This book highlights state-of-the-art research, development and implementation efforts concerning social media in government services, bringing together researchers and practitioners in a number of case studies. It elucidates a number of significant challenges associated with social media specific to government services, such as: benefits and methods of assessing; usability and suitability of tools, technologies and platforms; governance policies and frameworks; opportunities for new services; integrating social media with organisational business processes; and specific case studies. The book also highlights the range of uses and applications of social media in the government domain, at both local and federal levels. As such, it offers a valuable resource for a broad readership including academic researchers, practitioners in the IT industry, developers, and government policy- and decision-makers.

This book highlights state-of-the-art research, development and implementation efforts concerning social media in government services, bringing together researchers and practitioners in a number of case studies. It elucidates a number of significant challenges associated with social media specific to government services, such as: benefits and methods of assessing; usability and suitability of tools, technologies and platforms; governance policies and frameworks; opportunities for new services; integrating social media with organisational business processes; and specific case studies. The book also highlights the range of uses and applications of social media in the government domain, at both local and federal levels. As such, it offers a valuable resource for a broad readership including academic researchers, practitioners in the IT industry, developers, and government policy- and decision-makers.

This book constitutes the workshops of the 4th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing, ICSOC 2006, held in Chicago, IL, USA in December 2006.

The two workshops presented were carefully reviewed and selected from six submissions.

Both ICSOC'06 workshops were held as one-day-workshops on December 4th 2006, i.e. the day before the major conference program of ICSOC'06 started. This volume contains separate descriptions of both workshops as well as all high-quality paper contributions to these two workshops.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, WISE 2007, held in Nancy, France, in December 2007.

The 40 revised full papers and 18 revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from about 200 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on querying, trust, caching and distribution, interfaces, events and information filtering, data extraction, transformation, and matching, ontologies, rewriting, routing, and personalisation, agents and mining, QOS and management, modeling, and topics.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Technologies for E-Services, TES 2001, held in Rome, Italy, in September 2001.The 15 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. Among the topics addressed are b2b protocols, inter-enterprise process execution, business logic, cooperative multiplatform environments, session-oriented telecommunication services, cross-organizational workflow environments, Internet-based workflow, composite e-services, transactional business processes, e-service security, distributed e-services, mobile commerce, e-commerce, pervasive services infrastructure, and mobile Internet agents.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the International Conference on Internet of Things, ICIOT 2018, held in Seattle, WA, USA, in June 2018. The 13 full papers and 1 short paper presented in this volume was carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in this book. The contributions are organized in topical sections named: Research Track - Architecture; Research Track - Smart IoT; Application and Industry Track; and Short Paper Track. They deal with research and application innovations in the internet of things services.