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Introduction
Dr. Thomas Lampoltshammer works as an Associate Professor and Deputy Head of the Centre for E-Governance at the Department of E-Governance and Administration at the Danube University Krems/Austria.
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October 2011 - present
April 2011 - present
October 2012 - present
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- Masters' Theses
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- Supervision of Masters' Theses
Education
October 2012 - September 2014
September 2011 - July 2015
September 2009 - June 2011
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This study addresses the concept of smart governance in the context of smart cities, with a focus on analyzing the phenomenon of smart collaboration. Relying on the existing collaboration and participation concepts in the smart city domain, an empirical analysis was undertaken of how ICT can promote collaborative governance and increase the partici...
We present a Strengths, Vulnerability, and Intervention Assessment related to Digital Threats (SVIDT) method, which provides a problem structuring and decision support for organizational vulnerability and resilience management with respect to changes of the digital transition. The method starts from (i) a multi-level actor analysis, (ii) identifies...
To get on a mutual ground as a team of computer scientists and legal experts, mapping open legal data, we had to shift our perspectives, dive into foreign concepts, and collaborate closely.
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Sustainability is gaining importance in society, government, and the economy, particularly during today’s rapidly changing environment, due to digitalization and digital transformation. Awareness, as well as systematic and critical thinking, are crucial to address the great societal challenges postulated within the SDGs, and thus should be reflecte...
Regular physical activity is essential for the healthy development of children, and sports clubs are one of the main drivers of regular exercise. Previous studies have demonstrated that public subsidies can increase participation rates in sports clubs. The effectiveness of funding in increasing participation rates depends on multiple factors, such...
Public trust represents a cornerstone of today’s democracies, their media, and institutions and in the search for consensus among different actors. However, the deliberate and non-deliberate spreading of misinformation and fake news severely damages the cohesion of our societies. This effect is intensified by the ease and speed of information creat...
One of the major challenges today lies in the creation of governance concepts for regional development that not only promote growth but, at the same time, ensure promotion of inclusiveness, fairness, and resilience. Digital twins can support policymakers in developing smart, sustainable solutions for cities and regions and, therefore, urban and non...
Smart city solutions require innovative governance approaches together with the smart use of technology, such as digital twins, by city managers and policymakers to manage the big societal challenges. The project Smart Cities aNd Digital Twins in Lower Austria (SCiNDTiLA) extends the state of the art of research in several contributing disciplines...
Grand societal issues such as climate change and technological disruption challenge all industry sectors, including tourism. To cope with these challenges, new sustainable business models that not only rely on data-driven technologies but also require new ways of collaboration beyond disciplines and sectors by facilitating the overall conception of...
Digitalisation has changed society, and, as a result, public administrations are required to undergo significant changes to satisfy emergent societal needs. These changes impact all areas of the public sector, including the development and provision of digital services, the design of processes, and the development of policy. To implement the digita...
Despite their importance, federal grant systems often need more clarity regarding cost-effectiveness, lack of transparency, and slow feedback cycles. Sports funding systems aimed at improving child health and contributing to sustainable development goals are incredibly challenging due to their heterogeneity in stakeholders and regional aspects. Her...
Agent-based modelling (ABM) is a computer-based system to simulate the interactions, relationships and behavior of individual agents in a defined spatial context. Due to its stochastic and heterogenic nature, the method has the potential to represent the complexity of the tourism system with a broad range of possible applications. In the context of...
In this paper, we study the problem of agenda setting by news media in relation to the political discourse by politicians at the time of local elections. We first evaluate the applicability of the agenda-setting theory against the theory of policy agenda building to determine the possible alternative directions for constructing a political agenda a...
Many European countries face rising obesity rates among children, compounded by decreased opportunities for sports activities during the COVID-19 pandemic. Access to sports facilities depends on multiple factors, such as geographic location, proximity to population centers, budgetary constraints, and other socio-economic covariates. Here we show ho...
This literature review is dedicated to the subject of agent-based modelling for the system of international migration, and of the modelling of policies that are known to aid in its management. The reason for the selection of agent-based modelling as a framework for studying international migration is that the system of international migration prese...
A human is a thing that moves in space. Like all things that move in space, we can in principle use differential equations to describe their motion as a set of functions that maps time to position (and velocity, acceleration, and so on). With inanimate objects, we can reliably predict their trajectories by using differential equations that account...
Mobile government enhances public sector activities by using mobile technologies, such as handheld devices, smartphones, and laptops that promise anytime, anywhere services. Mobile government solutions are successful if many users adopt them. For this reason, the determinant factors of adoption are extremely important. Despite many studies conducte...
