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A multi-agent system for efficiently managing query answering in an e-government scenario

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Pasquale De Meo,

Giovanni Quattrone,

Hind Fadil,

Domenico UrsinoAuthors Info & Claims

SAC '06: Proceedings of the 2006 ACM symposium on Applied computing

Pages 308 - 312

https://doi.org/10.1145/1141277.1141350

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This paper aims at studying the exploitation of the Intelligent Agent technology for supporting citizens in their access to e-government services. It appears particularly suited in the present e-government scenario characterized by a huge amount of heterogeneous data and services, delivered by government agencies, that makes difficult to quickly answer citizen queries. In this paper we show that the exploitation of the Intelligent Agent technology facilitates the search of information on government data sources in such a way to completely and precisely satisfy citizen queries. Our system creates and maintains suitable profiles of involved users, representing their preferences and exigencies; in addition, it adopts suitable algorithms that exploit information stored in citizen profiles for producing recommendations.

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De Meo PFiumara GNocera AUrsino D(2012)The Role of Schema and Document Matchings in XML Source ClusteringXML Data Mining10.4018/978-1-61350-356-0.ch006(125-153)Online publication date: 2012
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Mellouli SBouslama F(2009)Multi-agent based framework for e-governmentElectronic Government, an International Journal10.1504/EG.2009.0244416:2(177)Online publication date: 2009
https://doi.org/10.1504/EG.2009.024441

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DOI:10.1145/1141277

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Gamlo ABamasak O(2018)A multi-tier framework for securing e-transactions in e-government systems of Saudi ArabiaInternational Journal of Electronic Finance10.1504/IJEF.2011.0404575:2(126-149)Online publication date: 13-Dec-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1504/IJEF.2011.040457
De Meo PFiumara GNocera AUrsino D(2012)The Role of Schema and Document Matchings in XML Source ClusteringXML Data Mining10.4018/978-1-61350-356-0.ch006(125-153)Online publication date: 2012
https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61350-356-0.ch006
Mellouli SBouslama F(2009)Multi-agent based framework for e-governmentElectronic Government, an International Journal10.1504/EG.2009.0244416:2(177)Online publication date: 2009
https://doi.org/10.1504/EG.2009.024441

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