Title: Nabil R' Adam Rutgers University CIMIC Center for Information Management, Integration, and Connectiv
1Nabil R. Adam Rutgers UniversityCIMIC (Center
for Information Management, Integration, and
Connectivity)
NSF Digital Government Program
- DEEDS
- Workshop
- The Impact of Public Information on Enterprise,
Government, Research - in the Enlarged European Knowledge-based Economy
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- October 21, 2003
- Bologna (Italy)
2Outline
- NSF Digital Government Program
- Objective
- Background
- Sample NSF Projects
- Ongoing Projects at CIMIC Case Studies
- E-government human-centered business services
NSF - US Customs and Border Control NSF
- Spatially Integrated Coastal Permitting System
NOAA - USEPA Drinking Water Security US EPA
(Environmental Protection Agency)
3NSF Digital Government Program - Objectives
- Partnering leading-edge computer scientists with
forward-thinking government agencies and the
private sector - Explore and develop new information technologies
that will improve the way government serves the
public. - Funding for a a broad array of research
- Funding can serve as the foundation for expanded
studies under additional government funding.
4NSF Digital Government Program - Background
- Goal
- to build a research domain of problems that
intersect traditional NSF Computer/Information
Science research communities and experimental
deployment needs of the Federal information
service communities. - Supports
- Research projects that innovatively, effectively,
and broadly address - potential improvement of an agency,
- Interagency interactions,
- intergovernmental operations and/or
- government/citizen interaction
5NSF Digital Government Funded Sample Projects
- Digital Government Transnational Digital
Government (PI Jose Fortes, University of
Florida, Award Period 2002-05-15 to 2005-03-31,
Amount 1,500,000.00) - A Distributed Information Management Framework
(REGNET) for Environmental Laws and
Regulations(PI Kincho Law , Stanford University,
Award Period 2000-09-01 to 2004-08-31, Amount
1,000,000.00 ) - Digital Government Geospatial Data Mining
Techniques for a Multimedia Integrated Modeling
System (PI Hassan Karimi , Microelectronics
Center of North Carolina, Award Period
1999-08-01 to 2001-07-31, Amount 39,943.00 ) - Database Middleware for Distributed Ontologiesin
State and Federal Family Social
Services(PIAhmed Elmagarmid, Athman
BouguettayaVirginia Tech Purdue University,
Award Period 2000-06-01 to 2004-05-31,Amount
499,998.00 )
6Digital Government Transnational Digital
Government
- Objective
- The domain is drug interdiction, Under an arm of
the Organization of American States (OAS) - the
Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission. - Member states of OAS collect, share and analyze
information in standard ways. - Team
- The US research team Organization of American
States, North Carolina State University, Carnegie
Mellon University, University of Colorado,
University of Florida, University of
Massachusetts - Researchers from universities in Belize, Mexico,
and the Dominican Republic.
7Digital Government Transnational Digital
Government
- Research Impact in the areas of
- spoken dialogue systems,
- data management and security for rule-based data
sharing and filtering, - information retrieval and machine translation,
- middleware to support these transnational
information grids, and - network behavior modeling for acceptable quality
of service. - Impact for EU
- Data management and secure interoperability
across multiple governments
8A Distributed Information Management Framework
(REGNET) for Environmental Laws and Regulations
- Objective
- The Regnet Project will develop a formal,
practical infrastructure to enhance access to
government regulations - The infrastructure includes distributed data
repositories, to create tools to locate, merge,
compare, and analyze the information. - Team
- Involvement of experts in law, computer science,
and civil/environmental engineering.
9A Distributed Information Management Framework
(REGNET) for Environmental Laws and Regulations
- Research Impact
- textual storage,
- semi-structured indexed storage,
- means to resolve semantic ambiguities,
- cross-referencing appropriate for automated
access from relevant legal documents, and - on-line compliance checking of government
regulations. - Impact for EU
- Enhancing access to government regulations for
use by citizens and entrepreneurs
10Digital Government Geospatial Data Mining
Techniques for a Multimedia Integrated Modeling
System
- Objective
- to model the transportation and ultimate effect
of nutrients and chemicals. - Team
- Microelectronics Center of North Carolina
- EPA would be the primary partner agency
- US Geological Survey,
- The Neuse River basin watershed in North Carolina
11Digital Government Geospatial Data Mining
Techniques for a Multimedia Integrated Modeling
System
- Research Impact Planning grant
- Geospatial data mining,
- Searching,
- Extraction techniques for integrated air, water
and land environmental modeling activities in a
distributed environment. - Impact for EU
- Exploring the implementation of Geospatial
analysis and Geospatial data mining for
management of resources such as watersheds and
transportation networks.