In this article, we discuss the application of information theory and the theo-ry of thermodynamic dissipative systems to smart cities. Specifically, we study how to model the interaction between a society and a smart city, un-der an information-theoretic approach. Because the smart city comprises both a social and a technological component, it the...
Simulations of social processes are a special category of interactions between humans and computers, characterized by the modeling through the latter of the behavior of the former. This paper proposes a framework for studying the development of simulation capabilities by society, as part of an ongoing process of adaptation by complex social systems...
Human migration, and urbanization as its direct consequence, are among the crucial topics in regional and national governance. People?s migration and mobility flows make a network structure, with large cities acting as hubs, and smaller settlements as spokes. The essential method by which these phenomena can be analysed comprehensively is network a...
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Migration, and urbanization as its consequence, is among the most intricate political and scientific topics, predicted to have huge effects on human lives in the near future. Thus being said, previous works have mainly focused on international migration, and the research on internal migration outside of the US is scarce, and in the case of Europe—t...
While migration research is at the peak of its productivity, a substantial gap persists between scientific evidence and policy action. As societal complexity increases, migration theory loses track on the numerous factors of human migration; the information on the most relevant factors affecting human migration (i.e., migration drivers), essential...
The number of Network Science studies has risen significantly in recent two decades. Various real phenomena are increasingly analyzed as complex networks. Human migration was seldom analyzed, however, in line with global circumstances, the number of migration-as-network applications has recently grown as well. Those new migration-as-network studies...
Data Science and Artificial Intelligence have become the driving force of many businesses and are an integral part of our daily lives. Small and important decisions or the control of technical processes are based on knowledge gained from collected data. Advice from data driven analytics is integrated into business decisions and is the base of many...
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 13th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference on Electronic Participation, ePart 2021, held in Granada, Spain, in September 2021, in conjunction with IFIP WG 8.5 Electronic Government (EGOV 2021), the Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government Conference (CeDEM 2021).
The 16 full papers presented were c...
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 12th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference on Electronic Participation, ePart 2019, held in Linköping, Sweden, in August/September 2020, in conjunction with the 19th IFIP WG 8.5 IFIP International Conference on Electronic Government (EGOV 2020) and the International Conference for E-Democracy and Open Gov...
While E-participation promotes citizen participation in democratic decision-making processes, and often takes place through deliberation, citizens are expected to be cool-headed individuals equipped with reason and logic, insulating their actions from the impulse of emotion. However, research in neuroscience and cognitive science has found that emo...
The process of policy-modelling, and the overall field of policy-making are complex and put decision-makers in front of great challenges. One of them is present in form of including citizens into the decision-making process. This can be done via various forms of E-Participation, with active/passive citizen-sourcing as one way to tap into current di...
Das Zusammenspiel von Recht und Technik ist essenziell für die Umsetzung nachhaltiger E-Government Services. Dieses Kapitel beleuchtet ausgewählte rechtliche Rahmenbedingungen des E-Government in Österreich und fokussiert dabei elektronische Identifizierung und Vertrauensdienste besonders. Ziel dieses Kapitels ist es, Kernelemente des österreichisc...
Strategische Vorgaben für E-Government wirken sich auf nationale rechtliche Rahmenbedingungen aus. Rechtliche Vorgaben sind zweifellos erforderlich, vermögen aber ohne gebietskörperschaftsübergreifende Zusammenarbeit und den Einsatz geeigneter Technik keinen Erfolg zu versprechen. Die Entwicklung von E-Government hängt daher maßgeblich von den Rahm...
Das Zusammenspiel von Recht und Technik ist essenziell für die Umsetzung nachhaltiger E-Government Services. Dieses Kapitel beleuchtet ausgewählte rechtliche Rahmenbedingungen des E-Government in Österreich und fokussiert dabei elektronische Identifizierung und Vertrauensdienste besonders. Ziel dieses Kapitels ist es, Kernelemente des österreichisc...
This paper introduces the ADEQUATe project—a platform to improve the quality of open data in a community-driven fashion. First, the context of the project is discussed: the issue of quality of open data, its relevance in Austria and how ADEQUATe attempts to tackle these matters. Then the main components of the project are introduced, outlining how...
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 11th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference on Electronic Participation, ePart 2019, held in San Benedetto del Tronto, Italy, in September 2019, in conjunction with the 18th IFIP WG 8.5 IFIP International Conference on Electronic Government (EGOV 2019) and the International Conference for E-Democracy and O...
Advances in technology and changes in the business and social environment have led to an increasing flood of data, fueling both the need and the desire to generate value from these assets. The emerging field of Data Science is poised to deliver theoretical and practical solutions to the pressing issues of data-driven applications.
