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2002 Publications

Brusilovsky, Peter

• Brusilovsky, P. and Rizzo, R. (2002) Using maps and landmarks for navigation between closed and open corpus hyperspace in Web-based education. The New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia 9, 59-82.
• Brusilovsky, P. and Rizzo, R. (2002) Map-based horizontal navigation in educational hypertext. Journal of Digital Information 3 (1).
• Brusilovsky, P. and Maybury, M. T. (2002) From adaptive hypermedia to adaptive Web. In P. Brusilovsky and M. T. Maybury (eds.), Communications of the ACM 45 (5), Special Issue on the Adaptive Web, 31-33. [ACM DL]
• Brusilovsky, P. and Nijhawan, H. (2002) A Framework for Adaptive E-Learning Based on Distributed Re-usable Learning Activities. In: M. Driscoll and T. C. Reeves (eds.) Proceedings of World Conference on E-Learning, E-Learn 2002, Montreal, Canada, October 15-19, 2002, AACE, pp. 154-161.
• Brusilovsky, P. and Rizzo, R. (2002) Map-based Access to Multiple Educational On-Line Resources from Mobile Wireless Devices. In: F. Paterno (ed.) Mobile Human-Computer Interaction. Lecture Notes in Compuer Science, Vol. 2411, (Proceedings of 4th International Symposium on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction, Mobile HCI 2002, Pisa, Italy, September 18-20, 2002) Berlin: Springer-Verlag, pp. 404-408.
• Brusilovsky, P. and Rizzo, R. (2002) Accessing Web educational resources from mobile wireless devices. In: M.-K. Leong and G. Loudon (eds.) Proceedings of Workshop on Mobile Personal Information Retrieval at the 25th ACM SIGIR Conference, Tampere, Finland, August 10, 2002, pp. 23-31.
• Brusilovsky, P. and Rizzo, R. (2002) Map-Based Horizontal Navigation in Educational Hypertext. In: K. M. Anderson, S. Moulthrop and J. Blustein (eds.) Proceedings of 13th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia (Hypertext 2002), College Park, MD, June 11-15, 2002, ACM, pp. 1-10.
• Brusilovsky, P. and Su, H.-D. (2002) Adaptive Visualization Component of a Distributed Web-based Adaptive Educational System. In: Intelligent Tutoring Systems. Vol. 2363, (Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, ITS'2002, Biarritz, France, June 2-7, 2002) Berlin: Springer-Verlag, pp. 229-238.
• Hughes, S., Brusilovsky, P., and Lewis, M. (2002) Adaptive navigation support in 3D e-commerce activities. In: F. Ricci and B. Smyth (eds.) Proceedings of Workshop on Recommendation and Personalization in eCommerce at the 2nd International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems (AH'2002) Malaga, Spain, May 28, 2002, pp. 132-139.
• Brusilovsky, P. (2002) Web-based Interactive Visualization in an Information Retrieval Course. In: P. Barker and S. Rebelsky (eds.) Proceedings of ED-MEDIA'2002 - World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications, Denver, CO, June 24-29, 2002, AACE, pp. 198-203.
• Pathak, S. and Brusilovsky, P. (2002) Assessing Student Programming Knowledge with Web-based Dynamic Parameterized Quizzes. In: P. Barker and S. Rebelsky (eds.) Proceedings of ED-MEDIA'2002 - World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications, Denver, CO, June 24-29, 2002, AACE, pp. 1548-1553.
• Brusilovsky, P. and Cooper, D. W.(2002) Domain, Task, and User Models for an Adaptive Hypermedia Performance Support System. In: Gil, Y. and Leake, D. B. (eds.) Proc. of 2002 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, San Francisco, CA, ACM Press 23-30.
• De Bra, P., Brusilovsky, P., and Conejo, R. (eds.) (2002) Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-based Systems, AH2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2347, Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
• Brusilovsky, P., Henze, N., and Millán, E. (eds.) (2002) Proceedings of the workshop on Adaptive Systems for Web-Based Education at the 2nd International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems (AH'2002). Malaga, Spain: University of Malaga.

