Managing business process compliance is an important topic in the financial sector. Various scandals and the financial crisis have caused many new constraints and legal regulations that banks and financial institutions have to face. Based on a domain-specific semantic business process modeling notation we propose generic process compliance business rules that serve as a first step towards the i...

Organizations and monitoring agencies continue to express concern over software piracy because of the ethical, legal and financial implications of noncompliance. This study focuses on how software license noncompliance is actually a factor in software piracy. Many organizations use a variety of software tools distributed over their workforce and tracking license compliance for turnover, upgrade...

AIMS To identify the nature of occupational health provision in UK semiconductor-manufacturing plants. To identify the level of industry compliance with legal health surveillance requirements. METHOD A national inspection programme was carried out by Health & Safety Executive inspectors using a developed protocol. RESULTS A wide range of occupational health provision was identified from non...

The volume, velocity, variety and complexity of regulations are causing major information-related problems for the financial industry. The industry is increasingly looking to semantic technologies to help solve the many problems it faces—all of which are, in one way or another, data-, informationand knowledge-related. This design research (DR) study applies several semantic technologies to crea...

Regulations of organizations and the contracts they enter into are generally recorded in human-readable, legal documents. Were such documents interpretable by computer, software could perform ongoing compliance checking. This would allow organizations to ensure they operate within legal bounds, or locate flaws in the regulations themselves. This paper presents early work on the CamPACE environm...

This position paper describes the vision, objectives and methodology of the LYNX project. The aim of Lynx is to create services to better manage compliance, based on a legal knowledge graph which integrates and links heterogeneous compliance data sources including legislation, case law and standards.

Background: In the Law on registration of deeds and real estate, the definition of official document and the scope of inclusion of official documents are different from civil law, and these definitions create different interpretations and effects in society and how to deal with legal issues and problems. Resolving legal deficiencies in answering accidental questions that occur in the community,...

Until recently, theorists considering the evolution of human cooperation have paid little attention to institutional punishment, a defining feature of large-scale human societies. Compared to individually-administered punishment, institutional punishment offers a unique potential advantage: the ability to control how quickly legal rules of punishment evolve relative to social behavior that lega...

This paper discusses the challenges of legal norms in specialist domains the interplay between industry/professional standards and legal norms, the information gap between legal and specialist domains and the need for interpretation at all stages of compliance design, operation and justification. We propose extensions to the Eunomos legal knowledge management tool to help address the informatio...