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Semantic based P2P System for
local e-Government
Fernando Ortiz-Rodriguez1, Raúl Palma de León2 and
Boris Villazón-Terrazas2
11Universidad
2Ontology
Tamaulipeca
Engineering Group. Laboratorio de Inteligencia Artificial
Facultad de Informática
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
AST 2006
INFORMATIK 2006
Dresden, Germany
Oct 6th 2006
Outline
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Motivation
Main Goals
Related Work
EGO Model
Egoster
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Goals
Functionalities
Application Scenario-DEMO
Conclusions
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Motivation
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Improve services at the back-office
To aid with the document management at
Public Administrations
The possible impact of this application
To help on Developing Countries
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Main Goals
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To reduce the variability curve in
government services
To implement cutting edge technology in
Latin American
To have an ontology model that support
this type of applications
To reduce operative costs
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Related Work
Semantic-based Peer- to-Peer systems
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SWAP Project (Semantic Web and Peer-to-Peer).
Edutella. It focuses on the exchange of learning
material.
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X-Leges System. This is for Legislative document
exchange.
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Related Work
E-Government within the Semantic Web
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DIP Project
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(http://www.egov-project.org)
To specify, develop, deploy and demonstrate an integrated platform for realising
online one-stop government.
WEBOCRAT project
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(http://www.ontogov.com)
To develop and validate a platform that will facilitate the consistent composition,
reconfiguration and evolution of e-government services.
Egov project
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(http://falcon.ifs.uni-linz.ac.at/research/ifip85.html#aim)
To improve the quality of information systems in public administration at
international, national, regional and local levels.
Ontogov project
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To develop and extend Semantic Web and Web Service technologies in order to
produce a new technology infrastructure for Semantic Web Services.
IFIP Working Group 8.5
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(http://dip.semanticweb.org)
(http://www.webocrat.org)
To establish efficient systems providing effective and secure user-friendly tools,
working methods, and support mechanisms to ensure the efficient exchange of
information between citizens and administrations.
HOPS project (http://www.bcn.es/hops/)
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HOPS is a three-year project focused on the deployment of advanced ICT "voiceenabled front-end public platforms" in Europe permitting access for European
citizens to their nearest Public Administration.
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EGO Model
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Different actors within e-Gov.
Public Administration has many processes inside which
should work properly to provide efficient services.
The dynamics of the Public Administration provides a
huge amount of information to be processed and these
data should be managed in a transparent and efficient
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It is necessary to manage this vast amount of information
in a transparent and efficient way.
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EGO Model
Roles:
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The first role is to organize and structure information in
the e-Gov domain, mainly by defining the terms used
The second role is the reasoning and problem solving;
this role basically represents the knowledge of the
domain so that an automated reasoner can represent
problems and generate solutions for these problems,
what implies the use of an inference engine to achieve
specific goals
The third role is the semantic indexing and searching
(where the ontology will represent the contents of
documents) that will enable semantic search for content
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Egoster Goals
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To aid Public Administration to find and
share government documents within the
back office.
To provide interoperability between e-Govs
offices.
To improve citizens-government
interaction.
To offer a scalable technology that could
be adapted to future requirements of the
Public Administration.
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Egoster Functionalities
The government document collection is
located at each public administration office
and is stored locally in the file system of
each peer (i.e. Birthday certificate, realstate transaction documents, etc.).
 Formulating queries
 Routing queries
 Processing queries
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Egoster Functionalities
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Formulating queries
The user can search for legal documents
using simple keyword searches, or using more
advanced, semantic searches. Here, queries are
formulated in terms of two ontologies: (1) the
legal document ontology which describes the
properties of the legal documents, (2) a
geographic hierarchy of local administration
offices (i.e. the Spanish local administration
offices)
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Egoster Functionalities
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Routing queries
The user may query a single specific peer
(e.g. their own computer, because it is the local
administration office where the document
resides, or users may want to query another peer
in particular because this peer is known in
advance as the location where the information
resides), or a specific set of peers (e.g. all the
members under the same manager), or the entire
network of peers (e.g. when the user has no idea
where to search)
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Egoster Functionalities
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Processing queries
In order to process a query, whether
the query comes from the user interface or
from other peers, the peer tries to answer
the query or distribute it further according
to the content of the query.
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Egoster - Application Scenario
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DEMO
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Conclusions
We have presented the Semantic P2P Egoster, even though
this application is at initial state, it has well defined goals
as supporting semantic applications to retrieve legal
documents and on delivering services from the public
administration (within the government) to citizens.
The e-Gov domain does still have many needs: knowledge,
for instance, has not been modeled at all. These needs
represent real challenges for researchers.
We will be focus on further enhancement and evaluation of
the Egoster; we will be centered on the reasoning
capabilities; we will continue integrating the law and
regulation knowledge captured on the EGO Ontology
Model and we will compare the model with other ontology
models.
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Semantic based P2P System for
local e-Government
Fernando Ortiz-Rodriguez1, Raúl Palma de León2 and
Boris Villazón-Terrazas2
11Universidad
2Ontology
Tamaulipeca
Engineering Group. Laboratorio de Inteligencia Artificial
Facultad de Informática
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
AST 2006
INFORMATIK 2006
Dresden, Germany
Oct 5th 2006