Toward a Reference Architecture for User-Oriented Open Government Data Portals

Governments have established Open Government Data Portals (OGDP) to open various types of datasets that can be used to increase transparency, accountability, and innovation. OGDP is becoming a strategic program for citizen engagement and empowering users. Nevertheless, many OGDP architectures focus merely on publishing data and do not support...

A Systematic Design Space Exploration of Datacenter Schedulers

Datacenter infrastructure has become vital for stakeholders across industry, academia and government. To operate efficiently, datacenter operators rely on a variety of complex scheduling techniques, to distribute user workloads across resources. In this work, we leverage a reference architecture for datacenter scheduling to design and implement...

A reference architecture for context-aware intelligent traffic management platforms

Smart cities have been heralded for improving traffic management by utilizing data for making better traffic management decisions. Multi-sided platforms collect data from sensors and citizen-generated data on one side and can provide input for decision-making using data analytics by governments and the public on the other side. However, there...

The use of Dutch governmental reference architecture in the public/private healthcare domain

In the last decade, there has been an increase in connectivity between private and public healthcare organisations. This increase is facilitated by technology developments, new legislations in healthcare, decentralization of healthcare and new market developments. Solutions are designed in the area of healthcare ICT. However, there is a problem...

Requirements on and Antecedents of Big Data Quality: An Empirical Examination to Improve Big Data Quality in Financial Service Organizations

Big data has been widely known for its enormous potential in various industries, including finance. However, more than half of financial service organizations reported that big data has not delivered their expected value, yet. Among all, data quality is one of the issues behind this phenomenon, and thereby being the focus of this study. The...

Engineering Flexible and Agile Services: A Reference Architecture for Administrative Processes

To provide up-to-date services towards citizens and businesses, administrative organizations need to make sure their business services and processes and supporting applications are flexible and agile enough to deal with changing situations and ensure legal compliance all the time. The research presented in this dissertation provides a reference...

Reference integration architecture for mobile enterprise solutions

Nowadays, enterprises are facing several challenges associated with the design and implementation of mobile solutions for customers, employees and partners. One of the most important challenges is related to the integration between mobile applications and enterprise systems. In order to provide seamless integration, it is important to consider...

Managing semantic metadata in public private information chains: A reference architecture for alignment of semantics, technology and stakeholders

The use of a common set of semantic metadata is seen as one of the most promising developments in information exchange among public and private parties. Semantic metadata is data that provides context to core data and helps to convey the actual meaning and perspective of the information that is shared among people, systems and organizations. All...

Banking 2.0: Developing a Reference Architecture for Financial Services in The Cloud

Information technology is the common denominator for all the industries in the 21st century, therefore any important change in this area is prone to have an impact on small and large businesses alike. The latest shock wave storming through IT is Cloud computing. Due to the importance and sensitive nature of applications used by financial...