Distributed Government Architecture Based on Intelligent Agents and Web Services

Over the past few years, web service and multi agent approach has been used frequently in the development of E-government services. Most of the existing architectures use a middleware and hence are centralized ones. This type of solutions can increase transaction time and communication cost. Distributed models can overcome this problem. However, a major part of the existing works presents a coordination approach between Government Entities usually based on workflow systems. Thus, in order to use these approaches, it is necessary to rebuilt or modify the entails IT infrastructure of governmental organizations. This alternative is so difficult and costly especially in developing countries where Government Entities are not necessary equipped with workflow systems. This paper describes a new distributed model for e-government services based on the potential of multi-agent system. Our model is concerned with only inputs and outputs of each Government Entity system. So, the proposed solution does not require equipping each Government Entity by a Workflow. The applicability of our model is illustrated by a case study of an identity card creation in Tunisia.