Elsa Estévez

Welcome to my home page!

I am a

·         Senior Researcher at the Center for Electronic Governance at UNU-IIST, Macao, China.

·         Assistant Professor at Departamento de Ciencias e Ingeniería de la Computación, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina.

I can be contacted by

·         Email: elsa@iist.unu.edu

·         Phone (office): +853 712930

·         Fax: +853 712940

·         Mail: UNU/IIST, P.O. Box 3058, Macao SAR, China

·         Visit: Casa Silva Mendes, Est. de Engenheiro Trigo No. 4, Macao

Research

1.      Electronic Government

2.      Software Infrastructure for Electronic Government

3.      Formal Methods for Software Engineering

4.      Component-Based Development: Models, Architectures, and Applications

5.      Knowledge Based Systems: Techniques, Analysis, and Methodologies for Their Development

6.      Component-Based Development: Specification and Testing

Teaching

·         System Analysis and Design

·         Management and Control of Software Projects

·         Auditing Information Systems and Legislation

·         Component-Based Development

Projects

·         UNeGov.net - Community of Practice on Electronic Governance

·         Software Infrastructure for Electronic Government

·         Macao e-Government Project, July 2004 - June 2006

Selected Publications

1.      From e-Government to Seamless Government Elsa Estevez, Pablo Fillottrani and Tomasz Janowski, Collaborative Electronic Commerce Technology and Research Conference (CollECTeR Iberoamerica), Cordoba, Argentina, November 6-9, 2007.

2.      Modeling a Repository of Knowledge for Virtual Communities of Practice Supporting e-Education, Maria Clara Casalini and Elsa Estevez, Collaborative Electronic Commerce Technology and Research Conference (CollECTeR Iberoamerica), Cordoba, Argentina, November 6-9, 2007.

3.      Developing a Repository of Knowledge for Virtual Communities with Semantic Web Technologies. Maria Clara Casalini, Elsa Estevez and Pablo Fillottrani, XIII Argentinean Conference on Computer Science, Corrientes and Resistencia, Argentina, October 1-5, 2007. Red UNCI.

4.      Programmable Messaging for Electronic Government - Building a Foundation, Elsa Estevez and Tomasz Janowski, Festchrift Simposium dedicated to the 70th birthdays of Dines Bjorner and Zhou Chao Chen, Macao SAR, China, September 24, 2007, Formal Methods and Hybrid Real-Time Systems, pp. 217-236, ISBN 978-3-540-75220-2.

5.      Domain Models and Enterprise Application Framework for Developing Electronic Public Services, Adegboyega Ojo, Tomasz Janowski and Elsa Estevez, Electronic Government, 6th International EGOV Conference, Regensburg, Germany, September 3-7, 2007, Trauner Verlag, pp. 157-164, ISBN 978-3-85499-255-4.

6.      A Composite Domain Framework for Developing Electronic Public Services, Adegboyega Ojo, Tomasz Janowski and Elsa Estevez. The 2007 International Conference on Software Engineering Theory and Practice (SEPT 2007), Orlando, Florida, United States of America, July 9-12, 2007. ISRST 2007, pp. 234-241, ISBN: 978-0-9727412-6-2.

7.      Rapid Development of Electronic Public Services: A Sase Study in Electronic Licensing Service, Tomasz Janowski, Adegboyega Ojo and Elsa Estevez, Digital Government Society of North America (DG.O 2007), Philadelphia, United States of America, May 20-23, 2007. Digital Government Research Center, pp. 292-293, ISBN 1-59593-599-1.

8.      Rapid Development of Electronic Public Services: Software Infrastructure and Software Process. Tomasz Janowski, Adegboyega Ojo and Elsa Estevez, Digital Government Society of North America (DG.O 2007), Philadelphia, United States of America, May 20-23, 2007. Digital Government Research Center, pp. 294-295, ISBN 1-59593-599-1.

9.      Computing Support for Problem Solving in Virtual Communities of Practice, Maria Clara Casalini, Elsa Estevez and Tomasz Janowski, Journal of Computer Science and Technology, April 2007, pp. 52-58, ISSN 1666-6038.

10.  Building a Dependable Messaging Infrastructure for Electronic Government, Elsa Estevez and Tomasz Janowski, Second International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, (ARES 2007), Vienna, Austria, April 10-13, 2007. IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 948-958, ISBN 978-0-7695-2775-8.

11.  Government-Enterprise Ecosystem Gateway (G-EEG) for Seamless e-Government, Elsa Estevez and Tomasz Janowski, The 40th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2007), Waikoloa, Big Island, Hawaii, United States of America, January 3-6, 2007. IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 101-110, ISBN 978-0-7695-2755-0.

