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2003 Publications

Brusilovsky, Peter

• Brusilovsky, P. (2003) Adaptive navigation support in educational hypermedia: The role of student knowledge level and the case for meta-adaptation. British Journal of Educational Technology, 34 (4), 487-497.
• Brusilovsky, P. and Vassileva, J. (2003) Course sequencing techniques for large-scale web-based education. International Journal of Continuing Engineering Education and Lifelong Learning 13 (1-2).
• Brusilovsky, P. (2003) Developing adaptive educational hypermedia systems: From design models to authoring tools. In: T. Murray, S. Blessing and S. Ainsworth (eds.): Authoring Tools for Advanced Technology Learning Environment. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
• Brusilovsky, P., Corbett, A. and de Rosis, F. (eds.) (2003) User Modeling 2003. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 2702, Berlin: Springer-Verlag

Cox, Richard J.

• Flowers After the Funeral: Reflections on the Post 9/11 Digital Age (Rowman and Littlefield, Scarecrow Press, forthcoming).
• No Innocent Deposits: Rethinking Archival Appraisal (Rowman and Littlefield, Scarecrow Press, forthcoming).
• La valoracion como un acta de memoria, Tabula: Revista De Archivivos De Castilla Y Leon no. 6 (2003): 51-73.
• Current Events as Seminar Topics: A Case Study in the Relevance of LIS Education in the Modern World, Reference Librarian, forthcoming.
• Archives and the Digital Future, Journal of the Irish Society of Archivists, 8 (2001-2): 35-48.
• Future Directions [of the Records & Information Management Report], Records & Information Management Report 19 (January 2003): 15-16.
• From the Boardroom to the Flea Market, Records & Information Management Report 19 (February 2003): 14-16.
• Ruling the Waves in an Imperfect World, Records & Information Management Report 19 (March 2003): 13-15.
• The Records Speak to Us, Records & Information Management Report 19 (April 2003): 15-16.
• Records Life Cycle and Records Continuum, with Margaret Pett, Records & Information Management Report 19 (May 2003): 1-14.
• Right, Left, and Refiguring the Record, Records & Information Management Report 19 (May 2003): 15-16.
• Revisiting IBM and the Holocaust, Records & Information Management Report 19 (June 2003): 13-14.
• Records Administration and Predicting the Future, Records & Information Management Report 19 (June 2003): 14-16.
• Appraising and Scheduling Organizational Records: Two Case Studies, with Matt Herbison and Michael O'Malley, Records & Information Management Report, 19 (September 2003): 1-14.
• Records Controversies, Old and New, Records & Information Management Report, 19 (September 2003): 15-16.
• Records, Documents, and Stuff in the Digital Era, Records & Information Management Report, 19 (October 2003): 1-13.
• Archives and Records: An Unquiet History, Records & Information Management Report, 19 (October 2003): 14-16.

Detlefsen, Ellen

• Detlefsen EG. Internet Resources: Late-Life Depression Resources for Patients and their Caregivers. Medical Library Association News, 360:10 (October 2003).
• Detlefsen EG. Research Being Done Outside the L/IS Realm. Hypothesis: The Journal of the Research Section of MLA 17(1):9-10 (Spring 2003). http://gain.mercer.edu/mla/research/hyp03v17n1.pdf

Druzdzel, Marek

• Marek J. Druzdzel and F. Javier Diez. Combining knowledge from different sources in probabilistic models. Journal of Machine Learning Research, 4(July):295-316, 2003.
• Denver H. Dash and Marek J. Druzdzel. A Robust Independence Test for Constraint-Based Learning of Causal Structure. In Proceedings of the 19th Annual Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI-03), pages 167-174, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc., San Francisco, CA, 2003.
• Changhe Yuan and Marek J. Druzdzel. An Importance Sampling Algorithm Based on Evidence Pre-propagation. In Proceedings of the 19th Annual Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI-03), pages 624-631, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc., San Francisco, CA, 2003.
• F. Javier Diez and Marek J. Druzdzel and Miguel A. Hernan. Causal diagrams to represent biases in the evaluation of diagnostic procedures. In Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Society for Epidemiologic Research (SER-03), Atlanta, GA, 2003.
• Agnieszka Onisko and Marek J. Druzdzel. Effect of imprecision in probabilities on the quality of results in Bayesian networks: An empirical study. In Working Notes of the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME-03) Workshop on Qualitative and Model-based Reasoning in Biomedicine, pages 45-49, Protaras, Cyprus, 19 October, 2003.