12Database Middleware for Distributed Ontologies in
State and Federal Family Social Services
- Objective
- A Web service management system for government
Web services - An infrastructure for uniform, secure, and
privacy preserving access to government Web
services - Help case officers and needy citizens collect
social and welfare benefits to which they are
entitled - Team
- Indiana Family and Social Services
Administration, - The Indiana Dept. of Workforce Development,
- The US Dept. of Health and Human Services.
13Database Middleware for Distributed Ontologies in
State and Federal Family Social Services
- Research Impact
- query infrastructure,
- middleware for the web,
- dynamic inter-ontology support
- Impact for EU
- Secure access to web services in Government
Public health systems - Web service management system for Multi-
government web services
14Case Study I, CIMIC - Rutgers E-government
human-centered business services
15The Context (1)
- The State of New Jersey -- CIO/OIT
- Vision
- Provide the citizen of the state with first-rate
service delivered with a state-of-the-art
technology in the most intuitive, user-friendly,
and efficient manner - Specific Objectives
- Seamless delivery of on-line services
- Government-to-Citizen (G-C)
- Government-to-Business (G-B)
- Government-to-Government (G-G)
- Government-to-Employee (G-E)
- The NJ State Strong commitment for e-government
development and interest (from top to bottom) - Just started a centralized Office of e-Government
within Office of Information Technology (OIT) - Willing to allocate enough resources
16The Context (2)
- Rutgers CIMIC
- works together hand in hand as one team with the
OIT to to help contribute to CIO/OIT vision - focuses on the research and long-term aspects of
some of the issues - leverages its working relationship with relevant
research communities around the globe - develops a proof of concept and evaluation
studies - explore means of transferring some aspects of
the proof of concept to the State
17E-government Project
- Our joint project on this initiative was
eventually funded by NSF ( 1M, 2000-2003) - The Team
- Rutgers Cimic
- NJ State Government
- Columbia
- UMBC
- CUNY
- Small Business Development Center
18Initial FocusBusiness-Related Services
- Business Entrepreneurs
- Opening a new business, reporting, closing,
- Guide entrepreneurs through the process
- generate the exact tasks required for the
specific business, and the sequence in which they
need to be executed, and by which agency
(workflow) - make the entire process transparent to the user
- provide monitoring of the status
- protect the security and privacy of user
information
19Research Building blocks
- Risk Assessment
- Web-based GIS Service
- to locate a business site and
- provide location-related information (zoning
regulation, contamination, transportation,
traffic, etc - Universal Access
- Make MM information available to anyone anywhere,
at anytime - Automatic Service Identification, Composition
Delivery - Ontology
- provide a foundation of terms and mappings
between equivalent terms used by different state
agencies - Workflow System
- Automatically Determining necessary Steps and
identifying forms customized for each
entrepreneur - Decentralized workflow execution
- Flexible level of agency participation
- Negotiations -- E-negotiation
20Risk Assessment
- Choosing a Business Location
- Are there any competing businesses close to my
location? - Is the site strategically located to reach my
customer base? - Clients, employees demographic data, housing
availability - What is the infrastructure transportation,
parking space - Future expansion possibility, Crime statistics,
traffic patterns. - Zoning Regulations.
- Universal Access
21Universal Access(1)
- Users
- Various capabilities
- Physical
- Technical
- Linguistic
- Domain expertise
- Various Characteristics
- Mobility
- Different interests and preferences/profiles
- Use different information appliances (HW/SW)
- e.g., PC, Work station, PDA, TV, Cell phone,
Pager, etc. - Security credentials
- Objects
- Multimedia, e.g., audio, video, images, text,
electric, magnetic, thermal - Complex multi-components with a variety of
relationships among components -- relationships
represent different types of constraints --
Constraints (specified by author of the object
22Universal Access(2)
- Constraints
- Synchronization
- Map A and Video B appear simultaneously
- Spatial Constraints
- Image I is above Text T
- Modality Constraints
- Video B needs a player to be rendered
- Fidelity Constraints
- Map A must be displayed at a resolution of at
least 800600 - Security Constraints
- Sales representative audio and video are accessed
by subscribers only.
