Semantic Technologies for E-Government

From the reviews:

“As more and more of the world becomes Web based, special challenges have emerged in implementing e-government applications, especially applying Web 2.0 and related technologies. To help meet this challenge, the European Union (EU) has funded numerous research efforts. This collection of essays describes … results of these research projects. … All of the papers are clear and well written. … an excellent volume that will surely be a very valuable resource for anyone involved in this type of project.” (M. D. Derk, ACM Computing Reviews, August, 2010)

Dr. Tomas Vitvar is a senior researcher with the Distributed and Parallel Systems group at the University of Innsbruck in Austria. He has over ten years of industrial and research experience gained while working as a software developer, IT architect, systems analyst, researcher and a lecturer. His professional interests are in distributed systems and applications including service-oriented computing, web services and enterprise computing.

Dr. Vassilios Peristeras is a research fellow and adjunct lecturer in the Digital Enterprise Research Institute at the National University of Ireland, Galway. His research interests include eGovernment and e-participation, collaborative work environments, social software, and the Semantic Web.

Dr. Konstantinos A. Tarabanis is a professor at the Department of Business Administration of the University of Macedonia, Greece. He was Research Staff Member at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center where he worked on e-manufacturing techniques. His current research interests include conceptual modeling of information systems, service models and architectures, as well as the domains of e-government, e-learning, e-participation and e-business. He has received best paper awards from the European Conference on Information Systems for his work in e-government and from the International Academy of e-business for his work in e-business.