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Actor Network Theory as A Framework to Build Business Collaboration Network Applied to Digital Government

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IT Collaboration applied to digital government between organizations play an essential role to accomplish business objectives. In order to construct networks of collaboration on a real scale using modeling social interactions between different actors. This paper explains a new platform for collaborative designing based on Socio, technical approach Actor Network Theory. ANT4D-GOV software platform implements the steps of Actor Network Theory and collaborative Game Theory algorithm that efficiently provides abstract models of collaboration between different actors by saving cost allocations. The effectiveness of our approach was demonstrated with a real case study. The analyze of the interessement phase reveals the ability to reduce the cost objectives within a collaborative mode. We also present a what-if simulation feature to assess the impact of scenarios related to future collaboration evolution. Furthermore, in providing a live deployment of the * ANT4D-GOV system that allows users to explore the dynamics of collaboration networks in place as well as their involvement over time.

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    LOPAL '18: Proceedings of the International Conference on Learning and Optimization Algorithms: Theory and Applications
    May 2018
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    1. Actor Network Theory
    2. Business Collaboration Network
    3. Cooperative game theory
    4. Cost-Sharing
    5. Digital Government
    6. Shapley value

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    May 2 - 5, 2018
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