12.  Infrastructure for Electronic Government - A Prototype for Messaging Services, Elsa Estevez and Tomasz Janowski, First Iberoamerican Conference on Electronic Government (Primer Congreso Iberoamericano de Gobierno Electrónico, Santiago de Chile, October 2006

13.  Web Services for Rendering Non-Structured Volumes(in Spanish), Mauricio Lopez, Elsa Estevez, Silvia Castro and Sergio Martig, XII Argentinian Conference on Computer Sciences, San Luis, Argentina, october, 2006.

14.  Collaborative Problem Solving in Virtual Communities of Practice - A Case Study in Disaster Prevention and Handling Maria Clara Casalini, Elsa Estevez and Tomasz Janowski, XII Argentinian Conference on Computer Sciences, San Luis, Argentina, october, 2006.

15.  A Process Model for Collaborative Problem-Solving in Virtual Communities of Practice, Maria Clara Casalini, Tomasz Janowski and Elsa Estevez, 7th Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises (PRO-VE'06), Springer, Helsinski, Finlandia, 25-27 setiembre 2006.

16.  Messaging Infrastructure for Electronic Government: Background, Rationale, Objectives Elsa Estevez, Tomasz Janowski and Pablo Fillottrani, VIII Workshop of Researchers in Computer Sciences, Univeristy of Moron, Morón, Argentina, June 2006. ISBN 950-9474-34-7, pp 319-323.

17.  Computing Support for Virtual Communities of Practice Maria Clara Casalini, Elsa Estevez and Tomasz Janowski, VIII Workshop of Researchers in Computer Sciences, Univeristy of Moron, Morón, Argentina, June 2006. ISBN 950-9474-34-7, pp 331-334.

18.  UNeGov.net - Community of Practice for Electronic Governance Tomasz Janowski, Elsa Estevez, Irshad Khan and Adegboyega Ojo, 7th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research, San Diego, Estados Unidos, May 2006.

19.  Extending Message-Oriented Middleware, Elsa Estevez, Tomasz Janowski, XI Argentinian Conference on Computer Sciences, Concordia, Argentina, October, 2005.

20.  A Project Framework for E-Government, Tomasz Janowski, Elsa Estevez, Adegboyega Ojo, Fourth International Electronic Government Conference, Copenhague, Dinmark,August, 2005.

21.  Planning for e-Government - A Service-Oriented Agency Survey, Elsa Estevez, Tomasz Janowski, Adegboyega Ojo, IADIS International Conference - e-Society 2005, Qawra, Malta, June 2005.

22.  Determining Progress Towards e-Government: What are the Core Indicators?, Adegboyega Ojo, Tomasz Janowski, Elsa Estevez. 5th European Conference on E-Government, University of Antwerp, Belgium, June 2005.

23.  Programación Orientada a Aspectos: Metodología y Evaluación (Aspect Oriented Programming: Methodolgy and Evaluation), Fernando Asteasuain, Bernardo Contreras, Elsa Estévez, Pablo Fillottrani, IX Argentinian Conference on Computer Sciences, La Plata, Argentina, October 2003.

24.  Un Modelo Unificado de Visualización (A Unified Visualization Model) Sergio Martig, Silvia Castro, Pablo Fillottrani, Elsa Estévez, IX Argentinian Conference on Computer Sciences, La Plata, Argentina, October 2003.

25.  Component Assessment using Testing, Marisa Sanchez, Elsa Estévez, Pablo Fillottrani, VII Argentinian Conference on Computer Sciences, El Calafate, Argentina, October 2001.

26.  A Systematic Approach for System Reengineering, Elsa Estévez, Pablo Fillottrani, 2do.Simposio de Mantenimiento de Software de Marina, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, September 2001.

27.  Applying Logic Programming Techniques in a Tool for Object-Oriented Modeling in UML, Pablo Fillottrani, Elsa Estévez, Susana Kahnert, 13th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, Buenos Aires, June 2001.

Professional Experience

·         Project Leader: Vianet S.R.L., Bahía Blanca, Argentina. August 2003 – December 2006.

·         Project Manager: Droguería Sur, Bahía Blanca, Argentina. July 1996 – August 2003.

·         Project Manager of Centralized Systems: Banco Bansud, Bahía Blanca, Argentina. December 1993 – July 1996.

·         Project Leader: Banco Bansud, Bahía Blanca, Argentina. August 1990 – November 1993.

·         System Analyst: Estudio Benjamín Del Sastre, Buenos Aires, Argentina. April 1989 – March 1990.

·         Responsible of the Software Engineering IBM Laboratory. Universidad de Belgrano, Buenos Aires, Argentina. April 1989 – March 1990.

·         System Analyst: Consultores en Datos, Buenos Aires, Argentina. July 1986 – March 1989.

·         Programmer: La Plata Cereal, Buenos Aires, Argentina. December 1983 – July 1986.