E-government

1. Technology Transfer
   • funded by NSF Digitial Government, PI: N. Adam (2004-2005), in collaboration with the New Jersey State Government
   • CoPI: Vijay Atluri, Soon Ae Chun, Patrizia Fariselli, Yelena Yesha
   • Research Associates: E. Portscher, V. Chopra
2. Human-Centered Business Services
   • Funded by NSF 2000-2004, in collaboration with the New Jersey State Government PI: Dr. N. Adam, Rutgers University
   • Prototype development for Decentralized Workflow Execution (with Pietro Mazzoleni), Nov 2000-May 2003
   • Geospatial Workflow Customization for E-government Services (with V. Atluri, F. Artigas, & R. Holowczak), May 2001 - Nov 2001
   • Prototype: Customized Visualization of GeoSpatial Government Regulations (with N. Adam, V. Atluri, F. Artigas, D. Guo, T. Bakirtas), Jan 2002 - May 2002
3. Spatially Integrated Coastal Permitting System (SICOP)
   • Funded by NOAA Coastal Services Center (September 2002 - October 2003), PI: Bob Ceberio, NJMC.
   • SICOP Prototype: Meadowlands Coastal Permit Assistant
   • MERI Research Associate for Proposal preparation
4. Regional Technology Intiative for Municipal Governments
   • funded by NJMC (New Jersey Meadowlands Comission) (PI: Nabil R. Adam), 7/1/2004-6/30/2005, 7/1/2004 - 6/30/2006
   • in collaboration with 14 municipal governments
   • Municipal Government Technology Survey
     • Participants: Vijay Atluri, Soon Ae Chun, Edwin Portscher
   • CIMCOP: Constituent-centric Municipal Government Coalition Portal (2005-2006)
     • Participants: Vijay Atluri, Soon Ae Chun, Jack Dix, Dongho Kim
   • NJMC and Meadowlands Municipal Governements Cooperative Equipment Sharing Program (2005-2006)
     • Participants: Mayank Jain, Sukhrita Sinha, Soon Ae Chun

Web Service Composition and Semanic Web:

• Policy-based Web Service Composition (with V. Atluri and N. Adam, 2003-date)
• Ontology and pragmatic Knowlege for Semantic Web (with Y. Lee and J. Geller, 2003-date)
• Context Model for Pervasive Semantic Web Services (with Y. Lee and J. Geller, 2003-date)

Geospatial Data Security and Privacy

• Partially funded by NSF, PI: V. Atluri (2000-date)
• Geospatial Data Authorization Model (GSAM) (with V. Atluri)
• GeoSpatial Authorization System (GSAS): GSAM Prototype
• Students: Mukesh Sethi, 2003-date

Environmental and Scientific Data Management

• funded by NJMC (New Jersey Meadowlands Comission) (PI: Nabil R. Adam), 7/1/2004-6/30/2006
• Participants: Vijay Atluri, Soon Ae Chun, Edwin Portscher, Pedro Pazevedo, Justin Dix, Vandana Chopra
• Meadowlands Environmental Guide (7/1/2005-6/30/2006)
• MERI Scientific Data Management and Integration (7/1/2004 - 6/30/2006)

Watershed and Water Quality Monitoring Education

• Partially funded by EPA, PI: J. Erenfeld (Aug 2004-date)
• Volunteer water quality monitoring system: data Database construction and Web construction
• Participants: N. Adam, V. Atluri, S. Chun, J. Meiller, J. Der Bedrosian
• Research Assoicates: S. Iyer, V. Chopra

Interagency Resource Sharing

• NJMC and Meadowlands Municipal Government Cooperative Equipment Sharing Program
  • Paula Speers, Bernie Nangle, Vince Rothenburger at NJMC
• Eastern States Transportation Network
  • Stephen Suder; Bruce Waltuck; Glenn Carney; Lynn Jordan
• NJ Interagency Coordinating Committee (NJICC) Intranet
  • with Stephen Suder, NJICC & Delaware River Port Authority and Dan and Tony Lopez, NJMC (July 2003 - date)
  • Intranet for Interagency coordination on purchasing and information sharing
  • Students: Pedro Azevedo, Shantharam Iyer

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Past Projects

NASA Regional Application Center (RAC) Projects

With Dr. Francisco Artigas , September 1997 - 2003.

Satellite image database management , 1997-2000

Content-based Cloud Classification for Satellite Images using NEC image search system CDS (Compressed Domain Search) and NASA RAT (Rapid Application Tool), (with Harold Stone, F. Artigas, R. Holowczak, J. Cho), 1999-2000.

HMDC/ MERI Scientific Data and Metadata Management Project:

With V. Atluri, September 1998-2001.

SS-Tree Indexing and Web Query interface Implementation, Feb 2001-May 2001 (with Chiara Ghirardini)

Indexing experiment for Image database, Spring 2000-Spring 2001 (with Chiara Ghirardini and Dr. Ibrahim Kamel)

Privacy Issues on Geospatial High Resolution Images: 1999-2000

Digital Meadowland Project

With F. Artigas, R. Holowczak, and K. Barrett, May 1999 -2000.

Digital Meadowlands: Meadowlands environmental information system based on geographic locations. The repository contains environmental monitoring data (water, weather data), satellite images, maps, reports (documents) data in NJ Meadowlands area.

Geospatial Metadata Project

with Binto George and Francisco Artigas, March 1999 - July 1999.

Web-based Geospatial Metadata System: creation of geospatial data, and metadata-based retrieval system

Environmental Education Program Scheduling System

With Richard Holowczak , 1997-1998

NJMC Educational program scheduling and report generation system: deployed to HMDC (now NJMC) in January 1998,

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