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ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
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A translation approach to portable ontology specifications
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International Journal of Human-Computer Studies - Model—based legal knowledge engineering
A collaborative approach to ontology design
Communications of the ACM - Ontology: different ways of representing the same concept
Frame-Based Conceptual Models of Statute Law
Frame-Based Conceptual Models of Statute Law
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Visualizing argumentation
Visualizing internetworked argumentation
Visualizing argumentation
On the reusability of ontologies in knowledge-system design
DEXA '96 Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications
DEXA '00 Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications
Ontologies: A Silver Bullet for Knowledge Management and Electronic Commerce
Ontologies: A Silver Bullet for Knowledge Management and Electronic Commerce
A Semantic Web Primer
Using ontologies for comparing and harmonizing legislation
ICAIL '03 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Artificial intelligence and law
dg.o '03 Proceedings of the 2003 annual national conference on Digital government research
Knowledge management applied to e-government services: the use of an ontology
KMGov'03 Proceedings of the 4th IFIP international working conference on Knowledge management in electronic government
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Journal of Web Engineering
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This paper concerns the development and use of ontologies for electronically supporting and structuring the highest-level function of government: the design, implementation and evaluation of public policies for the big and complex problems that modern societies face. This critical government function usually necessitates extensive interaction and collaboration among many heterogeneous government organizations (G2G collaboration) with different backgrounds, mentalities, values, interests and expectations, so it can greatly benefit from the use of ontologies. In this direction initially an ontology of public policy making, implementation and evaluation is described, which has been developed as part of the project ICTE-PAN of the Information Society Technologies (IST) Programme of the European Commission, based on sound theoretical foundations mainly from the public policy analysis domain and contributions of experts from the public administrations of four European Union countries (Denmark, Germany, Greece and Italy). It is a 'horizontal' ontology that can be used for electronically supporting and structuring the whole lifecycle of a public policy in any vertical (thematic) area of government activity; it can also be combined with 'vertical' ontologies of the specific vertical (thematic) area of government activity we are dealing with. In this paper is also described the use of this ontology for electronically supporting and structuring the collaborative public policy making, implementation and evaluation through 'structured electronic forums', 'extended workflows', 'public policy stages with specific sub-ontologies', etc., and also for the semantic annotation, organization, indexing and integration of the contributions of the participants of these forums, which enable the development of advanced semantic web capabilities in this area.