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2006 Publications

Brusilovsky, Peter

• Brusilovsky, P., Knapp, J., and Gamper, J. (2006) Supporting teachers as content authors in intelligent educational systems. International Journal of Knowledge and Learning 2 (3/4), 191-215.
• Brusilovsky, P., Grady, J., Spring, M., and Lee, C.-H. (2006) What should be visualized? Faculty perception of priority topics for program visualization. SIGCSE Bulletin 38 (2), 44-48.
• Ahn, J.-W., Farzan, R., and Brusilovsky, P. (2006) Social Search in the Context of Social Navigation. Journal of the Korean Society for Information Management 23 (2), 147-165.

Carbo, Toni

• Editor, The International Information and Library Review – quarterly research journal. 
  “Relationship Marketing,” an annotated bibliography.  Library Connect (pamphlet #8, 2005), pp. 16-17.
• Co-editor with Martha Smith, “Perspectives on Global Information Ethics,” to be published in JASIT&T. 

Cox, Richard

• "The Romance of the Document," Records & Information Management Report 22 (January 2006): 1-13.
• "The Continuing Search for Order: A Historical Perspective," Records & Information Management Report 22 (January 2006): 14-16.
• "A "Therapeutic Function": Personal Recordkeeping," Records & Information Management Report 22 (February 2006): 1-13.
• "Are Archivists and Records Managers Knowledge Workers?" Records & Information Management Report 22 (February 2006), 14-16.
• "Human Impulses and Personal Archives," Records & Information Management Report 22 (March 2006),1-13.
• "Preserving Digital Stuff," Records & Information Management Report 22 (March 2006), 14-15.
• "Traces of Ourselves: Concluding Thoughts on Personal Recordkeeping," Records & Information Management Report 22 (April 2006), 1-14.
• "A Sea Change in Electronic Records Management?" Records & Information Management Report 22 (April 2006), 15-16.
• "Debits and Credits for the Soul," Records & Information Management Report 22 (May 2006), 15-16.
• "The Demise of the Library School," American Libraries, forthcoming.
• "The Task Is Not Too Big (Maybe)," Records & Information Management Report 22 (June 2006): 15-16.
• "Cyber-Democracy and the Role of Records Professionals," Records & Information Management Report 22 (September 2006): 14-16.
• "Empty Temples: Challenges for Modern Government Archives and Records Management," Records & Information Management Report 22 (October 2006): 1-13.
• "Are Corporations Accountable?" Records & Information Management Report 22 (October 2006): 14-15.
• "The National Archives Reclassification Scandal," Records & Information Management Report 22 (November 2006): 1-13.
• "The Emotional and Social Energy of Documents," Records & Information Management Report 22 (November 2006): 14-16.
• "Adding to the Professional Bookshelf," Records & Information Management Report 22 (December 2006): 14-15.
• Book: With James M. O'Toole,Understanding Archives and Manuscripts(Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 2006).
• Book: Ethics, Accountability and Recordkeeping in a Dangerous World (London: Facet, 2006)

Detlefsen, Ellen

• Detlefsen EG, Doyle BB, Doyle CC. Internet Resources about Adult ADHD: Websites That You Can Recommend to Patients, in Understanding and Treating Adults with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Washington DC: American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc. (APPI), 2006.

Druzdzel, Marek

• Adam Zagorecki and Marek J. Druzdzel. Knowledge engineering for Bayesian networks: How common are noisy-MAX distributions in practice?. In Proceedings of the Seventeenth European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-06), G. Brewka, S. Coradeschi, A. Perini & P. Traverso (eds.), pages 482-489, Amsterdam: IOS Press, 2006.
• Adam Zagorecki, Mark Voortman and Marek J. Druzdzel. Decomposing local probability distributions in Bayesian networks for improved inference and parameter learning. In Recent Advances in Artificial Intelligence: Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS-2006), Geoff Sutcliffe & Randy Goebel (eds), pages 860-865, Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press, 2006.
• Adam Zagorecki and Marek J. Druzdzel. Probabilistic independence of causal influences. In Proceedings of the Third European Workshop on Probabilistic Graphical Models (PGM-06), pages 325-332, Milan Studeny and Jiri Vomlel (eds.), Prague: Action M Agency, 2006.
• Changhe Yuan and Marek J. Druzdzel. Hybrid loopy belief propagation. In Proceedings of the Third European Workshop on Probabilistic Graphical Models (PGM-06), pages 317-324, Milan Studeny and Jiri Vomlel (eds.), Prague: Action M Agency, 2006.
• Xiao Xun Sun, Marek J. Druzdzel and Changhe Yuan. Dynamic weighting A* search-based MAP algorithm for Bayesian networks. In Proceedings of the Third European Workshop on Probabilistic Graphical Models (PGM-06), pages 279-286, Milan Studeny and Jiri Vomlel (eds.), Prague: Action M Agency, 2006.

