Transparent Complexity by Goals

  • Authors:
  • Vytautas Čyras;Friedrich Lachmayer

  • Affiliations:
  • Vilnius University, Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Vilnius, Lithuania 03225;University of Innsbruck, Faculty of Law, Innsbruck, Austria 6020

  • Venue:
  • EGOV '08 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Electronic Government
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Making the teleological structure of e-government explicit can contribute to reduce its complexity. E-government can be viewed from distinct standpoints --- from authorities and citizens, but also from conception and construction. This view of administrative and legal informatics requires paradigmatic changes in the effective development of e-government. We have an impression that a currently dominant normative thinking is not enough to solve specific problems of e-government. Here a new concept of legal teleology is required. We propose to supplement norms and even structural parts of a whole legal system with teleological relations. This will form a separate structural layer of legal knowledge representation. Such a layer can contribute to metadata of legal documents. This is important in the search of legal documents and information retrieval. Proposed notation A te B contains three elements: a basic element A, a target element B and a teleological relation te.