Programmable messaging for electronic government - building a foundation

  • Authors:
  • Elsa Estevez;Tomasz Janowski

  • Affiliations:
  • Center for Electronic Governance, United Nations University, International Institute for Software Technology, Macau;Center for Electronic Governance, United Nations University, International Institute for Software Technology, Macau

  • Venue:
  • Formal methods and hybrid real-time systems
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Electronic Government offers citizens and businesses a single interface to all public services, implemented through cross-agency processes and applications. This paper presents a fragment of a software infrastructure that enables agencies to collaborate in the delivery of public services, responsible for automated, process-driven exchange of messages between applications. In addition to basicmessage exchange, the infrastructure supports high-level messaging through dynamically-enabled horizontal (process independent) and vertical (process dependent) extensions. In particular, the paper presents a fragment of a semantic model to formalize the process of specifying and implementing messaging extensions, and demonstrates a prototype implementation of this model to underpin a reliable delivery of government services.