Call for Papers

E-Government is generally defined as the use of information and communication technology in public administrations in order to improve public services and democratic processes. For e-government to succeed, in addition to modernising the front office, attention must be paid in streamlining, re-organising and supporting the back-office processes of public administrations. This complex and interdisciplinary research field requires contributions from different sectors, including the various fields of computer science which provide the enabling technology for the implementation/realization of this new vision of government.

The goal of this TED Conference is to bring together people working in academia, politics and public administrations presenting new developments on back office enhancements for e-Government.

Topics of interest

The conference will put a special emphasis to the following areas:

• Adaptive e-government processes
• Decision support
• Security for e-Government services
• Life-cycle Management for e-Government services
• Cross-border and inter-organizational services
• Data and application integration in the public administration

These areas include but are not limited to the following topics:

• Process Management and Process Integration
• Process Monitoring
• Business Rules
• Harmonisation of Public Registries
• Trustworthiness of Anonymity
• Service Oriented Architectures
• Component Based Applications
• Decision support systems on the Web
• Semantic Web and Web services for e-Government
• Government application integration
• Semantic and technical interoperability
• Integration of heterogeneous data sources
• Knowlege management, data mining, and intelligent systems
• e-Negotiations
• e-Procurement
• Digital divide
• Electronic identity card
• Access control to information and services
• e-Government and multilingualism
• e-Government for small and medium sized government organizations (SMGO)

Paper submission

Papers may describe

• Reports on actual projects: experiences, feedbacks and future plannings.
• Reports on optimization concepts, their legal and technical framework.
• Implementations of optimization concepts in practice.
• Analyses of the impact of optimizations on public administration and citizen behaviour.
• Reports on concepts to improve decision support in knowledge based administrational processes.
• Best practice experiences and case studies

Electronic submissions shall be made via e-mail: . The deadline for paper submission is January 5, 2007.

The preferred format for submission is PDF. Papers should have no more than 10 pages and should be formatted according to the Springer LNCS style (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html).

All paper submissions will be reviewed.

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