Writing
Journal Articles
Saab, D.J. (2009) A conceptual investigation of the ontological commensurability of spatial data infrastructures among different cultures
, Earth Science Informatics, Special Issue on Spatial Data Infrastructures for the Sustainability of the Brazilian Amazon: Integrating People, Information, and Models, 2(4):283-297, Berlin: Springer.
Book Chapters
Saab, D.J. and Riss, U.V. (2009) Logic and Abstraction as Capabilities of the Mind: Reconceptualizations of Computational Approaches to the Mind, In J. Vallverdú (Ed.), Thinking Machines and the Philosophy of Computer Science: Concepts and Principles, Hershey, PA: IGI Global. [Forthcoming]
Conference Papers
Saab, D.J. (2010) The Ontology of Tags, Paper presented at iConference 2010, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, February 3-6, 2010. [QuickTime .mov of the presentation.]
Saab, D.J. and Riss, U.V. (2009) Logic and Abstraction as Capabilities of Mind, Paper presented at European Conference on Computing and Philosophy, E-CAP ‘09, Madrid, Spain, July 2-4, 2009.
Saab, D.J. (2009) Culture as Mediator for what is Ready-to-hand: A Phenomenological Exploration of Semantic Networks, Paper presented at North American Conference on Computing and Philosophy, NA-CAP ‘09, Bloomington, IN, USA, June 14-17, 2009.
Saab, D.J. and Fonseca, F. (2008) Ontological Complexity and Human Culture, Paper presented at Philosophy’s Relevance in Information Science, Paderborn, Germany, October 3-4, 2008.
Saab, D.J. (2008) On the Importance of Cultural Schemas
for Information System Ontologies, Position paper: First US-China Workshop on GeoCollaborative Crisis Management, May, 2008.
Saab, D.J. (2008) An Ethnorelative Framework for Information Systems Design, Proceedings of the Fourteenth Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2008, Toronto, ON, Canada, August 14th-17th 2008.
Saab, D.J., Maldonado, E., Orendovici, R., Tchouakeu, L-M, van Gorp, A., Zhao, K., Maitland, C., Tapia, A.H. (2008) Building global bridges: Coordination bodies for improved information sharing among humanitarian relief agencies, in F. Fiedrich and B. Van de Walle (eds.), Proceedings of the 5th International ISCRAM Conference, Washington, DC, USA, May 4-7, 2008, pp. 471-483.
A.F. van Gorp, L.M. Ngamassi Tchouakeu, C.F. Maitland, D.J. Saab, A. Tapia, E. Maldonado, R. Orendovici, and K. Zhao (2008) VSAT Deployment for Post-Disaster Relief and Development: Opportunities and Constraints for Inter-Organizational Coordination among International NGOs. The 17th Biennial Conference of the International Telecommunications Society. Montreal, Canada, June 24-27, 2008.
Workshops
Saab, D.J. (2008) Trust Me. I’m from a Humanitarian Relief Organization, and I’m here to Coordinate. A presentation given at The First US-China Workshop on GeoCollaborative Crisis Management (GCCM),
Penn State University, University Park, PA, USA,
December 3-5, 2008.
Saab, D.J. (2008) On the Importance of Cultural Schemas for Information System Ontologies. The First US-China Workshop on GeoCollaborative Crisis Management (GCCM)
Penn State University, University Park, PA, USA December 3-5, 2008.
Hoffman, B., Mentis, H., Peters, M., Saab, D., Schweitzer, S., Spielvogel, J. (2006) Exploring design as a research activity, Symposium on Designing Interactive Systems, Proceedings of the 6th conference on Designing Interactive Systems, University Park, PA, June 26-28, 2006.
Peters, M., Haynes, S. Saab, D.J., Mentis, H., Durrant, A. (2007) Exploring design as a research activity, Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI ‘07 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems, San Jose, CA, April 28 - May 03, 2007.
In Progress
Saab, D.J., Tapia, A. Maitland, C.F., VanGorp, A., Maldonado, E., Ngamassi Tchouakeu, L.M., (In progress) “Inter-organizational Coordination in the Wild: Trust-Building and Collaboration among Field Level ICT Workers in Humanitarian Relief Organizations” submitted to Voluntas, 2009.02.28
Zhang, S. and Saab, D.J. (In progress) Ontological Structure of Knowledge as Represented by Tag Networks.
Saab, D.J. (In progress) A Literature Survey and Reconceptualization of Dimensional Models of Culture at the National and Organizational Levels.
Saab, D.J. (In progress) The Ontology of IST.
Saab, D.J. and Riss, U.V. (In progress) Ontological Stratification in the Data-Information-Knowledge Hierarchy.
Saab, D.J., Young, M., and Hayles, K. (In progress) Incentivizing Information Flow in Self-organizing Social Networks during Extreme Events.
Online
Saab, D.J. (2003) Conceptualizing Space: Mapping Schemas as Meaningful Representations, Master’s Thesis, Lesley University, Online: http://www.djsaab.info/thesis/djsaab_thesis.pdf
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Saab, D.J. (1997) The Dance of the Passamaquoddy: A cultural study of the Passamaquoddy Tribe portrayed through the metaphor of traditional dance, Online: http://www.djsaab.info/writing/passamoquoddy.pdf
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