He, Daqing

• He, Daqing, Ritchie, Graeme, and Lee, John. 2006. Reference to Graphics Objects in Intelligent Multimodal Systems. Natural Language Engineering.
• Daqing He, Yefei Peng. Pitt at TREC 2006: Identifying Experts via Email Discussions. In Proceedings of Text REtrieval Conference TREC 2006.
• Yefei Peng, Daqing He, Ming Mao. Geographic Named Entity Disambiguation with Automatic Profile Generation. In the Proceedings of Web Intelligence 2006.
• Ming Mao, Yefei Peng, Daqing He. Ontology-based Content Management and Access Framework for Supporting E-Learning Systems. In Proceeding of 2nd International Workshop on Web Support Systems. A workshop of Web Intelligence 2006.
• Yefei Peng, Daqing He. Direct Comparison of Commercial and Academic Retrieval Systems: an initial study. In Proceedings of Conference for Information and Knowledge Management 2006.
• Ming Mao, Yefei Peng, Daqing He. DiLight: an Ontology-based Information Access System for e-Learning Environments. In proceedings of Annual Conference of SIGIR 2006.
• Daqing He, Yefei Peng. Comparing Two Blind Relevance Feedback Techniques. In proceedings of Annual Conference of SIGIR 2006.
• Daqing He, Ming Mao, and Yefei Peng. DiLight: a Digital Library based E-Learning Environment for Learning Digital Libraries. in Proceedings of World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, & Higher Education. 2006.
• Daqing He, Douglas W. Oard. Studying the Use of Interactive Multilingual Information Retrieval. In Proceedings of New Directions of Multilingual Information Access, A workshop of Annual Conference of SIGIR 2006.
• Daqing He, A Study of Self-Organizing Map in Interactive Relevance Feedback. In proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Information Technology : New Generations. ITNG Las Vegas, NV, April 2006.

Hirtle, Stephen C.

• Hirtle, S. C. (2006). Information design for the support of navigation. In J. Portugali (Ed.), Complex Artificial Environments: Simulation, Cognition and VR in the Study and Planning of Cities (pp. 235-244). Berlin: Springer.

Joshi, James B.D.

• James B. D. Joshi, S. R. Joshi, and  S. M. Chandran, "Information Security Issues and Challenges," in Encyclopedia of Digital Government, 2006.
• James B. D. Joshi, S. R. Joshi, and S. M. Chandran, "Identity Management and Privacy Issues," in Encyclopedia of Digital Government, 2006.
• James B. D. Joshi, S. M. Chandran, A. Ghafoor, and W. G. Aref, "Survivability Issues and Challenges," in Encyclopedia of Digital Government, 2006.
• Michael Chuang, Suronapee Phoomvuthisarn, James B. D. Joshi, “An Integrated Framework for Trust-Based Access Control for Open Systems,” CollaborateCom 2006, GA, USA.
• Jun-Hyung Park, Min-Soo Kim, Bong-Nam Noh, James B. D. Joshi, “A Similarity based Technique for Detecting Malicious Executable files,” IEEE Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, Hawaii, 2006.
• Siqing Du, James B. D. Joshi, “Supporting Authorization Query and Inter-domain Role Mapping in Presence of Hybrid Role Hierarchy,” The 11th ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies, USA, June 2006.
• James B. D. Joshi, Elisa Bertino, “Fine-grained Role-based Delegation in Presence of Hybrid Role Hierarchy,” The 11th ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies, USA, June 2006.
•  Suroop M Chandran, Korporn Panyim, James B. D. Joshi, “A Requirements-Driven Trust Framework for Secure Interoperation in Open Environments", The Fourth International Conference on Trust Management, (iTrust-06), May 16-19, Italy, 2006.

Kabara, Joseph

• R. Thompson, D. Tipper, J. Kabara and P. Krishnamurthy, The Physical Layer of Communication Systems, Artech House Telecommunications Library, February 28, 2006. ISBN: 1580536573.
• *N. Pongthaipat and J. F. Kabara, Security and Privacy in Mobile Health Care, Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, 2006, Innsbruck, Austria, November 29 - December 1st 2006.
• D. Yupho and J. F. Kabara Continuous vs. Event Driven Routing Protocols for WSNs in Healthcare Environments, Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare Security and Privacy in Mobile Health Care Workshop 2006, Innsbruck, Austria, November 29 - December 1st 2006.
• *M. Calle and J. F. Kabara. Measuring Energy Consumption in Wireless Sensor Networks Using GSP. Proceedings of Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications PIMRC 2006.
• D. Yupho and J. F. Kabara. Topology Constraints When Using Gossip-based Sleep Protocol (GSP) for Wireless Sensor Networks. Proceedings of Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems IEEE DCOSS 2006.
• T. Groover, A. Falk and J. F. Kabara. Work In Progress - Technology Leadership Institute. Proceedings of FIE 2006. 
• F. Deus, R. Puttini, L. Molinaro, J. F. Kabara and L. Villalba. Survivable Mechanism for IEEE 802.11 WLAN Improvements. WICS 2006.

