transportation and public safety communications
George S. Ake
Pages: 4 - 6
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    Human-computer interaction themes in digital government: web site comprehension and statistics visualization
Ben Shneiderman
Pages: 7 - 8
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    Vehicular networks in urban transportation systems
Hao Wu, Mahesh Palekar, Richard Fujimoto, Jaesup Lee, Joonho Ko, Randall Guensler, Michael Hunter
Pages: 9 - 10
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SESSION: Panels
    Cyberinfrastructures for public health
Noshir Contractor, Scott Leischow
Pages: 13 - 14
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    Preserving information long-term: digital archiving
William G. LeFurgy, Margaret Hedstrom, Theresa Pardo, Tyler O. Walters
Pages: 15 - 15
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    Keynote panel: digital government research in the academy
Lois Delcambre, Genevieve Giuliano, Lynne Chronister, Jane Fountain, Judith Klavans
Pages: 16 - 17
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SESSION: Technology to support data gathering via the web
    An efficient nearest neighbor algorithm for P2P settings
Egemen Tanin, Deepa Nayar, Hanan Samet
Pages: 21 - 28
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    Data assignment in fault tolerant uploads for digital government applications: a genetic algorithms approach
Yan Yang, Leslie Cheung, Leana Golubchik
Pages: 29 - 38
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SESSION: Transportation systems
    Automatic composition of aggregation workflows for transportation modeling
José Luis Ambite, Matthew Weathers
Pages: 41 - 49
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SESSION: E-governance and public participation
    Towards electronic governance: a case study of ICT in local government governance
Thomas Zwahr, Pierre Rossel, Matthias Finger
Pages: 53 - 62
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    Modeling online participation in local governance
Andrea Kavanaugh, Philip Isenhour, Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones, Daniel Dunlap
Pages: 63 - 64
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    Public participation in transportation decision making
Tim Nyerges, Terry Brooks, Piotr Jankowski, G. Scott Rutherford, Rhonda Young
Pages: 65 - 66
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SESSION: E-rulemaking
    A relatedness analysis approach for regulation comparison and e-rulemaking applications
Gloria Lau, Haoyi Wang, Kincho Law, Gio Wiederhold
Pages: 69 - 77
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    Near-duplicate detection for eRulemaking
Hui Yang, Jamie Callan
Pages: 78 - 86
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    Language processing technologies for electronic rulemaking: a project highlight
Stuart Shulman, Eduard Hovy, Jamie Callan, Stephen Zavestoski
Pages: 87 - 88
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SESSION: E-government: policy, legislation and law
    Governance characteristics of information technology
Rajiv C. Shah, Jay P. Kesan
Pages: 91 - 96
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    Connecting to congress: project highlights
David Lazer, Kevin Esterling, Michael Neblo, Jane Fountain, Ines Mergel, Curt Ziniel
Pages: 97 - 98
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    Early lessons from the application of process technology to online grievance mediation
Ethan Katsh, Leon J. Osterweil, Norman K. Sondheimer, Daniel Rainey
Pages: 99 - 100
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SESSION: Alert and crisis management
    DM-AMS: employing data mining techniques for alert management
Vandana P. Janeja, Vijayalakshmi Atluri, Ahmed Gomaa, Nabil Adam, Christof Bornhoevd, Tao Lin
Pages: 103 - 111
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    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
Hsinchun Chen, Homa Atabakhsh, Jennifer Jie Xu, Alan Gang Wang, Byron Marshall, Siddharth Kaza, Lu Chunju Tseng, Shauna Eggers, Hemanth Gowda, Tim Petersen, Chuck Violette
Pages: 112 - 113
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    Project highlight: GeoCollaborative crisis management
Alan M. MacEachren, Sven Fuhrmann, Michael McNeese, Guoray Cai, Rajeev Sharma
Pages: 114 - 115
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    Geoinformatic hotspot systems (GHS) for detection, prioritization, and early warning
G. P. Patil
Pages: 116 - 117
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SESSION: Technology transfer and evaluation for e-government
    Exploring the success factors of state website functionality: an empirical investigation
J. Ramón Gil-García
Pages: 121 - 130
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    US-European union collaboration on digital government research: developing new models
Anthony M. Cresswell, Theresa A. Pardo, Sharon S. Dawes
Pages: 131 - 132
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    Multidisciplinary e-government research and education as a catalyst for effective information technology transfer to regional governments
Bienvenido Vélez-Rivera, Rafael Fernández-Sein, Manuel Rodríguez-Martínez, Pedro I. Rivera-Vega, Walter Díaz, Mario Nuñez-Molina
