October 25, Friday
12:00 - 1:00 Registration
1:00 - 1:20 Chair’s
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Richard Wang, Co-Director
for MIT’s TDQM Program
1:20 - 2:00 Keynote
Speech
Rakesh Kaul, President &
CEO, Hanover Direct, Inc.
2:00 - 2:15 Coffee
Break
2:15 - 3:45 State
of the Art Research in Information Quality
Session
Chair: Arie Segev, University of California, Berkeley
Data Quality Research at SUNY-Albany
Donald Ballou, Harold Pazer,
and Giri Kumar Tayi
State University of New
York, Albany
TDQM Research at MIT
Yang Lee and Richard Wang,
MIT
Leo Pipino, University of
Massachusetts, Lowell
Diane Strong, Worcester
Polytechnic Institute
3:45 - 4:00 Coffee
Break
4:00 - 5:30 State
of the Art Practice in Information Quality
Session
Chair: Stuart Madnick, MIT
Data Quality and Systems Theory
Ken Orr, Ken Orr Institute
Knowledge Cockpit - Visualizing Knowledge Quality and Management
K.T. Huang, Director,
Worldwide Knowledge
Management
and Asset Reuse, IBM Consulting Group
How Will You Transform Legacy Data into an Information Asset?
Stephen Brown, Vality
Technology
6:00 - 7:00 Reception
at MIT Faculty Club
7:00 - 9:00 Dinner at MIT Faculty Club
October 26, Saturday
8:15 - 10:00 Research
Paper Session I
Session
Chair: Richard Mathieu, University of North Carolina,
Wilmington
On Information Quality and the WWW Impact: A Position Paper
Arie Segev, University of
California, Berkeley
Conditions for the Detection of Data Errors in Organizational
Settings: Preliminary Results from a Field Study
Barbara Klein, University of
Michigan-Dearborn
Dale Goodhue and Gordon
Davis, University of Minnesota
Can You Defend Your Information in Court?
Richard Wang and Yang Lee,
MIT
Diane Strong, Worcester
Polytechnic Institute
Practice
Paper Session I
Session
Chair: Tom Redman, Navesink Consulting Group
Data Quality in Practice: Experience from the Front Line
Chris Firth, Citibank,
Singapore
Competing with Quality Information
Alan Matsumura and Nadia
Shouraboura
Diamond Technology Partners
The Health Care Industry and Data Quality
Melissa Tzourakis, Medicode,
Inc.
10:00 - 10:15 Coffee
Break
10:15 -12:00 Research
Paper Session II
Session
Chair: Leo Pipino, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Estimating the Quality of Data in Relational Databases
Amihai Motro and Igor Rakov,
George Mason University
Knowledge Quality Assurance in Medical Data Mining
Vassilis Moustakis and
Loukas Tsironis
Technical University of
Crete, Greece
Systems Approaches to Improving Data Quality
Levant Orman, Cornell
University
Veda Storey, Georgia State
University
Richard Wang, MIT
Practice Paper Session II
Session
Chair: Larry Cobler, Vector Research Inc.
Data Quality Assurance Activities in the Military
Health Services System
David Corey, US Army
Larry Cobler, Thomas
Lonsdale & Karen Haynes
Vector Research Inc.
DoD Guidelines on Data Quality Management
Phil Cykana, Alta Paul &
Miranda Stern
Defense Information Systems
Agency
Beyond Security: A Data Quality Perspective on Defensive
Information Warfare
Peter Kaomea, Susan Hearold
& Ward Page, NCCOSC, US Navy
12:00 - 2:00 Luncheon
at MIT Faculty Club
Luncheon Speech: Key Challenges in Information Quality
Stuart Madnick, MIT
2:00 -3:45 Research
Paper Session III
Session
Chair: Beverly Kahn, Suffolk University
Managerial Issues in Data Quality
Donald Ballou and Giri Kumar
Tayi
State University of New
York, Albany
A TQM Approach to the Improvement of Information Quality
Ron Dvir, ECI Telecomm,
Israel
Stephen Evans, Cranfield
University, England
A Data Quality Engineering Process
Donna Meyen, The MITRE
Corporation
Mary Jane Willshire,
Colorado Technical University
Practice
Paper Session III
Session Chair: David Eddy, Niche Software Products
Data and Information Quality: Will the New York Times
ever “Get It”?
James Hurysz, Data Quality
Journal
Name and Address Data Quality
Sophie Allen, MasterSoft
Research Pty Ltd, Australia
TDQM Versus the Edifice Complex in Data Warehousing
Max Hansen, Max Hansen and Associates
3:45 - 5:00 End
of IQ 1996 Conference
Informal Discussions