The 1999 MIT Conference on Information Quality

Conference Program

October 22, Friday

5:00 - 7:00 Registration and Reception at MIT Faculty Club…………………….…E52 (6^th Floor)

Informal Discussions

October 23, Saturday

8:00 - 9:00 Registration and Continental Breakfast………………………………………....E51-345

9:00 - 9:30 Chairs’ Welcome and Opening Remarks……………………………..…………E51-345

Stuart Madnick, Conference Co-Chair, MIT

Richard Wang, Conference Co-Chair, Boston University and MIT TDQM Program

Yang Lee, Program Co-Chair, Northeastern University

Giri Kumar Tayi, Program Co-Chair, SUNY - Albany

9:30 - 10:20 Keynote Speech…………………………………………………………………….E51-345

Sponsored by Diamond Technology Partners, Inc.

Keynote speaker: Dr. John Sviokala

10:20 - 10:45 Coffee Break

10:45 - 12:15 Paper Session 1: Data Quality Management………………………………..……E51-345

Sponsored by Unitech Systems

Session Chair: Madhavan K. Nayar, Unitech Systems

Shaping the FutureBT: Building Enterprise Wide Information

Quality Competency

Nigel H. Turner, British Telecommunications

Certification of Information Services

Marc Rittberger, Universitat Konstanz

Modeling Information Flow for Integrity Analysis

Vijay V. Mandke, Unitech Systems

Madhavan K. Nayar, Unitech Systems

12:15 - 1:15 Luncheon Keynote Speech.………………….……….……………………..……E51-345

Sponsored by American Management Systems, Inc.

Keynote speaker to be announced

1:30 - 3:00 Parallel Paper Session 2A: Data Mining and Data Warehouses……………….E51-372

Session Chair: Yang Lee, Northeastern University

Developing a Framework to Manage Data Quality in Healthcare

Denis Kosar, Prudential Healthcard

Data Bryte: A Data Warehouse Cleansing Framework

Steve Mohan, University of Phoenix

Mary Jane Willshire, SEMA

Hunting of the Snark: Finding Data Glitches using

Data Mining Methods

Tamraparni Dasu, AT&T Labs - Research

Theodore Johnson, AT&T Labs - Research

Parallel Paper Session 2B: Models of Data Quality……………...………………E51-376

Session Chair: Giri Tayi, SUNY - Albany

Do Metadata Models meet IQ Requirements?

Felix Naumann, Humboldt University, Berlin

Claudia Rolker, Forschungszentrum Informatik, Karlsruhe, Germany

A Homogeneous Framework to Measure Data Quality

Monica Bobrowski, Universidad de Buenos Aires

Martina Marre, Universidad de Buenos Aires

Daniel Yankelevich, Universidad de Buenos Aires

On the Social Dimension of Information Quality and Knowledge

Daniel Diemers, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland

3:00 - 3:30 Coffee Break

3:30 - 5:00 Parallel Paper Session 3A: Data Quality and the Web…………………...…….E51-372

Session Chair: Diane Strong, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

The Virtual Mailing List

Elizabeth Pierce, Indiana University of Pennsylvania

Information Quality on Corporate Intranets:

Conceptualization and Measurement

Martin J. Eppler, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland

Peter Muenzenmayer, Credit Suisse Private Banking

Developing a Data Quality Strategy in a Provider of Web-based

Health Information System

J. Gregory Dobbins, HealthMagic, Inc.

Frank Guess, University of Tennessee

Parallel Paper Session 3B: Data Quality in Context…………..………………..E51-376

Session Chair: Leo Pipino, U. Massachusetts, Lowell

Information Logistics: A Data Integration Method for Solving Data Quality

Problems with Article Information in Large Interorganizational Networks

Bas Vermeer, University of Eindhoven, Netherlands

A Methodology for Establishing and Maintaining Quality in Data Context

Robert Tap, Surprise Information Corporation

Establishing an Operational Data Quality Practice: A Follow-up of the Army Medical Department Experience

James B. Houtsma, Fort Sam Houston, Texas

Thomas E. Leonard, Vector Research, Inc.

October 24, Sunday

8:00 - 9:00 Registration and Continental Breakfast………………………………………….E51-345

9:00 - 10:30 Paper Session 4: Emerging Research and Practice……………..………………E51-345

Session Chair: James Funk, S.C. Johnson

Emerging Technologies for Information Quality Improvement

Mostapha Ziad, Suffolk University

Yang W. Lee, Northeastern University

An Information Quality Assessment Methodology: Extended Abstract

Richard Y. Wang, MIT TDQM Program

Diane M. Strong, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Beverly K. Kahn, Suffolk University

Yang W. Lee, Northeastern University

Implementing the Information Quality Survey: A Case

Study at Cedars-Sinai Health System

Alein T. Chun, Cedars-Sinai Health System

Bruce Davidson, Cedars-Sinai Health System

10:30 - 10:45 Coffee Break

10:45 -12:15 Panel Discussion on Data Quality: The View from Academia………….…..….E51-345

Sponsored by Data Quality (Journal)

Session Chairs: Barbara Klein, University of Michigan - Dearborn

Donald Rossin, University of Michigan - Dearborn

Panelists:

Beverly Kahn, Suffolk University

Elizabeth Pierce, Indiana University of Pennsylvania

Diane Strong, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Melissa Tzourakis, Ingenix

12:15 Informal Discussions

End of IQ 1998 Conference