This paper presents the integration of two plugins, a declarative process specification generator and a compliance verifier, into the Apromore advanced business process analytics platform. The integrated toolchain has a range of applications of interest to both practitioners and researchers. For example, it can be used in the areas of business process compliance, flexibility and variability. Th...

Laws and policies impose many information handling requirements on business practices. Compliance with such regulations requires identification of conflicting interpretations of regulatory conditions. Current software engineering methods extract software requirements by converting legal text into semiformal constraints and rules. In this paper we complement these methods with a state-based mode...

Today’s government and business organizations face many complex problems and challenges. Effective resource sharing, collaboration and coordination among organizations are needed. Collaborating organizations need to share not only data, but also human and organizational knowledge embedded in organizational and inter-organizational policies, regulations, constraints, processes and operating proc...

Conducting international e-business requires knowledge about the privacy and consumer protection laws, and regulations that affect transacting parties. To support this requirement, we describe a high-level organization for a Web-privacy ontology composed of a hierarchical organization of formal laws and acts, informal cultural guidelines and standards for business in general, and specific legis...

In unseren vorangegangenen Arbeiten haben wir die Schwächen der BPMN Geschäftsprozessmodellierung in dem von uns untersuchten Bereich des Precision Dairy Farmings (PDF) aufgezeigt. Dies betraf insbesondere die Darstellung und die Integration von Geschäftsregeln in der Prozessdefinition. Daher war der nächste Schritt die Standardisierung der Ausdrucksweise der Regeln. Als Ausgangspunkt diente un...

W hat set of rules and regulations determine workplace practices in China? Is it the 13 chapters and 107 articles of the Labor Law of the People's Republic of China? Or is it the codes of conduct designed, implemented, and monitored by transnational corporations? While both are important , the translations that follow indicate that a third set of rules is far more important. These are the rules...

The importance and the challenges of detecting compliance failures in unmanaged business processes is discussed and the process of creating and verifying internal controls as a requirement of enterprise risk management framework is explained. The effect of using automated auditing tools to detect compliance failures against internal control points in unmanaged business processes is investigated...

Industry governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) solutions stand to gain from various analyses offered by formal compliance checking approaches. Such adoption is made difficult by the fact that most formal approaches assume that a mapping between concepts of regulations and models of operational specifics exists. Industry solutions offer tagging mechanisms to map regulations to operational speci...