In the past decades, research and practice focused a lot of attention towards traceability in the context of software requirements, food supply chains, manufacturing, and aviation industry. As legislation and regulations in software systems become increasingly relevant, traceability of legal requirements is of great importance. In this study, we aimed to create a framework in which the basis fo...

Among the research on patents, the applications of Patent Map to Patent Analysis have been gradually emphasized. For three years, the researchers have applied Patent Map Theory Model to establishing Patent Map System (PMS) assisting decision-makers in Patent Analysis. Based on the system requirements, relevant function components are planned, and UML technology is utilized for the design and es...

Goal models are widely recognized as an effective means for capturing requirements for socio-technical systems. Recently, models of law have been investigated and analyzed in conjunction with goal models, in order to evaluate the legal compliance of software system requirements. As goal models capture social, often ill-defined concepts, and as law models capture ambiguous legal settings, both m...

[Context and motivation] To elaborate legal compliance requirements, analysts need to read and interpret the relevant legal provisions. An important complexity while performing this task is that the information pertaining to a compliance requirement may be scattered across several provisions that are related via cross references. [Question/Problem] Prior research highlights the importance of de...

With a growing interest in Patent Information Retrieval, there is a need to better understand the context associated with patent users, their tasks and their needs and expectations of patent search and analysis tools, systems and applications. Patent search is known to be a complex, difficult and challenging activity, usually requiring expert Patent Information Specialists to spend a substantia...

The perinatal necropsy is an important investigation following fetal or neonatal loss. Legal requirements on registration decree that consent is needed before necropsy can proceed in some of these babies. However, there are ill-defined grey areas which are open to legal and ethical difficulties. This paper discusses the problems that can arise with consent for a necropsy in the perinatal period...

Legal immigration is a complex, multi dimensional issue and the European Commission (E.C.) project ImmigrationPolicy2.0 (IMP2.0) [1] considered it as such by studying its legal, societal and policy implications before proposing and implementing holistic e-migration services contributing towards participatory governance and the harmonization of existing policies and practices. This paper outline...

Section 6.4, Compliance with Permit Requirements describes studies that evaluated several aspects of how well compensatory mitigation projects met legal or permit requirements. These included whether projects were completed or installed according to plan, whether they attained the required wetland acreage, whether performance standards were achieved, whether the project was monitored or maintai...