[agents] CFC: Democratic Strategies and Citizen-Centered E-Government Services

[Ejub Kajan]

CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS
Proposal Submission Deadline: October 15, 2013
Democratic Strategies and Citizen-Centered E-Government Services
A book edited by
Dr. Ćemal Dolićanin (State University of Novi Pazar, Serbia)
Dr. Ejub Kajan (State University of Novi Pazar, Serbia)
Dr. Dragan Randjelović (Academy for Criminalistic and Police Studies,  
Belgrade, Serbia)
Dr. Boban Stojanović (University of Nis, Serbia)


To be published by IGI Global:
  http://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/1043

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 of the Book
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 October  
15, 2013, 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 October 30, 2013 about the status of their proposals  
and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by  
January, 30, 2014. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a  
double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as  
reviewers for this project.

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 is anticipated to be released in 2014.

Important Dates
October, 15, 2013: Proposal Submission Deadline
November 1, 2013: Notification of Acceptance
January 30, 2014: 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. Yannis Charalabidis, University of the Aegean, Greece
Dr. Slobodanka Djordjevic-Kajan, University of Nis, Serbia
Dr. Jingshan Huang, University of South Alabama, USA
Dr. Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands
Dr. In Lee, Western Illinois University, USA
Dr. Alfred Loo, Lingan University Hong Kong, China
Dr.  Ma Antonia Martinez-Carreras, University of Murcia, Spain
Dr. Inty Sáez Mosquera, Universiity Central "Marta Abreu" de Las Villas,  
Cuba
Dr. Thurasamy Ramayah, University Sains Malaysia, Malaysia
Dr. Goran Shimic, Military Academy Belgrade, Serbia
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)  
to:
Dr. Ejub Kajan
E-mail: kajane at acm.org


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