Integrating Web 2.0 technologies in e-government opens up new opportunities for improving the quality of online public services and developing new ones, and can potentially contribute in achieving e-government strategic objectives. This paper presents and analyzes the result of an exploratory field study conducted recently with a group of e-government experts in France. Our objective is to iden...

Today, the Internet provides a large set of mostly independent resources. In the near future, the Internet will provide e-services built by combining resources to achieve specific goals. This improvement will be possible thanks to new framework technologies, such as E-Speak, Jini, or the Open Agent Architecture. These technologies allow providers to create, compose, deploy, and advertise new e-...

This paper describes CloudStore, an open source application that lends itself to analyzing key characteristics of Cloud computing platforms. Based on an earlier standard from transaction processing, it represents a simplified version of a typical e-commerce application – an electronic book store. We detail how a deployment on a popular public cloud offering can be instrumented to gain insight i...

This paper demonstrates that advanced technologies and the increasing acceptance of academic open access e-journals offer an opportunity to reconsider their form and function as a medium to enhance scholarly communication. The academic open access e-journal is envisioned as a platform and a portal within the context of an open source community including a format and functions that enable it to ...

This article analyzes the diffusion of a Web technology named AJAX in facilitating e-government architecture and enhancing its potential by enablement of modern Web features as democracy and collaboration. Flexibility needed for free flow of interactive collaboration, compatibility, and robustness is treated as vital in the chapter. Major enterprises that have created landmarks in terms of part...

Over the last two years, Portal sites surfaced as a major trend in electronic commerce. Unlike a lot of other exaggerated trends, Portals have become an important facet of the World Wide Web which is likely to stay. Emerging from search engines and catalogues, they integrate an increasing amount of information and functionality. The paper reflects on Portal characteristics as well as on foundat...

Business and recreational activities on the global communication infrastructure are increasingly based on the use of remote resources and services, and on the interaction between different, remotely located parties. On corporate networks as well as on the open Web, the huge number of resources and services often requires to multiple log-ons leading to credential proliferation and, potentially, ...