Carbo, Toni

• “The School of Information Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh: A Century of Change as Reflected in Changes in the Name of the School.” On a panel of The Information Schools: Impact of Name Change at the Fourth International Conference on Conceptions of Library and Information Science (CoLIS4), Seattle, Washington. July 23, 2002.
• “Challenges for Libraries Creating One World: Information Ethics and Policy Issues for Medical Librarians.” Invited Cunningham Lecture. Southern Chapter of the Medical Library Association. Vanderbilt University. October 19, 2002. (to be published as a guest editorial in the Journal of the Medical Library Association 2003).
• “Information Ethics: Challenges for Information Professionals”. Invited presentation. D.C. Chapter SLA/ Potomac Valley Chapter ASIST/DCLA. Washington, D.C. December 4, 2002.
• “Information Ethics: Challenges for Library and Information Science Professionals”. Luminary Lecture Series Lecture, Library of Congress. December 9, 2002. Published as a webcast (www.loc.gov).

Cox, Richard J.

• “America’s Pyramids: Presidents and Their Libraries,” Government Information Quarterly 19, no. 1 (2002): 45-75.
• Vandals in the Stacks? A Response to Nicholson Baker’s Assault on Libraries (Westport, Conn,: Greenwood Press, 2002).
• Co-editor, with David Wallace, Records and Accountability: Case Studies (Westport, Conn.: Quorum Books, 2002).
• The End of Collecting: Towards a New Purpose for Archival Appraisal, Archival Science, 2, nos. 3-4 (2002): 287-309.
• Map Thefts, Library Security, Collecting, and Me: A Review of Harvey's The Island of Lost Maps, Library and Archival Security, 34 (October 2002): 31-42.
• Records Programs, Disaster Preparedness and Recovery: A New Urgency, Records and Information Management Report, 18 (January 2002): 1-14.
• Scribbling as Records, Records and Information Management Report 18 (January 2002): 15-16. [Review of H. J. Jackson, Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2001)].
• Lying About Records, Records and Information Management Report 18 (February 2002): 14-15. [Review of Richard J. Evans, Lying About Hitler: History, Holocaust, and the David Irving Trial [New York: Basic Books, 2001].
• Rediscovering the Document: Three Recent Views, Records and Information Management Report 18 (March 2002):1-13.
• Perceptions of Federal Recordkeeping Practices, Records and Information Management Report 18 (March 2002): 14-16 [Review of Report on Current Recordkeeping Practices within the Federal Government (SRA International, Inc. for the National Archives and Records Administration)].
• Public Scholarship and Records Professionals, Records and Information Management Report, 18 (April 2002): 1-13.
• Does Strategic Information Management Have ARMs? Records and Information Management Report, 18 (September 2002): 1-13.
• History and Records Management, Records & Information Management Report 18 (September 2002): 14-16.
• Reaching Out and Taking Cover, Records & Information Management Report 18 (October 2002): 15-16.
• Legal and Practical Solutions for Electronic Records Management, Records & Information Management Report 18 (November 2002): 15-16.
• Who Are We? Who Knows What We Are? Some Thoughts on the Continuing Debate About Credentials and Professional Identity, Records & Information Management Report 18 (December 2002): 1-14.
• Getting It Right, Records & Information Management Report 18 (December 2002): 15-16.

Detlefsen, Ellen

• Smith CA, Detlefsen EG, Tannery NH. Medical informatics: the Pittsburgh experience. Medical Reference Services Quarterly 21(3):97-105 (Fall 2002).
• Detlefsen EG. Resources for Enhancing Literature Reviews and Updating Syllabi. Hypothesis: The Journal of the Research Section of MLA 16(3):9 (Fall 2002). http://gain.mercer.edu/mla/research/hyp_v16n3.pdf
• Detlefsen EG. L/ISTEN UP: Research News from the Groves of Academe. Hypothesis: The Journal of the Research Section of MLA 16(1):9 (Spring 2002). http://gain.mercer.edu/mla/research/hyp_v16n1.pdf
• Detlefsen EG. The Education of an Informationist, from the Perspective of a Library and Information Science Educator. Journal of the Medical Library Association 90(1):59-67 (January 2002). http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=64758

