5 research outputs found
A Systematic review of ontology-based approach and decision-making (DM) to improve public service delivery (PSD)
A systematic review of the DM literature on PSD was performed with the aim to build an operational ontology-based for decision makers. Five public administration journals were screened on the subject with more than 200 articles found. 29 articles were shortlisted, categorised, summarised, and applied to outline the influential factors in DM for PSD. The result of the systematic reviews also provided a brief clarification on the requirement for the creation of a more citizen-centric and coordinated eco-system for efficient PSD underpinned by effective DM
ICSEA 2021: the sixteenth international conference on software engineering advances
The Sixteenth International Conference on Software Engineering Advances (ICSEA 2021), held on October 3 - 7, 2021 in Barcelona, Spain, continued a series of events covering a broad spectrum of software-related topics.
The conference covered fundamentals on designing, implementing, testing, validating and maintaining various kinds of software. The tracks treated the topics from theory to practice, in terms of methodologies, design, implementation, testing, use cases, tools, and lessons learnt. The conference topics covered classical and advanced methodologies, open source, agile software, as well as software deployment and software economics and education.
The conference had the following tracks:
Advances in fundamentals for software development
Advanced mechanisms for software development
Advanced design tools for developing software
Software engineering for service computing (SOA and Cloud)
Advanced facilities for accessing software
Software performance
Software security, privacy, safeness
Advances in software testing
Specialized software advanced applications
Web Accessibility
Open source software
Agile and Lean approaches in software engineering
Software deployment and maintenance
Software engineering techniques, metrics, and formalisms
Software economics, adoption, and education
Business technology
Improving productivity in research on software engineering
Trends and achievements
Similar to the previous edition, this event continued to be very competitive in its selection process and very well perceived by the international software engineering community. As such, it is attracting excellent contributions and active participation from all over the world. We were very pleased to receive a large amount of top quality contributions.
We take here the opportunity to warmly thank all the members of the ICSEA 2021 technical program committee as well as the numerous reviewers. The creation of such a broad and high quality conference program would not have been possible without their involvement. We also kindly thank all the authors that dedicated much of their time and efforts to contribute to the ICSEA 2021. We truly believe that thanks to all these efforts, the final conference program consists of top quality contributions.
This event could also not have been a reality without the support of many individuals, organizations and sponsors. We also gratefully thank the members of the ICSEA 2021 organizing committee for their help in handling the logistics and for their work that is making this professional meeting a success.
We hope the ICSEA 2021 was a successful international forum for the exchange of ideas and results between academia and industry and to promote further progress in software engineering research
Using an Ontology for Modeling Decision-Making Knowledge
International audienceDecision-making (DM) knowledge is often represented as a set of basic definitions such as alternatives, criteria, decision matrix, and decision itself. However, this domain is much richer, and many other related notions are useful to make right decisions: preferences, weights, thresholds, and so on. This knowledge must be formalized within a model. In addition, the practical needs for DM as well as the number of researches dealing with decision-making increasingly grow. We suggest using the ontology representation for representing DM knowledge. In this paper, we analyze different ontology fundamentals, we present the DM ontology (DMO) and its application to the selection on an ERP tool, and we show how the ontology fundamentals were used for representing DM knowledge