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Search Computing for E-government

Authors:
Alessandro Campi
Matteo Aletti
Yao Cheng
Edoardo Colombo
Piero Franceschini
Mariangela Rizzo
Davide Sanapo

Keywords: search; integration; query; e-government

Abstract:
People shop online, compare online, book hotels and flights online. This happens because the data needed to complete these tasks are easily accessible, and a lot of Web sites allow users to query the Web to obtain enough information to be confident. The aim of this work is to propose a framework tailored to extend the internet revolution to public administration. This work is the first step towards an infrastructure allowing people to know in a very easy way the information they need. This paper exploits the Search Computing paradigm. It is a new way for composing data. While state-of-art search systems answer generic or domain-specific queries, Search Computing enables answering questions via a constellation of cooperating data sources, called search services, which are correlated by means of join operations. Search Computing aims at responding to queries over multiple semantic fields of interest; thus, Search Computing fills the gap between generalized search systems, which are unable to find information spanning multiple topics, and domain-specific search systems, which cannot go beyond their domain limits.

Pages: 71 to 74

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2013

Publication date: July 21, 2013

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4227

ISBN: 978-1-61208-287-5

Location: Nice, France

Dates: from July 21, 2013 to July 21, 2013