This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference
on Electronic Participation ePart 2016 held in Guimarães Portugal in September 5-8 2016.
The 14 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 31 submissions.
The papers reflect completed multi-disciplinary research ranging from policy analysis and
conceptual modeling to programming and visualization of simulation models. They are organized
in four topical threads: theoretical foundations critical reflections implementations policy
formulation and modeling.