Gracy, Karen

• The Preservation of Moving Images, Advances in Librarianship 27, 2003.
• Documenting the Process of Film Preservation, The Moving Image 3.1, 2003.
• Gaining Control Over the Moving Images in Your Collections, Records & Information Management, no. 3 (March 2003).
• Introducing LIS Students to Moving Image Archiving, Summer Film Symposium, Northeast Historic Film Archive, Bucksport, Maine, August 8-9, 2003.
• The Imperative to Preserve: Competing Definitions of Value in the World of Film Preservation, in acceptance of the 2003 Eugene Garfield – ALISE Doctoral Dissertation Award at the Association of Library and Information Science Education Annual Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January 21-24, 2003.

He, Daqing

• Daqing He, Dina Demner-Fushman. HARD Experiment at Maryland: From Need Negotiation to Automated HARD Process. In the proceedings of Text REtreival Conference (TREC) 2003.
• Daqing He, Douglas W. Oard, Jianqiang Wang, Jun Luo, Dina Demner-Fushman, Kareem Darwish, Philip Resnik, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Michael Nossal and Anton Leuski. Making MIRACLEs: Interactive Translingual Search for Cebuano and Hindi. ACM Transactions of Asian Language Information Processing, 2(3) p219-244, 2003.
• Daqing He , Graeme Ritchie, John Lee. Reference to Graphics Objects in Intelligent Multimodal Systems. Journal paper in preparation.
• Douglas W. Oard, David Doermann, Bonnie Dorr, Daqing He , Philip Resnik, Amy Weinberg, William Byrne, Sanjeev Khudanpur David Yarowsky, Anton Leuski, Philipp Koehn, and Kevin Knight, Desparately Seeking Cebuano . In the Proceedings of the HLT-NAACL Conference , Late Breaking Results, Edmonton, Canada, 2003.
• Daqing He , Jianqiang Wang, Douglas W. Oard, Michael Nossal User-Assisted Query Translation for Interactive CLIR .. In the Proceedings of SIGIR 2003, Toronto Canada 2003.
• Ayse Goker, Daqing He . Personalization via Collaboration in Web Retrieval System. In 76 th Annual Conference for American Society for Information Science and Technology ASIST 2003.
• Bonnie J. Dorr, Daqing He , Jun Luo, Douglas W. Oard, Richard Schwartz, Jianqiang Wang, and David Zajic, iCLEF 2003 at Maryland: Translation Selection and Document Selection . In the Proceedings of the Interactive track for the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum Workshop , Trondheim, Norway, 2003.

Hirtle, Stephen C.

• Milligan, G. W. & Hirtle, S. C. (2003). Clustering and classification methods. In J. Schinka & W. Velicer, (Eds.). Comprehensive Handbook of Psychology (Volume 2, pp. 165-186). New York: Wiley & Sons.
• Hirtle, S. C. (2003). Neighborhoods and landmarks. In M. Duckham, M. F. Goodchild, & M. F. Worboys (Eds.). Foundations of Geographic Information Science. London: Taylor & Francis.

Kabara, Joseph

• X. Hou, D. Tipper, J.F. Kabara and D. Yupho. GSP: Gossip-based Sleep Protocol for Energy Efficient Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks. Submitted to MILCOM 2003.
• N. Swangmuang, S. Tipmongkonsilp and J.F. Kabara. Distributed Location Estimation Algorithm in Sensor networks. Submitted to IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference. October 2003.
• A. Rugsachart, P. Chokesatean and J.F. Kabara. Energy Efficiency and Packet Dropping Awareness in Sensor Networks. Submitted to IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference. October 2003.
• N. Pongthaipat, A.Tonmukayakul and J.F. Kabara. A More Energy Efficient MAC Protocol for Sensor Networks. Submitted to IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference. October 2003.
• H. Phalgun & J.F. Kabara. Voice Over IEEE 802.11b Networks. Submitted to IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference. October 2003.

Karimi, Hassan

• A Predictive Location Model for Location-Based Services (2003).

