WI-IATW '06 Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM international conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology
A knowledge-based approach for developing multi-channel e-government services
Electronic Commerce Research and Applications
Utilization of intelligent agents for supporting citizens in their access to e-government services
Web Intelligence and Agent Systems
Advances in Human-Computer Interaction
Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance
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The planning and subsequent nationwideimplementation of E-government service provisioningfaces a number of challenges at the level of municipalitiesin the Netherlands. Initiatives are confronted with ahighly fragmented ICT-architecture that has beenvertically organized around departments and with hardlyany common horizontal functionality. This situation iseven further enforced by a defacto duopoly on thesoftware market of information systems used bymunicipalities. The provision of services over web-basedchannels leads to a need for a more flexible, open ICT-architecturebased on standardized elements.The goal of the research presented in this paper is todetermine the feasibility of a component-based approachto meet the aforementioned challenge for a more flexible,open ICT architecture. The research consisted of twoparts (1) the identification of opportunities for genericcomponents in the ICT-architecture of municipalities and(2) supporting the evaluation of these opportunities usingsimulation.