EG 2014 - 1st International Workshop on e-Governance in Service-Ecosystems (EG 2014)

This workshop scientifically addresses e-governance that we define as the set of electronic means for achieving the goals of an organization by performers of interrelated roles with means of service-ecosystems. Electronic means are rules, policies and processes supported by information-system infrastructures. A service refers to a set of related software functionalities that can be reused for different purposes, together with the policies that should control its usage. Organizations may be of private, public, or non-profit nature. Currently, organizations find themselves governed by centralized governance structures that are not aligned with the dynamically changing context within which these organizations operate. As a result, the quality of service is unsatisfactory, the services are too expensive to develop and maintain. Technological innovation may serve as a catalyst for improving such deficiencies. However, there is a lack of systematic approaches for developing and interrelating services of e-governance. In addition, the current technological state of the art offers “new opportunities” such as big data analysis, smart solutions in the Internet-of-Things, agent technologies, service-oriented cloud computing, and so on. Currently, they are underutilized for the improvement of e-governance.
Topics of Interest
include but are not limited to:
Augmented e-governance
Big data for steering decision making
Agent-oriented modeling and simulation
Collaboration models and conceptual modelling
Ecosystems and service- oriented cloud computing
Enhancement means for participation and citizen engagement
Enterprise architectures and best practices
e-governance as a system of socio-technical systems
Governmental decision-making models
Key-performance indicators
Legal aspects of e-governance
Multi-modeling and multi-formalisms
Ontologies and ontology alignment
Open standards (-source) for interoperability
Pervasive infrastructures
Privacy, security and safety related to cross-service behaviour dependability
Requirements engineering for heterogeneous systems
Self-organizing and evolutionary e-governance
Socio-technical collaboration agents
Transformational e-governance and maturity