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This paper dealt with the topic of E-government and E-participation aiming to provide the technologies and tools for more efficient public administration systems and more participatory decision processes. Public administrations are considered the heaviest service industry worldwide. During the last decades, governments all over the world have undertaken huge investments in information and communication...
Service discovery has always been a challenging task in the service oriented computing. Many approaches have already been put forward for the semantic service discovery or matchmaking task, where each approach uses it's own logical formalism for service descriptions and user goals (i.e. formalized user request). As formalized service descriptions and user requests are used by the matchmaking process,...
The aim of this paper is to provide a better understanding on the role of interoperability in eGovernment applications. The focus of interest is on eGovernment applications involving more than one agency or heterogeneous technical infrastructures. The main research objective is to reveal contemporary, interoperability-related, obstacles and implementation decisions and trends in eGovernment applications...
Semantic Web service (SWS) ontologies and tools are used in a generic fashion that is supposed to cover all different application domains. As such they have not supported until now the expression of domain specific semantics. However, the adoption of SWS in different domains, i.e. eGovernment, eBusiness, creates the need for instantiating and enhancing the generic SWS descriptions and tools with domain...
Semantic Web Service (SWS) editors did not support until now the expression of domain specific semantics. On the other hand, the adoption of SWSs in different domains, i.e. eGovernment, eBusiness, has created the need for enhancing SWS descriptions with domain specific semantics. Therefore, models and tools that allow this integration have to be developed. The WSMO-PA Service Editor is an effort made...
This paper deals with applying semantic Web technologies to the social Web can lead to a social semantic Web, creating a network of interlinked and semantically rich knowledge. One of the most visible trends on the Web is the emergence of social Web sites, which help people create and gather knowledge by simplifying user contributions via blogs, tagging and folksonomies, wikis, podcasts, and online...
In this paper we present a top level public administration (PA) domain ontology. For this purpose we employ the generic public service object model of the governance enterprise architecture (GEA) providing PA domain specific semantics. We represent this service model using the Web ontology language (OWL). This domain ontology may serve as the knowledge base for eGovernment semantic Web applications...
In this paper we propose a way to facilitate the issue of discovering the eGovernment services that address a citizen's need. This approach is implemented in an application, which we call a semantic portal. The semantic portal is part of our SemanticGov project architecture. The portal's components and its architecture are presented and explained. The portal's conceptual modeling is based on the generic...
In this paper we present a generic public administration (PA) domain ontology. We define a formal model for a public administration service on the basis of the Web service modeling ontology (WSMO). For this purpose we employ the generic public service object model of the governance enterprise architecture (GEA) providing PA domain specific semantics. We describe the ontology using the Web service...
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