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With the rapid development of information technology, the computer and Internet had been thoroughly applied in every area of society, particularly in the public administrative management areas, which maximally changed the government operation model and management method and improved the operational efficiency and management quality. Informationalization of the public administrative management has...
The aim of this work is to construct a reference model for application processing in a Moroccan public administration. We used the Zachman framework for enterprise architecture. The chosen case study is the “Economics service and police administration” in the Agdal district of the city of Fez. First, we built the actor diagram that represents the different actor's domain and their goals. Then the...
The regulatory environment is becoming increasingly challenging, dynamic and complex. Modern ICT heavily impacts and shapes governance activities in order to provide policy-makers with precise, trustful and up-to-date information on the field of their interest in a more efficient and effective way. Internet evolution in the last few years has shown that the concept of interconnected data has expanded...
Pervasive computing technologies can enable very flexible situated collaboration patterns among citizens and, via crowdsourcing, can promote a participatory way of contributing to the wealth and quality of life of our urban environments. This position paper firstly sketches a future vision of pervasive computing rich and crowdsourcing-enabled urban environments. Then, it presents several case studies...
An application in modeling a non-lineal system between temperature, humidity and urban airborne air pollution is presented. In this contribution, the implementation of cluster estimation method as a basis of a fuzzy model identification algorithm has been developed. Fuzzy clustering allowed partitioning this complex non-linear system into many linear sub-systems. Finally, comparison of the performance...
This paper presents concepts, ecosystem, research challenges and directions of Social Services Computing. Social Services Computing is an emerging computing paradigm which sweeps through Social Computing, Internet of Things, Services Computing, and Cloud Computing. Physical things, computer systems and social individuals are connected together through dedicate and complex communication and control...
We present a discrete-event simulation model of the response of a local public health department (LHD) to pertussis cases. We take a comprehensive view of public health actions, beginning with detection of an individual patient, confirmation of the case by physician and lab tests, and contact tracing and isolation of contacts by LHD personnel. We explicitly model the information transfer between providers,...
The goal of this work is to evaluate, by means of discrete event based simulation, the impact associated with the adoption of e-Procurement tools across Public Administration. The simulation model presented here involves both traditional and electronic procurement forms. The comparison between the two approaches will point out the benefits of e-Procurement in terms of labor costs, length of time and...
Quasi-Public Project (QPP) is one of the Municipal Infrastructure Project (MIP) with special characteristics. It realizes its marketing goal by means of attracting the participation of private investors who have been stimulated by state subsidy and favorable policies upon Quasi-Public Project (QPP). In this paper, Financing Structure Optimized Model (FSOM) for Quasi-Public Municipal Infrastructure...
Ad hoc network is an essential means of communication in disaster scenes. Validation of new communication protocols for these networks requires exhaustive simulation runs because real life experiences can be performed exclusively during expensive civil protection exercises. The necessity of these simulations calls for realistic and reliable mobility models which take into account numerous aspects...
Many methods have been employed to study Land Use Change (LUC) in different areas, including some new algorithms from Artificial Intelligence (AI) field, such as Case-Based Reasoning (CBR), Artificial Neural Network (ANN), Bayesian Network (BN) and Support Vector Machine (SVM). Applications of some new methods have indicated both advantages and limitations. This paper presents a comparison between...
Crowd simulation for virtual environment can offer useful information to the optimal planning and design process of passenger transfer hub or other public facilities. In this paper we present an integrated navigation approach to control the movements of agents in virtual environment that mimics crowd dynamics in transfer hub. Virtual pedestrian facility model and agent's perception knowledge model,...
Nowadays the simulation of scenarios composed by interdependent critical infrastructures is a challenge. One of the main challenge is how to manage into a single framework heterogeneous and interdependent infrastructures characterized by very different time scales, modeling paradigms and functional behavior. In this paper we propose a two-stage approach, where several sector specific simulators are...
ICT seems well understood as a tool and an infrastructure for delivering information and services for the society and for allowing communications through interactions among the service users -mostly, the digital society. Using ICT for ensuring better life requires far more than good infrastructure, ICT know-how and the various techniques and tools in place. If ICT has to address the real problems...
In this article we present an analysis of the potential for organizational interoperability in a cluster of local government in Portugal consisting of the City Council, the Land Registry Office and the Tax Office of Portalegre. Based on an exhaustive survey of procedures we identified the direct and indirect interactions between these three agencies and measured the rate of organizational interoperability...
Table-top and field simulation exercises are common tools for learning and practicing responses to unplanned IT security and critical infrastructure (CI) events. Preparing, executing and debriefing complex exercises are expensive and time consuming. Computer simulations can generate numerous potential scenarios and focus exercises on those that generate the most informative results. Credible scenarios...
Providing equitable voting experiences across voting precincts has been noted as an important goal in elections. We seek to provide equity to all voters so that no one particular group of voters is disadvantaged or disenfranchised. This paper uses the average absolute differences of waiting times across all precincts as a performance metric for equity. A simulation-based greedy improvement algorithm...
This paper studies mobile devices mediated electronic voting system based on the distributed Pailler's encryptions; We apply the standard cut-of-the-choose technique to avoid the computational zero-knowledge proofs and show that the proposed scheme is efficient yet somewhat provably secure in the simulation-based paradigm.
In this paper, we discuss the experience in the design, use and evaluation of a serious game about participatory management of national parks for biodiversity conservation and social inclusion. Our objective is to help various stakeholders (e.g., environmentalist NGOs, communities, tourism operators, public agencies, and so on) to collectively understand conflict dynamics for natural resources management...
This study presents the concept of urban lifeline to bring a systematical view on major urban utilities and critical infrastructures. System vulnerability caused by the interrelationship among sub-systems is discussed in consideration of the context of emergency response. A modeling and simulation approach to analyze interdependencies is developed.
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