Performance measurement and analysis of parallel applications is often challenging, despite many excellent commercial and open-source tools being available. Currently envisaged exascale computer systems exacerbate matters by requiring extremely high scalability to effectively exploit millions of processor cores. Unfortunately, significant applicati...
Positioning e-government as a discipline is a matter of continuous discussion, and it remains topical to estimate its conceptual integrity and explore the interconnection between the main research contexts, especially due to the emergence of new areas like e-participation. The analysis of the national research programs and their comparison to the g...
Advances in Artificial Intelligence technologies have revived the interest in Chatbots in both the private and the public sector. Chatbots could improve public service delivery by being able to answer frequently asked questions and conduct transactions, relieving staff from mundane tasks. However, previous e-Government research shows that the adopt...
The study aims to highlight the critical role played by E-Government in combating administrative corruption by reviewing successful cases such as India and South Korea and then the Algerian government experience. The study concluded that there is an inverse relationship between e-government and corruption and that e-government contributes to allevi...
Blockchain technology is heralded for improving trust and can provide a new approach for creating transparency and promoting accountability of government activities. However, it is still not clear how and in what ways blockchain technologies can improve this. This study examines the mechanisms and capability of blockchain technology to contribute t...
Under de senare åren har många av de tjänster som har drivits av regering runt om i världen börjat bli mer och mer digitaliserade. Med detta menas att många processer som krävde manuell/fysisk hantering har blivit möjliga att utföra på datorn i hemmet utan att behöva möta företaget eller organisationen direkt. Många av dessa tjänster inkluderar sju...
This study organizes existing research on the public value of e-government in order to investigate the current state and what value e-government is supposed to yield. The two questions that guided the research were: (1) What is the current state of research on the public value of e-government? And (2) What value is e-government supposed to yield? S...
ABSTRACT This paper studied the adoption of information technologies in the higher education area in Portugal, analysing the case of a centenary institution (Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas - Universidade de Lisboa) and trying to understand how its leadership managed and organized the ICT capabilities to deliver value to students...
By analysing the state of affairs in companies and administrative bodies, this book devises the aims and demands of automatising state information requirements. Based on concepts of enterprise application integration and the business rules approach, it defines a software analysis pattern entitled the ‘rules-based mediator’. The author provides a co...