Pages: 133 - 134
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SESSION: Health care, i.t. and e-government
    Communications technology and urban governance reform: project highlights
Christopher Weare, Juliet A. Musso
Pages: 137 - 138
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    Constructing electronic interactions among citizens, issue publics, and elites: the healthcare dialogue project
Vincent Price, Joseph N. Cappella
Pages: 139 - 140
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    A national center of excellence for infectious disease informatics: project summary
Hsinchun Chen, Daniel Zeng, Chunju Tseng, Catherine A. Larson, Millicent Eidson Ivan, Gotham, Cecil Lynch, Paul Hu
Pages: 141 - 142
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SESSION: E-government and community information systems
    Building sustainable community information systems: lessons from a digital government project
Teresa M. Harrison, James P. Zappen
Pages: 145 - 150
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    SGER: computer-assisted interpretation of citizen input in rebuilding lower Manhattan
Daniel O. Kutz, Javed Mostafa, Monique Girard, David Stark
Pages: 151 - 152
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    NSF project highlights: policy made public: technologies of deliberation and representation in rebuilding lower Manhattan
Francesca Polletta, David Stark
Pages: 153 - 154
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SESSION: Technology evaluation and medical informatics
    A real option analysis approach to evaluating digital government investment
Leon Chen, Olivia Sheng, Dennis Goreham, Jeannie Watanabe
Pages: 157 - 166
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    Automated dental identification system (ADIS)
Hany Ammar, Anil K. Jain, Mohamed Abdel-mottaleb
Pages: 165 - 166
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    Emergency medicine, disease surveillance, and informatics
Venu Govindaraju
Pages: 167 - 168
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SESSION: Motivating and enabling e-government
    Transnational digital government research project highlights
José A. B. Fortes
Pages: 171 - 172
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SESSION: User interfaces for integrating web-based information
    Project highlight: quality graphics for statistical summaries
Alan M. MacEachren, Daniel Carr, David Scott
Pages: 175 - 176
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    Project highlight: toward a statistical knowledge network--2004-05
Gary Marchionini, Stephanie Haas, Ben Shneiderman, Catherine Plaisant, Carol Hert
Pages: 177 - 178
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    Evaluation and evolution of a browse and search interface: Relation Browser++
Junliang Zhang, Gary Marchionini
Pages: 179 - 188
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SESSION: E-voting
    E-electoral administration: organizational lessons learned from the deployment of e-voting in the UK
Alexandros Xenakis, Ann Macintosh
Pages: 191 - 197
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    Voting, vote capture & vote counting symposium
L Jean Camp, Warigia Bowman, Allan Friedman
Pages: 198 - 199
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    A project to assess voting technology and ballot design
Paul S. Herrnson, Richard G. Niemi, Benjamin B. Bederson, Frederick G. Conrad, Michael Traugott
Pages: 200 - 201
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SESSION: Data integration and eco-informatics
    Aligning database columns using mutual information
Patrick Pantel, Andrew Philpot, Eduard Hovy
Pages: 205 - 210
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    Eco-informatics and natural resource management
Judith Bayard Cushing, Tyrone Wilson, Alan Borning, Lois Delcambre, Geoff Bowker, Mike Frame, John Schnase, William Sonntag, Janos Fulop, Carol Hert, Eduard Hovy, Julia Jones, Eric Landis, Charles Schweik, Lawrence Brandt, Valerie Gregg, Sylvia Spengler
Pages: 211 - 212
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    NSF project: harvesting information to sustain our forests
Lois Delcambre, Marianne Lykke Nielsen, Timothy Tolle, Mathew Weaver, David Maier, Susan Price
Pages: 213 - 214
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SESSION: Data quality and data mining
    Data confidentiality, data quality and data integration for federal databases
Alan F. Karr
Pages: 217 - 218
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    Digitalization of coastal management and decision making supported by multi-dimensional geospatial information and analysis
Ron Li, Keith Bedford, C. K. Shum, Xutong Niu, Feng Zhou, Vasilia Velissariou, J. Raul Ramirez, Aidong Zhang
Pages: 219 - 220
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    Email mining toolkit supporting law enforcement forensic analyses
Salvatore J. Stolfo, Shlomo Hershkop
Pages: 221 - 222
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SESSION: System demonstrations (a)
    Technology transfer of inter-agency government services and their transnational feasibility studies
Nabil R. Adam, Vijayalakshmi Atluri, Soon Ae Chun, Patrizia Fariselli, Julia Culver Hopper, Olana Bojic, Rick T. Stewart, Jim Fruscione, Nick Mannochio
