EGovBook 2014 - EGovBook 2014 : Democratic Strategies and Citizen-Centered E-Government Services

Editors
Cemal Dolicanin, State University of Novi Pazar, Serbia
Ejub Kajan, State University of Novi Pazar, Serbia
Dragan Randjelovic, Academy for Criminalistic and Police Studies, Serbia
Boban Stojanovic, University of Niš, Serbia
Call for Chapters
Proposals Submission Deadline: October 15, 2013
Full Chapters Due: January 30, 2014
Submission Date: May 30, 2014
Introduction
E-Government is rapidly changing the way governmental services are provided to citizens and businesses, over the last years. The increasing number of data, regulations, policies and their updates is resulting by a huge number of semi-structured heterogeneous documents including semantic and multilingual problems, etc. On the other hand, globalization, migration, financial crisis, climate changes and other natural hazards that may happen either locally or across the globe are putting new challenges to e-government, e.g. how to provide accurate information to citizens with respect to their constitutional laws and to businesses with respect to desired economic growth.
Aside from the financial costs and threats to the success of E-government are challenges that have often been overlooked or ignored. E.g. governments have not employed many democratic strategies in tailoring e-government services to match citizen’s and/or business requirements. Additionally, different or even the same levels of governments are suffering by too much heterogeneity of data and standards in use.
The objective of this book is to address which services in e-government should be provided to users and how: i.e. dealing with existing data, new data acquisition, even in real time, and intelligent data bringing to either citizens or to business in an accurate, timely and secure manner. At the same time the interoperability within an e-government, in B2G and B2C domain should be at the highest possible level. To achieve these goals the effective usage of advanced Web technologies such as crowdsourcing, data mashup, ontologies, Web services, Internet of Things and their power effective combination should be analyze, develop and deploy in e-government services. Despite the common interoperability goals above in depth analysis of specific domain requirements should also be taken into account.
New approaches, including thinking about new possibilities for the Internet of Things and the Internet of Services and for “cloud oriented” approaches is also of real interest to researchers who hope to solve these problems. E-Government applications play a part in the evolution of future technologies, promise a new way to share and discover information, and may improve business and government exchange capability. Moving toward real business intelligence, many researchers hope to discover where intelligent agents and Semantic Web technologies fit in now and how they support the goal of improving Electronic government services at the highest possible level.
Objective
The book will give an overview of the latest achievements in the field, provide in-depth analysis of and research on the development and deployment of cutting-edge applications, and provide insight into future trends.
Target Audience
The subject of the book is one of the hot topics in electronic government, electronic business and IT research. The target audience of this book will be composed of researchers, teachers, advanced undergraduates, and PhD students in various e-business and computer science programs.
Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
Methods, theories and algorithms for decision making
Mathematical foundation for decision making
Multiple-criteria decision making
Algorithms for decision making
E-Government documents
Data structures exchanged, data-semantics, multilingual challenges
Data normalization
Data clustering
Interoperability issues of government data exchange
XMLschema matching of e-government documents inside and with e-business systems
Web services for e-government documents
Mediation of e-government documents
Semantic definitions of e-government documents and product
Ontology-based development, representation and alignment
E-Business Processes in E-Government
Business Process Modeling (Concepts and Tools)
Business Process Orchestration, Choreography and Collaboration
Semantically-Enabled Business Processes
Artifact-based Business Processes
Business Process Ontology
Towards Reference Ontology for Business Processes
Advanced Internet technologies and their impact on E-Government
Web 2.0 for E-Government services
Approaches to the publication of services
Approaches to the publication of “things”
Earlier adoptions
Semantic definitions of services
Early standards efforts on IoT and IoS
Theory, practice and vision of agent’s deployment in electronic government
Security and trust in E-Government
Main issues and challenges for security and trust in E-Government
The fight against cyber-crime: methods, tools and applications
Standardization development, dissemination, relevance, quality and costs in e-Government
Types, roles and relevance of standardization bodies
Organization and standardization of the development process
Relations between standards
Quality metrics for standards
Economic aspects of using standards
Domains, concepts and experiences
(projects, results, methods, organization, lessons learned)
citizen services
G2B services
e-health
Disaster management
Lessons learned and To Dos
Submission Procedure
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before TBD, a 2-3 page chapter proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by TBD about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by TBD. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project. Additional information regarding this publication can also be found at link (TBD)
Publisher
This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the “Information Science Reference” (formerly Idea Group Reference), “Medical Information Science Reference,” “Business Science Reference,” and “Engineering Science Reference” imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. This publication should be released in 2014.
Important Dates:
October, 15, 2013: Proposal Submission Deadline
November 1, 2013: Notification of Acceptance
January 30, 2013: Full Chapter Submission
March 30, 2014: Review Results Returned
April 30, 2014: Revised Chapter Submission
May 15, 2014: Final Acceptance Notification
May 30, 2014: Submission of Final Chapters
Editorial Advisory Board Members
Dr Alberto Asquer, University of London, UK
Dr Slobodanka Djordjevic-Kajan, University of Nis, Serbia
Dr Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands
Dr In Lee, Western Illinois University, USA
Dr Thurasamy Ramayah, University Sains Malaysia, Malaysia
Dr Jelena Stankovic, University of Niš, Serbia
Dr Milija Suknovic, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Dr Zhaohao Sun, University of Ballarat, Australia
Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document):
Prof. Dr. Ejub Kajan
Department of Technical Sciences
State University of Novi Pazar, Serbia
Tel.: +381 20 337 201 ? Fax: +381 20 337 669
E-mail: ejubkajan-AT-sbb.rs
E-mail: kajane-AT-acm.org
and/or
Prof. Dr. Ćemal Dolićanin
Department of Mathematical Sciences
State University of Novi Pazar, Serbia
Tel.: +381 20 337 201 ? Fax: +381 20 337 669
E-mail: cdolicanin-AT-np.ac.rs
and/or
Prof. Dr. Dragan Randjelović
Academy for Criminalistic and Police Studies, Belgrade, Serbia
E-mail: dragan.randjelovic-AT-kpa.edu.rs
and/or
Prof. Boban Stojanović
University of Nis
Faculty of Economics
E-mail: boban.stojanovic-AT-eknfak.ni.ac.rs