Karimi, Hassan

• Liu, X. and Karimi, H. A. Location Awareness Through Trajectory Prediction. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems. Vol. 30, No. 6, pp. 741-756 (2006).
• Peachavanish, R., Karimi, H. A., Akinci, A., ad Boukamp, F. An Ontological Engineering Approach for Integrating CAD and GIS to Support Infrastructure Management, Advanced Engineering Informatics Journal, Vol. 20, No. 1, pp 71-88 (2006).
• Yang, L. W., Rader, A. J., Liu, X., Jursa, C. J., Chen, S. C., Karimi, H. A., and Bahar, I. oGNM: Online Computation of Structural Dynamics Using the Guassian Network Model. Nucleic Acids Research (2006).
• Karimi, H. A., Conahan, T., and Roongpiboonsopit, D. A Methodology for Predicting Performances of Map-Matching Algorithms. The 6th International Symposium on Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems (W2GIS 2006). Hong Kong, December 4-5 (2006).
• Chettupuzha, A. J., Farooq, B., Yan Shih, C., Wright, J.L., Lee, S., Kiziltas, S., Garrett, J. H., Karimi, H. A., Smailagic, A. Design and Evaluation of AR Interfaces. The 11th International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering (ICCCBE 2006), Montreal, Canada, June 14-16 (2006).

Koshman, Sherry

• Koshman, S., Spink, A., & Jansen, B. J. (2006). Web searching on the Vivisimo search engine. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 57(14), 1875-1887.
• Koshman, S.  (2006). Visualization-based information retrieval on the web. Library & Information Science Research, 28(2) 192-207.
• Jansen, B. J., Spink, A., Kathura, V., & Koshman, S. (2006). How to Define Searching Sessions on Web Search Engines. Paper presented at the Workshop on Web Mining and Web Usage Analysis. The 12th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2006).
• Jansen, B. J., Spink, A., Blakely, C., &  Koshman, S. Comparing methods of defining Web sessions. CIKM 2006: Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, November 6- 11, Arlington, Virginia.
• Jansen, B. J., Koshman, S., & Spink, A. (2006). Investigating usage of the Vivisimo clustering search engine interface. AUSWEB 2006: Australasian World Wide Web Conference, July 1-5, Noosa Beach, Australia (pp. 203-212).

Krishnamurthy, Prashant

• P. Kiratiwintakorn and P. Krishnamurthy, "An Energy Efficient Security Protocol for IEEE 802.11 WLANs," Elsevier Pervasive and Mobile Computing, Vol.2, No.2, pp.204-231, April 2006.
• R. A. Thompson, D. Tipper, P. Krishnamurthy, and J. Kabara, The Physical Layer of Communication Systems, Artech House, Boston, MA, 2006.

Lewis, Michael

• Lewis, M., Polvichai, J., Sycara K. and Scerri, P.(2006). Scaling-up Human Control For Large UVA Teams, Human Factors of Remotely Operated Vehicles, Advances in Human Performance and Cognitive Engineering Research, Volume 7, 237-250.
• Lewis, M., Wang, J., and Scerri, P. (2006). Teamwork coordination for realistically complex multi robot systems, NATO Symposium on Human Factors of Uninhabited Military Vehicles as Force Multipliers.
• Wang, J. and Lewis, M. (2006). Autonomy in human-robot control, Proceedings of the 50th Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.
• Wang, J., Lewis, M., and Scerri, P. (2006). Cooperating robots for search and rescue, Proceedings of the AAMAS 1st International Workshop on Agent Technology for Disaster Management, 92-99.
• Carpin, S., Lewis, M., Wang, J., Balakirsky, S., Scrapper, C.  (2006). Bridging the gap between simulation and reality in urban search and rescue. Robocup 2006: Robot Soccer World Cup X, Springer, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
• Carpin, S., Stoyanov, T., Nevatia, Y., Lewis, M., Wang, J. (2006). Quantitative assessments of  USARSim accuracy. Proceedings of PerMIS 2006
• Balakirsky, S., Scrapper, C., Carpin, S., Lewis, M. (2006) USARSim: providing a framework for multi-robot performance evaluation. Proceedings of PerMIS 2006
• Xu, Y., Scerri, P., Sycara, K., and Lewis, M. (2006). Comparing market and token-based coordination, AAAI Workshop on Auction Mechanisms for Robot Coordination.
• Sycara, K., Scerri, P., Lewis, M., Yu, B. and Xu, Y. (2006) Scalable and Reliable Data Delivery in Mobile Ad Hoc Sensor Networks, Proceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multi Agent Systems (AAMAS'06).
• Sycara, K., Scerri, P., Lewis, M., and Xu, Y. (2006) Comparing Market and Token-Based Coordination, Proceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multi Agent Systems (AAMAS'06), 1113-1115.
• Steinfeld, A., Fong, T., Kaber, D., Lewis, M., Scholtz, J., Schultz, A., and Goodrich, M. (2006). Common metrics for human-robot interaction, 1st Annual Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI'06).