Druzdzel, Marek

• Haiqin Wang, Denver H. Dash and Marek J. Druzdzel. A method for evaluating elicitation schemes for probabilistic models. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics-Part B: Cybernetics, 32(1):38-43, February 2002.
• Tsai-Ching Lu and Marek J. Druzdzel. Causal models, value of intervention, and search for opportunities. In Proceeding of the First European Workshop on Probabilistic Graphical Models (PGM-02), pages 108-116, Cuenca, Spain, November 6-8, 2002.
• Agnieszka Onisko, Marek J. Druzdzel and Hanna Wasyluk. An experimental comparison of methods for handling incomplete data in learning parameters of Bayesian networks. In Intelligent Information Systems 2002: Proceedings of the IIS-2002 Symposium, M. Klopotek, S.T. Wierzchon, M. Michalewicz (eds.), pages 351-360, Advances in Soft Computing Series, Physica-Verlag (A Springer-Verlag Company), Heidelberg, 2002.

Flynn, Roger R.

• Computer Sciences, Editor, with Ida M. Flynn and Ann McIver McHoes (2002)

Gracy, Karen

• “Adding the Social Dimension: An Argument for a Value-Laden Definition of Preservation,” as part of panel: “Manifold Perspectives on the Definition of Preservation Across Allied Fields,” Social Theory, Politics, and the Arts, Charleston, South Carolina, October 3-5, 2002.
• “Curricular Needs for Electronic Media Preservation: Teaching Digital Preservation at the University of Pittsburgh’s Department of Library and Information Science,” as part of panel: “Education Needs for Electronic Media Conservation,” The American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works, June 6-11, 2002.

He, Daqing

• Daqing He , Ayse Goker, David Harper. Combining Evidence for Automatic Web Session Identification . Information Processing and Management , 38(5): 727-742, 2002.
• Daqing He . Providing Context for Translation Alternative in interactive Cross Language Information Retrieval . Project White paper. Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, University of Maryland, College Park, 2002.
• Daqing He , Hyuk Ro Park, G. Craig Murray, Michael Subotin, and Douglas W. Oard. TDT2002 Topic Tracking at University of Maryland . In the proceedings of the workshop of Topic Detection and Tracking TDT2002 , November, 2002.
• Daqing He , Jianqiang Wang, Douglas W. Oard, Michael Nossal. Comparing User-assisted and Automatic Query Translation . In the proceedings of the workshop of Cross Language Evaluation Forum CLEF2002 , September, 2002.

Kabara, Joseph

• T. Anusas-amornkul, J.F. Kabara and P. Krishnamurthy, Security in Wireless Residential Networks. IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics. 48:1, 2002.
• J.F. Kabara, C. Charnsripinyo and D.W. Tipper, Wireless LAN Design Based on Capacity Demand, WCNC 2002.
• R. Walsh, J. Kabara, P. Krishnamurthy, The Need for Algorithm Agile Access Points for 802.11b Residential Networks. IEEE INFORMS 2002
• C. Prommak, J.F. Kabara, C. Charnsripinyo and D.W. Tipper, Wireless LAN Design Based on Capacity Data Rate Requirements. MILCOM 2002.
• B. Roy, J. Kabara, P. Krishnamurthy, Monitoring of traffic load and user mobility in a Wireless LAN. 12th IEEE Workshop on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks. August 2002.

Karimi, Hassan

• Potential of Mobile Augmented Reality for Infrastructure Field Tasks (2002).

King, Donald

• U.S. Information Retrieval System: Evolution and Evaluation (1945-1975). With Jose-Marie Griffiths. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, volume 24/3 July-September 2002. Eds. Boyd Rayward and Rebecca Graham.