Pages: 225 - 226
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    Enabling GeoCollaborative crisis management through advanced geoinformation technologies
Guoray Cai, Alan M. MacEachren, Rajeev Sharma, Isaac Brewer, Sven Fuhrmann, Mike McNeese
Pages: 227 - 228
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    Visualization in law enforcement
Hsinchun Chen, Homa Atabakhsh, Chunju Tseng, Byron Marshall, Siddharth Kaza, Shauna Eggers, Hemanth Gowda, Ankit Shah, Tim Petersen, Chuck Violette
Pages: 229 - 230
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    Integration of multidimensional geospatial information for coastal management and decision-making
Ron Li, Keith Bedford, C. K. Shum, Xutong Niu, Feng Zhou, Vasilia Velissariou, J. Raul Ramirez, Aidong Zhang
Pages: 231 - 231
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    Significance information for translation: air quality data integration
Andrew Philpot, Patrick Pantel, Eduard Hovy
Pages: 233 - 234
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    BioPortal: an integrated infectious disease information sharing and analysis environment
Daniel Zeng, Hsinchun Chen, Chunju Tseng, Catherine A. Larson, Millicent Eidson, Ivan Gotham, Cecil Lynch, Michael Ascher
Pages: 235 - 236
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    Employing the mobility paradigm: the next big leap in digital government?
Hans J Scholl
Pages: 237 - 238
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SESSION: Posters (a)
    Data mining the family tree: identification of relatives using genetic kinship analysis of DNA
Frederick R. Bieber, Charles Brenner, David Lazer
Pages: 239 - 240
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    BorderSafe: cross-jurisdictional information sharing, analysis, and visualization
Hsinchun Chen, Homa Atabakhsh, Siddharth Kaza, Byron Marshall, Jennifer Xu, G. Alan Wang, Tim Petersen, Chuck Violette
Pages: 241 - 242
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    Hotspot detection for chestnut oak regeneration
Songlin Fei
Pages: 243 - 244
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    The national center for digital government integrating information and institutions
Jane E. Fountain, David Lazer
Pages: 245 - 246
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    Centralized or decentralized organization?
Marijn Janssen
Pages: 247 - 248
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    Community e-government coordination work platform
Jiang Luquan, Zhang Pengzhu, Wang Huanchen
Pages: 249 - 250
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    Topological analysis of criminal activity networks in multiple jurisdictions
Siddharth Kaza, Jennifer Xu, Byron Marshall, Hsinchun Chen
Pages: 251 - 252
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    The hare and the tortoise: the network structure of exploration and exploitation
David Lazer, Allan Friedman
Pages: 253 - 254
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    Virtual machines in transnational digital government: a case study
Andréa Matsunaga, Maurício Tsugawa, José A. B. Fortes
Pages: 255 - 256
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    Exploring the spatio-temporal variation of seagrass ecosystems in southern Tampa bay
Ron Li, Xutong Niu
Pages: 257 - 258
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    Research in progress: a preliminary theoretical framework for understanding e-governance initiatives
Anu Mundkur
Pages: 259 - 260
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    Using GIS technology to assess the prudence of municipal growth through annexation
John O'Looney
Pages: 261 - 262
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    Project highlight: digital government community-building and outreach
Mack Reed, Yigal Arens
Pages: 263 - 264
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    Governing with information technologies
Rajiv C. Shah, Jay P. Kesan
Pages: 265 - 265
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    A study of smart growth initiatives using GIS: the case of Austin, Texas
Wei Tu, Lixin Li, Reinhard Piltner
Pages: 267 - 268
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    Searching for geospatial government-produced data
Nancy Wiegand
Pages: 269 - 270
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SESSION: System demonstrations (b)
    Automated Dental Identification System (ADIS)
Hany Ammar, Anil K. Jain, Mohamed Abdel-mottaleb
Pages: 273 - 274
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    Argos: dynamic composition of web services for goods movement analysis and planning
José Luis Ambite, Genevieve Giuliano, Peter Gordon, Qisheng Pan, Naqeeb Abbasi, LanLan Wang, Matthew Weathers
Pages: 275 - 276
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    Designing a better web portal for digital government: a web-mining based approach
Xiao Fang, Olivia R. Liu, Sheng
Pages: 277 - 278
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    Supporting debates over citizen initiatives
Kishore Kattamuri, Marius Silaghi, Cem Kaner, Ryan Stansifer, Markus Zanker
Pages: 279 - 280
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    Upper level set scan statistic system for detecting arbitrarily shaped hotspots for digital governance