23Universal Access Challenge
- Need to facilitate access to desired data of
multimedia, composite objects according to the
various users - Capabilities
- Characteristics
- While at the same time satisfying the objects
constraints (Synchronization, security, etc.)
constraints - UA Objective is to cross these barriers and
enhance communications across disciplines,
languages, cultures -- Make it available to
anyone anywhere, at anytime.
24Automatic Service Identification, Composition
Delivery
- Ontology
- Build knowledge base
- Workflow System
- Utilize Knowledge base for workflow generation
- Execute workflow
25Business Rules
Hidden in WebPages, forms, instructions, manuals,
etc
Applicants who are registering as Sole
Proprietors or Partnerships must file pages
15-17 of the NJ-REG.
If a business requires spray painting more than
1/2 gallon in an hour, it requires air quality
permit and DMV permit.
If there is a hire of more than 1 employee, it
requires to obtain employer insurance.
Please note that the Public Records Filing (pages
21 and 22)may be submitted prior to the
completion of pages 15-17 of the NJ-REG to
establish the Business Entity,but the remainder
of NJ-REG (pages 15-17)must be submitted within
60 days of filing the new business entity.
26Workflow Systems
- Automatic Generation of Customized inter-agency
Workflow - Ad-hoc/dynamic service composition for different
individualized customer situations - Identify required services
- in accordance to regulations
- user preferences/profile
- Glue them according to regulations and other
constraints
27Our Approach Automatic Workflow Composition
- Capture workflow concepts embedded in Regulations
- Services, conditions, ordering steps
- Using hierarchical knowledge structure (ontology
concepts relations) - Automatically constructed from text documents
- Automatically generate a customized workflow
28Customized Workflow generation
Advantages
- Direct the user to the correct agencies forms
and existing online services - Find the correct order
- Customization on each specific business
- Transparent to the entrepreneur
- Easy to understand
29Workflow Systems
- Decentralized Workflow Execution
- Integrate the different systems, while preserving
existing online services and autonomous systems - Build on existing online services
- preserve the autonomy of each agency
- Provide data sharing with Automatic submission of
information to the relevant agency in the right
order - Flexible level of agency participation
- Customize solutions to fit agencys service
environment - Monitoring the complete process
30Data Sharing
- Fill in Data and Send data to the agency
- How to avoid redundant insertion of the same data
in different forms or online services? - Help the user with automatically filling existing
online service forms and pdf forms - Interactive PDF Forms
- FDF Data
- Save time
- Error-checking
- Built on the existing systems
- Allow to automatically extract data from forms
31System Evaluation
- Phase I - Pilot evaluation
- System Revision Current prototype
- Subjects Volunteers from NJ SBDC Workshops
- Instruments On-line survey completed after first
business is created on-line - Phase II Continuous Evaluation/Feedback
- System Revision Based on feedback from Phase I
- Subjects Anyone visiting the demo page
- Instruments On-line survey completed after first
business is created on-line
32System Evaluation Cont.
- Phase III Formal Controlled Experiments
- System Revision Same as Phase II
- Subjects MBA Entrepreneurship students from
Rutgers and Baruch - Instruments
- Controlled lab experiment subjects given a
specific task (types of bus. to open) - Pre-task questionnaire to determine familiarity
with opening a bus. and internet/web - Post-task questionnaire to gauge system
effectiveness
33Strategies (1)
- Approach to the right level of people in the
hierarchy at the right time - Steering Committee Blessing of the high level
officials - Planning, directions and decision making
- Judith Teller (CIO) (Wendy Rayner, former CIO),
Adel Ebeid (CTO), Odysseus Marcopolus (Director,
EGOV) - Focus working groups from different agencies for
technical and development discussions - Sue Colbert (EGOV, manager), Lydia Quill, Lynn
Raleigh, Chris Foley (OIT), (Div ) - Jim Froucio, Jane Coult (Div. Revenue)
- Nat Bender (Small Business Development Center)
- (Dept of Commerce)
- (Dept of Environmental Protection)
- (Department of Labor) (D of Community ..)
