Conceiving Interoperability between Public Authorities A Methodical Framework

Abstract

An increasing level of cooperation between public administrations nowadays on national, regional and local level requires methods to develop interoperable EGovernment systems and leads to the necessity of an efficient modeling of collaborative business processes and their implementation. In this paper a framework to systematically develop interoperable systems in the public sector is described. The methodology is motivated and explained on the basis of an E-Government reference model for the German Plan Approval Procedure. In this context it is described how cross-organizational business processes can be modeled and transformed to technical process models in the form of Web Service protocols. After a motivation for the need of interoperability frameworks and a description of related work, section 3 introduces the methodical interoperability framework. Further detailing the contents of this framework, section 4 presents a method for the creation of collaborative business processes on a conceptual level. Section 5 changes to the execution level and describes how to implement the conceptual models created before with Web Service protocols. Section 6 concludes the paper and gives an outlook on future research.

Recent Models for Collaborative E-Government Processes: A Survey

“…1) Cost/economics drive: although e-government aims to improve efficiency, effectiveness, cost and transparency, no studies have been found within the list of selected articles that consider economic aspects. 1 (1,9%) Framework [42], [43], [44], [45], [46], [47], [48], [49], [50], [51], [52], [53], [54], [55], [56], [57], [58], [59], [60], [61], [62], [63], [64], [65] 24 (46,2%) Ontology -0 (0%) Metamodel [31] 1 (1,9%) Conceptual Model [66], [36], [35], [67], [34], [33], [32] [68], [69], [70], [71], [72], [73], [74], [75], [40], [76], [77], [39] , [38], [78], [37] [79], [80] 2) Value drive: four articles (7,7%) aimed at adding value on issues such as improving decision making and ...…”

“…[40]) or presented descriptive studies of administrative situations that were presented as models (e.g. [39], [63]), so they were classified in this category. The most addressed model focus has shifted, from Technology and Organization & Process (2008 to 2013) towards Citizen and (some) Technology; strikingly, the initially codominant Organizational & Process has vanished from the literature.…”

“…[41] [66], [44], [47], [72], [80], [52], [53], [75], [55], [56], [81], [82], [61], [38], [64], [33], [65] 18 (34,6%) Organisation & Process [45] [78], [46], [35], [37], [79], [73], [51], [74], [67], [76], [54], [77], [58] , [34], [32] [40], [59], [60], [62], [63] 21 (40,4%)…”

Providing Adaptive and Evolving Government E-Services through Citizen-Centric Process Views

“…Karagiannis and Hofferer [17] have performed a survey looking at the use of meta-models to integrate processed across organizations. Ziemann et al [30] propose a framework to model and transform cross-organizational business processes to technical process model based on web service protocols. The approach involves establishing process descriptions using Event Process Chains (EPC), which is further converted to BPEL syntax.…”

“…We further know that providing citizen-centric organization of services require changes in technology, changes that can significantly affect the direction and progress of applications development, by either enhancing or limiting choices or functionality [30]. Based on that we will discuss the possibilities of an adaptive infrastructure and organization supporting delivery of evolving e-services.…”