Workshop for eGovernment via Software Services
Groningen, Netherlands
2009

WeGovS2 - Call for Papers

Workshop for eGovernment via Software Services

June 29--July 1, 2009, Groningen, Netherlands

Collocated with 18th IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructures for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE'09)

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Description of the workshop

E-government is a highly important strategic direction to reduce administrative burden and make government more efficient and service-directed. Despite recent achievements in research and actual implementation of e-Government in practice, many more questions still remain on how achieve full interoperability and dynamic reconfiguration of e-government services, with better accessibility, more transparency and manageability.

The Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) paradigm provides necessary theoretical and technological support for the desired electronic government environment to become a reality. It satisfies perfectly the demand for a solution for the highly distributed heterogeneous environment with an enormous number of autonomous services and their providers together with users with their own goals and preferences. Therefore, the combination of the e-Government domain and SOA appears to be natural, as SOA provides an ideal platform to achieve the goal of a citizen-oriented and citizen-centric government organization.

This workshop will provide a forum to discuss how the SOA paradigm may facilitate further advances in e-Government research as well as best practice examples of already implemented and applied solutions in the context of e-Government. In this workshop we expect theoretical, technical and implementation contribution on all aspects of the application of SOA for e-Government problems and issues. The workshop welcomes contribution on the following topics, though other related contributions are also welcome:

• Service-Oriented Architectures for eGovernment;
• Quality of Service in eGovernment platforms;
• Methodology and tools for variability management in eGovernment;
• Assessments of eGovernment tools and solutions;
• Security, privacy and trust
• Interoperability in eGovernment
• Onotolgies for eGovernement
• e-service delivery - government to citizen
• Social, technical, and economical aspects of eGovernment
• eProcurement
• eParticipation and eCitizenship
• eDemocracy
• eVoting
• Acceptability issues in eGovernment;
• Case studies and best practices.

Submission guidelines

Papers up to six pages (including figures, tables and references) can be submitted. Papers should follow the IEEE format, which is single-spaced, two columns, 10 pt font. Papers should include a title, the name and affiliation of each author, an abstract of up to 150 words and no more than eight keywords. Please submit papers, in PDF or PS format, to either of the local chairs (mail). All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by a minimum of three program committee members. The accepted papers and the summary report produced by each group will be published in the conference proceedings (to be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press). If you have further questions or remarks, please do not hesitate to contact the workshop organizers.

Relevance to the conference theme

The workshop's primary topic is an adaptation of SOA research results in the context of e-Government. As the WETICE primary interest this year deals with services and service applications, the workshop suits perfectly WETICE main theme. E-government demand for a solid infrastructure in the collaborative environments provides an additional interest for expected workshop participants to attend co-located WETICE workshops, and vice versa.

Expected duration of the workshop is 1 day.

Names and contacts of the workshop organizers

• Alexander Lazovik, , contact person
• Hans Wortmann,
• Paris Avgeriou,