Electronic mailing systems are the dominant communication systems in private and business matters. Public administrations deliver documents to citizens and businesses – subpoenas, legal verdicts, notifications, administrative penalties etc. However, official activities are more strongly linked to legal regulations than in civil law. Delivery of crucial and strictly personal documents raises the...

To ensure legal compliance, requirements engineers need tools to validate existing requirements for compliance with relevant law. This paper proposes an approach to aid in validating software requirements for legal compliance. The approach employs a production rule model for the United States Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) that can be queried by requirements enginee...

This paper presents a visualization technique to assist legal experts in formalising their interpretation of legal texts in terms of regulatory requirements. (Semi-)automation of compliance processes requires a machine-readable version of legal requirements in a format that enables effective compliance assessment. The use of a semi-structured controlled natural language as an intermediate step ...

Legal compatibility as a characteristic of sociotechnical systems aims at the greatest possible compliance with higher-order legal goals for minimizing social risks of technical systems and extends legality, which refers to the prevention of lawlessness. The paper analyzes the criteria for legal compatibility by reviewing specifications of legally compatible systems and shows goals and resultin...

The paper describes an approach taken to estimate the probabilities of failure associated with various railroad tasks to prevent accidents (principally collisions and derailments). These probabilities were estimated using an expert elicitation process that used partially relevant data available from a variety of databases and that were filtered and scaled to make them more directly relevant to ...

Service-oriented computing as a concept for providing interoperability and flexibility within heterogeneous environments has gained much attention within last years. Dynamically integrating external Web services into enterprise applications requires automatic contracting between service requestors and providers and automatic contract monitoring. This paper suggests semi-automatic approach since...

The article examines the features of legal status pharmaceutical workers and determines place activity in field health care. Pharmaceutical are considered as a separate category workers, along with medical working rehabilitation. qualification requirements to fixed by legislation depending on sphere type determined. include professionals specialists who work basis an employment contract product...