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...

Public sector procurement should be a transparent and fair process. Strict legal requirements are enforced on public sector procurement to make it a standardised process. To make fair decisions on selecting suppliers, a practical method which adheres to legal requirements is important. The research that is the base for this paper aimed at identifying a suitable Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis ...

For any medicinal product Marketing Authorization Application (MAA) in the European Union, the applicant needs to indicate the legal basis for the application. This legal basis, laid down in Directive 2001/83/EC as amended, determines the dossier content, the market exclusivity, and the pediatric requirements in a significant way. For new development projects for established active substances, ...

Some very fundamental obstacles inhibit, or at least slow down the success and growth of Electronic Commerce. These are, among others, the lack of real comfortable and secure payment systems, as well as a lack of a trustworthy environment for business transactions. However, these requirements can not be put into practice without digital signatures. Digital signatures may be used in any of the p...

Controlled Legal German (CLG) is a controlled natural language being developed for the representation of legal norms contained in Swiss statutes and regulations. This paper discusses the main design requirements CLG faces and the strategies it applies to meet them. CLG aims at providing representations for legal norms that are both formal and can be easily understood and verified by legal exper...

South African home users of the Internet use it to perform various everyday functions. These functions include, but are not limited to, online shopping, online gaming, social networking and online banking. Home users of online banking face multiple threats, such as phishing and social engineering. These threats come from hackers attempting to obtain confidential information, such as online bank...

idea is the starting point for the creation of intellectual works and the development of science and technology and art. in many cases, the birth of idea requires a lot of study and suffering. so the question is whether the idea has capability of legal support? the present article with descriptive and analytic method and by using comparative studies in the legal systems of france and iran, with...