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Vol: 57(71) No: 3 / September 2012 Integrated Platform of Different ICT Tools for Support of Collaborative Policy Modeling Approach in OCOPOMO Peter Bednar Faculty of Economics, Technical University of Kosice, Bozeny Nemcovej 32, 04001 Kosice, Slovakia, e-mail: peter.bednar@tuke.sk Peter Butka Faculty of Economics, Technical University of Kosice, Bozeny Nemcovej 32, 04001 Kosice, Slovakia, e-mail: peter.butka@tuke.sk Marian Mach Department of Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence, Technical University of Kosice, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, Letna 9, 040 01, Kosice, Slovakia, e-mail: marian.mach@tuke.sk Karol Furdik Intersoft, a.s., Florianska 19, 040 01 Kosice, Slovakia, e-mail: karol.furdik@intersoft.sk Peter Smatana Intersoft, a.s., Florianska 19, 040 01 Kosice, Slovakia, e-mail: psmatana@gmail.com Keywords: ICT tools, integrated platform, policy modeling, social simulation, e-Government Abstract In this paper we describe the integrated platform composed from several ICT-based tools in order to support the process of collaborative policy modeling proposed by the project OCOPOMO (Open COllaboration for POlicy MOdelling). In this particular approach strategic planning is supported by the knowledge-intensive process, which combines collaborative creation and analysis of narrative scenarios with agent-based simulation models, with the usage of ICT-based collaborative tools (all integrated within one integrated e-Governance platform). The policy model is created iteratively using cooperation of several involved groups of users – stakeholders (decision makers, analysts, companies, civic societies, and the general public). While we provide in this paper also short introduction to principles and key concepts of collaborative policy modeling, as well as related work and projects, the main focus of the paper is on the presentation of the identified OCOPOMO collaborative policy modeling process, design and integration aspects of the architecture, and particular installation modules or tools of the integrated OCOPOMO platform, which fulfill the needs of the collaborative policy modeling process. Therefore, we describe functional components of the platform, as well as necessary integration and implementation details. The fully implemented OCOPOMO platform will be tested for three different pilot applications (applied in three different countries) with their own policy cases. References [1] Archmann S, Nielsen MM, “Interoperability and its Importance to eGovernment - Success Factors and Barriers”, In Proceedings of MeTTeG08, Halley Editrice SRL, pp. 1-12, 2008. [2] European Communities, “ICT for Governance and Policy Modelling”, FP7 ICT Work Programme, Extract from ICT Work Programme 2009-2010, 2008. [3] Nowak A, Szamrej J, Latane B, “From private attitude to public opinion: A dynamic theory of social impact”, Psychological Review, vol. 97, pp. 362–376, 1990. [4] Dignum F, Jonker CM, “Towards Agents for Policy Making”, In Proceedings of 9th International Workshop on Multi-Agent-Based Simulation, Springer LNAI 5269, pp. 141–153, 2008. [5] Klein L, “The use of econometric models for policy purposes”, Econometrica, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 111–151, 1947. [6] Strid I, Walentik K, “Block Kalman Filtering for Large-Scale DSGE Models”, Journal of Computational Economics, vol. 33, no. 3, pp. 277–304, 2009. [7] Woodford M, “Convergence in macroeconomics: elements of the new synthesis”, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, vol. 1, 267–279, 2009. [8] Janssen M, Van der Duin P, Wimmer M, “Framework and Methodology: Methodology for scenario building”, Roadmapping eGovernment Research: Visions and Measures towards Innovative Governments in 2020, pp. 23–28, 2007. [9] Moss S, Edmonds B, Wallis S, “The Power Law and Critical Density in Large Multi-Agent Systems”, CPM Report Number 00-71, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, 2000. [10] Moreno-Jimenez JM, Polasek W, “E-Cognocracy and the Participation of Immigrants in EGovernance”, In Proceedings of TED Conference on e-Government Electronic Democracy: The Challenge Ahead, Schriftenreihe Informatik 13, pp. 18–26, 2005. [11] Wimmer MA, Furdik K, Bicking M, Mach M, Sabol T, Butka P, “Open Collaboration in Policy Development: Concept and Architecture to integrate scenario development and formal policy modelling”, In: Empowering Open and Collaborative Governance, Springer, pp. 199–219, 2012. [12] Tobias R, Hofmann C, “Evaluation of free Java-libraries for social-scientific agent based simulation,” J. Artif. Soc. Soc. Simulat., vol. 7(1), 2004. [13] Rozanski N, Woods E, Software Systems Architecture. Working with Stakeholders Using Viewpoints and Perspectives. Addison Wesley, 2005. [14] Lotzmann U, Meyer R, “DRAMS - A Declarative Rule-Based Agent Modelling System”, In Proceedings of 25th European Conference on Modelling and Simulation, Krakow, pp. 77–83, 2011. |