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E-Government Typologies, Stakeholder Relationships, and Information Systems Support: the case of Services to Employment
No full textThe e-Government label is used to frame several activities, such as e-Service,
e-Administration, e-Voting, e-Participation, e-Democracy. Leveraging the e-Government
“umbrella term” to refer to such set of e-activities (which may be viewed as sub-concepts of
the general e-Government concept) highlights from one side the existence of several interrelated
concepts and on the other side the lack of a well-defined and commonly-accepted
conceptual framework to identify and classify e-Government implementations with respect
to the several “e-Government sub-concepts”. e-Government can be portrayed as an empirical
driven adoption, since all the e-Government sub-concepts share the exploitation of ICT
to support (very) different government activities. In this paper, we classify e-Government
projects according to sub-concepts. Since some public services may be classified both as e-
Service and as e-Administration, while others can hardly be classified, the exploitation of a
general term like e-Government allows for a classification according to stakeholder, relationship
types, and Information System (IS) typologies. The investigated research question
is whether such classification framework can improve the understanding of e-Government
scenarios and can help e-Government project design, reengineering and evaluation activities
by disambiguating the several involved e-Government sub-concepts. We use Services
to Employment as a paradigmatic example of e-Government, due to their inherent nature
and to our experience
Ontology development for run-time safety management methodology in Smart Work Environments using ambient knowledge
Full text linkThis paper presents the development of a decision support system for run-time safety management
in Smart Work Environments (SWEs). Our approach consists of four main phases: (i) definition of
the basic steps of a methodology for run-time safety management; (ii) development of an ontological
knowledge-base of safety in work environments; (iii) definition of constraints on the ontology based on
organizations’ safety protocols; (iv) communication of relevant information to each actor in the safety
management team. We propose a generic ontological model of safety expertise, based on Occupational
Safety and Health Regulations (OSHA), that is employed as Knowledge required in our safety management
methodology based on the MAPE-K (Monitor–Analyze–Plan–Execute and Knowledge) loop. We present
the RAMIRES (Risk-Adaptive Management in Resilient Environments with Security) tool, implementing
this methodology. RAMIRES is developed as a dashboard, supporting the safety management team in
understanding the risk and its consequences, and to support decision making in risk treatment. RAMIRES
interacts with the SWE and the safety management team (actors) in order to: (i) communicate the risks
and preventive strategies to actors; (ii) obtain more data about the observed areas to understand the
risk and its consequences; and (iii) execute the automatic preventive strategies and support actors in
the execution of human-operated preventive strategies. In this paper, we show the details on concepts
designed in the safety ontology and illustrate how these concepts can be extended to provide an abstract
model of a specific use case. Furthermore, we propose the definition of constraints on the ontology
using logic-based rules. Finally, we discuss the advantages and limitations of the proposed methodology
regarding the resilience of the environment
Impact of Legislation on Database Design and Maintenance in Public Administration and Utilities
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