Information systems are increasingly distributed and pervasive, enabling organizations to deliver remote services and share personal information, worldwide. However, developers face significant challenges in managing the many laws that govern their systems in this multi-jurisdictional environment. In this paper, we report on a computational requirements document expressible using a legal requir...

Although local zoning laws are written to protect the health, safety, and general welfare of community residents, these laws—and the state enabling legislation supporting them—have, in practice, severely limited public participation. Due in part to a general lack of public participation, many local ordinances place homeowners at a distinct disadvantage. For this reason, most citizen groups that...

the private area (privacy) is a humanitarian issue and one of the concepts of developed lawful systems which is closely related to human dignity. therefore, supporting and protecting the individuals' personalities and the citizens' rights requires protection of privacy, which leads to human signification. privacy is not clearly and meaningfully supported, in iranian law. like the posi...

[I]t's time to question laws that senselessly expand the concept of self-defense and sow dangerous conflict in our neighborhoods. These laws try to fix something that was never broken. There has always been a legal defense for using deadly force if—and the ―if‖ is important—no safe retreat is available. 1

Five U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and one Canadian province have enacted laws forbidding the practice by mental health professionals of what is commonly termed “conversion therapy” or “reparative therapy.” In a person younger than 18, such therapy is meant to change sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender behaviors. I contend that these laws are problematic from both psychiatri...

Legal compliance in software systems is one of the most important problems in the field of software engineering. Laws, regulations, and organizational policies describe societal values that impose serious challenges and requirements to software engineers building systems. My dissertation examines how software engineers can ensure software requirements comply with relevant laws, regulations, and...

New laws are increasingly constraining informations systems.To prevent misuses of the law, requirements engineers are faced with the problem of incorporating legal prescriptions into requirements analysis. Nòmos is an extension of i*, which allows to build models of legal prescriptions alongside intentional elements, and derive this way requirements that at the same time fulfill stakeholder nee...

T HERE ARE VARIOUS FRAMEWORKS and approaches used in the analysis of a company’s strategic position. One of the most straightforward is the SWOT analysis, SWOT being an acronym for “strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats”. The occasions to investigate empirically the use of such a tool are comparatively rare. This article presents the findings of one such opportunity, being based on t...

BACKGROUND Expedited partner therapy (EPT) is a potential partner treatment strategy. Significant efforts have been devoted to policies intended to facilitate its practice. However, few studies have attempted to evaluate these policies. METHODS We used data on interviewed gonorrhea cases from 12 sites in the STD Surveillance Network in 2010 (n = 3404). Patients reported whether they had recei...

the world of law has been dominated by waves of codification or re-codification and by currents of harmonization and unification. innumerable institutions, not only in europe but around the globe including in iran, try to bring legal systems together, and to suggest uniform laws. such attempts necessarily rely on comparative law as the first methodological tool. the european experience is an il...