Ontology-based change management in an egovernment application scenario

Abstract

Permanent changes in the environment (political, economical and ecological) cause frequent changes in the governments' regulations that may affect public administration processes, online services and software systems. To reduce "time-to-market" with regard to new decisions, regulations, and law, it is necessary to equip public administration with tools supporting the agile response to changes. In this chapter we present an ontology-based system for managing changes in the eGovernment domain. The novelty of the approach lies in the formal verification of the service description as well as in the usage of formal methods for achieving consistency when a problem is discovered. © 2007 Springer.