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FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS:
TED Conference on e-Government
Electronic Democracy: The Challenge Ahead
Home: http://www.inf.unibz.it/tcgov2005
March 2-4, 2005 Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Jointly organized by:
- European Science Foundation, TED working group
- Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
- City of Bozen-Bolzano
- IFIP WG 8.5 - Information Systems in Public Administration
Aim:
The European Science Foundation (ESF) has established the program
TOWARDS ELECTRONIC DEMOCRACY (TED) with the overall objectives: (1) to
discuss and evaluate how advances of interactive decision-analytic
tools might help develop e-Democracy; (2) to develop e-Government
systems which involve their citizens more fully in the public decision
making process.
As part of this program, a conference on interdisciplinary methods and
techniques related to the TED program is being held in Bozen-Bolzano
in Spring 2005. The conference aims at addressing a large spectrum of
issues that are relevant and have to be investigated for a successful
transition from the traditional form of government to a new form known
as e-Government. The conference has a strong interdisciplinary
character and aims to bring together people from different sectors,
including researchers, technology providers, administrative staff, and
politicians.
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. 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.
Topics of Interest
The conference will put a special emphasis to the following areas:
- Improving citizen participation and policy making (e-Democracy)
- Decision support systems (e-Decision)
- Security aspects 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:
- 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
- Open source in the public sector
- e-Negotiations
- e-Procurement
- Digital divide
- Social and cultural issues
- Political and societal implications of e-Government
- Electronic identity card
- Access control to information and services
- e-Government and multilingualism
- e-Government for small and medium sized government organizations (SMGO)
- Best practice experiences and case studies
Paper Submission
The TED conference welcomes the submission of original research papers
dealing with all aspects of e-Government, particularly those relating
to the areas and topics listed above. We encourage theoretical,
methodological, empirical, application, and best practice papers.
Submitted papers shall not be longer than 4000-4500 words. Authors are
encouraged, but not obliged, to format the submission according to the
Springer LNCS formatting guidelines
(http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html).
Paper submission will be electronic, via the paper submission
page. The only formats allowed for submission are PDF (preferably) or
PostScript. The deadline for paper submission is September 28, 2004.
Each paper will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 reviewers. Reviewing
will be blind to the identities of the authors and their institutions.
Thus, authors' names and affiliations must not appear in the paper and
bibliographic references must be made in such a way as to preserve
author anonymity.
Accepted papers will be presented at the conference and published in
the conference proceedings.
Important Dates
Conference: March 2-4, 2005
Deadline for paper submission: September 28, 2004
Notification of acceptance: November 11, 2004
Final paper submission: December 2, 2004
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
The conference proceedings will be published in the Springer series
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). For inclusion in the
proceedings, the authors will be responsible to produce camera-ready
copies of accepted papers conforming to the LNCS formatting guidelines
(http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html).
Program Committee Chairs
Michael Böehlen, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (boehlen@inf.unibz.it)
Johann Gamper, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (gamper@inf.unibz.it)
Maria Wimmer, University of Linz, Austria (wimmer@ifs.uni-linz.ac.at)
Program Committee
Antonio Albano, University of Pisa, Italy
Elisa Bertino, University of Milano, Italy
Jean-Loup Chappelet, Graduate School of Public Administration Lausanne, Switzerland
Klaus Dittrich, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Mario Fedrizzi, University of Trento, Italy
Gerhard Friedrich, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
Ake Groenlund, Oerebro University, Sweden
Pim Hengeveld, Deloitte & Touche, The Netherlands
Peter Kawalek, University of Manchester, UK
Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Mario Jorge Leitao, University of Porto, Portugal
Alfons Kemper, Technical Univesity of Munich, Germany
Miriam Lips, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Ann Macintosh, Napier University, Edinburgh, Scotland
Peter Mambrey, Fraunhofer-FIT, St. Augustin, Germany
Gregoris Mentzas,National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Carl Erik Moe, Agder University College, Norway
Wolfgang Nejdl, University of Hannover, Germany
Aljosa Pasic, Atos Origin, Madrid, Spain
Vassilios Peristeras, Greek National Center for Public Administration, Thessaloniki, Greece
Wolfgang Polasek, University of Basel, Switzerland, and Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Nineta Polemi, Expertnet, Greece
Reinhard Riedl, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Ahti Saarenpaeae, University of Lapland, Finland
Charles A. Shoniregun, University of East London, United Kingdom
Maddalena Sorrentino, University of Milano, Italy
Pietro Torasso, University of Torino, Italy
Roland Traunmueller, University of Linz, Austria
Contact
For further information visit the Web page at
http://www.inf.unibz.it/tcgov2005, send an email to
info_tcgov2005@inf.unibz.it, or contact:
Johann Gamper
Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Faculty of Computer Science
Dominikanerplatz 3
39100 Bozen, Italy
email: gamper@inf.unibz.it
phone: +39-0471-016140
fax: +39-0471-016009
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