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In this symposium we invite contributions which tackle theoretical, technical and application aspects of the usage of SW methods for e-Government problems.

Topics of interest comprise, but are not limited to:

· Ontologies for e-Government domain

- Modelling of eGovernment services/processes

- Modelling of regulations

- Modelling of eGovernment users

- Modelling of eGovernment life-events

- Modelling of security and privacy in eGovernment

· Management in eGovernment domain using semantic technologies

- Trust management

- Identity management

- Change management

- Quality management

- Conflict management

· Information integration and Interoperability

- Intra- and inter- government cooperation and integration

- Ontology mapping/merging

- Multi-linguality

- Reference processes

- New methods of interaction

· Semantic eGovernment services

- Application of semantic web services to eGovernment domain

- Quality of eGovernment services

- Business Rules and eGovernment Services

- Policies for eGovernment services

- Discovery and composition of eGovernment services

· Semantic eGovernment systems

- Semantic Collaborative Systems

- Semantic Knowledge Management Systems

- Multi-document knowledge retrieval

- Skill management systems

- Semantic Portals

- Peer-to-peer systems

- Architectures for Semantic eGovernment

· Methodologies and Methods for realizing semantic eGovernment

- Methodologies for developing eGovernment specific ontologies

- Methods for populating eGovernment ontologies (e.g. information extraction)

- Methodologies for knowledge sharing in eGovernment and between eGovernments

- Methodologies for achieving citizens-centric eGovernment

- Methods for multi-channel service delivery

- Methods for smart seamless government

· Adoption of semantic technologies in eGovernment

- Benefits and reasons for the application of semantic technologies in eGovernment

- Organizational implications of usage of semantic technologies in eGovernment (e.g., with respect to risks and responsibilities)

- Evaluation and justification of investment in semantic eGovernment

- Case studies

The Semantic Web meets eGovernment

2006 AAAI Spring Symposium Series

Stanford University, California, USA, March 27-29, 2006

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