Lewis, Mike

• Hongpaisanwiwat, C. and Lewis, M. (2003). The effect of Animated Character in Multimedia Presentation: Attention and Comprehension Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Washington, DC, October 5-8.
• Hughes, S., Manojlovich, J. Lewis, M., and Jeffrey Gennari, J. (2003) Camera Control and Decoupled Motion for Teleoperation. Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Washington, DC, October 5-8.
• Lewis, M., Berna, M., Sycara, K., and Nourbakhsh (2003) Robots, Agents, and People. IEEE Workshop on Safety, Security and Rescue Robotics, Tampa, FL, Feb 19-20.
• Lewis, M., Sycara, K., and Payne, T. (2003). Agent Roles in Human Teams Notes of the AAMAS 2003 Workshop on Humans and Multiagent Systems, Melbourne, AU, July 14.
• Lewis, M., Sycara, K., and Nourbakhsh, I. (2003) Developing a Testbed for Studying Human-robot Interaction in Urban Search and Rescue Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction (HCII'03), Crete, Greece, June 22-27.
• Lewis, M., Wang, J., Manojlovich, J., Hughes, S. and Liu, X. (2003). Experiments with Attitude: Attitude Displays for Teleoperation. Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Washington, DC, October 5-8.
• Manojlovich, J. Prasithsangaree, P. Hughes, S., Chen, J. and Lewis, M. UTSAF: A Multi-Agent-Based Framework for Supporting Military-Based Distributed Interactive Simulations in 3D Virtual Environments Proceedings of the 2003 Winter Simulation Conference, New Orleans, LA.
• Manojlovich, J., Prasithsangaree, P., Hughes, S. Chen, J., and Lewis, M. (2003). UTSAF: Getting the Best of Consumer Graphics into Military Simulations. Proceedings of the 47^th Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, Denver, CO, Oct. 13-17.
• Prasithsangaree, P. Manojlovich, J., Chen, J. and Lewis. M. (2003) UTSAF: A Simulation Bridge between OneSAF and the Unreal Engine Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Washington, DC, October 5-8.
• Sycara, K. and Lewis, M. (to appear) Integrating Intelligent Agents into Human Teams. To appear In E. Salas (Ed) Team Cognition.
• Sycara, K., and Lewis, M. (2003). Experiments in Implicit Control. Notes of the IJCAI 2003 Workshop on Mixed-Initiative Intelligent Systems, Acapulco, MX, Aug 9.
• Sycara, K., Paolucci, M., Lewis, M. (2003) Information Discovery and Fusion: Semantics on the Battlefield. Proceedings of the 6^th International Conference on Information Fusion, Cairns, AU, July 8-11.
• Wang, Jijun, Lewis, Michael, and Gennari, Jeffrey (2003) A Game Engine Based Simulation of the NIST USAR Arenas, Proceedings of the 2003 Winter Simulation Conference, New Orleans, LA.
• Wang, J., Lewis, M. and Gennari, J. (2003). Interactive Simulation of the NIST USAR Arenas. Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Washington, DC, October 5-8.
• Wang, J., Lewis, M. and Gennari, J. (2003). USAR: A Game-Based Simulation for Teleoperation. Proceedings of the 47^th Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, Denver, CO, Oct. 13-17.

Robins, David B.

• Robins, D. & Miller, J. Paper submitted to the Virtual Reference Desk Conference 2003. November 17-18, 2003, San Antonio, Texas. Paper entitled: Evaluation of Synchronous Digital Reference Services from an Information Architecture/User Experience Perspective: Design of a Study and Preliminary Results.
• Robins, D. (2003). Content Management Systems. Records and Information Management Report, 19(4), 1-16.

Spring, Michael B.

• Some Observations on the Next Generation Web is a paper that was written in preparation for an NSF meeing on Cape Cod in 2003 on the post digital library research agenda. It explores defintions, trends, technology and current status.
• Standards for the Next Generation Web: Architectural Consierations is a paper delivered in Portugal in 2003 on the necessary standards for the next generation web and e-business.

Taylor, Arlene G.

• L'insegnamento dell'authority control. (In Authority Control:Definizione ed esperienze internazionali: Atti del convegno internazionale, Firenze, 10-12 febbraio 2003. Edited by Mauro Guerrini and Barbara B. Tillett, with the collaboration of Lucia Sardo. Florence, Italy: Firenze University Press, 2003), pp. 47-60.

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