The 2nd Internati...
Semantic technologies enable open data interoperability beyond the point of pure format and structure alignment.
The concept of open data itself is strongly associated with innovative capacity and transformative power (Davies, Perini, & Alonso, 2013). It is increasingly recognized that proactively opening public data can create considerable benefits for several stakeholders, such as firms and individuals interested in the development of value added digital se...
In developing open data policies, organizations aim to stimulate and guide the publication and use of data and to gain advantages from this. Often open data policies are guided by a high-level directive, such as those of the United States (Obama, 2009b) and the European Commission (European Commission, 2013c). Open data policies are important, as t...
The chapter focuses on innovation processes aspiring to generate value through a purposeful and effective exploitation of data released in an open format. On the one hand, such processes represent a great opportunity for private and public organizations while, on the other, they pose a number of challenges having to do with creating the technical,...
Open data can be defined as data that is free of charge or provided at marginal cost, under an open licence , machine readable, and provided in an open format
The opening of data has grown tremendously over the past decade. More and more datasets have been opened to the public, application programming interfaces (APIs) gave been design for enabling the public to make use of real-time data and new apps based on this data have been developed. Data about policy-making, software code (open sources), document...
Governments create and collect enormous amounts of data, for instance concerning voting results, transport, energy, education, and employment. These datasets are often stored in an archive that is not accessible for others than the organization’s employees. To attain benefits such as transparency, engagement, and innovation, many governmental organ...
Evaluation of Open Data is a systematic determination of open data merit, worth and significance, using criteria governed by a set of standards (Farbey, Land, & Targett, 1999). It is an essential procedure trying to ignite a learning and innovation process leading to a more effective data exploitation. Examples of questions to be answered by open d...
Data represents a key asset in virtually any aspect of society and economy. Open Data in particular represents a source of immense value, as social capital (Lampoltshammer & Scholz, 2017) as well as an asset for business cases. Governments and their public administrations are generating and collecting during their service a plethora of different ki...
Research on novel marketplaces like the Data Market Austria is increasing, along with the importance the European Commission attaches to the development of the European Data Economy. This leads to the anticipation that boosting the Data Economy may reveal new issues ofcontractual interpretation. Interpretationis generally the central question where...
The present work describes the ADEQUATe platform: a framework to monitor the quality of (Governmental) Open Data catalogs, to re-publish improved and linked versions of the datasets and their respective metadata descriptions, and to include the community in the quality improvement process. The information acquired by the linking and (meta)data impr...
The Data Market Austria (DMA) is an ecosystem of federated data and service infrastructures. It aims at making data from various data providers accessible and interoperable by allowing the submission , storage, management and dissemination of static datasets or streaming data services. By creating a metadata vocabulary, standardizing the ingest of...
This chapter discusses a participation and technology enabled model of the citizen scientist in relation to the policy cycle. With interconnected personal devices collecting a plethora of various data, citizens are capable to serendipitously contribute to crowded knowledge generation. In the governance domain, the trend towards more data-driven mod...
The concepts of “Smart Cities” and “Smart Manufacturing” are different data-driven domains, although both rely on intelligent information technology and data analysis. With the application of linked data and affordance-based approaches, both domains converge, paving the way for new and innovative viewpoints regarding the comparison of urban tasks w...
Expectations regarding the future growth of Internet of Things (IoT)-related technologies are high. These expectations require the realization of a sustainable general purpose application framework that is capable to handle these kinds of environments with their complexity in terms of heterogeneity and volatility. The paradigm of the Lambda archite...
This deliverable presents the first version of a generic federated OOP architecture, supporting interconnection
and interoperability of national registries at the EU level. The architecture is in line with existing EU
frameworks (EIRA, EIF), takes into account the e-SENS European Interoperability Reference Architecture and
is based on the CEF DSIs...
With Open Access (OA), Open Science (OS) and Open Data (OD), researchers profit by
sharing, collaborating, and participating in broader research agendas. Open Access (OA)
publishing plays a key role in academia, but universities and research organisations must adopt
or develop their own OA strategy which may not always overlap with researchers’ per...
The research project Data Market Austria (DMA) seeks to develop a platform on which
data owners, service creators, and infrastructure providers will gather to operate in datadriven
business models. The platform will provide the required infrastructure elements to
unfold a truly self-sustainable data market. The functioning of a data market technica...
This chapter shows how global environmental changes put society in front of new challenges, and how immediate and intense actions have to be undertaken in order to foster necessary progress in global sustainability research. The technological infrastructure has reached a status of ubiquitous computing and virtually unlimited data availability. Yet,...
