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Organizational engineering in public administration: the state of the art on eGovernment domain modeling

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Vassilios Peristeras,

Nikolaos Loutas,

Konstantinos TarabanisAuthors Info & Claims

SAC '08: Proceedings of the 2008 ACM symposium on Applied computing

Pages 580 - 587

https://doi.org/10.1145/1363686.1363825

Published: 16 March 2008 Publication History

Abstract

Society nowadays demands processes in public organizations to be reengineered so that they become more flexible, effective and efficient. Public Administration (PA) is a huge organization with several different activities, with stakeholders that may have conflicting interests or different priorities etc. The application of the organizational engineering approaches in the PA domain can help towards its modernization. One initial step to this direction is to create the appropriate domain models as generic and reusable representations so as to use them as blueprints for modeling the organizations of interest. In this work, we have included the state-of-the-art in eGovernment domain models. We have grouped these initiatives to the following three categories depending on their modeling perspective: object, process and holistic and assess their pros and cons.

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Index Terms

Organizational engineering in public administration: the state of the art on eGovernment domain modeling
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Modeling and simulation
    1. Simulation theory
      1. Systems theory
2. Mathematics of computing
  1. Information theory

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GERONTAS APERISTERAS VTAMBOURIS EKALIVA EMAGNISALIS ITARABANIS K(2021)Public Service Models: A Systematic Literature Review and SynthesisIEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing10.1109/TETC.2019.29394859:2(637-648)Online publication date: 1-Apr-2021
https://doi.org/10.1109/TETC.2019.2939485
Zhang X(2012)The use of geographic information system in local government's modernisationTransforming Government: People, Process and Policy10.1108/175061612112469356:2(206-222)Online publication date: 25-May-2012
https://doi.org/10.1108/17506161211246935
Ntaliani MCostopoulou CKaretsos STambouris ETarabanis K(2010)Agricultural e-government services: An implementation framework and case studyComputers and Electronics in Agriculture10.1016/j.compag.2009.09.00870:2(337-347)Online publication date: Mar-2010
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compag.2009.09.008

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