Towards building a semantic grid for E-government applications

  • Authors:
  • Wenyu Zhang;Yan Wang

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Information, Zhejiang University of Finance & Economics, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China;School of Information, Zhejiang University of Finance & Economics, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

  • Venue:
  • WSEAS Transactions on Computer Research
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Nowadays, there is a growing number of e-government portals and solutions that provide integrated governmental e-services to the customers (citizens, enterprises or other public sectors). However, the administration and interoperability of distributed e-government nodes are faced with increasing challenges caused by the service-oriented modeling difficulties and ontological issues in distributed computing, resource integration and knowledge sharing over heterogeneous computing platforms. To overcome this, a Semantic Grid infrastructure is presented in this paper for distributed management of e-government resources across ubiquitous virtual governmental agencies. An ontology-based service-oriented approach to problem-solving in e-government is proposed in the Semantic Grid, enabling to provide, in an open, dynamic, loosely coupled and scalable manner, the service publication, discovery and reuse for connecting the customers and agencies of e-government services based on their semantic similarities in terms of problem-solving capabilities. The operation of the system is demonstrated using Protégé-2000, a widely accepted ontology modeling tool to validate the implementation of the proposed approach towards effective ontological maintenance.