Munro, Paul

• Munro, P., and Bao, Jianghua. 2006. A connectionist implementation of identical elements. Twenty Third Ann. Conf. Cognitive Science Society Proceedings.

Shulman, Stuart

• Schlosberg, David, Shulman, Stuart, and Zavestoski, Stephen. 2006. Virtual Environmental Citizenship: Web-Based Public Participation on Environmental Rulemaking in the U.S. In Environmental Citizenship: Getting From Here to There, ed. Bell Dobson. MIT Press.
• Shelley, Mack C., Thrane, Lisa, and Shulman, Stuart W. 2006. Lost in Cyberspace: Barriers to Bridging the Digital Divide in e-Politics. International Journal of Information Policy, Law, and Security.
• Shelley, Mack C., Thrane, Lisa E., and Shulman, Stuart W. 2006. Generational Differences in Informational Technology Use and Political Involvement. International Journal of Electronic Government Research.
• Zavestoski, Stephen, Shulman, Stuart, and Schlosberg, David. 2006. Democracy and the Environment on the Internet: Electronic Citizen Participation in Regulatory Rulemaking. Science, Technology & Human Values.

Sochats, Ken

• "SYSTEM IMPLEMENTATION ISSUES OF DYNAMIC DISCRETE DISASTER DECISION SIMULATION SYSTEM (D4S2) – PHASE I" With Shengnan Wu, Larry Shuman, Bopaya Bidanda, Matthew Kelley, Bryan Lawson, and Carey Balaban in Proceedings of the 2007 Winter Simulation Conference S. G. Henderson, B. Biller, M.H. Hsieh, J. Shortle, J. D. Tew, and R. R. Barton, eds.
• "Adventure Mapping" With M. Alison Stones, ESRI International Users Conference, San Diego, August, 2006.
• "Who are We?" First iConference, State College, PA, June, 2006.

Spring, Michael B.

• Brusilovsky, P., Grady, J., Spring, M. Lee, C-H., What Should Be Visualized? Faculty Perception of Priority Topics for Program Visualization. SIGCSE Bulletin.  June 2006, pp 44-48, 38(2).
• Buranarach, M. and Spring, M.B.  Metadata and Semantics: a Case Study on Semantic Searching in Web System. Proceedings of the IFIP International Conference on Research and Practical Issues of Enterprise Information Systems (CONFENIS 2006) Vienna, Austria, April 24-26, 2006.

Tipper, David

• H. Bin-Abbas and D. Tipper, "A Call Level Adaptive Bandwidth Allocation Scheme Based on Lyapunov Control Theory,” Proceedings of 11th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC), Pula-Cagliari, Italy, June 26-29, 2006.
• X. Hou, D. Tipper and S. Wu, "A Traffic Aware Power Management Protocol for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks,”  Journal of Communications, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 38-47,  May, 2006
• Yi Qian, Kejie Lu, and D. Tipper, "Towards Survivable and Secure Wireless Sensor Networks,” , Proceedings of IEEE IPCCC Workshop on Information Assurance, Phoenix, AZ, April, 2006.
• K. Vajanapoom and D. Tipper, "Risk Reduction Based Survivable WDM Network Design ", Proceedings of IEEE IPCCC Workshop on Information Assurance, Phoenix, AZ, April, 2006.

Weiss , Martin

• Sterling, Christopher, Phyllis Bernt and Martin Weiss Shaping American Telecommunications Lawrence Erlbaum and Associates, 2006.

Zadorozhny, Vladimir

• Zadorozhny, V., Krishnamurthy, P. Data Intensive Mobile Sensornets: Killer Applications and Grand Deterrents. Panel Session. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM'06), Nara, Japan, 2006.
• Zadorozhny,V., Chrysanthis, P. Network Aware Wireless Sensor Data Management. Seminar Session. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM'06), Nara, Japan, 2006.