October 24, Friday
5:00 - 7:00 Registration
Informal Discussions
October 25, Saturday
8:00 - 9:00 Registration
9:00 - 9:30 Chairs’
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Stuart Madnick, Conference Co-Chair,
MIT
Richard Wang, Conference
Co-Chair, MIT
Diane Strong, Program
Co-Chair, WPI
Beverly Kahn, Program
Co-Chair, Suffolk University
9:30 - 10:20 Keynote
Speech
Edward D. Martin, M.D.
Acting Assistant Secretary
of Defense (Health Affairs)
10:20 - 11:00 Coffee
Break
11:00 - 12:30 Paper
Session 1: Information Quality in the Healthcare Industry
Session
Chair: Richard
Wang, MIT
A Risk Focused Model for Improving Information Quality: Lessons from
the Science of Epidemiology
Colonel Lane A. Ongstad, U.S.
Air Force
Quality Metrics for Healthcare Data: An Analytical Approach
Rema Padman, Carnegie Mellon
University
Melissa Tzourakis, Medicode
Data Quality Improvement: Best Practices in the Military Health
Services System and the U.S. Army Medical Department
Lieutenant Colonel David J.
Corey, U.S. Army
12:30 - 2:15 Luncheon
at MIT Faculty Club
Luncheon Speech
David Starr, Chief
Information Officer, Reader’s Digest
2:30 - 4:00 Paper
Session 2: Information Quality Improvement Frameworks and Methods
Session
Chair: Giri
Kumar Tayi, SUNY-Albany
Metrics for TDQM: The Case of IRI
Rita Kovac, Information
Resources Inc.
Yang W. Lee, Cambridge
Research Group
Leo L. Pipino, University of
Massachusetts, Lowell
A Model for Delivering Quality Information as Product and Service
Beverly Kahn, Suffolk
University
Diane Strong, Worcester
Polytechnic Institute
Richard Wang, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
A Data Quality Engineering Framework
Donna Meyen, MITRE
Mary Jane Willshire,
Colorado Technical University
Paper Session
3: Assuring Information Quality through Software Quality
Session
Chair: Gene
McGuire, American University
Exploring Some Determinants of ES Quality
Tor Guimaraes, Tennessee
Technological University
Youngohc Yoon, Virginia
Commonwealth University
Aaron Clevenson, E. I.
DuPont de Nemours
Formal Aspects of Software Testing and Validation and Interpreting them
in the Context of ISO 9000
K. Viswanathan Iyer,
Regional Engineering College, Trichy, India
Quality - What Does it Mean for Strategic Information Systems
Olayele Adelakun, Inst. of
Information Systems Science, Turku, Finland
Information Quality as a Strategic Asset in Inter-Firm Relationships
Ellen Christiaanse,
Nijenrode University, The Netherlands
4:00 - 4:30 Coffee
Break
4:30 - 6:00 Paper
Session 4: Information Quality Improvement Tools
Session
Chair: Diane M. Strong, WPI
Using P-Charts to Track Data Quality (Some Observations based on a
simulation study)
Elizabeth Pierce, Indiana
University of Pennsylvania
Out of Overinformation by Information Filtering and Information Quality
Weighting
Laure Berti, Universite de
Toulon et du Var, La Gerde cedex, France
A Quantitative Model to Support Data Quality Improvement
Willliam Haebich, G. C.
Simsion, G. R. Bowles & Associates, Australia
A Case Study of Customer Knowledge Management Using Knowledge Cockpit
Jessica Hu, Kuan-Tsae Huang,
Kazashi Kuse, Geng-Wen Su, Ko-Yang Wang, IBM Global Services Consulting Group
Zhen-Qiang Wang, IBM
Research
Paper
Session 5: Data Quality for Decision Making
Session Chair: Leo Pipino, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
The Impact of Data Quality Tagging on Decision Complacency
InduShobha N.
Chengalur-Smith , SUNY-Albany
Donald P. Ballou,
SUNY-Albany
Harold L. Pazer, SUNY-Albany
A Preliminary Analysis of Data Quality in Neural Networks
Barbara D. Klein, University
of Michigan-Dearborn
Donald F. Rossin, University
of Michigan-Dearborn
Teaching Data Quality in the Undergraduate Database Course
Richard G. Mathieu,
University of North Carolina at Wilmington
Omar Khalil, University of
Massachusetts at Dartmouth
6:15 - 7:15 Reception
at MIT Faculty Club
7:15 - 9:00 Dinner at MIT Faculty Club
October 26, Sunday
9:00 - 10:30 Paper
Session 6: Data Quality in Data Warehouses
Session
Chair: Beverly
Kahn, Suffolk University
A Data Quality Handbook for a Data Warehouse
Eva Gardyn, HSBC Asset
Management, Melbourne, Australia
Preparing Data for the Data Warehouse
Stephen M. Brown, Vality
Technology
Foundations of Data Warehouse Quality
Matthias Jarke, Technical
University of Aachen, Germany
Yannis Vassiliou, National
Technical University of Athens, Greece
Paper Session
7: Information Integrity in Databases
Session
Chair: InduShobha
N. Chengalur-Smith , SUNY-Albany
Information Integrity: A Structure for its Definition
Vijay V. Mandke, Indira
Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi
Madhavan Nayar, Unitech
Systems
Propagating Integrity Information in Multi-Tiered Database Systems
Arnon Rosenthal, MITRE
Paul Dell, MITRE
The Impact of Design Flaws
Luiz C. Siqueira, DBE
Software
10:30 - 10:45 Coffee
Break
10:45 -12:15 Views
from Consultants: Where Do We Go From Here?
Session
Chair: Stuart Madnick, MIT
Panelists:
Jerry
Grochow, Chief Technology Officer,
American Management Systems
Dr. James V. McGee, Chief
Knowledge Architect,
.... Diamond Technology Partners
Conference
Summary, Stuart Madnick, MIT
12:15 End of IQ 1997
Conference
Informal Discussions