G. P. Patil, S. L. Rathbun, R. Acharya, P. Patankar, Reza Modarres
Pages: 281 - 282
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    Agency interoperation for effective data mining in border control and homeland security applications
Nabil R. Adam, Vijayalakshmi Atluri, Rey Koslowski, Vandana P. Janeja, Janice Warner, Aabhas Paliwal
Pages: 285 - 286
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    Towards a privacy measurement criterion for voting systems
Lillie Coney, Joseph L. Hall, Poorvi L. Vora, David Wagner
Pages: 287 - 288
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    Modeling the social and technical processes of interorganizational information integration
Sharon S. Dawes, Anthony M. Cresswell, Theresa A. Pardo, Fiona Thompson
Pages: 289 - 290
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    Evaluation of the govstat statistical interactive glossary: implications for just-in-time help
Stephanie W. Haas, Ron T. Brown, Leo Cao, Jesse D. Wilbur
Pages: 291 - 292
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    Spatiotemporal analysis of 9-1-1 call stream data
W. Hodgkiss, C. Baru, T. Fountain, D. Reich, K. Warner, M. Glasscock
Pages: 293 - 294
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    ITR/IM+SII: a distributed information management framework (REGNET) for environmental laws and regulations
Kincho H. Law
Pages: 295 - 296
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    Style conscious: how members of congress learn new ways to communicate
David Lazer, Kevin Esterling, Michael Neblo
Pages: 297 - 298
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    Electronic communication in a geographically dispersed community of forensic scientists
Ines Mergel, David Lazer, Maria Christina Binz-Scharf
Pages: 299 - 300
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    Geoinformatic surveillance of hotspot detection, prioritization and early warning
G. P. Patil, S. L. Rathbun, R. Acharya, P. Patankar, Reza Modarres
Pages: 301 - 302
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    A pilot project in PAs to transit to an open source solution
Barbara Russo, Alberto Sillitti, Paolo Zuliani, Giancarlo Succi, Paolo Gasperi
Pages: 303 - 304
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    Scalable data collection infrastructure for digital government applications
Hanan Samet, Egemen Tanin, Leana Golubchik
Pages: 305 - 306
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    Integrated criminal justice systems: designing effective systems for inter-organizational action
Steve Sawyer, Michael Tyworth
Pages: 307 - 308
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    Give the people what they want: research notes from the hunt for better electronic rulemaking
Stuart W. Shulman, Mack C. Shelley
Pages: 309 - 310
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    Digital governance for animal health and biosecurity applications
Gale Wagner, Arnie Vedlitz, Surya Waghela
Pages: 311 - 312
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    A framework for analyzing cross-boundary e-government projects: the CapWin example
Christine B. Williams, Jane Fedorowicz
Pages: 313 - 314
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    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
Pages: 315 - 316
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    National & municipal government websites: a comparison between the United States and China
Quan Zhou
Pages: 317 - 318
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SESSION: Student research papers
    Vertical datum conversion in the Lake Erie coastal area
Feng Zhou
Pages: 321 - 325
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    CRM in the public sector: towards a conceptual research framework
Alexander Schellong
Pages: 326 - 332
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    Motivations for implementing e-government: an investigation of the global phenomenon
Kimberly Stoltzfus
Pages: 333 - 338
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SESSION: Birds of a feather
    Cyberinfrastructure for public health dg.o2005 birds of a feather session
Noshir Contractor, Scott Leischow
Pages: 341 - 341
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    Long-term management and preservation of digital information dg.o2005 birds of a feather session
William Lefurgy
Pages: 342 - 342
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    Multiple methods and multiple paradigms for digital government research: understanding the promises and challenges
J. Ramon Gil-Garcia, Theresa A. Pardo
Pages: 343 - 343
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    The national infrastructure for community statistics
Andrew Reamer, Marshall DeBeny
Pages: 344 - 344
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    Digital government: the challenges of integration and interoperability dg.o2005 birds of a feather session
Jochen Scholl
Pages: 345 - 345
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    Building new curricula for digital government studies dg.o2005 birds of a feather session
Stuart W. Shulman
Pages: 346 - 346
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