The iDSC Proceedings reports on state-of-the-art results in Data Science research, development and business. Topics and content of the IDSC2017 proceedings are
• Reasoning and Predictive Analytics
• Data Analytics in Community Networks
• Data Analytics through Sentiment Analysis
• User/Customer-centric Data Analytics
• Data Analytics in Industrial...
Migration is a powerful phenomenon, impacting on virtually all aspects of society. Therefore, it inherits a high grade of complexity and associated set of challenges, such as socio-economic and cultural integration, as well as the broader challenge of data collection, sharing and analysis. Information and Communication Tech-nology (ICT) as integrat...
Expectations regarding the future growth of Internet of Things (IoT)-related technologies are high. These expectations require the realization of a sustainable general purpose application framework that is capable to handle these kind of environments with their complexity in terms of heterogeneity and volatility. The paradigm of the Lambda architec...
Object Based Image Analysis (OBIA) has meanwhile been established as a paradigm for analyzing remotely sensed image data. Although the degree of automation for OBIA methods has increased for several applications, especially in the domain of remote sensing, robust and transferable object-based solutions for automated image analysis of sets of images...
Legal texts represent a fundamental building block in all democratic states. As such, legal information must be accessible to all members of society to the widest possible extent, to aid inclusiveness and to enable participation in public decision-making. In recognition of this, the EU and its Member States work to make laws, court decisions, etc....
The paper elaborates on the spatial-temporal modeling of linguistic and dialect phenomena. Language Geography—a branch of Human Geography—tries to enhance the visual exploration of linguistic data, and utilizes a number of methodologies from GIScience, whereas publications focusing on analyzing linguistic data in GIScience are hard to find. This re...
Sustainable research and innovation strongly depend on reliable data, which are easily accessible. Open Access publishing plays a key-role in this environment. Yet, journal subscription charges by publishers can be a hurdle, especially for smaller institutes, 3rd-world countries, and individual researchers, while conflict of interest prevent compan...
Over the past decade, open data became an important economic resources and therefore rapidly found their way into data warehouses and data management systems of companies and organizations world-wide. Yet providing these data and the associated data curation still presents a challenging task for all involved stakeholders. The ADEQUATe project there...
Geolocated tweets are not evenly spread across space, but appear in accumulations. By exploring a collection of 3 months of geolocated tweets for London, this work analyses tweet hotspots and demographic characteristics of the wards where these hotspots appear. The Twitter messages are separated into day-time and night-time tweets to support the as...
The increasing availability of very high-resolution remote sensing imagery (i.e., from satellites, airborne laser scanning, or aerial photography) represents both a blessing and a curse for researchers. The manual classification of these images, or other similar geo-sensor data, is time-consuming and leads to subjective and non-deterministic result...
Spatial phenomena can be encountered in outdoor and indoor geography-related contexts: The description and analysis of indoor environments is an important factor as research on indoor geography has recently gained a certain momentum. To imbue a clear understanding of indoor space, its definition is a crucial issue as the concept of indoor geography...
1 : This paper presents the conceptual design and the related implementation of a bidirectional domain inter-connection bridging Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems and Geographic Information (GI) systems. Due to the numerous common interests and the fact that both realms, SCADA and GIS, have their own central information, name...
Object-based image analysis (OBIA) as a paradigm for analysing remotely sensed image data has in many cases led to spatially and thematically improved classification results in comparison to pixel-based approaches. Nevertheless, robust and transferable object-based solutions for automated image analysis capable of analysing sets of images or even l...
Crime is an ubiquitous part of society. The way people express their concerns about crimes has been of particular interest to the scientific community. Over time, the numbers and kinds of available communication channels have increased. Today, social media services, such Twitter, present a convenient way to express opinions and concerns about crime...
Public media such as TV or newspapers, paired with crime statistics from the authority, raise awareness of crimes within society. However, in today's digital society, other sources rapidly gain importance as well. The Internet and social networks act heavily as information distribution platforms. Therefore, this paper aims at exploring the influenc...
Amalgamation of formalised knowledge and real-world datasets is a pivotal challenge in the realm of information and communication technologies. Semi-automated classification of datasets can be performed by utilisation of ontologies. The detection process of image objects in Very High Resolution Satellite Imagery (VHRSI) gives a prominent example. T...
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Online platforms are not as highly ranked as workshops at conferences. But where is the difference? At both "locations" people or "experts" are talking about certain topics and sum these conclusions to a paper. In addition to that, this paper is often also published again!! in the main conference proceedings. So, where is the point? Why is this system "better" than e.g. discussions here or on other platforms (especially here where every member states his or her affiliation as well)?
