Semantic Technologies for E-Government

Dr. Tomas Vitvar is a senior researcher with the Distributed and Parallel Systems group at the University of Innsbruck in Austria. He has over ten years of industrial and research experience gained while working as a software developer, IT architect, systems analyst, researcher and a lecturer. His professional interests are in distributed systems and applications including service-oriented computing, web services and enterprise computing. Dr. Vassilios Peristeras is a research fellow and adjunct lecturer in the Digital Enterprise Research Institute at the National University of Ireland, Galway. His research interests include eGovernment and e-participation, collaborative work environments, social software, and the Semantic Web. Dr. Konstantinos A. Tarabanis is a professor at the Department of Business Administration of the University of Macedonia, Greece. He was Research Staff Member at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center where he worked on e-manufacturing techniques. His current research interests include conceptual modeling of information systems, service models and architectures, as well as the domains of e-government, e-learning, e-participation and e-business. He has received best paper awards from the European Conference on Information Systems for his work in e-government and from the International Academy of e-business for his work in e-business.

• Architectures and Process Integration.- Semantic Technologies for E-Government: An Overview.- Pan-European E-Government Services Architecture.- Employing Semantic Technologies for the Orchestration of Government Services.- The Modelling of Knowledge-Intensive Processes Using Semantics.- E-Government Goes Semantic Web: How Administrations Can Transform Their Information Processes.- ONTOLOGIES AND INTEROPERABILITY.- A Semantic Cooperation and Interoperability Platform for the European Chambers of Commerce.- SEEMP: A Networked Marketplace for Employment Services.- Semantic Repositories for eGovernment Initiatives: Integrating Knowledge and Services.- Toward an E-Government Semantic Platform.- PORTALS AND USER INTERACTION.- Semantic-Based Knowledge Management in E-Government: Modeling Attention for Proactive Information Delivery.- Personalization in E-Government: An Approach that Combines Semantics and Web 2.0.- A Semantically Enabled Portal for Facilitating the Public Service Provision.

From the reviews: "As more and more of the world becomes Web based, special challenges have emerged in implementing e-government applications, especially applying Web 2.0 and related technologies. To help meet this challenge, the European Union (EU) has funded numerous research efforts. This collection of essays describes ... results of these research projects. ... All of the papers are clear and well written. ... an excellent volume that will surely be a very valuable resource for anyone involved in this type of project." (M. D. Derk, ACM Computing Reviews, August, 2010)