OWLSGOV: An owl-s based framework for E-government services

Abstract

The development of e-Government services becomes a big challenge of many countries of the world. However, in a distributed environment such as the egovernment area, different interactions are made between heterogeneous systems. Therefore, a system that enables developing, integrating, discovering and executing these services is necessary. For this purpose, we present in this paper an approach for developing efficiently the e-government services based on semantic web services (SWS) technology and Multi-Agent Systems (MAS). In fact, the SWS enrich web services with semantic information (meaning) to facilitate the discovery, integration, composition and execution of services. The MAS enable building an environment in which the public administrations can publish their services, users (e.g. citizens) can express their needs and services can be discovered. In this paper, we present our framework for semantic description of e-government services based on SWS and on OWL-S framework in particular. We present as well the architecture of a MAS, which allows improving the dynamic usage processes of e-government services such as integration and discovery.