Larsen, Ronald

• Rover: Scalable Location-Aware Computing, IEEE Computer, October 2002, PP. 46-53, (multiple authors).
  Rover technology adds a user's location to other dimension of system awareness, such as time, user preferences, and client device capabilities. The software architecture of Rover is designed for mobile computing application, from PDA to laptop, and is designed to scale to large user populations.
• Toward a Global Digital Library - Generalizing US-Korea Collaboration on Digital Libraries, D-Lib Magazine, October 2002, (multiple authors).
  This article reports on recommendations to remove barriers to worldwide development of digital libraries. It draws upon an August 2000 workshop involving researchers from the US and Korea who met at the San Diego Supercomputer Center. A Summary table identifies application domains, institutions engaged in those application, example activities, technical challenges, and possible benefits.
• Digital Libraries and Scholarly Communication,, with Jean Scholtz, book chapter in Cancer Informatics: An Essential Technology for Clinical Trials, J. Silva, M. Ball, et. al., editors, Springer Verlag, 2002

Lewis, Michael

• Lewis, M. & Jacobson, J. (2002) Game Engines in Research. Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery (CACM), NY: ACM 45(1), 27-48.
• Morse, E., Lewis, M., and Olsen, K. (2002) Testing visual information retrieval methodologies case study: comparative analysis of textual, icon graphical and 'spring' displays. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), Silver Spring, MD: ASIST 53(1) 28-40.
• Toth, J. & Lewis, M. (2002) The Role of working memory and external representation in individual decision making In Michael Anderson (Ed) Diagrammatic Reasoning, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg (download is earlier aaai version of paper).

Robins, David B.

• Robins, D. & Kelsey, S. (2002). Analysis of Web-Based Information Architecture in a University Library: Navigating for Known Items. Information Technology and Libraries, 21(4), 158-169.
• Robins, D., King, M. & Landry, D. O. (2002). The U.S. Library Program: Analysis of the Impact on Staff in Louisiana Public Libraries. ASIST 2002: Proceedings of the 65th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 39, 350-358.
• Robins, D. (2002). Information Architecture in Library and Information Science Curricula. Bulletin of the American Society for Information and Technology, 28(2). 20-22.
• Robins, D. (2002). From Virtual Libraries to Digital Libraries: The Role of Digital Libraries in Information Communities. In, Thomas, C. (Ed.), Libraries, the Internet, and Scholarship: Tools and Trends Converging. New York: Dekker Press.

Sochats, Kenneth M.

• Web Portals: History and Direction. With Dave Robins, Information Technology Conference, Pittsburgh, 2002.
• Digital Libraries. With Dave Robins, Information Technology Conference, Pittsburgh, 2002.

Taylor, Arlene G.

• On Teaching Subject Cataloging. (with Daniel N. Joudrey). Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 34, no. 1/2 (2002): 223-232.
• Teaching Seriality: A Major Educational Challenge. The Serials Librarian
  41, nos. 3/4 (2002): 73-80.

Thompson, Richard A.

• Should DWDM Networks Interchange their Wavelengths?, submitted to ICC, New York, 2002.

Weiss, Martin B.H.

• Shin, Seung-Jae, Hector Correa and Martin Weiss “A Game Theoretic Modeling and Analysis for Internet Access Market” ITS-14 World Conference, Seoul, Korea, August 2002.
• Kim, Hak-Ju and Martin Weiss “The Principle of Modularity to the Internet QoS Service Model Design” ITS-14 World Conference, Seoul, Korea, August 2002.
• Shin, Seung-Jae and Martin Weiss “Internet Interconnection Economic Model and its Analysis: Peering and Settlement” IFIP World Computer Conference (Aug 25 - 30 2002).

Zadorozhny, Vladimir

• Zadorozhny V. Object-Oriented Databases. In the Encyclopedia of Information Systems, Academic Press, 2002.
• Chrysanthis P., Zadorozhny V. From Location Databases to Pervasive Catalog. Proceedings of 5th International. Workshop on Mobility in Databases and Distributed Systems (MDDS), 2002.
• Zadorozhny V., Raschid L. Query Optimization to Meet Performance Targets for Wide Area Applications. Proceedings of International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2002.
• Zadorozhny V., Bright L., Vidal M.E., Raschid L., Urhan T. Efficient Evaluation of Queries in a Mediator for WebSources. Proc. of ACM SIGMOD International Conference on the Management of Data, 2002.
• Zadorozhny V. Query Processing in Transient Environments. The 3-nd International Scientific and Practical Conference on Programming, Kiev, Ukraine, May 21-24, 2002.

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