34Strategies (2)
- Delicate balance between research and development
- Respect division of labor not stepping into each
others territory - Research team research agenda and develop a
prototype as proof of research concepts - The State maintain their development efforts
- adopt features of prototype for existing systems
- Expand and adjust for full-blown system
35Strategies (3)
- Progress Presentations
- The State
- Monthly business portal meeting among coalition
group - Consolidating web pages and databases from
different agencies - reducing data redundancy and enhancing data
interoperability - Research Team
- Presentations of research results to the
committees - Prototype demos feedback from the State
- Discussion on the technical findings and
transport requirement issues
36Strategies (4)
- How we made them buy into our concepts
- Our system architecture is sensitive to
- Different computing and business process
environment of each agency - Agency specific technical and resource
limitations - Each agency culture and structure
- Dynamism among different agencies
- Our model does not force to conform but considers
the realities - Use existing systems and build upon them
- Lend itself to changes in the existing agencies
37Case Study II, CIMIC Rutgers US Customs and
border Control
38Secure Agency Interoperation for Effective Data
Mining in Border Control andHomeland Security
Applications
- Objectives
- Smart Borders
- Data gathered by US Customs can be mined for
security enhancements -- detect anomalous
behavior that raise red flags - Enhance security aspect of the Automated
Commercial Environment (ACE) system - Spatial and geographical visualization of
information can help Customs inspectors make
better decisions - Award Period 06-01-2003 05-30-2007
- Amount 1,050,000,
39TEAM
- Researchers (partial)
- Rutgers, IT and Political Science
- Columbia University
- Univ. of Illinois
- SAP Corporate Research
- NJ Office of Information Technology
- Office Of Homeland Security
- Domain Experts
- Office of Homeland Security, White House
- Council on Foreign Relations
- Border Research Technology Center, NIJ
- U.S. Department of Justice
- INS, Newark
- U.S. Customs Service
40Secure Agency Interoperation for Effective Data
Mining in Border Control andHomeland Security
Applications
- The Research Impact
- Devises solutions to accomplish secure
interoperation among different government
agencies. - Advances the fundamental research in the areas of
semantic interoperability, data mining and
security enforcement - Partnership with industry(SAP- the prime
contractor for eCustoms Partnership) providing
the opportunity to directly influence the
practical needs of US Customs. - Generalizable development work
41ACE and ITDSMulti-Agency Information Sharing
and Targeting System
ACE/ITDS Creating New Information Flows
Ref.Source http//www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/toolbox/abo
ut/modernization/
42Secure Agency Interoperation for Effective Data
Mining in Border Control andHomeland Security
Applications
- Impact for EU
- Inter-government and inter-agency data sharing
using semantic interoperable and secure
interfaces - Secure Multi-domain and incremental data Mining
and knowledge discovery for use of various
government agencies, supplementing decision
support systems - Spatial data mining for providing mined knowledge
and enhanced visualization for front line
officers and staff - Providing secure and user friendly interfaces for
entrepreneurs and citizens based on knowledge
derived from distributed sources
43Case Study III, CIMIC Rutgers Spatially
Integrated COastal Permitting System
44SICOP
- Objective
- Develop a coastal permit processing system an
electronic consultant. - Provide a single effective electronic interface
for the government agencies and citizens. - Deliver smoother and customizable services.
- Award Period Aug. 2002 Aug. 2003
- Amount 97,000
45SICOP
- Team
- CIMIC RUTGERS
- National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration
- Meadowlands Environment Research Institute.
- New Jersey Meadowlands Commission
- New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection
- U.S Army Corps of Engineers
46SICOP
- Impact
- Simplifies the lengthy and complex process of
compliance requirement identification. - Profile Creation and Collection of individual
development preference - Automated generation and visual representation of
the steps required. - Auto Data completion and relevant Forms fill
up.
47SICOP
- Impact for EU
- Inter Agency interoperability across multiple
governments, - Seamless data transfer and process simplification
48SICOP
49Case Study II, CIMIC Rutgers USEPA Drinking
Water Security
50USEPA Drinking Water Security
- Objective
- Real-Time Monitoring, Modeling Environmental
System - Focusing on drinking water supply and
distribution safety and security
51Regional Drinking Water Safety Security
Consortium (RDWSSC)
- U. S. Environmental Protection Agency
- State of New Jersey Department of Environmental
Protection - U. S. Geological Survey
- American Water Works Service Company, Inc.
- North Jersey District Water Supply Commission
- Passaic Valley Water Commission
- Rutgers CIMIC
52USEPA Drinking Water Security
- Research Impact
- With advanced biochemical sensors, predictive
modeling tools and information infrastructure - Provide decision makers and the public timely
assessments - Ensure the safety and security of EPA-R2 water
supply for future generations -
53Impact for EU
- Water Monitoring with enhanced data management
and analysis - Issuing timely and accurate alarms for
contamination, ensuring the safety and security
of resources - Timely assessments for involved agencies